Maps

9,439 maps found.

1947, Chirton Ref. NPO668070
1904-1905, Overtown Ref. RNC798879
1903-1904, Picton Ref. RNC805833
1947, Manton Ref. NPO774122
1947, Poole Ref. NPO808810
1947, Londonderry Ref. NPO766204
1947, Oakdale Ref. NPO795333
1947, Oatlands Ref. NPO795753
1919, Kenn Ref. POP746129
1925, Killerby Ref. POP747151
1924, Farlington Ref. POP703442
1925, Flixton Ref. POP706858
1924, Foston Ref. POP708365
1924, Howsham Ref. POP741667
1919, Hewish Ref. POP732099
1925, Leake Ref. POP754102
1947, Howsham Ref. NPO741668
1947, Gunthorpe Ref. NPO723630
1947, Harton Ref. NPO727940
1947, Heathfield Ref. NPO730278

Books

39 books found. Showing results 1,609 to 1,632.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 671 to 680.

Lock Farm

My grandparents Bill and Alice Guy lived in a cottage on the farm at Lock where my grandad worked and I believe my Granny did starching for the 'big house'. She used to tell me of the happy memories on the farm and the great respect she ...Read more

A memory of Partridge Green by margo1

Proud To Have Come From Shaw

I think to reminisce is great. At 76, I find myself doing this quite often and am drawn back to Shaw, and to High Crompton, where I was born. The house I was born in on Rochdale Road, near the Bull's Head Pub, is still ...Read more

A memory of Shaw by harmonicajoe

Forgotten Anerley

Forget Penge, forget Sydenham, forget Crystal Palace, Anerley had the Town Hall. Centre of the Council Employment. Opposite on the north side of Anerley Road, on the railway bridge, were two kiosk shops which my earliest ...Read more

A memory of Anerley by Bob Hakewill

Does Anyone Remember My Grandparents?

My grandparents William Joseph Hughes and Edith May Hughes nee Moore are both deceased now - they grew up in Llanbradach . I have a wedding photograph of them aged 18 getting married in the late 1920s in the church ...Read more

A memory of Llanbradach by elainemarianne19

Phillips, Map Makers

Does anyone remember Phillips, the map makers on Victoria Road? The building seems to be being used by a company called BraiForm these days. I worked at Phillips for a brief six months on first leaving school in 1964. I worked ...Read more

A memory of North Acton by Susan Coleman

Harts Hospital Fear

I was born in 1939 at 28 St.Anthonys Avenue, off St.Barnabus Road. I remembered the Anderson shelter in our back garden only vaguely as I was evacuated to North Wales with Janet Jenkins, and Brenda Hart. After the war, I went ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green by sissontessa

Skeffington Road

Hi , Does anybody have memories of Skeffington Road, East Ham? My Mam lived at number 18 untill she joined the forces in the war and then moved up North when she married in 1946. The family name was Jarvis and my mam was called Florence [ Dolly or Doris ].

A memory of Barking by Peter Hickman

Recollections Of Childhood..Post War 50's

Born at Station Rd, close to Bridge School, a small sweet shop called Ecclestones was at the foot of the bridge. We would walk over the bridge, mum to shop in the Popular Stores (Coop I think), I recall her ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone

New Tupton

I used to visit my aunties and cousins every sunday, and we would play together and bake cakes. I have lost touch with my cousin Jennifer Stocks and would love to get back in touch, if you are out there. I have visited numerous times ...Read more

A memory of Chesterfield in 1956

Slough As A Kid

I was born in Slough in 1961, living there until 1972, after my father, Jim Butler, died in 1970. We then moved to Scarborough in North Yorkshire. My memories of Slough are of living on Norway Drive, Wexham Court estate. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Ken Butler

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 1,609 to 1,632.

Caption For Streatley, From Streatley Downs 1890

In this view from the Downs, we look north over Streatley, which was then in Berkshire: its parish church is on the left, with Goring on the right, across the river.

Caption For Bramfield, St Andrew's Church C1960

There is a faded wall painting of the Holy Rood on the north wall.

Caption For Congleton, High Street C1955

Although Congleton produced the most silk of the two towns, for some reason it was always Macclesfield further north that was known as 'the silk town' – but ribbons (nylon ones these days) are still

Caption For Littleborough, The Harbour, Hollingworth Lake C1955

The boathouse on the north side has also been the base for rowing clubs.

Caption For Penmaenmawr, The Sands 1887

The prosperity of the North Wales coastline grew steadily during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Caption For Salisbury, High Street C1955

The entrance to Barclays Bank is seen to the right of the picture.The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral.

Caption For Torcross, General View 1907

Another view of Slapton Sands, this time looking north.

Caption For Arlington, The Post Office C1960

The first round-the-world solo yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester was part of the family, and he is buried in North Devon.

Caption For Ickleford, The Village 1903

Two miles north of Hitchin lies Ickleford, where the Roman Icknield way crosses the confluence of the Rivers Hiz and Oughton.

Caption For Amersham, Garden Of Remembrance C1958

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.

Caption For Llangennith, St Cenydd's Church 1937

The huge saddle-backed tower is in an unusual position, north of the nave, and architecturally it is interesting for its fortified appearance.

Caption For Piercebridge, West View C1955

On the right is the village police house; its high pointed wooden porch looks more like Welsh architecture than that of the north-east of England.

Caption For Bath, St Michael's Church 1895

Replacing a medieval church that lay beyond the walled town's north gate, now commemorated by the street's name of Northgate Street, this church by Manners was started in 1835 in an early inaccurate Gothic

Caption For Bath, From Empire Hotel 1935

This view, taken from an upper floor window of the execrable Empire Hotel, looks beyond the Parade Gardens, laid out in the 1880s, to North Parade, a long 'palace front' of twenty-five bays with a central

Caption For Doddington, Church 1906

The stone walls of St Peter's Church, to the north of the forecourt to Doddington Hall, are a marked contrast to the mellow red brick of the Hall, which might be by Robert Smythson, the architect of Hardwick

Caption For Chapel St Leonards, Chapel Point C1955

To the north beyond Ingoldmells, and rather more genteel, is Chapel St Leonards, where my mother used to holiday in the 1930s.

Caption For Saltfleet, Manor House C1955

North of the old windmill is the Manor House in mid seventeenth-century brick, which retains its original cross windows.

Caption For Waddington, High Street C1960

The medieval church was destroyed by bombs in World War II intended for Lincoln or the RAF base, but in this view we look north past the Horse and Jockey pub in a view little changed since 1960.

Caption For Fountains, 1955

Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon, is a Yorkshire landmark virtually unchanged since the 12th century when it was built.

Caption For Ogden, The Reservoir C1960

The steep valleys, or cloughs, which run off the foothills of the Pennines were often utilised by Victorian water engineers for the construction of reservoirs to provide drinking water for the burgeoning

Caption For Wivenhoe, High Street C1960

Today the University of Essex campus is to the north-west of the town.

Caption For Whitchurch, White Hart Hotel 1939

To the north-west of the centre is the church of All Hallows, where parish rooms were added in 1974.

Caption For Salisbury, High Street C1955

The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral.

Caption For Taunton, St Mary Magdalene's Church 1888

Hammet Street, with its brick terrace houses, was laid out in 1788 off North Street, focusing on the magnificent late 15th-century tower of St Mary's church.