Maps

2,499 maps found.

1940, South End Ref. NPO834667
1947, South End Ref. NPO834668
1946, South Green Ref. NPO834803
1946, South Green Ref. NPO834804
1899, South Allington Ref. RNC834331
1899, South Barrow Ref. RNC834386
1898, South Benfleet Ref. RNC834411
1898, South Chailey Ref. RNC834500
1903, South Duffield Ref. RNC834641
1898, South End Ref. RNC834665
1901, South End Ref. RNC834672
1898, South Green Ref. RNC834803
1898, South Hill Ref. RNC834893
1899, South Milton Ref. RNC835100
1899, South Pool Ref. RNC835202
1899, South Town Ref. RNC835327
1898, South Weald Ref. RNC835372
1900, South Wonford Ref. RNC835414
1945, South Ealing Ref. NPO1190920
1895, South Ambersham Ref. RNE834334

Books

23 books found. Showing results 409 to 23.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 171 to 180.

Plumpton Close

My grandparents Jack and Beral Storey lived at 8 Plumpton Close with their kids Ricky, Stevie, Sharon and Darrell. My dad was Stevie who sadly passed away in 1980. I spent every weekend at my nan's and have great memories like going ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1977 by Steve Storey

2nd Airborne Company Raoc

Hi I was at Arnhem camp in 1958/59. This was where the heavy drop platforms were rigged with Landrover+trailer, before being transported to Abingdon airfield. There they would be loaded into a Beverly aircraft (with the ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield in 1958 by Len Booth

Where I Was Born

I was born at my grandmother's house in Chavey Down Road. Her name was Mary-Ann Bye. I only knew her, as my grandfather had died many years before. My mum, Edith Ellen Bye was one of five children and we lived in Eastbourne ...Read more

A memory of Chavey Down in 1948 by Carol Evans

Happy Childhood Late 50s Early 60s

I live in Watford but I was born at 55 South Crescent in 1953, my mother's maiden name was Christlow, they moved to 16 Reginald Street. I remember visiting one time and my cousin Joe Lee used to play the ...Read more

A memory of Boldon Colliery by Brian Rees

The Wrong Guy

There at the time when Cawthorne was a tour operator and whether it was coincidence or not the tour operator was called Harry Cawthorne coach tours. I do believe that they were an established firm; it could well be that the village was ...Read more

A memory of Gawber in 1952 by Roland Mitchell

Perivale

I worked at a textile mill called Sewing Silks in Perivale Avenue from 1957 to 1960, the compnay had been a German one until the Second World War when it was taken over by an Austrian manager whose son was an RAF ace I believe. It was one ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1957 by Colin Lane

Memories Of Shakespeare Street In Sinfin 1958 1964

We moved from Derby to the new estate in 1958. My son Paul went to the local school for a short time before we moved south to Hertfordshire - my home county. Amongst his many friends I remember ...Read more

A memory of Sinfin by Margaret Mosley

Webburn Lodge Formerly Lower Lodge

GRADE 11 LISTED. House, formerly the south lodge of Buckland Court (q.v.). Probably mid C19; simplified Tudor style. Granite rubble. Slated roofs. Large granite ashlar chimneystack on ridge in centre ...Read more

A memory of Buckland in the Moor in 1890 by Francis Hutchinson

Peartree Close

I was born in Burgess Hill in 1955 and lived at 18 Peartree Close. There was a rough track behind the house with rear access to garages, and we spent loads of time playing up and down this track and in the woods beyond. I used ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1955 by Paul Smith

Great Horton

Our family lived in Lidget Green, near the Great Horton railway station. I was born in 1949 near Bradford (Wakefield), and lived in Lidget Green from toddlerhood until we emigrated in 1960. The neighborhood provided many memories which ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1959 by Richard L

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 409 to 432.

Caption For Bradwell, The Sun Inn C1955

Bradwell is one of a group of villages just south of Great Yarmouth which were in Suffolk until boundary changes of 1974 brought them into Norfolk.

Caption For Asfordby, The Church By The Wreak C1960

The 15th-century spire soars above the River Wreake on its south side, with the now rather mundane Village Street to its north.

Caption For Skelton, The Village C1955

The green is fronted by North Terrace, East Terrace, South Terrace and West Terrace. Here we see North Terrace and East Terrace.

Caption For Rochdale, Parish Church Interior 1892

A west gallery was added in 1693 and a gallery on the south side in 1698, but both were removed in 1855. The north aisle was rebuilt in 1856 and a clerestory was added.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Abbey C1960

The parvise above the south porch was believed to have been used as a gunpowder store during the Civil War in the 17th century.

Caption For Kendal, Looking North 1896

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.The town of Kendal was founded on the west bank of the River Kent, although the earliest settlement around

Caption For Swimbridge, Village C1890

Swimbridge was the next village along the Barnstaple to South Molton road after Landkey. In this 1890s picture, there are roadside poles. Are they for gas lighting, or telephones even?

Caption For Melton Mowbray, Nottingham Street C1955

This view looks from the junction of the High Street and South Parade on market day.

Caption For Kendal, Looking North 1896

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.

Caption For Porthmadog, Harbour 1894

In the middle ground, a substantial stone bridge supports the road connecting Greaves Wharf with South Snowden jetty. This man-made harbour was built originally for exporting slate.

Caption For Wymondham, The Market Place And Cross C1965

Nine miles south-west of Norwich, Wymondham is noted for its fine priory church.

Caption For Bramber, The Downs C1965

With their summer breezes, endless views and salty tang of the sea, the uncrowded expanses of the South Downs have long been a favourite haunt of writers and artists.

Caption For Rockbeare, Low Brook C1955

Low Brook was built in the middle of the 20th century as an overspill housing estate just to the south-east of Rockbeare village.

Caption For Richmond, From West 1908

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Caption For Bridlington, Rough Sea, South Side 1906

The south pier was completed in 1848. During the winter months these rough seas are common on this coast. A terrible storm in 1871 claimed the lives of six local lifeboat men.

Caption For Nuneaton, The Stable, Arbury Hall C1960

A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.

Caption For Portland, Verne And Fortuneswell C1875

The Isle of Portland guards Weymouth Bay from fierce south-westerly gales, though it is a rocky peninsula rather than an island.

Caption For Matlock Bath, South Parade 1892

South Parade was deserted when the Frith photographer called.

Caption For Abergavenny, The Castle From Usk Bridge C1955

The castle and the south- eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to

Caption For Amberley, The Village 1901

Amberley straddles high ground to the south of Stroud, amid glorious Cotswold scenery.

Caption For North Walsham, Paston Grammar School C1955

South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.

Caption For Dymchurch, Car Park And Fun Fair C1955

This one was number 24 of 103 built along the south coast in the early 1800s as a defence against a possible invasion by Napoleon. It has been restored and opened to the public.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Market Place 1892

In 1838 the South Midland Temperance Association embraced a large number of towns, including Stratford-upon-Avon.

Caption For Lacock, Abbey 1904

Augustinian convent which was founded in 1232, Lacock Abbey is the place where, in 1835, William Henry Fox-Talbot took the world's first photograph - a negative of one of the windows on the south