Maps

5 maps found.

Map Of Middlesex, Middlesex Ref. F25
1897-1902, Bow Ref. RNC647024
1896, Bow Ref. RNE647024
1920, Bow Ref. POP647024
1946, Bow Ref. NPO647024

Books

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Memories

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1944 1972

Born 1944 I grew up in a house on the Great West Road, between Springwell Lane and the Broadwalk. My first great adventure: a tricycle with which I nearly broke the legs of several pedestrians. Springwell infants' school on what had been ...Read more

A memory of Heston by tilburycm

1948

Edgware Middlesex, the cradle of my childhood,and Burnt Oak is where I went with Mummy as a special treat , we used to go into Lyons corner house for a nice cup of tea and a small treat, and it seems like only yesterday the whole family went ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1948 by Erica Firth

1950s

I attended Hounslow Heath Infants and then HH Primary School in the fifties. Mr Such was our headmaster and I remember Mr Gilbert as my class teacher who also ran the school soccer team, of which I was a member. I also played for Heston & ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by martinconnolly47

1953 1978

I was born in West Middlesex hospital in 1953. At the time my parents lived with my grandparents in The Alders down Fern Lane. We lived there for at least two years until my brother was born and then we went to live with my aunt and uncle in ...Read more

A memory of Heston by suejanes2000

A Country Holiday

During the early 1960s my Aunt Bella and Uncle Alf lived down Ridway lane in a bungerlow called Fernleigh. It was detached, I suspect that it was part of field as the property had a five bar farm gate. Looking out of the ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1960 by Doreen Stockton

An Evacuee During Ww11

Packed off to Lostwithiel in the train from Paddington and found myself living in the Black Prince's Castle - Restormal. Well not quite, the farm on the Estate. I was baptised in St Winnow C.of E Church as part of our ...Read more

A memory of Lostwithiel in 1930 by John L Tooze

An Idyllic Childhood In New Haw

I wanted to add my own memories of growing up in New Haw from 1965 until moving again in 1973. The family moved from Richmond (then in Middlesex) to 187 New Haw Road, a detached 3-bedroom house with 1/3 acre of ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1966 by Andrew Taylor

Ancestral Ties

My story is similar to that of Yvonne Parker. When I got married in 1974 we bought our first house in Victoria Road and raised our three children there. They all attended a playgroup in the Baptist Church on the other side of the ...Read more

A memory of Berkhamsted in 1974 by Roger Bowen

Animal House

From 1947, my family used to drive between Middlesex and West Suffolk via Baldock. My father used to point out a house on the East side of the High Street that had many animal figures on the street-facing wall. Does anyone remember it and perhaps have a photograph?

A memory of Baldock by graham.skan

Anyone Remember Us?

My brother and I were born in Central Middlesex Hospital, me in 1949, my brother in 1953. We lived in Harlesden High Street in the late 40's early 50's. We lived above the tailor, John Collier - its now Jasmine's , at 103a High ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by pamfoster59

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Captions

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Caption For Egham, Procession C1901

The procession consists of Hussars and men from the Middlesex Regiment, many of whom had just returned from the Boer War.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street C1965

unusual view looking south-west, taken apparently from an upper window of the Crown Hotel, we see the ever present line of parked cars, the newest of which, 6503MC, was registered in Middlesex

Caption For Staines, High Street 1907

Staines was formerly in Middlesex.

Caption For Ickenham, The Club House, Uxbridge Golf Club C1965

The huge growth in Middlesex's population has meant the creation of many golf courses on the green fields and heathlands of the county.

Caption For Stanwell, The Rising Sun C1965

In 1965, when Greater London was created, Surrey crossed the River Thames and gained a segment of the former county of Middlesex.

Caption For Ealing, Grammar School, The Green C1955

On the west side, Middlesex County Council built Ealing County Boys School in 1913 in Queen Anne style.

Caption For London, Northumberland House 1874

Already the lion, the familycrest, has been removed from high above the entrance to go to Syon House, the Northumberland riverside country seat in Middlesex.

Caption For Brentford, High Street C1960

In the days when Middlesex encompassed much of what is now Greater London, Brentford remained the important county town, though the title was more or less ceremonial - real administrative

Caption For Hatch End, The Broadway C1960

Although not designated an Ancient Monument, it is with its extensive boundary banks the best example of its type in Middlesex.

Caption For Laleham, Chertsey Lock C1960

West of Sunbury and on the former Middlesex bank of the Thames is Chertsey Lock, near Chertsey Bridge, an austere seven-arch stone bridge of the 1780s by James Paine.

Caption For Market Harborough, High Street 1922

The High Street, earlier called the Great Street, is lined either side with Georgian buildings which sit at the head of earlier burgage plots, much the same as at Uxbridge, Middlesex or St Ives, Huntingdonshire

Caption For Pinner, Memorial Gardens C1960

Pinner remains one of the most attractive towns in Middlesex.

Caption For Sunbury On Thames, Thames Street C1955

Sunbury was also in Middlesex until 1965.

Caption For Ealing, Uxbridge Road 1901

Ealing had been a modest village in Middlesex with a population of 7000 at the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign.

Caption For Batchworth Heath, 1903

Across the Colne the main road to Pinner reaches Batchworth Heath, just before the old Middlesex county boundary.

Caption For Wisbech, Young's Memorial 1901

Within the park is the memorial column dedicated to Richard Young (1809-71), a local shipping magnate, Member of Parliament, five times Mayor of Wisbech and Sheriff of London and Middlesex.

Caption For Ruislip, The George Hotel, Bury Street C1965

For further reading see 'The Goodliest Place In Middlesex' by Eileen M Boult, published in 1989 by Hillingdon Borough Libraries.

Caption For Teddington, The Bridge 1899

The bridge spanning the river from the Middlesex bank to the island is a suspension bridge, while the shorter structure crossing from the Surrey bank has a girder design.

Caption For Cockfosters, The College, Trent Park C1965

Now the campus of Middlesex University, the whole has taken on a care-worn air, which even extends to the early 18th-century garden statues by John van Nost, which were brought to the house by Sir Philip

Caption For Twickenham, The Fox Inn 2005

In the early 19th century London's growing population was generating increased demand for fruit and vegetables, and west Middlesex farmers and agriculturalists turned to market gardening on a

Caption For Twickenham, King Street C1960

In the 1950s, Middlesex County Council planners were asked to draw up a plan for renovation of the embankment and Church Street area by the Ministry of Town and Country Planning.

Caption For Ruislip, Bury Street C1955

However, it is the buildings within the earthworks which deserve comment and inspection: these include the Great Barn of the 13th century, probably the oldest timber structure in Middlesex, the library

Caption For Twickenham, The River 1899

As there was no bridge across the Thames from Twickenham on the Middlesex bank over to the Surrey bank until the 18th century, residents who wanted to cross to the opposite bank of the river did