Places
26 places found.
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- Town End, Derbyshire
- Town End, Buckinghamshire
- Town's End, Somerset
- Towns End, Dorset
- Town End, Merseyside
- Town End, Cambridgeshire
- Town's End, Buckinghamshire
- West End Town, Northumberland
- Bolton Town End, Lancashire
- Kearby Town End, Yorkshire
- Town End, Cumbria (near Grange-Over-Sands)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Bowness-On-Windermere)
- Town End, Yorkshire (near Huddersfield)
- Town End, Yorkshire (near Wilberfoss)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Appleby-in-Westmorland)
- Town's End, Dorset (near Melbury Osmond)
- Town's End, Dorset (near Swanage)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Ambleside)
- Town's End, Dorset (near Bere Regis)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Ambleside)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Lakeside)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Kirkby Lonsdale)
- West-end Town, South Glamorgan
- Townend, Derbyshire
- Townend, Strathclyde (near Dumbarton)
- Townend, Staffordshire (near Stone)
Photos
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Maps
195 maps found.
Books
158 books found. Showing results 2,089 to 2,112.
Memories
3,712 memories found. Showing results 871 to 880.
Shop And Post Office
My parents, Fred and Marjorie Reeks bought the shop and Post Office from Mrs Britton in 1947 and they owned the business till about 1985. In the mid sixties Fred got about 100,000 daffodil bulbs from a market garden in ...Read more
A memory of Eppleby by
The Thirties
My grandmother, widowed, lived during the 20s and 30s at 1, High Street (next to The Dolphin), and was glad of family visits to assist in her invalid-style of life. That usually meant our family, and my mother took a number ...Read more
A memory of Middleton Stoney in 1930 by
Friday Night
I REMMEMBER ONE FRIDAY. NIGHT WHEN ME AND MY VERY SPECIAL FRIEND BRUCE. WERE OUT ON THE TOWN. I REMMEMBER THINKING TO MYSELF HOW NICELY DRESSED ALL THE MEN WERE. THEN I MEET UP WITH SOME OTHERE FRIENDS OF BRUCE'S AND MINE.LISA.EMMA AND ...Read more
A memory of Howden in 2007 by
Catching The Train To Leeds
I was born in 1960 within a short walk of this photo. The scene is still clearly recognisable, although the wooden station building spanning the bridge and the steps leading down to the station were demolished and ...Read more
A memory of Horsforth in 1964 by
The Grapes, St Peters Street,1871
My grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Higgs, was widowed in 1869, when her husband, John Russell Higgs, was drowned at sea. Her brother Silas Short was working at the brickyard in the town so she and her 2 ...Read more
A memory of Bishop's Waltham in 1870 by
Memories Forgotten
My family lived in Woodhouse Eaves for a short while - it was a beautiful town and although I have few memories now, I do remember a local Doctor - Dr. Wykes, who taught me to ride a horse. I often wonder what happened to ...Read more
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves in 1951 by
Rhosneigr
I lived in Rhosneigr until 1970. I remember going on the bus from the clock to Holyhead school. Mr Lovatt was headmaster and I remember Mrs Hughes!! Before the school buses started we went on the train, they had 2 buses from Rhosneigr ...Read more
A memory of Rhosneigr in 1959 by
A Childhood In And Around Thirsk
I spent my childhood in and around Thirsk, although living in the nearby village of Sowerby. Thirsk was where I went to secondary school. It is where we shopped and went to the cinema (there were two of them, The ...Read more
A memory of Thirsk in 1940 by
Watch On The Great North Road
My parents lived at Sprotborough and were great motorcycle and sidecar enthusiasts although by 1968, the Triumph Speed Twin and sidecar had given way to a Morris Minor, later to be replaced with a Triumph Herald. On ...Read more
A memory of Bawtry in 1951 by
Northleach
My father's family was from Northleach going back to at least 1795. In 2006 I finally was able to visit the town. My Great Grandfather, Herbert Charles Earle was organist and choirmaster at St. Peter and St. Paul for fifty years until ...Read more
A memory of Northleach by
Captions
5,112 captions found. Showing results 2,089 to 2,112.
Like the town hall tower, it dominates for miles around, and is also in a monumental Baroque style.
The 'Mother and Child' sculpture, behind the children, now forms part of Basildon's logo, such has been the extent to which people associate it with the town.
The town pillory stood in this Market Place, and a pleasure fair was also held here.
Here we see the Albert Edward Dock basin, looking from the entrance towards the town.
The Bridge was a busy tram interchange and terminus.
Other sports are popular in the town, notably cricket, and the club's ground is certainly in a very attractive setting; it has enthralled appreciative crowds since 1894.
The impressive Victoria Tower of the Town Hall rises to a height of 162 feet.
Here we have a magnificent view of the broad sweep of the breezy seafront at Dover, with the castle overshadowing the town from four hundred feet above, and the Roman Pharos clearly visible beside the
Until recently, when Torbay succumbed to urban sprawl, the green fields of Devon did come almost to the heart of the town.
Until recently, when Torbay succumbed to urban sprawl, the green fields of Devon did come almost to the heart of the town.
Thomas Telford's three-arched stone bridge dates from 1798 and cost £9000.
Today the great conurbation that is Bournemouth has absorbed older settlements nearby and has linked up with the ancient towns of Christchurch and Poole.
The ancient market town of Knaresborough clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several things: the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century
This is the town's main street from Telford's bridge, looking towards the mid 18th-century church designed by E & T Woodward.
This was one of the principal shopping streets of the town, though the Methodist New Connection chapel and the Salvation Army Hall were also along here.
Much of Grange was constructed during the later 19th century from local stone and slate, and there is a pleasing uniformity to the buildings that line its principal shopping street.
Two kiosks at the entrance to the pier used to take bookings for cruises and shows.
During the 18th and 19th centuries Emsworth was an important port along this stretch of coast, and it became successful mainly through corn milling, boat building, fishing and a flourishing oyster industry
With the arrival of the railway age in Swindon it started to grow, and many of the buildings you can see in this photograph are clearly Victorian.
Salmon still mass below the weirs in spring and the town's former mills have found a new life as apartment blocks.
Chelmsford had always been primarily a market-town. As
The Anglo-Saxons almost certainly fortified Wallingford, and there was once an important castle here, though little of it survives today.
From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down 29 locks to the valley below.
The small rural hamlet of Corey's Mill, now completely absorbed into the New Town of Stevenage, was once dominated by its windmill, which burnt down in 1878.
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