Places

5 places found.

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Maps

28 maps found.

1895, Southwood Ref. RNE835863
1922, Southwood Ref. POP835872
1899, Southwood Ref. RNC835869
1946, Southwood Ref. NPO835863
1898, Southwood Ref. RNE835869
1921, Southwood Ref. POP835863
1919, Southwood Ref. POP835870
1895, Southwood Ref. RNE835870
1902-1903, Southwood Ref. RNC835863
1897-1909, Southwood Ref. RNC835870
1898, Southwood Ref. RNE835866
1898, Southwood Ref. RNE835872
1947, Southwood Ref. NPO835866
1945, Southwood Ref. NPO835869
1946, Southwood Ref. NPO835872
1920, Southwood Ref. POP835866
1919, Southwood Ref. POP835869
1940, Southwood Ref. NPO835870
1885, Southwood Ref. HOSM59814
1884, Southwood Ref. HOSM59817

Books

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Memories

192 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Wood House

Early C20 formal gardens and parkland designed and landscaped by Thomas Mawson and implemented by Robert Mawson of the Lakeland Nurseries, Windermere, surrounding a house designed by Dan Gibson with a ground plan by Thomas ...Read more

A memory of Taw Green by Tonnie Keith

My Memories Of The Coronation 2nd June 1953

My memories of the Coronation-2nd June 1953 While I was studying at the Bridgend Preparatory and Commercial School two events happened which changed the course of history for Great Britain. In February ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig in 1953 by Catherine Delahay

Halcyon Days In The 1950s

What fantastic days they were, despite the hardship. We were a family of 9 Seven children Allan Joy,twins Michael and David, myself Sam and a second set of twins Kathryn and Brian I too remember Mrs Greys shop, also ...Read more

A memory of Wrottesley Park in 1955 by Sam Woolley

Wilsons Bakery Griffith Wilson

My parents are Angela (nee Goulden) and Bryan Wilson (now sadly deceased), both from Bramhall. My paternal Grandfather owned the bakery in the village "Wilsons" which was taken over after my grandfather's retirement by ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall in 1955 by Helen Young

Northolt Wonderland

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell

Memories Of Sutton Lodge, In Sutton Lane—Just South Of The Great West Road, Heston/Hounslow

Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories of ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Nicholas Reid

Wonderful Times Growing Up In South Ockendon

It’s been a real pleasure to read all the various memories of South Ockendon back in the 50s and 60s. I was born in Brixton and moved to West Norwood. My Mum & Dad both wanted to move out of London ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Stephen Wood

When We Played In The Road

Gipsy Road in Welling where I lived as a child in the 1950's was a long one. It stretched from Okehampton Crescent near Bostall heath and woods at its north end, down to the Welling/Bexleyheath mainline railway and a short ...Read more

A memory of Wellings, The

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 the ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

East Horsley In The Sixties

I grew up in East Horsley, where I attended St Martin's C of E Primary School. We had no car and we lived nearby so we always walked to the primary school and my mother walked to the shops on Bishopsmeade Parade. When Mum ...Read more

A memory of East Horsley by Diana Johnson

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Captions

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Caption For Corby, Grammar School C1965

As a comprehensive, it became known as Southwood, then Queen Elizabeth School; in 2001, after a period of closure and redevelopment, it reopened as Corby Community College.

Caption For Uley, The Street C1965

This view looks south down the hill to the village. The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

Caption For Uley, The Street C1965

This view looks south down the hill to the village. The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

Caption For Bishopstoke, C1965

To the south is a new development with its own shopping centre. Stoke Park Wood lies to the east of Bishopstoke.

Caption For Wytham, The Village C1965

Plenty of stone-built houses and cottages stand in the shadow of Wytham Great Wood, and just to the south lies 700-acre Wytham Park. The house is now part of Oxford University.

Caption For Abbotsbury, Chesil Bank And St Catherine's Chapel C1955

Looking south-eastwards from Abbotsbury Hill to Abbotsbury Gardens in Stavordale Wood (right) and Cleverlawns (centre).

Caption For Mill Hill, The Golf Club, Barnet Way C1955

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

Caption For Chester, Cathedral 1913

As well as these fine examples of wood-carving, the cathedral also boasts two modern carved corbels on the exterior of the South Transept. One features Gladstone, the other Dr Kenealy.

Caption For Shovers Green, The Village 1903

An evocative picture of the signpost and a cart at this scattered hamlet in the wooded hilly Weald south-east of Wadhurst.

Caption For Oakley, The Church C1960

The name of the village means 'a clearing in the oak woods'.

Caption For Broad Chalke, All Saints' Church C1955

The south transept south window is later Perpendicular, and so is the top of the tower and the two-storey south porch, which has fleurons below the battlements.

Caption For Richmond, From West 1908

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Caption For St Annes, Clifton Drive South 1914

Tramcar No 23 trundles along Clifton Drive South on its way to Lytham. The paving blocks between the tracks were made from white wood, balastic lava or jarrah.

Caption For Boreham Street, White Friars Hotel C1955

Wartling is another parish like Herstmonceux, with its parish church and part of the village over a mile south of the main road and on the edge of the Pevensey Levels.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

The Hartmoor area of Devizes lies to the south. This photograph is a revealing view of old England.

Caption For Richmond, View From Castle Walk 1913

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Caption For High Halden, The Church C1955

Once surrounded by forested land, this church boasts remarkable timbered west and south porches built in the early 14th century, and comprising some fifty tons of oak wood.

Caption For Malmesbury, Looking Towards The High Street C1955

The Hartmoor area of Devizes lies to the south. This photograph is a revealing view of old England.

Caption For Midhurst, King Edward's Sanatorium 1907

Set in woods two miles north of Midhurst, the King Edward Sanatorium (1903-6, by Charles Holden) is vast but built in a humane Tudorish style.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

The Hartmoor area of Devizes lies to the south. This photograph is a revealing view of old England.

Caption For Abergavenny, The Castle From Usk Bridge C1955

The castle and the south-eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to the wooded slopes

Caption For Newton Abbot, From Decoy 1906

Another open area of Newton Abbot is Decoy, to the south of town. With playing fields, a recreation area, a lake and woodlands, it is very popular with the local townspeople.

Caption For The Broads, 1902

This lovely photograph shows a broad on the upper Bure, possibly South Walsham, showing water lilies which were common on many broads early in the 20th century.

Caption For Abergavenny, The Castle From Usk Bridge C1955

The castle and the south- eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to