Maps

1,153 maps found.

1947, Kerne Bridge Ref. NPO746436
1946, Fenny Bridges Ref. NPO704418
1947, Duddon Bridge Ref. NPO694609
1947, Guide Bridge Ref. NPO723384
1947, Hooley Bridge Ref. NPO740021
1947, Howe Bridge Ref. NPO741402
1947, Five Bridges Ref. NPO706320
1919, Kerne Bridge Ref. POP746436
1921, Kilby Bridge Ref. POP746945
1921, Horse Bridge Ref. POP740564
1946, Bridge Reeve Ref. NPO649998
1947, Bridge Sollers Ref. NPO649999
1947, Bridge Town Ref. NPO650003
1946, Cavendish Bridge Ref. NPO664927
1919, Low Bridge Ref. POP767851
1920, Sapey Bridge Ref. POP825492
1925, Plantation Bridge Ref. POP807107
1925, Sowerby Bridge Ref. POP835932
1921, Standford Bridge Ref. POP838122
1920, Newnham Bridge Ref. POP791397

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Memories

2,048 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

Hornchurch, Wingletye Lane, Photograph C.1950

I lived in Glanville Drive, a residential road off Upminster Road about 100 yards to the west of Wingletye Lane, for the first part of my life from 1947 so I knew the area well. The building on the corner ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

Hornchurch, Wingletye Lane Circa 1950

For the first part of my life from 1947 I lived in Glanville Drive which ran parallel to Wingletye Lane about 100 yards to the West of where the photograph was taken. The railings to the right of the photograph ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

Woodhall Parade, Wingletye Lane, Hornchurch

I lived in Glanville Drive for the first part of my life from 1947. Out nearest post office was in Woodhall Parade, just over the railway bridge in Wingletye Lane, One thing that sticks in my mind is that the ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

Bailey Bridge Pontoon Canal Cruisers.

I built the boat shown on the right hand side of the photograph.   Bailey Bridge pontoon MKVI N0.19053 was manufactured by Gee Walker & Slater Ltd, Uttoxeter Road, Derby and sent to Engineers Stores, US ...Read more

A memory of Great Haywood in 0 by Claire Allen

Along Row From Home

I n 1965 my parents retired to Saltash and my father built himself a small boat. As it was moored off the end of the garden. He looked around for a dingy to get to and fro and eventually found one in Gunnislake. Guess who got the ...Read more

A memory of Gunnislake by Chris Scott

Boyhood Memories Of Lymington

My parents, Edward (Jack) and Mavis Byard and myself and German Shepherd Dog Julie, moved from Poole, in Dorset, to live in a de-commissioned British Power Boat Motor Torpedo Boat, 451, in November 1947. My father worked ...Read more

A memory of Lymington by Michael Byard

My Boyhood Memories. With My Grandad

I hope that anyone left of my family can read this, as now being 72 , I lost all track of coming to Kent. My home town was Lytham St Annes where my mother lived and dad was in the RAF and met my mother there. My ...Read more

A memory of Faversham by Peter Manuel

Family Connections.

The lady standing on the bridge is my great grandmother Hannah Elton nee Churchill and the small boy her grandson, Cecil Henry Stickland, my uncle.  He became the verger at Christchurch Priory.  Hannah lived with her husband ...Read more

A memory of Wimborne Minster by Claire Allen

Ice Cream

My parents and I spent several vacations at Higworth farm caravan camp in the early/ mid 50's. I remember my Father having to get out of the coach, along with others, to lighten the load to cross the bridge. On the way to the beach we ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island

Bagpuss

A section of this photograph was used by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate for one of the opening sequences in the programme Bagpuss. This was confirmed in 1978 when a Horrabridge resident wrote to the Bagpuss programme and received a reply ...Read more

A memory of Horrabridge by Sharon Riggs

Captions

2,231 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Northwich, Town Bridge C1960

This unusual bridge was both the first road swing bridge on floating pontoons in Britain (it was built in 1899) and then the first electrically operated swing bridge (in 1989).

Caption For Wroxham, The Bridge C1940

The bridge joining Wroxham to the west and Hoveton to the east was declared unsafe in the 1960s.

Caption For Pulborough, Swan Bridge 1921

The Arun, described as the second fastest-flowing river in the country, had strong tides; by the 1930s, they reached Pulborough, where two old stone bridges crossed the river.

Caption For Chain Bridge, The Bridge And Inn C1955

The village of Chain Bridge is on the River Usk.

Caption For Rochester, The Bridge C1955

The iron bridge, raised in 1914, carries the London road over the River Medway into Rochester; it replaced the old stone bridge, which had stood a little further upstream by the Bridge Chapel.

Caption For Bath, View From Pulteney Bridge 1914

Looking south from the bridge, the towering mass of the former Empire Hotel is on the right with its terrace.

Caption For Wimborne, Canford Bridge 1904

Construction work on Canford Bridge began in 1793 and was completed 20 years later.

Caption For York, Ouse Bridge 1885

Built in the 12th century, the original bridge was of wood and was probably sited nearer the Guildhall.

Caption For Kersey, The Ford And Church C1955

The name Kersey means 'cress island', a fact to contemplate when crossing the Brett by bridge or ford.

Caption For Axmouth, The Bridge And Haven Cliff 1895

Despite the masonry facings, this bridge across the Axe is made of concrete, built to the design of Philip Brannon in 1877.

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For London, Victoria Embankment C1955

The photographer is standing on Westminster Bridge above Westminster Pier.

Caption For Canford Magna, Canford Bridge 1899

When Henry VIII's topographer John Leland travelled from Poole to Wimborne in 1542, he noted passing over a bridge with '12 good arches'.

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For Widnes, The Transporter Bridge C1955

The towers of the bridge were 150ft high and at the top of each there was a lantern with a copper roof.

Caption For Market Harborough, Wooden Bridge 1922

Just a plain wooden bridge, but it was a bridge such as this upon which Edward Thomas stood in 1915 when for a few moments he imagined himself to linger between the past and the future, or between life

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge further down the valley).

Caption For Stopham, Bridge 1914

Stopham Bridge has long been considered one of the finest and most striking of medieval bridges in the country.

Caption For Ironbridge, The Bridge 1904

The bridge was a toll bridge; it opened to the public on 1 January 1781.

Caption For Preston, Dock, North Side C1960

Having Avenham Park in the background does enhance the pleasure of a walk over the bridge.

Caption For Conwy, Castle C1865

This early photograph shows Conway Castle and Telford's graceful suspension bridge of 1826, with Stephenson's tubular railway bridge of 1848 just behind it.

Caption For Richmond, Station Bridge 1892

The bridge was constructed to give road access to the railway station built on the St Martin's side of the river in 1846; it was designed in the same Gothic Revival architectural style, and the parapet

Caption For London, London Bridge C1900

To the left of London Bridge is Fishmongers' Hall, which opened in 1834.

Caption For Baslow, Bridge C1870

Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.