Maps

4,509 maps found.

1945, Russell Hill Ref. NPO823026
1946, Saint's Hill Ref. NPO824349
1946, Sandford Hill Ref. NPO824990
1945, Titty Hill Ref. NPO848966
1946, Toot Hill Ref. NPO850023
1945, Tot Hill Ref. NPO850738
1946, Tower Hill Ref. NPO850920
1940, Tower Hill Ref. NPO850929
1940, Tower Hill Ref. NPO850930
1940, Tutt Hill Ref. NPO854646
1947, Quarrington Hill Ref. NPO812072
1946, Red Hill Ref. NPO814342
1947, Red Hill Ref. NPO814344
1947, Red Hill Ref. NPO814345
1946, Red Hill Ref. NPO814349
1946, Red Hill Ref. NPO814365
1947, Richmond Hill Ref. NPO816379
1946, Ringing Hill Ref. NPO816958
1947, Robin Hill Ref. NPO818877
1896, Aaron's Hill Ref. RNE618267

Books

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Memories

4,101 memories found. Showing results 191 to 200.

Leave Things Alone

I lived on Frenchbarn Lane just across from St Peters church from 1960 to 1972, I was 5yrs old when I moved there. Coming from Salford docks area it was like moving into one of Enid Blytons books. A real farm just up the ...Read more

A memory of Blackley by Neil Edwards

Born Next Door

I was born in the flat above the shop to the right and and just out of sight of the photograph in 1944. Home births were the norm in those days. I lived in Camberley and went to France Hill Secondary School. I remained in Camberley ...Read more

A memory of Camberley in 1944 by Gaynor Henderson

Good Times, Good Money, Good Friends.

I was sent frtom Leeds to Lower Bynamman in 1970 to work building up a huge 2400 Marion excavator for Sir Lindsey Parkinson at the GCG (Tyor Gwaith?) opencast coal site. I lodged at the Bryannam Hotel with Dez and ...Read more

A memory of Brynamman by Paul Leavett

A Holiday Of Note

I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg as ...Read more

A memory of Dollar in 1951 by Thelma Hurly

183 Bus To The Pinner Red Lion

All buses going to Pinner in the 1950's had the destination "Pinner Red Lion" as there was an old pub of that name on the corner of Love Lane and Bridge Street. The bus in this photo has continued its journey having ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1956 by John Howard Norfolk

Those Were The Days.

i am the Tony Williams that used to live in Hatherop road, Infant, Junior, Senior Schools Hampton. i moved to Bristol in 1953, i now live in Frome Somerset. I had lots of good happy memories of Hampton especially going fishing at ...Read more

A memory of Hampton by Anthony Williams

Happy Days

I, Allen Rix, was born and grew up in Jersey Marine from 1933 to 1951 when I left to join the RAF. Living through World War 2 was hard for a lot of people but for us it was a gat time, even though we had to endure the bombing of ...Read more

A memory of Jersey Marine by Allen Rix

Cradly Heath From 1961 1977

My father was the Vicar of Cradley Heath from 1961 for about 15 years and we moved there when I was about 6 months old. The vicarage is now pulled down and the church is now (or about to be demolished.) One poignant ...Read more

A memory of Cradley Heath by Peter Winter

Memories Of Harold Hill

Hi Janice Dinnick here, I lived at 3 Swindon Lane from 1950-1959 moved to Camborne Ave till 1969 when I married Bill Sodeau . My best friend was Susan Smith from Swindon Way she had sister Janet and brother Brian. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Janice Sodeau

Playing In The Woods

My Mum grew up and stayed in Stanstead Abbotts. We lived in a house in Thele Avenue. We often walked up Cats Hill with our Dad and played in the woods. Quite a beautiful place to grow up.

A memory of Stanstead Abbotts by jodiebradshaw28

Captions

1,924 captions found. Showing results 457 to 480.

Caption For Stapleford, The Rose Inn C1960

The road on the right leads to the famous Gog Magog Hills.

Caption For Kenilworth, New Street C1955

New Street is a continuation of Castle Hill and High Street, and leads to Coventry Road.

Caption For Conistone, The Village C1960

The limestone from the hills is used to build the farm cottages of this peaceful part of Yorkshire.

Caption For Whalley, King Street 1921

Whalley means 'the clearing or field by the hill', and we can see how close the hill, known as Whalley Nab, is from our photograph.

Caption For Box Hill, The Summit 1906

The popularity of Box Hill, once called the White Hill from its chalk bluff and affording a splendid view across the Weald from its summit of just over 600ft, reached an apogee during the late Victorian

Caption For Frome, St Mary The Virgin Church 1907

From Welshmill, going up Innox Hill, you discover this lovely church built in 1864 and designed in early English style by the Frome-born architect C E Giles.

Caption For Hunmanby, The Cross C1950

A weekly market was held here until the 18th century, and this medieval market cross stands on Cross Hill.

Caption For Shipton Gorge, Village 1899

This view looks north-eastwards to St Martin's Parish Church (right), and the distinctive 599-feet profile of Shipton Hill (centre). There are several privies half-way up the back gardens (left).

Caption For Upper Dicker, The Dicker C1955

Standing on a hill at a crossroads is the unusual house named The Dicker, built in 1908 for Horatio Bottomley MP. This is now St Giles School.

Caption For Richmond, From West 1908

In the centre is a terrace called Cornforth Hill.

Caption For Haslemere, Haymaking, Longdene 1888

A superb haymaking scene which shows the manpower once required on the land at this hill-top farm, to the south west of Haslemere.

Caption For Mousehole, Harbour 1893

From here we can see how the picturesque fishing village has been crammed into the flatter land between the sea and a steep hill.

Caption For Baslow, Hydropathic Establishment C1884

Finely situated on the brow of a hill to the north-east of the village, the hydro offered guests the usual water treatments and dietary regimes.

Caption For Framlingham, Market Hill 1929

Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.

Caption For Woodbridge, The Shire Hall 1908

Built in 1575 by Thomas Seckford, Elizabeth I's Master of the Rolls, Woodbridge's Shire Hall stands on an island in the middle of Market Hill.

Caption For Oxford, View On The Cherwell 1906

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

Caption For Camberley, Tekels Avenue 1931

Travelling towards Church Hill we come to Brackendale Road; this is a pretty road, with many pine trees. Before the opening of the M3, it used to run right through to the Portsmouth Road.

Caption For Lancaster, Market Street C1950

This is the very top of Market Street as we turn out of Castle Hill. The road coming in 100 yards down on the right is King Street.

Caption For Odiham, Canal Wharf 1906

Cemetery Hill 1910 Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber- framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.

Caption For Dursley, Long Street C1947

This view looks down the hill towards The Priory and Lister's factory. The 18th-century shopfronts of Long Street have been largely retained.

Caption For Dawlish, Dawlish Water 1928

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

Caption For Clydach, 1936

Perched on a steep hill, the photographer has done justice to this picturesque view just off the Heads of the Valleys Road.

Caption For Newark, On The Trent 1906

Rising as it does in the hills on the Staffordshire and Cheshire borders, the Trent in 1885 was estimated at being about 150 miles in length with a drainage area of 4050 square miles, of which 2900 were

Caption For Bellingham, High Street C1960

The lead-mines are long gone; by the 1950s the town's economy was centred upon hill farming and a growing tourist trade.