Photos

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Maps

181,031 maps found.

1887 - 1899, Penysarn Ref. HOSM35035
1887 - 1899, Orton Goldhay Ref. HOSM39658
1882, Orton Goldhay Ref. HOSM55801
1887 - 1900, Stanground Ref. HOSM60258
1905 - 1912, Mutley Ref. HOSM47002
1905 - 1912, Hooe Ref. HOSM48863
1905 - 1912, Laira Ref. HOSM50633
1905 - 1912, Mannamead Ref. HOSM53071
1884 - 1905, Chaddlewood Ref. HOSM54914
1905 - 1912, Barbican Ref. HOSM57159
1905 - 1912, Turnchapel Ref. HOSM62778
1912, Honicknowle Ref. HOSM63928
1895 - 1907, Drayton Ref. HOSM43614
1895, Port Solent Ref. HOSM56930
1881 - 1882, Allestree Ref. HOSM35940
1899, Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll Ref. HOSM56463
1887 - 1888, Tregaian Ref. HOSM62308
1906 - 1907, Chale Ref. HOSM40510
1884 - 1885, Evington Ref. HOSM45113
1896 - 1907, Ashey Ref. HOSM36319

Books

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Memories

29,056 memories found. Showing results 5,751 to 5,760.

Sally Simcox

My mother, Sally Simcox was born in 1904 and lived with a large family of brothers and sisters in Boldon Colliery. She left school when 131/2 to work as a shop assistant for 5 shillings per week at a place called Hornes. I am ...Read more

A memory of Boldon Colliery by David Holme

Going Down The End Of The Road !

I have quite vivid memories from the late 1950's of Woodhall Parade or "The End of the Road" as those in Woodhall Crescent called it. Harry Skeeles the cockney greengrocer, always with his hat on and mostly with a ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by Rebecca Paul

Those Were The Days

I moved to Ireland Wood from Portsmouth when I was 4 years old with my Mum and dad who was in the navy. We lived at 42 Raynel Way. The house was built by the Council. Most of the houses like ours were made of prefabricated ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge by Robert Morris

Old Eastbrook School Photos?

Hi folks. I'm an old Dagenham native and a previous student at the Eastbrook School in Dagenham. I now live and work in Seattle and am actually writing my memoirs, which include my school days there. I've Google ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Tony White

There Are Still No Yellow Lines In Brook Street!!

Hello, My name is Graham Matthews and I was 7 years old when this photo was taken. I was born in Bampton but my family moved to Reading, Berkshire in 1961. However, I always thought of this lovely ...Read more

A memory of Bampton by Graham Matthews

Best Childhood Ever

We moved to the prefabs in South Road, South Ockendon in 1949 From London, my sister and I started school in the village school the headmaster was Mr Impy after that we went to the new school which was called Mardyke School ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Jean Compton

Early Days.

I was born in1942 at a maternity home in Honeypot Lane and came home to Heber Road in Cricklewood. My parents worked at the big Smiths factory at the top of Temple Road. I went Mora Road school , one of the teachers called Miss Gibbs ...Read more

A memory of Cricklewood by Kim Trask

First Visit Away From Home

I believe it was 1967 when I first visited .the trip was arranged between Appleby Magna juniors and local Packington juniors under the Leicester education board . My first sight was magical and although a few were ...Read more

A memory of Aberglaslyn Hall by Gordon Smith

The Swings

Loved seeing the old play park which we simply called The Swings. It had a horse type swing just inside the gate to the left; a child would stand either end with others sitting in the middle, and the end guys would push forward and ...Read more

A memory of Billingshurst by Linda Underwood Nee Deponio

Walking To The Shops

I was born on Church Hill in 1962 and my Mum still lives in the house. I remember walking to the shops in the village each day to buy provisions with my gran. There used to be a bucher, baker, greengrocer, haberdasher, post ...Read more

A memory of West End by Sylvia Mawby

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 13,801 to 13,824.

Caption For Woodstock, Park Street & Chaucer's House C1955

The aptly named Woodstock Gate, one of the main entrances to Blenheim Palace, lies just around the corner.

Caption For Skegness, Grand Parade 1910

At this time there is a mix of motor and horse-drawn conveyances for the tripper.

Caption For Bramber, St Mary's C1955

St Mary's dates from the 15th century, and stands on the site of an earlier Knights Templar house.

Caption For Fulking, The Village C1960

At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.

Caption For Willesborough, The Lees 1909

Included in this view (taken from the top of what is known as the Broomfields) is the old Willesborough Hospital.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, The Driffold And Boddington Gardens C1965

Though Dr Boddington was most famous for his work with TB patients, he also cared for mentally ill patients at Driffold House Asylum at the corner of Wyndley Lane and The Driffold.

Caption For Headley, The Village 1906

Brick and flint cottages, like the ones in this picture, are a familiar sight in parts of Hampshire and neighbouring West and East Sussex. By 1911 the population of the village was 2,786.

Caption For Appleton Wiske, The Village, West Side C1955

Today modern houses have replaced a number of the terraced cottages, but the three on the right still stand. The village also has a Wesleyan chapel of 1821 and the Lord Nelson Inn on Front Street.

Caption For Terling, The Street C1960

This rambling village is a mixture of the old and the new. Here we see Terling Stores and Post Office.

Caption For Plymouth, St Andrew's Church 1889

St Andrew's is the mother church of Plymouth; there is evidence that a Christian community used the site as early as the 8th century. Construction of the present building commenced in 1370.

Caption For Ashford, Lower High Street C1965

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Caption For Swaffham, Market Place C1955

Tradition says that the church was built largely at the expense of the 'Swaffham pedlar' - one John Chapman, who was lucky enough to find two pots of gold in his garden after being guided to them in a

Caption For The Broads, Outon Broad C1945

Here we see a peaceful scene on the upper reaches of the river Bure. There are reed-beds along the far side of the river.

Caption For Marnhull, Tess Cottage C1960

Thomas Hardy used this cottage as the fictional home of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. In 1919 a very elderly man stood regarding the cottage.

Caption For Bath, Roman Baths 1897

Wisely, he avoided placing his slender Doric columns on the much larger Roman bases and stumps of piers that line the edges of the bath and are linked by steps leading into the water.

Caption For Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital 1938

Here we see Addenbrooke's from the roof of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Trumpington Street.

Caption For Rodborough, The Village C1960

Rodborough parish extends from Stroud to Minchinhampton on the south side of the Frome valley, and includes the hamlets of Butterrow, Houndscroft and Rodborough Common.

Caption For Maiden Newton, Dorchester Road C1960

Maiden Newton has been a much-appreciated centre for walking holidays in recent years, for many of the best villages and beauty spots on the Dorset downlands are within reach.

Caption For Lancing College, C1960

This stretch of the Sussex coast is probably most closely associated with Lancing College, a famous public school, and its neo-gothic Victorian chapel.

Caption For Hythe, High Street C1955

In the distance in the centre of this photograph is the sign for The King's Head public house, which in 1583 was known as The George, and later as The Sun.

Caption For New Romney, Composite C1955

On this composite postcard of New Romney, we have the Dungeness lighthouse, built in 1904, and the Romney and Hythe District Light Railway, which started in 1927.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Market Street C1955

This view shows the rear of the Swan Hotel on the left and the remarkable turret of the Town Hall rising above it.

Caption For Pitsea, The Broadway C1955

Harold George Howard's first row of shops appeared in 1929. It included the cinema, still known as the Broadway here, but later renamed the Century.

Caption For Caerphilly, Chapel And Clock Tower 1899

The cheese of the same name was possibly first made in the market during the 13th or 14th centuries, but the market was closed in the early 1900s (not long after this photograph was taken), and production