Maps

9,439 maps found.

1923, Wellow Ref. POP863115
1925, Royal Oak Ref. POP821377
1924, Barton Hill Ref. POP634359
1903, Holme Green Ref. RNC738652
1903-1908, Wellow Ref. RNC863115
1903-1908, West Field Ref. RNC864144
1899, West Town Ref. RNC865077
1903, Barton Hill Ref. RNC634359
1903, Church Town Ref. RNC668593
1898, South Hill Ref. RNE834886
1898, Thorpe Underwood Ref. RNE847553
1898, Shaw Green Ref. RNE829085
1898, Upper Town Ref. RNE857883
1945, Keswick Ref. NPO746594
1946, Upper Town Ref. NPO857883
1895, Grange Ref. RNE718683
1947, Barton Hill Ref. NPO634359
1895, Church Town Ref. RNE668593
1946, Langford Green Ref. NPO752430
1899, Morton Ref. RNE783988

Books

39 books found. Showing results 2,377 to 2,400.

Memories

1,548 memories found. Showing results 991 to 1,000.

Family Holidays In The 1950s

I was born in 1942 and brought up in Walthamstow in NE London. We were a working class family and Dad always managed to provide us with 2 weeks' holiday somewhere. How we came to holiday in Wroxall is still a bit of a ...Read more

A memory of Wroxall by Roy Beiley

Neil Havelock

Greyhounds 1939, when did it close? Martinware end of Havelock. Dominion. Most us lived north. See southallknowhere site

A memory of Southall by Yvonne Butler

Falling In The Pond

Rod Swift remarked (in a previous memory) about falling in the pond - well I was one of these. Rod must be my cousin's son, as my aunt and uncle lived in the house referred to. Around 1953 on an icy cold day in winter, a crowd ...Read more

A memory of Lingfield in 1953 by Jean Chambers

Sheriff Hill

I lived in Southend Road from 1940 till 1947 then moved to Kent. My grandparents lived at 16 Charnwood Gardens. I lived with my mother and older brother Byron, my father was away at war and I never saw him until 1945. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1940 by Dereck Hobson

Littleton

My father was farm manager at Orange Court Farm from 1964-1967. We lived in one of the cedar wood bungalows put up in Littleton, I suspect in the early 1960s, by the More-Molyneux family for estate workers - they also owned the Guildway ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1964 by Andrew Webb

St James Barton Bristol Bs1 The History

The old St James Barton area of the city was demolished in the late 1950s to make way for Bond Street and the bus station. The rebuilding of the city started almost as soon as the Second World War had ended. ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

The Llandoger Trow History

Bristol's historic King Street. The Llandoger Trow inn on right of photograph.King Street is a 17th-century street in the historic city centre of Bristol. The street lies just south of the old town wall and was laid out in ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Rock

Underdown was a magical place, a narrow island of rock left by quarrying at some time in the past. This photo is taken from the western end. At the eastern end there was a copse and the top of the island merged back into the side of a ...Read more

A memory of Sampford Peverell in 1956 by Bruce Thomas

Living In North Street In 2008 After The Fire In 2005

This photograph is wonderful for me to see having just moved back into Bumblebee Cottage on the far right of the picture after the catastrophic fire on 22 December 2005 that destroyed 4 ...Read more

A memory of Bradford Abbas by Anne Hamshaw Thomas

November 5th 1954

I, at the tender age of fourteen, arrived in Croglin on November the 5th, 1954. It was 'Bonfire Night' and as strangers in the village I did not know a single soul. However the bonfire for the celebrations had been situated in the ...Read more

A memory of Croglin in 1954 by Walter Moscrop

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 2,377 to 2,400.

Caption For Worksop, Gateford Road C1965

In the distance is the spire of St John the Evangelist's, completed in 1868 to serve the expanded north of the town.

Caption For Brixham, 1896

It was from here that some of the biggest smack and ketch-rigged trawlers sailed to fish grounds ranging from the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the Western Approaches.

Caption For Charlestown, Harbour 1904

The principal import was Lancashire and North Staffordshire coal from Runcorn. A vessel arriving from Runcorn would discharge at a coal berth and then move over to a china clay berth to load.

Caption For Bitteswell, White Cottage And St Mary's Church C1960

The remainder of the church is dull, but the north transept was added in 1852 by William Parsons (1796- 1857), an interesting local architect.

Caption For Castle Donington, Borough Street C1955

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

Caption For Groby, The Pool C1960

The photograph looks north, with Pool House glimpsed on the extreme right, while the granite quarries are beyond the trees.

Caption For Kegworth, St Andrew's Church C1965

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

Caption For Crouch End, Clock Tower And Broadway C1965

It is a rarity among North London centres in that it stands well away from underground and railway stations, which may or may not account for the survival of such very fine groups of late 19th-century

Caption For Ruislip, High Street C1955

This view looks north. The High Street, fashioned in the 1930s, drops down to the original village centre, with the graveyard to St Martins church on the immediate right.

Caption For Nork, Golf Club C1955

North of Fir Tree Road and just beyond Banstead railway station is Cuddington Park Golf Course; the name is a reminder of the parish and village of Cuddington, which was cleared for Henry VIII's Nonsuch

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey 1924

Apart from the gatehouse, the Checker and the Long Gallery (we see their north side here), and an attached range, probably a granary or bakehouse, nothing survives above ground.

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Interior, Guest House, Long Gallery 1924

The north side has a timber-framed upper floor which was in fact a gallery in front of a range of lodgings, possibly for abbey guests, possibly for minor monastic officials.

Caption For Alderley Edge, London Road 1896

This view is looking north up Alderley Edge`s main shopping street, the little gardens in front of the premises can clearly be seen.

Caption For Bridlington, Harbour 1913

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

Caption For Bitteswell, White Cottage And St Mary's Church C1960

The remainder of the church is dull, but the north transept was added in 1852 by William Parsons (1796- 1857), an interesting local architect.

Caption For Castle Donington, Borough Street C1955

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

Caption For Sandy, Railway Station 1925

The line on the left, beyond the trees, is the London and North Western Railway Cambridge to Bletchley line that was closed in 1968.

Caption For Liverpool, Lime Street 1890

George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1955

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

Caption For Amberley, Castle Courtyard 1896

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

Caption For Staithes, Church Street 1925

At one time the North Eastern Railway ran three or four special fish trains a week out of Staithes.

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Caption For Hose, C1955

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Caption For Worcester, The Cathedral And Bridge 1891

At one time, North Quay (on the left) would have been crowded with boats, but by 1891 the railways had taken over, leaving Severn trade to stagnate.

Caption For Cookham, The Church C1955

Among the monuments on the north side of the chancel is a Purbeck marble tomb with canopy and three hanging arches on twisted columns marked by an 18in brass on the short tomb chest.