Maps

181,031 maps found.

1887, Allesley Ref. HOSM35824
1886, Baginton Ref. HOSM36719
1886, Barnacle Ref. HOSM37050
1886, Binley Ref. HOSM37767
1886, Brandon Ref. HOSM38694
1886, Bubbenhall Ref. HOSM39339
1887, Keresley Ref. HOSM49756
1886, Shilton Ref. HOSM59094
1886, Stoneleigh Ref. HOSM60728
1898, Clawdd-Côch Ref. HOSM41067
1897, Clemenstone Ref. HOSM41141
1897, Llanmihangel Ref. HOSM51942
1897, Monknash Ref. HOSM54059
1897, Nash Manor Ref. HOSM54526
1898, Pendoylan Ref. HOSM56305
1907, Hawkhurst Ref. HOSM47981
1895, Cranleigh Ref. HOSM34379
1902, Coxall Ref. HOSM35572
1883, Beambridge Ref. HOSM37299
1883, Burley Ref. HOSM39519

Books

442 books found. Showing results 1,849 to 1,872.

Memories

29,041 memories found. Showing results 771 to 780.

Innocent Happiness

I was born just after the Second World War and like many people came from a fairly poor working class background. I was, however, blessed in many areas of my life and one of them was having an aunt who lived at 8 Hamilon ...Read more

A memory of New Brighton by Rachel Weatherall

Burrow Hill School

My name is Roger Hibbard from Staveley, Derbyshire, I was at Burrow Hill School from Easter 1952 to Easter 1953. I went there because at that time I suffered from severe asthma but I was never ill once during the wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1952 by Roger Hibbard

Stanley Jones

I am searching for information about my mother-in-law's cousin Stanley Jones. I believe he was the Principal of Tredegar Technical School. Can anyone help?

A memory of Newchurch by Jennifer Cook

Growing Up In Earl Shilton

I have fond memories of Earl Shilton around the 1950s. My first school was in Wood Street where I lived in a little old cottage, now knocked down. I remember celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's coronation at the school, ...Read more

A memory of Earl Shilton in 1950 by Maureen Burdett

The First Families

We were one of the first families to move into St Mellons. My first momory was the smell of the building site and my mother taking me to Trowbridge nursery. I was knee deep in mud. And my mother still lives in the same house.

A memory of St Mellons by Mel Newman

Bamford Parish Church No One Cares Anymore

A churchyard  is a place where families can be near their deceased loved ones, a calm and beautiful place surrounded by trees and flowers, but that is not the case in Bamford churchyard. The grass and ...Read more

A memory of Bamford in 2009 by A C

Quarriers Were The Happiest Days Of My Life

My name is Elizabeth Bonner, but then it was Elizabeth Esnol. I lived in Cottage 3 with Agnes, the Mcdonalds and Anne, Margaret, and Josephine Murray, and Aunty Irene Munzy, Aunty Anne (House ...Read more

A memory of Quarriers Village in 1870 by Elizabeth Esnol

Walsh Manor

l too was a pupil at Walsh Manor, unfortunately my memory of the school was not such a happy one. After l left l also went to St Michael's in Uckfield, which wasn't much better, although l made some life-long friends there, who l ...Read more

A memory of Crowborough in 1964

Sittingbourne To Australia

My name is Margaret.  I was born in Park Road, Sittingbourne on 18.4.45. My parents were Flossie and Cyril Neaves. My dad worked as a machine man in the Sittingbourne paper mills and my mum worked fruit picking in ...Read more

A memory of Sittingbourne in 1971 by namscox

Any Memories Of Bill Black

There was music shop on the Thornton Road in the mid 1950s, run by a Ada Lilian Rose who lived there with her three children. It's a bit of a long shot but I'm actually trying to trace someone called William or ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath in 1956 by Annie Barber

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 1,849 to 1,872.

Caption For Guisborough, Monk's Walk C1885

This oval-shaped double avenue of lime trees was laid out by the Chaloner family in the 18th century.

Caption For Odiham, Wharf 1908

We are looking west, with the Great Wharf of the Basingstoke Canal on the left.

Caption For Minehead, The Beach 1906

In 1873, this wonder of nature had a quarrymen's village at its entrance.

Caption For Wrotham, High Street 1901

The narrow high street leading to a small square boasted a varied selection of businesses at the turn of the last century.

Caption For Hawkhurst, Colonnade 1902

The modern segment of Hawkhurst, known as Highgate, grew up along a section of the A268 during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Caption For Daresbury, All Saints' Church C1955

But he is better to known to most of us as Lewis Carroll, the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

Caption For Spalding, Ayscoughfee Gardens C1960

These gardens are at the rear of Ayscoughfee Hall, which is now in the process of being restored. The building is partly used as the Spalding Tourist Office.

Caption For Daventry, Borough Hill And Bbc Daventry C1960

This view of Borough Hill was taken from neighbouring Newnham Hill. The forest of masts and aerials was a feature of the landscape for over 65 years.

Caption For Willington, High Street C1960

This typical High Street view could be of any village in the north-east. This is the 1950s version of today's modern superstore, where you can buy everything from ice cream to petrol.

Caption For Maidstone, The Archbishop's Palace 1898

The east front of the Archbishop's Palace, pictured prior to the insertion of the modern window and the change in the roofline of the central porch.

Caption For Holbeach, High Street C1955

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.

Caption For Pembroke, Main Street 1890

Without doubt, Pembroke is one of the most impressive defended sites in Wales.

Caption For Bognor Regis, East Parade 1903

Looking eastward, this view shows one of the town's saddest architectural losses: Colebrooke Terrace, a shallow crescent of four pairs of Regency stucco villas.

Caption For Rolvenden, Village 1901

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

Caption For Wrotham, High Street 1901

The narrow high street leading to a small square boasted a varied selection of businesses at the turn of the last century.

Caption For Eype, The Village 1899

A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).

Caption For Chenies, The Parish Church 1897

Of this chapel only the archway into it from the church survives, the rest being rebuilt, enlarged and extended in the 1860s, 1880s and in 1906.

Caption For Luton, Town Hall C1965

Once controlled by a simple set of three traffic lights, the junction of George Street, Wellington Street (left) and Manchester Street (right) now requires a multi-function system complete with laning,

Caption For Grantham, St Wulfram's Church, The Chained Library 1889

The church also boasts a superb ring of 10 bells; the Society of Change Ringers of St Wulfram's was founded in 1781, and is the town's oldest club.

Caption For Canvey Island, The Beach House Restaurant C1955

Well- ordered rows of caravans are ready to welcome summer visitors. A complex of administrative buildings can also be seen.

Caption For Headingley, 1894

In the mid 19th century, many middle-class residents of central Leeds began to move out to the north of the city near to the country estates of Beckett's Park and Hollin Hall, and Headingley became a rather

Caption For Rowlands Castle, St Hubert's Church Idsworth C1955

During the early part of the 17th century, busts began to take the place of effigies; the county's earliest bust can be found here, on the memorial to Sir Thomas Cornwallis, one-time governor

Caption For Lastingham, From Lyd Hill 1964

Lastingham is fewer than seven miles northwest of Pickering. In AD654 St Cedd, the brother of St Chad, built a monastery here, where St Chad died of the yellow plague in AD664.

Caption For Letchworth Garden City, The Cloisters 1908

One of the early buildings constructed as part of Ebenezer Howard's vision of a garden city at Letchworth, this fantastic structure was erected in 1906-7 by the architect Coulishaw, and was intended