Photos

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Maps

316 maps found.

1902, Town Centre Ref. RNC850995
1940, Eversley Centre Ref. NPO702221
1947, Town Centre Ref. NPO850994
1946, Town Centre Ref. NPO850995
1923, Town Centre Ref. POP850994
1895, Eversley Centre Ref. RNE702221
1896, Town Centre Ref. RNE850994
1897, Town Centre Ref. RNE850995
1882, Town Centre Ref. HOSM62172
1892, Town Centre Ref. HOSM59806
1946, Dartmoor Expedition Centre Ref. NPO688825
1902-1903, Town Centre Ref. RNC850994
1898, Storey Arms Centre Ref. RNE840905
1897-1909, Eversley Centre Ref. RNC702221
1946, Amitabha Buddhist Centre Ref. NPO624992
1923, Storey Arms Centre Ref. POP840905
1919, Dartmoor Expedition Centre Ref. POP688825
1947, Storey Arms Centre Ref. NPO840905
1919, Amitabha Buddhist Centre Ref. POP624992
1898, Dartmoor Expedition Centre Ref. RNE688825

Books

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Memories

1,250 memories found. Showing results 141 to 150.

Oldchurch Hospital 1956 57

I have such memories as a 17 year old of working in the 'Admins Office' in Oldchurch Hospital. I think I just walked in one day, got an interview and started on the Monday - no job centres or CVs needed then. The boss was ...Read more

A memory of Romford by Glyn Mallett

Hopton Hill

My family were from this area and my grandfather Edward Gough Jones and grandmother Rosa Jones brought up 7 children Joan, Nora, twins Eileen and Beryl, Ron (who still lived in a bungalow at the Crescent Nesscliffe until this year ...Read more

A memory of Nesscliffe in 1910 by Yvonne Dixon

Thos Were The Days

I have read all the letters and they have bought back so many memories. My sister and I were born in Hillingdon and from 1961 we used to go to Burtons dance hall on Tues, Friday and Saturday nights. We would also go to The Blue ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1961 by Linda Millett

Happy Days In Latimer

It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, ...Read more

A memory of Latimer in 1959 by John Sayer

Dereham Norfolk

I was born in Dereham, Muriel Secker, and lived in Cowper Road. I went to the Infants School, near Bishop Bonners Cott, 1928-1932/3, then National School and finally was Head Girl at Crown Road School. 1939 I worked in Hobbies ...Read more

A memory of Great Dunham in 1930 by Muriel Cunningham

Chelmsford, Tindal Street, 1919

This shows the view looking up Tindal Street from the London Road end. In the centre of the photo you can see a sign sticking out. This you can just make out is the Spotted Dog public house which was there until that ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by John Crouch

Chelmsford, Infirmary, 1895.

This may well have been called the Infirmary, so its use didn't change a great deal for many people lots of decades later. It then became the London Road Hospital, and the A. & E. section were accessed down the ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by John Crouch

The Day We Topped Out £12m New Leisure Centre In Wednesfield!

£12m Wednesfield Leisure Pool. It has been a very big week for both myself and Mary, we have attended 11 individual events as well as trying to hold the day jobs down! On Monday we ...Read more

A memory of Wednesfield by Phil Bateman

A Cold And Dim Visit To Banstead Asylum

I cannot remember the exact year but it was very cold. I was a TV repair man at Raylec in the High Street and we had a call from a doctor living in a house at the Asylum. She complained that the picture on ...Read more

A memory of Banstead in 1961 by Adrian King

Year Of The Appendix

During that summer my family made a trip to stay at Mount Edgcumbe for a fortnight or so, my mum being a distant relative of the occupying family, so to speak. On the journey down the A.38, (no M5 then), I ...Read more

A memory of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park in 1961 by Giles Daubney

Captions

3,594 captions found. Showing results 337 to 360.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Civic Centre C1967

Moving away from the seaside, via Southend High Street, the Civic Centre is to be found in Victoria Avenue.

Caption For Hoddesdon, The Tower Centre C1968

The centre of Hoddesdon suffered major changes during the 1960s.

Caption For Newport, Commercial Street C1899

The Town Hall tower (centre right), designed by T M Lockwood and E A Landsdowne, was opened in 1885.

Caption For Weybridge, Church Street C1955

There is a bus stop near the seated man; this was for the regular service from Kingston, a major shopping area, through the centre of Weybridge and onwards to the station.

Caption For Gloucester, The Cathedral From The Air C1965

Surrounding this splendid structure are the houses and local businesses of the city centre that lead to Westgate Street, Eastgate Street, Southgate Street and Northgate Street.

Caption For Matlock, Bank Road C1949

Another view of Bank Road in the centre of Matlock.

Caption For Hull, George Street 1903

The statue of Hull's leading writer, Andrew Marvell, has been moved; George Street became the new centre of entertainment.

Caption For Wallasey, The Village C1965

This photograph shows the old village centre of Wallasey.

Caption For Burnley, Mechanics' Institute 1895

It is still there today as an Arts Centre and the Tourist Information Centre.

Caption For Lyme Regis, From West 1890

From Ware Cliffs we can see the medieval Cobb harbour (centre right) and the coastal skyline of Stonebarrow Hill, Golden Cap and Thorncombe Beacon.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Victoria Hotel 1907

The school was in Hill Road, between Pound Road and West Hill Road, with a view across the town, including St Michael's Church (centre right), to Golden Cap (centre) on the eastern seaboard of Lyme

Caption For Abergavenny, From The Canal 1893

Note the railway sweeping round towards the church in the centre of the picture.

Caption For North Warnborough, Mill Corner 2004

The old thatched cottage in the centre of the earlier picture was replaced by a modern house in the late 1970s, and the neighbouring house has been extended.

Caption For Leamington Spa, From The Tower Of All Saints 1922

The view takes us along The Parade, with the Royal Pump Room on the left and the campanile of the town hall in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Sleaford, Southgate C1965

The Lincoln Co-op (extreme left) has gone, to be replaced by the Job Centre and a Cycle Centre.

Caption For Horncastle, Bull Ring C1965

The thatched 17th-century King's Head pub still stands on the left, and the re-fronted Red Lion Hotel is still in the centre of the Bull Ring.

Caption For Horncastle, Bull Ring C1965

The thatched 17th-century King's Head pub still stands on the left, and the re-fronted Red Lion Hotel is still in the centre of the Bull Ring.

Caption For Fenstanton, Chequer Street C1955

The Chequers pub (centre right) is now a private house; the next building has been demolished, but Chequers House, in the foreground, has been restored, and today sports fine wrought iron railings

Caption For Cawsand, Cawsand Square 1949

The twin villages of Cawsand and Kingsand nestle into the hills on the west of Cawsand Bay; they were once, like so many Cornish villages, a centre for smugglers.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, The Marlowes C1965

The building of the new town centre had been designated a priority in 1951, and the market moved here in 1955.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village 1902

This photograph looks northwards up the High Street to Donkey Lane and the 17th-century thatched Dormouse Cottage on the corner (centre).

Caption For Donington, Market Place C1965

Get A Head (a ladies' hairdresser) has taken over from Margaret Graves (left), and the chemist (centre left) is still there.

Caption For Newby Bridge, The Swan Hotel 1888

Much of the large area included in the centre is woodland.

Caption For Little Haven, 1898

A boat is being beached to the right beyond the slipway and other boats in the centre.