Maps

173 maps found.

1902, Stowe Ref. RNC841089
1898, Stowe Ref. RNE841089
1899, Stowe Ref. RNE841091
1947, Stowe Ref. NPO841091
1946, Stowe Ref. NPO841093
1896, Stowe Ref. RNE841090
1923, Stow Ref. POP841059
1919, Stowe Ref. POP841092
1922, Stowe Ref. POP841093
1887, Stowe Ref. HOSM60703
1946, Stowe Ref. NPO841089
1946, Stowe Ref. NPO841092
1899, Stow Ref. RNE841059
1896, Stowe Ref. RNE841092
1895, Stowe Ref. RNE841093
1921, Stowe Ref. POP841089
1919, Stowe Ref. POP841090
1947, Stow Ref. NPO841059
1901-1903, Stowe Ref. RNC841091
1919, Upper Stowe Ref. POP857820

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Memories

76 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Elliotts Fish & Chip Shop, High Street, Hogsthorpe.

Hi I was born in 1963 in Hogsthorpe and went to the primary school in Thames Street, I remember some amazing times in Hogsthorpe helping my Mum and Dad in the fish and chip shop rumbling the potato's ...Read more

A memory of Hogsthorpe by Ian Elliott

Lancing In The Fifties And Sixties

My family moved to Lancing when I was six months old, living first in Orchard Avenue and then Tower Road, which had a bad reputation - totally undeserved! I liked the fact that there were always children to play ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by Avril Boyd

Lived Worked And Played Here

My mother was born in keepers cottage in Battle Wood, who grew up and later got married in Battle church. My grandfather, Leonard Glyde was a fireman during the second world war stationed at Battle fire station. I was ...Read more

A memory of Battle by terry_ross17

Snow On The University Site

I remember when the snow was really heavy, I was about 6 years old and I lived with my grandparent and mother on New Ashby Road, just over the road from the Loughborough University. My uncles and Aunts took me over ...Read more

A memory of Loughborough in 1963 by Yvonne Sutton

First Job.

For about 6 wks prior to joining the navy in 1963, I worked at the Fyffes banana warehouse in Williamson St. (in photo). It paid about 3 quid a week (and all you could eat). Still, a handy easygoing fill-in job for a naive halfwit 15yr old ...Read more

A memory of Luton

Guernsey Evacuees

My mother and her family, the Petits, were evacuees from Guernsey during World War 2. They were housed in Coates by Stow and then Saxilby. They attended Stow School. There were 8 children, Cyril, Donald,Olive, Mavis, Monica, ...Read more

A memory of Saxilby in 1940 by Jackie Thom

Hixon Village

I was 6 when we moved to Hixon from Stowe by Chartley. My dear dad Len, my 2 sisters Rose and Sue and my 2 brothers Gray and Mick. We lived in the Croft no 24, my brother still lives in that house today overlooking the woods that were ...Read more

A memory of Hixon in 1965 by Pam Clemson

Bristol's Cabot's Tower

Bristol's Cabot's Tower, and the penny pinching Council. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a disastrous fire, a confidence trick and ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1890 by Paul Townsend

Memories Of War Years 1939 45 Newport

Memories of War years 1939 -1945. By John Beal. Little did I realise that I would be involved in the army when war broke out in 1939. I was attending Hatherleigh Central School in Newport at the time and as ...Read more

A memory of Newport in 1940 by John Beal

Happy Days

Oh the memories stored away!! Charlie's opposite Cove Green, going there for sweeties on a Sunday, Cove Green (not as good as Tower Hill swings though!), Mundays closing at 1pm on Sundays, Thorntons with its yellow facade, and wool etc, I ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1965 by Ann Mozdzer

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Captions

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Caption For Stow On The Wold, The Green C1955

'Stow-on-the-Wold, where the wind blows cold…' runs the ancient rhyme.

Caption For Stow On The Wold, The Market Cross 1961

Stow-on-the-Wold is the junction of eight major roads, including the Roman Fosse Way, and has always attracted travellers from far and wide.

Caption For Buckingham, Palladian Bridge, Stowe School C1955

Stowe is of European importance in the history of landscape gardening.

Caption For Stow Bridge, The River And Bridge C1965

The two main crossings were here, at Stow Bardolph, and at nearby Magdalen bridge: these were droving roads used by cattle traders, and there was formerly a major cattle fair here at Stow.

Caption For Buckingham, The Old Gaol C1950

Built by Lord Cobham of Stowe in 1748 to help regain the assizes for Buckingham, and extended in 1839, the castellated Gothic building has been superbly restored as a fascinating museum

Caption For Newport, St Mary's Church 1893

This Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary stands on Stow Hill on the site of an earlier, smaller, edifice.

Caption For London, The Kings Head 1875

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow 'one of the fair inns' of Southwark.

Caption For London, The Kings Head 1875

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow ‘one of the fair inns’ of Southwark.

Caption For Stow On The Wold, The Square And Stocks C1955

The English Civil War ended at Stow-on-the-Wold when the parliamentarian Sir William Brereton defeated the aged royalist Sir Jacob Astley in 1646.

Caption For Flatford, Bridge House C1960

The dock was recently restored by the National Trust and the Stow River Trust.

Caption For Polperro, An Old Smugglers Cottage 1924

Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the

Caption For Stowmarket, The River 1922

The industrial complex is the tannery of Edward Stow, established in Milton Road from 1896 to 1904.

Caption For Lower Swell, The Village C1955

How different this quiet little place might have been had the potential been developed from the chalybeate spring, discovered in 1807 where the road leads out of the village to Stow, as inscribed on

Caption For Chepstow, Beaufort Square 1957

'Chepe' and 'stowe' combine to mean 'market place', which indicates the early origins of this town.

Caption For Chapel St Leonards, The Esplanade C1955

Cannings (left) are first mentioned in 1930, when a Miss Canning had a haberdashery store; Stow's Stores (right) is still in the same place.

Caption For Chapel St Leonards, The Esplanade C1955

Cannings (left) are first mentioned in 1930, when a Miss Canning had a haberdashery store; Stow's Stores (right) is still in the same place.

Caption For Chepstow, High Street 1906

Situated on the Wye just above its junction with the Severn, Chepstow derives its name from Chepe-stow, meaning market town.

Caption For Stow On The Wold, The Cross C1955

Stow's ancient cross in the Square served as a reminder to market traders in medieval times that they should not try to pull the wool over their customers' eyes.

Caption For Newport, St Mary's Church 1893

This Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary stands on Stow Hill on the site of an earlier, smaller, edifice.

Caption For Stow On The Wold, The Square 1957

Daniel Defoe records in his 'Tour of Britain' that 20,000 sheep were sold at Stow-on-the-Wold market in the year prior to his visit.

Caption For Harlow, The Stow C1955

The Stow was to be the New Town's first major shopping centre.

Caption For Cam, Chapel Street C1955

Over the next three decades it bought out other brewers in Nailsworth, Stow-on-the-Wold, Northleach, Gloucester, Wickwar and Evesham.

Caption For Ascott Under Wychwood, The Green C1950

But their attempt to burgle Tangley Manor between Stow and Burford went less well.

Caption For Cockfosters, The College, Trent Park C1965

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 Sassoon from Stowe