Maps

241 maps found.

Books

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Memories

498 memories found. Showing results 251 to 260.

Another Coulsdon Playground

I lived in Tollers Lane, Old Coulsdon 1946-59 before moving to Coulsdon Rise. Farthing Downs was one of our favourite play spaces. Walking down the rough lane opposite our house to Tollers Farm, on down into Happy Valley ...Read more

A memory of Coulsdon in 1952 by Richard Everest

Memories Of Shoreham And Otford

My fathers parents, Edward and Winifred Simmons, ran the general stores in the Parade at Otford in the 1950s and early 1960s. My mother, her sister and parents, Grace and Alfred Maddock, lived in Bubblestone ...Read more

A memory of Shoreham in 1960 by Anne Helen Roberts

The Daccombe Treacle Mine

On reading peoples of Daccombe I'm surprised no one has mentioned the famous Treacle Mine, probably a secret closely guarded by the villagers themselves. Maybe I've now let the cat out of the bag! Anyway in 1921/22 my ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell by Martin Lee

A Memory

I have fond memories of Ebbesbourne Wake. During 1957/8 I lived with a friend in a cottage on Mrs Hiscock's Hillside Farm where I milked cows. I socialized with other teens from the Bowerchalke Baptist Church and we often led Sunday ...Read more

A memory of Ebbesbourne Wake in 1957 by John Crighton

Maesteg

I lived in Greenfield St, near the River Llynfi, the river lulled me to sleep at night and the big coal waggons on their way to Coignant colliery woke me up in the morning. I used to ride my pony round the Darren Valley and climbed 'the ...Read more

A memory of Nantyffyllon in 1950 by Barbara Cameron

Convalescent Home Primrose Valley, Filey

Can anyone help? I have been trying to find information about the convelescent home at Primrose Valley in Filey. I believe I was sent there in the 1950's but nothing's coming up on the web. I was sent there to ...Read more

A memory of Filey in 1950 by Elaine Mellars

Wonderful Childhood Memories

My earliest recollection was sitting waiting for Santa on the staircase in my granny's house watching the glistening Christmas tree. Also sledging down the bank from Tantobie Road ends down to Sleepy Valley with my ...Read more

A memory of Tantobie in 1958 by Jennifer Cain

Brambletye Preparatory School

Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971. When I went to Brambletye at the age of nine, in September 1967, it was my fifth school in the last four years. As my parents were routinely being ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1967

Lewis Gelli St

I'm Glynne Lewis. I was born in Co. Durham but the Lewis family lived at 26, Gelli St. for many years. We visited the family during the 1950s and 60s although several of the sisters had moved to other parts of the UK by then. My ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1950 by Glynne Lewis

The Railway

I was born in 1941 in Cefncoed House, Pentwyn, overlooking Gwys Railway Station, Upper Cwmtwrch. I lived there for 7 or 8 years before moving to the Gurnos,  Lower Cmwtwrch.  My family lived in a compound made up of five houses built ...Read more

A memory of Upper Killay in 1940 by David Lougher

Captions

753 captions found. Showing results 601 to 624.

Caption For Hurst Green, From Sandrock C1955

Between Preston and Clitheroe lies Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley, backed by Longridge fells.

Caption For Oughtibridge, The View Over The Valley C1960

As nearby Sheffield expanded, so did towns like Oughtibridge in the Don Valley.

Caption For Swimbridge, 1900

Looking north, the road runs close to the church whilst a back lane to Yarnacott - in the distance - climbs out of the valley.

Caption For Keswick, Bridge And Greta Hall 1889

The pencil works of A Banks on the right is an example of one of Keswick's major industries, founded on supplies of plumbago, or black lead, from the Seathwaite valley in Borrowdale.

Caption For London, St Paul's Cathedral From Fleet Street C1950

Here Fleet Street runs gently downhill towards Ludgate Circus in the River Fleet valley.

Caption For Kildwick, View From Church C1965

From the elevated position of St Andrew's Church we look down the Aire Valley, where now a dual carriageway leads into Keighley.

Caption For Mardale, Castle Crag 1893

All the buildings in this view, including the farm at Flake How seen here to the left, were demolished before the flooding of the valley.

Caption For Selsley, The View From The Hill 1910

It was built by Sir Samuel Marling, whose woollen cloth mill is visible in the valley beyond.

Caption For High Salvington, The Old Mill 1919

High Salvington, a hamlet on the downs, is now swallowed up, as is the Findon Valley below to the east; in effect it is a suburb cut off by the teeming A27.

Caption For Dunsop Bridge, Entrance To Brennand Valley 1921

Brennand Valley is just one of many beauty spots threading the fells near Dunsop Bridge.

Caption For Broadwindsor, The Village 1902

This sizeable village nestles in a valley close to two notable landmarks: Lewesdon Hill (894 feet) and Pilsdon Pen, at 909 feet, the highest hill in Dorset.

Caption For Woodmansterne, The Village C1955

This 1930s mock-Tudor shopping parade still stands on Rectory Lane as it winds its way south to the junction with the Chipstead Valley Road, where the buildings of the Woodmansterne Treatment Works, belonging

Caption For Low Row, The Punch Bowl Hotel 1924

Low Row's intriguing name comes from the fact that this attractive village is strung out for the full distance of a mile along the valley road, which runs close to the river on the northern side of the

Caption For Garboldisham, The Post Office C1955

At the southern limits of the county, close by Diss, this delightful village of knapped flint cottages sits in wooded countryside in the valley of the Little Ouse.

Caption For Keswick, Bridge And Greta Hall 1889

Pencil making was one of Keswick's major industries, founded on supplies of plumbago, or black lead, from the Seathwaite valley in Borrowdale.

Caption For Woodchester, The Valley And The Monastery 1910

This view of the village on the side of the valley gives a glimpse on the left of the priory which William Leigh, who had just been converted to the Catholic faith, had built; the Dominicans moved into

Caption For Lofthouse, Post Office Stores And The Fountain C1950

Just south of Middlesmoor is Lofthouse, the northernmost point of the old Nidd Valley municipal railway.

Caption For Compton Bishop, Village And Crook Peak 1907

This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset.

Caption For Exmoor, Webber's Post 1923

In this view we look past Step Cottage with its external stack (now no longer with a thatched roof) towards the ford in the valley bottom.

Caption For Congleton, Colley Bridge Mill C1965

Congleton lies in the valley of the River Dane - we have already caught a glimpse of the river in the park.

Caption For Aynho, Park House C1955

This view is of the north front, which faces the village, while the south overlooks the River Cherwell valley, across a somewhat mutilated Capability Brown parkland of the 1760s.

Caption For Gisburn, The Bridge 1921

A travelling mole catcher, Dick Cooper, lived in Gisburn; he covered the Ribble Valley and the Fylde, and walked the turnpike road between Blacko and Gisburn.

Caption For Boscastle, St Juliot's Church 1906

The church stands entirely on its own, overlooking the Valency valley two miles from Boscastle harbour.

Caption For Chatsworth, And The Bridge 1886

Royalties from the Ecton Copper Mine in the Manifold Valley enabled the house to be furnished on a lavish scale.