Maps

181,031 maps found.

0, 0, 0, Higher Town Ref. RNC734227
1903-1904, Wansford Ref. RNC860383
1899-1909, Thorley Street Ref. RNC846906
1903, Spittal Ref. RNC836439
1947, Etton Ref. NPO702076
1947, Hook Ref. NPO739901
1947, Hurn Ref. NPO742618
1947, Elmswell Ref. NPO700950
1922, Burton Ref. POP657091
1922, Corntown Ref. POP677767
1924, Buckton Ref. POP654887
1924, Westhill Ref. POP866087
1921, South Knighton Ref. POP834986
1924, Ryehill Ref. POP823286
1924, Hook Ref. POP739901
1924, Hurn Ref. POP742618
1924, Kirkburn Ref. POP748853
1924, Gunby Ref. POP723560
1919, Pound Green Ref. POP810299
1919, Peartree Green Ref. POP802323

Books

442 books found. Showing results 1,177 to 1,200.

Memories

29,041 memories found. Showing results 491 to 500.

Jacqueline Oldman

While researching my family history I came across this article in the Eastern Counties Advertiser 18th October 1879. It is the coroner's report relating to my great great grandfather's brother Thomas Brassett 1815 - 1879 an ...Read more

A memory of Southminster in 1870 by J M Oldman

Old Red Lion Inn

With the help of Brian Faulkner of newspaperdetectives, I have been able to identify the building on the left as the old Red Lion Inn. The Inn fronts on High Street, and Market, formerly Red Lion Gate, is the one running away ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1870 by Deborah Schmidt

Cove Farnborough Hants

I was born in Farnborough and lived in Pinehurst Cottages until the age of six. My father, Charles Dunbar was an engineer at The Royal Aircraft Establishment. Later we moved to 166 Keith Lucas Road and later to 16 Fowler Road in ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1950 by Vyvyan Dunbar Campbell

Our Holidays

As a young girl I spent many a happy holiday in a bungalow on Jaywick sea front. I used to go with my grandparents, my mum and dad, my younger sister and a family friend. Pocket money and holiday money was used to buy all sorts of ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1973 by Julie Robinson

Shops In Gants Hill

I grew up in Gants Hill and would like to share my memories of shops in the area... The Toy Shop in Cranbrook Road (now Burtons Newsagent). This was a double fronted blue painted shop with a newsagent on the left and a ...Read more

A memory of Gants Hill by Vincent Goodman

Haywards Of Loders

Wondering if anyone knows of Hayward family, buried in the churchyard surrounds, that farmed in the Loders area back to at least 1750 or further back.  Any info for family tree welcome.

A memory of Loders by Yoga Prakash Saraswati

Mid 1960s Mid 1980s

My parents David & Valerie, and younger brother Roger Angus lived at 'Rosevine' opposite the Rectory. The then vicar, Christopher Leach lived in the Rectory with his wife and children Godfrey and Hilary. Additionally, they ...Read more

A memory of Combpyne by Simon Angus

Wartime Years In Llanarmon Yn Ial

Shortly after the outbreak of war, my Father who had a pet shop in Wallasey, evacuated the family to Llanarmon.  We consisted of Dad, Mum, my brother Ray and myself. We moved into Rose Cottage in the ...Read more

A memory of Llanarmon-yn-Ial in 1940 by Don Thurlow

Children Of The War

MY BROTHER AND I WERE EVACUATED TO LAMPETER IN JULY OF 1944 COMING FROM LONDON AS OUR HOUSE WAS BOMBED. WE WERE TAKEN IN BY MARY AND JOHN POWELL IN "BARLEY MOW".  EVEN THOUGH THESE WERE TRYING TIMES FOR OUR PARENTS, IT WAS THE HAPPIEST TIME OF MY CHILDHOOD. AUDREY [LATTER] VOELKER

A memory of Lampeter in 1944 by Audrey Voelker

Central Stores

The large 3-storey building to the right of centre, was the village grocery store at 91 Lane Head Road. My father purchased it in 1961 from Frank Armitage. He sold it in 1984 when he retired. At the rear were stables, groceries used ...Read more

A memory of Shepley in 1963 by Glen Cheney

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 1,177 to 1,200.

Caption For Hitchin, The Market C1965

The jam-packed stalls of Hitchin market reflect the higgledy-piggledy dwellings that it replaced.

Caption For Palmers Green, Broomfield House, Broomfield Lane C1960

The tulips bloom in beautiful profusion, and the house is reflected in the almost glassy stillness of the pond.

Caption For Cambridge, St John's College 1890

Joining the two courts of St John's College on either side of the River Cam is the Bridge of Sighs. It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from one of the same name in Venice.

Caption For Lavernock, The Caravan Site C1955

Holidaymakers at this time could be forgiven for thinking that there was something of an army camp about the site!

Caption For Guisborough, Church, De Brus Tomb 1899

The De Brus Cenotaph is the most significant surviving relic of the town's priory.

Caption For Ockley, The Sanatorium 1914

The assembled staff pose outside a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients from London set up just outside the village of Ockley.

Caption For Boston, The Docks 1893

Built south of the town, the new docks were 825 feet long by 450 feet wide and are still busy.

Caption For Rufford, Church Road C1955

On the edge of the village stands the black and white half-timbered Rufford Old Hall, owned now by the National Trust, but seat of the Hesketh family for about 600 years.

Caption For Lympne, Airport C1955

The small civil airport at Lympne was developed from the wartime fighter base, prior to the enormous expansion of London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports, for short cross-channel flights.

Caption For Waddesdon, The Church 1897

St Michael's parish church is north of the High Street, and a reminder of a pre- Rothschild era for the village, although the chancel was restored at his expense in 1877.

Caption For Letchworth Garden City, St Mary's Church 1924

The tiny flint-walled church of St Mary was rebuilt c1135, and is one of the smallest in the county. It is only 60ft long, and consists of a nave and a lower chancel.

Caption For Burnley, St Peter's Church, South West 1895

A hint of the heavily-wooded banks of the Brun can be seen on the left of this picture.

Caption For Ripon, The Cathedral 1895

Ripon is one of England's smallest cathedral cities; in 1836 it became the centre of a new bishopric.

Caption For The Broads, The Pool, Wayford Bridge C1945

That was an age of great prosperity, thanks to the flourishing wool trade, and there is little sign of such wealth and population in the small hamlet of today.

Caption For Whitby, The Parish Church, Gallery Entrance 1913

The churchwarden awaits the arrival of the owners of the abbey (who at this date would have been the Stricklands), ready to escort them up to their private gallery in the church; the gallery

Caption For Wolverhampton, Queen Square 1890

In the years immediately prior to the Great War, a number of British car manufacturers got round the problem of the poor state of most of the country’s roads by offering ‘colonial’ versions of

Caption For Runcorn, War Memorial 1923

At the top of Greenway Road, looking back towards the heart of old Runcorn is the war memorial.

Caption For Holt, The Church 1896

There was a church in Holt by 1086, the year of the Domesday Book.

Caption For Allenheads, Slag Hill Cottages C1965

The somewhat interestingly named hamlet of Dirt Pot lies just one mile north of Allenheads.

Caption For Halland, Cross Roads C1965

We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield.

Caption For Worth, St Nicholas's Church And The Lychgate C1960

Worth village stands in the Forest of Worth, east of Crawley, and was a place of pilgrimage. The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.

Caption For Morley, Queens Street C1965

Looming over the town is the tower of the town hall, clearly more than a little influenced in its design by its more prestigious neighbour at Leeds.

Caption For Chepstow, Beaufort Square 1957

'Chepe' and 'stowe' combine to mean 'market place', which indicates the early origins of this town.

Caption For Ewell, High Street 1924

This view, showing the centre of Ewell village, was taken looking north towards the Horse Pond and Spring Corner, and includes several splendid examples of the motor vehicles of the period.