Maps

5,497 maps found.

1895, Longford Ref. RNE766905
1895, Longfield Ref. RNE766885
1895, Larkfield Ref. RNE753096
1895, Gore Ref. RNE717701
1895, Romford Ref. RNE819571
1895, Slade Ref. RNE832378
1895, Stanhope Ref. RNE838298
1895, Rainham Ref. RNE812943
1895, Oldbury Ref. RNE797330
1895, Seaton Ref. RNE827225
1946, Rainham Ref. NPO812943
1947, River Ref. NPO817252
1940, Sandhurst Ref. NPO825082
1947, Sutton Ref. NPO843138
1895, Willington Ref. RNE870499
1895, Wolverton Ref. RNE872322
1895, Worth Ref. RNE874704
1895, Sundridge Ref. RNE842839
1920, Worth Ref. POP874704
1946, Dunkirk Ref. NPO695535

Books

28 books found. Showing results 145 to 168.

Memories

569 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.

Bent Toe

I attended Brown Rigg from 1964 to 1966. As I recall, Bent Toe got stuck in a mud hole and was that exhausted with trying to get out it was kinder to have him put to sleep as the stress and strain on his heart, he was a big horse. I ...Read more

A memory of Bellingham in 1964 by Derick Stewart

Best Drop

It was about 1953. Saturday afternoon was a great day down at the Imperial picture house in Newburn. Roy Rogers and Trigger, Gene Autry with his guitar and six guns, Flash Gorden with his ray gun, Batman and his cape. I remember an older ...Read more

A memory of Newburn by Jimmy Burrows

Bilsdean Creek 1960

Down Bilsdean Creek where fresh and salt water meet, the bladderwrack rehydrating incoming tide chases tiny trout upstream to the overhanging hazel branch sanctuary of dappled dancing sunlight where they flit back and ...Read more

A memory of Bilsdean Creek by John Soltys

Binbrook School Reunions

I started searching just this evening (1/9/13) for a former school chum, Ashley Cook and was amazed to find this site and all the comments which I remember so well. I attended the junior school and remember both Mr Hogarth ...Read more

A memory of Binbrook in 1955 by Christopher Jones

Birchington, Epple Bay And Minnis Bay

Birchington with two bays and a village atmosphere 'in town'. A rail station with the most wonderful ice cream parlour opposite - wicker chairs on those old fashioned curved steel bases and circular wicker ...Read more

A memory of Birchington in 1955 by Sandra Dudley

Black Faces

I was born in Addlestone in what was Kingthorpe nursing home in 1944 (no nhs then)my father worked for Vickers Armstrong at Byfleet. My father was born in Cailard road Byfleet the same road as my mother was born. He is now 96 years old and ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by jenniferchapman67

Blacksmith's Lane Post War

It's a shame that there are no memories of South Hornchurch yet - so let me be the first. I lived in Blacksmiths Lane from birth in 1947 until I married in 1973, but retained close links as I was also the local "Man ...Read more

A memory of South Hornchurch by alandvi.187

Blaengarw Cooper Milkmen

I am a retired police officer who has been studying the family history of both my family and that of my wife, Jenifer Cooper. I am trying to trace relatives of the family and hope that someone may just know something of the ...Read more

A memory of Blaengarw in 1930 by Colin Clarke

Blue Gems Chinese Restaurant

I remember many enjoyable Friday evenings at 'The Plough' on the corner of Gooseacre Lane (usually with too much beer!) and the following visits to the 'Blue Gems' in Kenton Road for some Chinese food at pub closing time. ...Read more

A memory of Kenton in 1962 by Tony Nyman

Bonny Downs And Vicarage Lane Playing Fields

I was born on Vicarage lane in 1947, moved to a flat on Charlemonte Road then onto St Albans Ave. I remember Bonny Downs and all the friends we had as times were very tough so we went "pinching" fruit off ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by fscfiresafety

Captions

216 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.

Caption For Pluckley, Church 1901

The 13th-century church of St Nicholas is one of several of its kind presiding over the villages of east Kent.

Caption For Fordwich, The River C1960

During the Second World War, the Kent-born film director Michael Powell and his Archers production company featured the town and its oak beamed houses in his famous propaganda epic, 'A Canterbury Tale'

Caption For Lenham, Faversham Road C1960

Today, the village and its Tudor buildings is one of Kent's largest and busiest on the A20 road to Maidstone and Ashford.

Caption For Westerham, The Green C1955

As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.

Caption For Tenterden, High Street 1900

This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families.

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1953

At the bottom of Maidstone High Street both the Queen's Head public house, on the left, and the Rose and Crown Hotel across the road have gone; the trolleybuses also went in 1966.

Caption For Chiddingstone, The Church And Cottages C1955

Chiddingstone is often claimed to be the most attractive village in Kent.

Caption For Leigh, The Old Oak Tree And Green C1960

Medway, and is another contender for the 'most attractive village in Kent' title.

Caption For Yalding, The Bridge C1960

Kent, crossing two rivers over 150 yards.

Caption For Aylesford, The Countless Stones C1960

Beneath a clump of trees near Aylesford, Kent, is a confused group of sarsen stones, some twenty in number, which probably formed a Neolithic burial chamber 5,000 years ago.

Caption For Staveley, The Village C1955

Similarly, there is no indication of industrial activity; until the 19th century, this was a dominant feature of Staveley, with bobbin and other mills lining the banks of the River Kent.

Caption For Aylesford, The Countless Stones C1960

Beneath a clump of trees near Aylesford, Kent, is a confused group of sarsen stones, some twenty in number, which probably formed a Neolithic burial chamber 5,000 years ago.

Caption For Goudhurst, Hop Pickers 1904

During the first half of the 20th century, whole families from the poorer parts of London travelled down to the hop picking areas of Kent for a week or two's 'holiday' whilst earning money hop picking

Caption For Charing, High Street 1901

One of Kent's oldest townships, Charing was taken from Canterbury by the King of Mercia in 757 and assigned to some of his favourites.

Caption For Silverdale, Old Cottages Near Beach, Cove Lane C1965

In the 1920s Silverdale village was left high and dry, for the River Kent changed course.

Caption For Kendal, Stricklandgate 1888

The Town of Kendal Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent— was founded on the wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep.

Caption For Deal, The Castle C1955

This was the largest of three fortresses built by Henry VIII in 1538 to protect this stretch of Kent coast against the threat of invasion by Francois I of France.

Caption For Buckingham, Palladian Bridge, Stowe School C1955

Its 18th-century picturesque naturalistic park, designed by Bridgeman, Kent and Capability Brown, is dotted with Georgian temples, columns and garden buildings.

Caption For Minster, Abbey Church And Abbey Gate C1955

The abbey was founded in AD670 as a nunnery by Sexburga, widow of Ercombert, King of Kent; the original building was burnt by the Danes.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, The Pantiles C1890

Nearly four hundred feet above sea level, this principal inland resort of Kent owes its popularity to the accidental discovery of a chalybeate spring by Dudley, Lord North in 1606, which led to the fashion

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, The Pantiles C1890

Nearly four hundred feet above sea level, this principal inland resort of Kent owes its popularity to the accidental discovery of a chalybeate spring by Dudley, Lord North in 1606, which led to the fashion

Caption For Bolton Le Sands, The Shore C1965

Red Bank is one of the spots from which you can cross the sands over to Kents Bank.

Caption For Sidmouth, Looking West 1924

In the early years of the 19th century the impoverished Duke of Kent came to live at Woolbrook Glen.