Maps

848 maps found.

1924, Dale Ref. POP687744
1898, Dale Ref. RNE687745
1896, Dale Ref. RNE687744
1897, Dale Ref. RNE687743
1925, Dale Ref. POP687743
1922, Dale Ref. POP687745
1947, Dale Ref. NPO687743
1947, Dale Ref. NPO687744
1946, Dale Ref. NPO687745
1903, Dale Ref. RNC687744
1948, Dale Ref. HOSM42907
1923, Coplow Dale Ref. POP677192
1921, Dale Abbey Ref. POP687746
1925, Dale Bottom Ref. POP687753
1920, Dale Hill Ref. POP687805
1920, Dale Hill Ref. POP687806
1923, Darley Dale Ref. POP688675
1947, Tivy Dale Ref. NPO848990
1947, Two Dales Ref. NPO854857
1923, Peak Dale Ref. POP802224

Books

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Memories

220 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Mandrake Road

My siblings and I were all born at Weir maternity hospital in Balham, we lived on Mandrake road and we all went to Fircroft primary school opposite our house. I was at Fircroft from 1976-1982. Mr. Chaimings was the headmaster then, Mr ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Sylvia Amoah

The Village Was Home

I was born in 1950 at Orsett Hospital, a few minutes before my twin sister and on my mothers birthday no less. We lived at 28 St James Avenue East until 1968. The house was in fact that of my maternal grand parents and my ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by Chris Doggett

Selly Oak In The 50s. By Mick Carson.

I'd like to reply to Shirley who recalled all those wonderful times around George Road and Dale Road Selly Oak in the 50s. I lived at 72 North Road. The Carpenters family you mentioned were my relatives. I ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak by Mick Carson

1970's Two Dales

Born and raised in Darley Dale, schooled at County primary on Greenaway Lane, where I met my best friend for life who lived on sydnope hill Two Dales, I fondly remember my Mum sending me on my pony to Mrs Wagstaff the local ...Read more

A memory of Two Dales

Oakhanger, Hampshire

Grew up in Oakhanger and enjoyed the freedom of exploring the common in the centre of the village. Some good times were had sledging down a hill on the common in the snow. Also, finding and catching tadpoles in the pond ...Read more

A memory of Oakhanger

The Brown Family Who Lived In A Cottage Called The Groves

I was surprised to find no memories recorded for Auchinairn, even though it is a small place, so the following is a start. When I was about the age of 10 in the mid 1950's my mother told ...Read more

A memory of Auchinairn by vernoncoles

The 1950s

I well remember what seemed like an age, the summer holidays of the early 1950s. My brother and I would spend all day on the beach or after the harvest playing stage coaches with the bales of hay in the field in Stocks Lane. In ...Read more

A memory of Bracklesham Bay

Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

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

West Wittering In The 1940s And 50s

My first memories are of playing on the huge expanse of sand at West Wittering and the bombing tower which used to be there after the war. We stayed on the beach till late and were put to bed in the back of ...Read more

A memory of West Wittering by Marianne Stevens

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Captions

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Caption For Ashwood Dale, C1876

Ashwood Dale is just one of the names given to the deep limestone valley of the River Wye as it winds between Bakewell and Buxton.

Caption For Two Dales, Chesterfield Road C1960

This hamlet on the Chesterfield Road out of Darley Dale is known as Two Dales; the name probably comes from the twin valleys of Hall Dale and Sydnope Dale, which run on either side of the

Caption For Bradwell, Dale 1919

This stone-walled lane leading down into Beresford Dale from the west is known as Beresford Lane.

Caption For Millers Dale, C1862

A top-hatted gentleman strides purposefully across the rickety wooden bridge across the River Wye in Miller's Dale in this charming view.

Caption For Matlock, Dale Road 1892

A traffic-free view of Dale Road shows the Victorian Gothic style of the Old English Hotel (right) to good effect.

Caption For Denby Dale, High Street C1955

The viaduct which carries the main Sheffield-Leeds railway line dominates this view of the High Street of the South Yorkshire town of Denby Dale.

Caption For Coverham, Drovers' Crag, Coverdale 1926

The Yorkshire Dales are criss-crossed by a network of ancient drovers' roads, like this one in Coverdale, a quiet dale which runs into the lower reaches of Wensleydale.

Caption For Peak Dale, Small Dale C1955

We are high on the limestone White Peak plateau with this photograph of farm buildings and cottages in the hamlet of Small Dale, north of Peak Dale, to the north east of Buxton.

Caption For Borrowdale, The Hotel C1870

The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland, and only the hardiest of early tourists made their way this deeply into the dale.

Caption For Wensley, The Village C1960

Wensley was the major settlement in the dale of the River Ure which takes its name until 1563, when the plague struck and the village was deserted.

Caption For Thornton Dale, Beck Isle Cottage C1965

Thornton Dale lies 2 miles east of Pickering.

Caption For Wensley, Green 1906

This was such a tranquil place in 1906; but now it lies on the main Dales road from Hawes to Leyburn.

Caption For Ashwood Dale, Lovers Leap C1862

Lover's Leap in Ashwood Dale, near Buxton, is one of several in the Peak which recall a long-forgotten romantic tragedy.

Caption For Monsal Dale, The Viaduct C1955

The construction of the Midland line through the dales of the Wye excited the wrath of the early conservationist John Ruskin, and the Monsal Dale viaduct was thought to have particularly offended him.

Caption For Clapham, The New Inn C1955

The New Inn at Clapham is a popular hostelry in the heart of the Dales Three Peaks Country, and a convenient starting place for the ascent of Ingleborough, which is 2,434 feet high.

Caption For Eyam, Middleton Dale, Shining Cliff 1919

The massive limestone buttresses of Shining Cliff look down on the junction of Middleton Dale with the road to Eyam on the left of the photograph.

Caption For Liverpool, Dale Street 1887

Dale Street is one of Liverpool's original seven streets, and is captured here full of hustle and bustle.

Caption For Skipton, The Market Place C1955

Another market day, this time in Skipton, the ancient gateway town to the eastern Dales.

Caption For Over Haddon, Lathkill Dale 1914

Limestone rocks are a major part of Lathkill Dale.

Caption For Arkengarthdale, The Red Lion, Longthwaite C1960

Arkengarthdale is a little-visited but very beautiful dale which runs into Swaledale from the north-west at Reeth.

Caption For Borrowdale, The Hotel C1870

Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.The traffic-free minor road meanders south between drystone walls through the dale

Caption For Capel, Aldhurst Farm 1906

Three years after William Cobbett rode through this stretch of countryside in August 1823, the Dale family came to Aldhurst Farm.

Caption For Askrigg, Ellerkin 1914

Behind the village on the northern part of the Dale is this seemingly endless stretch of fields and craggy hilltops.

Caption For Stoney Middleton, The Church C1955

Completely overlooked by the towering limestone cliffs of Middleton Dale, the village church of Stoney Middleton is one of the few completely octagonal churches in England.