Maps

181,031 maps found.

1895, Hadleigh Ref. HOSM47434
1879, Bevington Ref. HOSM37631
1897, Ford Ref. HOSM45592
1897, Lowick Ref. HOSM52725
1897, Shoresdean Ref. HOSM59147
1897, Thornton Ref. HOSM61653
1897, Tweedmouth Ref. HOSM62714
1895, Buckland Ref. HOSM39434
1889, Broadgate Fm Ref. HOSM39012
1919, Upper Arncott Ref. HOSM36226
1919, Blackthorn Ref. HOSM37994
1898, Charndon Ref. HOSM40625
1898, Rousham Ref. HOSM58175
1909, Birkenhead Ref. HOSM34166
1909, Tranmere Ref. HOSM62217
1903, Hollywood Ref. HOSM48745
1903-1914, Rednal Ref. HOSM57684
1902, Witton Ref. HOSM64904
1896, Cockfield Ref. HOSM41483
1896, Eldon Lane Ref. HOSM41847

Books

442 books found. Showing results 4,777 to 4,800.

Memories

29,033 memories found. Showing results 1,991 to 2,000.

Farraline Hall

Moved to Farraline Hall, Errogie in 1950 from Leeds. Dad was estate manager. Me and my brother Jeff and sister Jennifer in the back of a 7 ton flat lorry, sat on mattress under canvas in the back of it. I went to Errogie school, had to ...Read more

A memory of Errogie in 1950 by Christopher Robson

Fab Times

I always remember our Mum and Dad taking my brother Jimmy and myself to St Combs, staying with Mrs Buchan and No 3. High Street. She was the nicest lady in the world, but deaf unfortunately. We would go for walks along the beach, then ...Read more

A memory of St Combs in 1870 by Ann Craib

Childhood

I have lots of fond memories visiting my nana's shop (Mrs Don), it sold everything. I still love the smell of paraffin.

A memory of Bridge of Gairn by Rosalyn Don

Jtbells

This is the year I started on the building sites in 1963, I got a job on J. T. Bell's site in Whickam, the site hadn't been running long then as it was in the first stage. All the lads were mainly from Newburn, Lemington, and Throckley. If ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1963 by Jimmy Burrows

Thomas Binns 1845 1921 No 1 The Green Later No 3 Grange Cottages

Hello - I would be very grateful for any information - especially photos - of my ancestor Thomas Binns who moved from Cowling to Micklethwaite c. 1898. He had built Carr ...Read more

A memory of Micklethwaite in 1900 by Joan Tindale

Mr Mrs Robbins Fish Chips Shop

I remember my childhood at Browning Road where we lived opposite the Robbins family who owned the fish and chips shop. I used to help cutting the chips and skinning the skate. They had two daughters, Audrey and ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone by Bryan Murray

Will It Be Open?

My family moved from Bermondsey, where we shared my grandad's house, to Enfield, where Mum and Dad had managed to buy their own house (for £2,000) in 1960. It was some years before Dad could afford driving lessons and then a car. We ...Read more

A memory of London in 1966 by Carol Fisher

Brian Tutt

This should be of interest, I hope. I attended Roper Street C of E Primary School from 1944 to1947, Head teacher, Mr Hatt and class teacher Miss Sexton. Brian Tutt was in this class. Sadly he contracted Polio in 1947 and was kept alive in ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1940 by Dorothy Brooks

The War Years And Later

I lived in Annesley Woodhouse from 1936-1950, when I was conscripted into the R.A.F. for national service. I attended Kirkby Woodhouse School. The Owston's owned the post office, and the Chancellor's, succeeded ...Read more

A memory of Annesley Woodhouse in 1930 by Clifford (John) Challender

Growing Up In Bradninch

I was born and lived in Bradninch until I went to college when I was 19 in 1969. I was born in the house in Townlands and lived there all the time. After Dad died, Mum moved to Millway Gardens, It was a great place to live ...Read more

A memory of Bradninch by Hilary Fraser

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 4,777 to 4,800.

Caption For Bognor Regis, From Pier 1903

Bognor, further east along the coast beyond Selsey Bill, grew up from a small fishing village and is one of the earliest Sussex sea-bathing resorts.

Caption For Stonehenge, From The East 1887

As we look southwards from the Hele stone, through the middle arch, we can see the tallest stone of the inner horseshoes of trilithons.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Rollright Stones, The King's Men C1960

Just north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Great Rollright, lie the Rollright Stones, set in a circle about 100 feet in diameter.

Caption For Eamont Bridge, 1893

Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from a splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

Caption For Crickhowell, In The Village 1931

In the absence of a pavement, the two men in the centre have found a safe spot whilst they put the world to rights.

Caption For Sudbury, All Saints Church 1932

Inside is a family tree of the Eden family of Ballingdon Hall. To the right is the 18th-century red brick vicarage with its 19th-century porch.

Caption For East Horsley, Guildford Lodge C1960

A mile or so west of Effingham, the Guildford road cranks past a medieval fairy-tale castle.

Caption For Stanwell, The Rising Sun C1965

In 1965, when Greater London was created, Surrey crossed the River Thames and gained a segment of the former county of Middlesex.

Caption For Overstrand, The Pleasaunce C1955

Relatives of the Rothchild family lived here, and so did Lord Battersea. The extensive gardens were named the Garden of Dreams, a play on words, as the Garden of Sleep was close by.

Caption For Hale, Victoria Street 1907

Try standing in the middle of the main street nowadays! Here at number 28 we have Joseph Kennerley's drapery and hosiery shop, which also doubled as the post office.

Caption For Cowes, Royal Yacht Squadron C1955

The skill of island masons can be seen in the more recent additions to the Castle. A fence now hides the short castellated turret of the lodge on the road leading away from the castle.

Caption For Braintree, High Street C1960

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

Caption For Dorchester, The Roman Excavations 1939

Hardly a year passes without some piece of Dorchester's Roman archaeology coming to light. Dorchester is one of the best examples of a Roman town.

Caption For Kew, Kew Gardens 1899

Between Richmond and Kew, on the Surrey bank, are the three hundred acres of the Royal Botanical Gardens, opened to the public in 1841.

Caption For Groombridge, C1955

This beautiful village of brick and tile-hung cottages clusters about its small green. On the extreme left we see cottage walls constructed in the popular Flemish bond.

Caption For Barnstaple, From Anchor Woods 1919

Anchor Wood is a narrow band of trees with a pleas- ant walk overlooking marshy ground downstream of the Long Bridge and at the foot of Sticklepath.

Caption For Chelmsford, Moulsham Street 1919

A conspicuously clean- looking street scene with only the faintest trace of horses. Loveday & Sons, the jewellers, have now occupied their shop at Baddow Road corner for over a century.

Caption For Glen Torridon, Beinn Eighe 1890

This wild and rocky landscape in Wester Ross is typical of the Highlands. The looming quartzite peaks of Beinn Eighe are in the background.

Caption For Haywards Heath, St Wilfrid's Church And The Schools C1950

(Courtesy of West Sussex County Library Service) Invariably, there is some sort of collective activity amongst the regular customers of a pub.

Caption For Portchester, St Marys Church C1960

This ancient priory church occupies one of the loveliest settings in Hampshire.

Caption For Salisbury, Godolphin School 1928

The school was founded in 1726 as an endowed charity school for 'orphan gentlewomen borne of parents of the Church of England'.

Caption For Hertford, Fore Street 1933

Within the next decade, the outbreak of the Second World War will necessitate the removal of the statue above the roof of the Corn Exchange to a place of safety.

Caption For Bramber, Castle Ruins C1950

Bramber was once the main town of one of the Sussex Rapes, or Anglo-Saxon administrative areas, and the seat of William de Braose's Norman castle guarding the Adur gap through the Downs.

Caption For Kingswinford, The Townsend Precinct C1965

The precinct is built on the site of the Townsend tram terminus, next to a junction known as the Cross, which is also the name of a good-looking pub on the opposite corner.