Maps

181,031 maps found.

1894, Longparish Ref. HOSM52384
1894, Stoke Ref. HOSM60539
1894, Thruxton Ref. HOSM61869
1897, Colby Ref. HOSM41446
1896, Houghton Ref. HOSM49129
1896, Yapton Ref. HOSM65457
1880, Ashbourne Ref. HOSM34060
1880, Biggin Ref. HOSM37696
1880, Edlaston Ref. HOSM44619
1898, Ilam Ref. HOSM49288
1898, Stanton Ref. HOSM60296
1898, Wetton Ref. HOSM64208
1896, Aldington Ref. HOSM35767
1896, Bilting Ref. HOSM37742
1896, Brook Ref. HOSM39205
1896, Charing Ref. HOSM40667
1896, Eastwell Park Ref. HOSM44591
1896, Elmsted Ref. HOSM44765
1896, Kenardington Ref. HOSM49704
1896, Pluckley Ref. HOSM56848

Books

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Memories

29,043 memories found. Showing results 911 to 920.

Lymington In The 1940s

My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more

A memory of Lymington in 1944 by Brian Veall

Coastguard Station

We came to Bolt Head in 1950, my father having joined the Coastguard service after being in the Royal Navy for 40 years. I found it quite a way to cycle to work, I worked in the post office in Malborough. I used to go ...Read more

A memory of Bolt Head in 1950 by Patricia Perring

Butchers

To the bottom right of the picture looks like a butcher's shop, I started my career in the meat trade in the same high street but a few shops up in 1975 as a boy! I think that shop with the two butchers outside later became Muffetts wet fish shop.

A memory of Harlow by Michael Wright

Our Lady Of Walsingham Church And School

Attending the Senior School, my memories are of the dinner dances that where held in the school hall to raise money to pay for the church and school, many of the events where organised by the local church ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1961 by Stefan Czernuszka

A Great Place To Live

Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Andrew Evans

Salfords Memories Of A Small Boy

We lived in Salfords from about 1948-1952, at the top of Honeycrock lane. Yes Angela, you did pay in the cubicle in the butcher's and the baker's shop was Cakebread's - very appropriate. I went to the old ...Read more

A memory of Salfords in 1948 by John Lund

Happy Days

I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more

A memory of Kirn in 1950 by Elizabeth Lewis

A Butcher's Lad

Mr Purvis the butcher, whose shop stood on the corner of Talke and Audley Roads, was my Saturday morning employer. He always wore a striped apron and a straw boater hat and sported a rather slick moustache. His manner with the ...Read more

A memory of Alsager in 1954 by Derek Marlow

Growing Up In A Small Village

My parents moved to Twycross from London in the early 1960s. We lived on Sheepy Road next door to Mr Charlie Brooks and Louie Jones. On the opposite side were Stan and Ilma Jones and Len Gibbs and his daughter Joan. ...Read more

A memory of Twycross by Tracy Wright

Cherished Memories

Finding this site has brought many wonderful memories back to me. I was born in St Mary's Hospital, Croydon. My maiden name was Chappell. I lived in Purley Road, South Croydon not far from the Red Deer until 1957. Every Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1953 by Linda Crossley

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 2,185 to 2,208.

Caption For Aldbrough, Cross Street C1955

This street, in one of the largest of the Holderness coastal villages, used to be called Poskett Lane.

Caption For St Annes, Clifton Drive South 1914

It is only forty years after the first ground was turned, and the scale of development is breathtaking.

Caption For Hailes, From East 1924

Little remains of the 13th-century Hailes Abbey except the ruins of the cloisters.

Caption For Rockwell Green, The Post Office C1955

Now a suburb of Wellington, the village was once known as Rowe Green, but often dubbed 'Rogue Green' because of the unruly behaviour of some of its inhabitants.

Caption For Westonzoyland, Sedgemoor Battlefield C1960

This monument was erected in 1928 at the site of Monmouth's defeat at the hands of the Royalist army in memory of all those killed during the battle or who subsequently suffered imprisonment, transportation

Caption For Bridgend, Ogmore Castle 1901

Situated two miles south-south-west of Bridgend, Ogmore was originally a ringwork with a timber palisade built in 1116 by William de Londres to guard crossing points on the rivers Ewenny and Ogmore.

Caption For Wokingham, Town Hall From Market Place C1955

This street scene is much altered from that of the 1906 photograph.

Caption For Leicester, The Tudor Gatehouse, Castle Street C1955

This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.

Caption For Widnes, Lugsdale Road C1960

Perhaps this view was taken on a Sunday - notice that the entrances to all the shops on the left have gates closed across them.

Caption For Sully, The Hospital C1950

In September 1927 the Ministry of Health published a report agreeing to the building of a 300-bed hospital at Sully for the treatment of TB.

Caption For Chepstow, Horseshoe Bend 1950

Just up river from the bridge and the castle, this would appear to be a view from Wintour`s Leap of the beginning of the great Horseshoe Bend which encompasses the peninsula of Lancaut.

Caption For Tenby, The Harbour 1890

This is another excellent view of the harbour. There are many children who have presumably been drawn to the permanent excitement of a busy port.

Caption For Woodchester, Roman Catholic Church Interior 1890

Among its many memorials is an effigy of William Leigh, shown vested in the robe of a Knight of St Gregory and holding in his hands a model of the church he founded.

Caption For Maidenhead, High Street 1921

At the height of the coaching era, Maidenhead was littered with posting inns either side of the High Street. Some of these hotels continued to thrive during the age of the motor car.

Caption For Wilmslow, Pownall Hall 1897

When this picture of Pownell Hall was taken, it had been acquired by Henry Boddington, a member of the Manchester brewing family.

Caption For Borrowdale, The Borrowdale Hotel 1895

The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland.

Caption For Andover, Town Hall 1898

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks.

Caption For Haverfordwest, From The Castle C1965

Looking to the north-east the course of the Western Cleddau can just be seen at the bottom of the picture beyond what would have been part of the Marychurch Foundry.

Caption For Bromfield, Mill And Church 1892

Much of St Mary's church, behind the mill, was used as a private house after the Dissolution; the ivy-covered remains of part of it can be seen here, attached to the right of the church.

Caption For Market Harborough, Little Bowden 1922

Swallowed up by the suburbs of Market Harborough, this little village has managed to salvage some individuality.

Caption For Hastings, The Beach 1925

Very few parts of the town are far from the beach.

Caption For Goring, Thatched Cottage 1896

The ivy-clad inn on the left of the photograph is the Miller of Mansfield, a famous pub in the Thames Valley.

Caption For Great Bookham, Church Road 1904

This charming study shows part of the main street of Great Bookham, which grew up on the spring line of the North Downs.

Caption For Loders, The Post Office And Village C1955

This attractive little village in West Dorset stands at the junction of a number of ancient packhorse trails.