Maps

2,499 maps found.

1880 - 1881, Stoke Gifford Ref. HOSM60556
1880 - 1881, Winterbourne Ref. HOSM64810
1881 - 1902, Cold Ashton Ref. HOSM41452
1881 - 1919, Badminton Ref. HOSM34081
1881 - 1919, Dunkirk Ref. HOSM44004
1881, Inglestone Common Ref. HOSM49347
1881 - 1919, Little Badminton Ref. HOSM51391
1881 - 1919, Petty France Ref. HOSM56584
1913 - 1920, Boldon Colliery Ref. HOSM38239
1901 - 1902, Lower Hamswell Ref. HOSM47531
1879, Upper Hill Ref. HOSM41015
1914 - 1920, Jarrow Ref. HOSM34705
1913 - 1914, East Boldon Ref. HOSM34468
1895 - 1920, Monkton Ref. HOSM54083
1880 - 1881, Cromhall Ref. HOSM42355
1879 - 1880, Buckover Ref. HOSM42686
1880 - 1881, Falfield Ref. HOSM71281
1881, Hall End Ref. HOSM47395
1898-1899, Colt's Green Ref. RNC675831
1904-1905, Chapelton Ref. RNC666657

Books

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Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 941 to 950.

Canada Bound

While working in the Lake District as an hotel assistant manager I reached such a point of frustration that I up and quit my job and applied to emigrate to Canada. Five minutes later, after hearing of my decision, the head accountant gave ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1966 by Dylan Rivis

Mabledon & Nightingale Farms

Saw your Memory with interest. I have done two others on the site - people will think "He's vain", but hardly anyone else seems to have bothered. I can remember the smell of hops drying here in the 1950/60s. I was born in ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1956 by Rodney Warrener

Oughtrington Hall

I was in the first group of Lymm Grammar School students to move to Oughtrington Hall in 1945/46. Later, perhaps 1952/53, we established cricket at the school and played matches against other Cheshire Grammar Schools there - all ...Read more

A memory of Oughtrington in 1946 by Brian Deverall

Cafe On Northolt Road And Robert Shipley

Hello my name is Lee Shipley. I'm looking for any info on my grandad Robert Shipley who worked in a cafe on Northolt Road in South Harrow in the 1950s. If you have any info on him please could you email me at: leeshipley@ymail.com Thankyou.

A memory of South Harrow by Lee Shipley

1960s

I grew up in Dundee Street in Darlington. I remember the shops on each end of Dundee Street and Montrose Street, and the alleys between, the alleys were made of blue tiles that always sparkled in rain and frost. I remember the rag and bone ...Read more

A memory of Darlington in 1967 by Donna Harland

Northolt Wood End

Our family moved to Northolt (Mildred Avenue) around 1956 from Harlesden and I left in 1978. I have great memories of Wood End infants/junior school. Playing near Northolt Park Station and anoying the station master who we lovingly ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Brian Holder

276 Shirley Road

During WW2, my twin brother and I were born at this house on 2 Nov 1943 to Evelyn and Tom Williams. Dad built an Anderson bomb shelter in the back garden during the early years of the war, and was used by mother and children ...Read more

A memory of Acock's Green in 1943 by Edward Williams

Annbank Hotel

I remember my dad asking me to go to the hotel in Annbank for his fags (funny how it was always at night), if it wasn't for the promise of getting a bag of crisps for going, I'd surely never go. This was the most scariest hotel, in the ...Read more

A memory of Annbank in 1963 by Alex Steele

East Coast Floods

Does anyone have any memories about the 1953 floods? My aunt Phyliss Papworth and her daughters Suzanne, Jennifer and Patricia who lived in South Beach Road all drowned, but her other daughter Janet was at a birthday party at a ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1953 by Marlene Hyland

Where I Used To Get The Bus To School

This picture (e199012) must be mid-afternoon judging by the shadows but there is surprisingly little traffic. The bus stop on the right, with a shelter, is where the 17 and 104 would stop on their way ...Read more

A memory of East Finchley in 1965

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 2,257 to 2,280.

Caption For Fontmell Magna, View From Church Tower C1955

We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.

Caption For Bottesford, St Mary's Church, The Earl Of Rutland's Monument 1890

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour 1892

Lyme Regis is situated towards the northern end of Lyme Bay and six miles south of the mouth of the Axe, a river once navigable for some distance upstream.

Caption For Shefford, The Church And War Memorial C1955

This is because it was originally a daughter church to Campion, a mile or so to the south-west, and Shefford would have buried its dead there.

Caption For Whitby, The Harbour 1885

His two ships that sailed to the South Seas, the 'Resolution' and 'Endeavour', were built here.

Caption For Billesdon, Market Place C1955

church at its southern end and the A47 to the north, the village is entered by long-abandoned medieval roads from Cold Newton to the north, itself a shrunken village, and from Gaulby and Frisby to the south-west

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1897

Shops on the south side include that of grocer and jam manufacturer William G Cornick. The Greyhound Hotel forms the penultimate frontage.

Caption For Poole, Parkstone Park 1898

At the time this picture was taken, Parkstone was being compared to Menton in the south of France; there is also a Mentone Road.

Caption For Holkham Hall, 1922

This picture shows the south front with its fine portico with an entablature supported by eight Corinthian columns. In front of it is a small covered stall set up for a local charitable event.

Caption For Tenby, Harbour C1925

The town developed as a Victorian watering hole for the well-to-do, especially after the railway came in 1863, but in post-war years it has been the destination for mass-tourism, mainly from the south

Caption For Hampton Court, Palace 1899

This is the south-east front, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1689 and 1700.

Caption For Hampton Court, The Gardens C1960

To the south of the palace are the Pond Gardens.

Caption For Redhill, High Street C1955

This view of the High Street, looking south from the Station Road crossroads, changed dramatically when the M23 and M25 by-passed the town; much has been pedestrianised and demolished.

Caption For Steeple Claydon, North End Road C1955

This view looks south-west along North End Road past the former pub, now a house.

Caption For Chepstow, The Castle 1893

Norman control over England was effectively limited to the south-east of the country; there were rumours that the sons of King Harold were in contact with King Diarmait of Leinster, who was prepared to

Caption For Okehampton, The Castle 1890

It was from here that FitzGerald ruthlessly put down a rebellion in the south-west.

Caption For Simpson, Main Road C1958

This view looks south down the main street towards the church of St Thomas and St Nicholas - we can see its 14th-century crossing tower (centre).

Caption For Walsall, The Bridge 2005

Upper Rushall Street and Peal Street running north and south from the bottom of the church steps indicate ancient routes to Lichfield and Wednesbury.

Caption For Devizes, St John's Church, Interior 1898

Mrs Maria Heathcote, 1768, is resting in peace in the south transept; she is represented as Britannia seated, one hand holding an anchor, the other a medallion with her portrait.

Caption For Ferring, The Village C1960

In the picture: In the picture we can see a bus stop sign on a concrete post, for Southdown route 106 only, Worthing to South Ferring.

Caption For Preston, Town Hall 1893

The original Preston Post Office had been at the south end of Wide Shambles in a building leaning on the side of the shambles.

Caption For Cranbrook, Stone Street 1902

From the George's entrance, on the right, she walked on a mile of local broadcloth to Coursehorn, a Tudor farmhouse owned by a wealthy weaver, which is south-east of the town.

Caption For Ware, High Street C1965

The south-west side of Ware High Street changed drastically when it was decided to build a new Tesco Store in 1960.

Caption For Stanmore, Ruins Of Old Church, Uxbridge Road 1906

At the foot of the hill the Old Church and St John the Evangelist share a single churchyard, while remnants of the original mediaeval parish church can be found to the south.