Maps

786 maps found.

1947, Jodrell Bank Ref. NPO745159
1946, May Bank Ref. NPO775772
1947, Meal Bank Ref. NPO776141
1946, Sandy Bank Ref. NPO825275
1946, River Bank Ref. NPO817349
1898, Brandon Bank Ref. RNE648718
1898, Coal Bank Ref. RNE672533
1898, Black Bank Ref. RNE641337
1898, Astwood Bank Ref. RNE628269
1896, Bank Fold Ref. RNE632322
1899, Bank Street Ref. RNE632406
1897, Bank Top Ref. RNE632413
1897, Bank Top Ref. RNE632428
1895, Bury's Bank Ref. RNE657343
1897, Bunsley Bank Ref. RNE655511
1899, Lee Bank Ref. RNE754481
1896, Jodrell Bank Ref. RNE745159
1898, Kents Bank Ref. RNE746331
1897, Ketley Bank Ref. RNE746607
1896, Hoole Bank Ref. RNE740015

Books

15 books found. Showing results 361 to 15.

Memories

6,677 memories found. Showing results 151 to 160.

Good Old Days

i lived at 13ward gardens just by the village green.spent my youth there until moving to new zealand when i was 25,spent many a day fishing for sticklebacks in the stream by the pond back in 1964,as i got older spent many an hour in the ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by Elkin Stephen

Croglin 1958

When my husband and I married in March 1958, he bought the cottage nearest the camera on the left; no electricity, no bathroom......it cost the  princely sum of £300! The building at the end of the street is the pub, and behind the trees ...Read more

A memory of Croglin by Kate Walker

Fishing

This is the Fish Pond at Holden Corner, Southborough. This was one of the two accessible and popular places for boys to go fishing in Southborough - the other was the Great Bounds Lake, near Bidborough. As a boy in the 1940s and early 50s ...Read more

A memory of Southborough in 1940 by Michael Willcocks

Summer Holidays At Tyn Y Morfa

In the early 60s we used to travel to Talacre for a fortnight holiday in a caravan. One year my parents didn't pre-book but we travelled from Liverpool on the off chance we would find a place. I remember my father ...Read more

A memory of Tyn-y-Morfa by Nancy Bell

18 Two Meadows

As a Londoner, when my new husband was offered a job in Great Yarmouth in 1964, I was excited, although a bit apprehensive about moving to the small village of Hemsby. We bought a brand new house in a new subdivision at Two Meadows. It ...Read more

A memory of Hemsby by Carol Watts

Pinner Mid 50's

I was fortunate enough to live in Pinner as a small child 8 & 9 years old. We lived on 9 Nower Hill, and I remember befriending the railway station ticket lady. She and I used to go out to the parking lot (which was gravel back then) ...Read more

A memory of Pinner by Joel Fisher

Sandbanks

Sandy banks in strelley village is a place in the 70s where we would build rope swings and camp

A memory of Strelley by Susan Lee

Wrinstead Court

I went to Wrinsted Court with my mother and brother and sister in 1950. We went as tenants. Here is a short background. My father was killed in 1941 as he was in the Navy. Then my mother met my first step-father who was also in ...Read more

A memory of Wrinsted Court by Christine Smith

My Time At Tylney Hall School

Hi my name is Peter Hatch and I went to Tylney from West Mark probably in 1954 until 1957 . My best friends at Tylney and still today are Peter Loxton and Leo Bonassera . Peter later changed his name to peter Dukes . ...Read more

A memory of Rotherwick by Peter Hatch

A Schoolboy's View Of Bexleyheath In The Early 1950s

I went to school in Bexleyheath between 1950 and 1954. I believe the school was in Pelham Road but I can't be sure. Maybe there was a separate infants department in North Street? My first (very ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by John Howard Norfolk

Captions

2,423 captions found. Showing results 361 to 384.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

Caption For Oxford, The Cherwell 1906

Hemmed in by a circle of hills and built on a gravel bank between the Thames Isis and the Cherwell, Oxford gives the impression of sitting on an island.

Caption For Penrith, Shops, Market Place 1893

In 1909 this property was bought and later demolished by the London City and Midland Bank.

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 Camelford, King Arthur's Grave 1906

His last battle was at Camlann, whose name means crooked bank, or glen.

Caption For Glasgow, St Vincent Place 1897

St Vincent's Place was right in the commercial heart of the city with the National Bank, the Royal Exchange, the Stock Exchange, and the Athenaeum club all nearby.

Caption For Dittisham, On The Dart 1889

Dittisham is one of the larger villages along the steeply wooded banks of the romantic Dart estuary.

Caption For Camelford, King Arthur's Grave 1906

His last battle was at Camlann, whose name means crooked bank, or glen.

Caption For Hythe, School Of Musketry 1903

Its training ranges are situated on the desolate shingle banks west of the town.

Caption For Chartham, The River 1906

Four young children, seated on the bank of the Stour, are mirrored in the tranquil waters, while to their left, another adult resident stoops to fill a bucket.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street C1960

Next to William Deacon's Bank is the Great Wall Restaurant, one of the first Chinese restaurants to open outside a major city.

Caption For Tavistock, 1893

Tavistock, one of Devon's three original Stannary Towns, lies on the banks of the Tavy, which rises high on the moors near Cut Hill and flows into the Tamar upstream of Tamerton.

Caption For Yelverton, The Village C1965

The Midland Bank, now HSBC, still opens three days a week, and the cafe on the left is now a hairdressers.

Caption For Coltishall, The Village 1902

Handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses line the grassy banks.

Caption For The Broads, The River, Wayford Bridge C1935

The river near the new bridge now has rows of wooden houseboats moored along the right bank, where Wayford Farm has been developed into the Wayford Bridge Hotel.

Caption For Tilbury, The Thames C1960

This is a busy dockside area on the north bank of the River Thames, where tall cranes pierce the skyline.

Caption For Thorpe St Andrew, The River Yare 1919

This view looks downstream to the Rush Cutters pub from the south bank.

Caption For Ombersley, Evangelists Wagon In Village 1899

This large parish runs along the eastern bank of the Severn for several miles.

Caption For Potter Heigham, The Broads C1926

Here we see sailing boats and dinghies alongside the River Thurne, with G Applegate's boatbuilding sheds on the west bank.

Caption For Porthpean, Beach C1955

This could be a bank holiday.

Caption For Clacton On Sea, The Bandstand And The Pier 1907

Clacton-on-Sea was founded as a seaside resort in 1871—the year that the Bank Holiday Act was passed.This view shows the ever popular bandstand and the pier, built in 1873 and lengthened in the

Caption For Ross On Wye, Gloucester Road C1960

The buildings on the far left of the picture, including the one marked National Provincial Bank, have been totally altered and are now unrecognisable from this photograph.

Caption For St Ives, The Putting Green C1960

It was here, on rough sandy banks, that the St Ives pilchard fishing boats of the 19th century were drawn up clear of the beach.