Maps

181,031 maps found.

1899, Whitwell Ref. RNC869619
1903-1910, Talwrn Ref. RNC844646
1921, Westcroft Ref. POP865380
1946, Ashton Ref. NPO627887
1946, Aspley Ref. NPO628081
1919, Underwood Ref. POP856722
1919, Winford Ref. POP871353
1919, Wootton Ref. POP874448
1922, Talwrn Ref. POP844646
1922, Werrington Ref. POP863590
1922, Kingsland Ref. POP748119
1922, Fengate Ref. POP704372
1919, Highbury Ref. POP733821
1919, Pool Ref. POP808735
1920, Paddington Ref. POP799375
1919, Norton Ref. POP794591
1919, Oakfield Ref. POP795413
1922, Ravensthorpe Ref. POP813797
1919, Redland Ref. POP814922
1919, Middleton Ref. POP779492

Books

442 books found. Showing results 793 to 816.

Memories

29,029 memories found. Showing results 331 to 340.

Missing Home

I was born in Wales and lived at 3 Bailey Street until moving to Canada at age 10. All of my memories of Cwm are wonderful ones, sliding down the mountain on cardboard, wading in the river behind our house, climbing the hill to play at the ...Read more

A memory of Cwm in 1966 by Debbie Turner

Family Holidays

My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's"  family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven  and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by Roy Beiley

Youthful Pranks In Binstead! 1958 1962

I am a 67 year old British citizen and have lived for over 40 years as a rock musician in Germany. I went to Ryde School in the 60s. After I left I was lonely living in London and used come back to the island ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by Simon Hornsby

A Very New Broadway

In 1962 my parents and I (12 years old) moved from Bristol to open Victoria Wine (later to become the Wine Market before reverting back to Victoria Wine). There were still several empty units awaiting occupation. I can recall ...Read more

A memory of Plymstock in 1962 by cpden

My Grandfather

I was born in 1953 and my Grandfather was already dead. His name was William Bowe and he was the last mill keeper at Hall Mill, although his son John, my uncle, ran a joinery business for a few years from there. Billy Bowe was the ...Read more

A memory of Workington in 1953 by Peter Findley

Great Uncle John Street

I can remember visiting Warnham when I was very young, with my parents and brother Ron. We stayed with great uncle John, who was blind. I believe his wife's name was May, but  I am not  sure. My brother kicked a ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School by Evelyn Mould

Long Service

I remember as a child being taken to see my uncle Ewart who was employed at Calne Railway Station for 55 years. My cousin Jean (his daughter) told me that he also used to use a long pole to put out the gas street lamps when on his way home. ...Read more

A memory of Calne in 1953 by Michael Ponting

Sergeant Sissen

I knew Sergeant Sissen well as he used to meet the Hickling policeman in Catfield where I was born. Local police met regularly in what was called, I think, a "point". I was born in 1925 so I remember the two policemen standing by their ...Read more

A memory of Ludham by revpnicholson

Village Life

My first visit to the village of Llanferres was in the mid 1970s visiting relatives. Walking to 'Fairy Glen' and surrounding fields, hills, woods and farmland, I was in heaven and still am after 30+ years living in the beautiful little ...Read more

A memory of Llanferres in 1950 by Ian Robinson

Hilly Fields

Situated at the top of our road, as young children Hilly Fields was something quite magical. During winter time we would trek our home made sledges over to toboggan hill and hurtle down to the brook at the bottom of the hill at breakneck ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1950 by Roger Davis

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 793 to 816.

Caption For Overstone, The Swimming Pool C1955

Behind the thatched building are some of the fine trees of the park. The north-east quarter of Overstone Park is heavily wooded.

Caption For Easby, Abbey 1898

The abbey is set at the end of a narrow, winding lane a mile out of Richmond, and sits comfortably in the peaceful valley of the River Swale.

Caption For Southborough, The Parade 1896

Since it was gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells, this small village south of Tonbridge supported a number of businesses in its commercial centre.

Caption For Haddenham, Banks Pond C1960

Haddenham was one of the chief breeding areas for the Aylesbury duck; its network of streams and ponds was of immense value to this industry, even if the village was famously foul-smellling in a hot summer

Caption For Chideock, Village 1903

Situated in one of the most picturesque valleys in this part of the county, and spelled as Cidihoc in the Domesday Book, this peaceful view of the village street lined with well-built cob and

Caption For Worcester, Guildhall And High Street 1904

On the west side of the High Street stands the impressive frontage of Worcester's Guildhall.

Caption For Flint, The Castle C1965

The construction of Flint Castle began within days of the signing of the treaty of Rhuddlan; it was the first of the Edwardian fortresses built to impose a new order upon Wales.

Caption For Leicester, Cavendish House, Abbey Park C1955

This house of 1600 was built by Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, using stone robbed from the remains of Leicester Abbey; but it was to be reduced to a skeletal ruin by fire 45 years later.

Caption For Elsecar, Parish Church C1955

Elsecar is situated 3 miles south of Barnsley. This is the industrial side of the vast Wentworth Estate: Elsecar was at the forefront of coal exploitation in the 18th century.

Caption For Guisborough, Church, The Font And Lady Pease Memorial Window 1913

In the north-west corner, Temple Moore designed a window with tracery to match that of the old three-light east window, which he had relocated to the south-west corner.

Caption For Stafford, Register Office, Eastgate Street 2005

In 1815 Sir George Jerningham began paying it the sum of £60 a year, and, together with his brother Edward, built a new church on the site. It opened on 5 June 1817.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate C1955

By the time this photograph was taken, the buildings either side of Bargate had been demolished to allow traffic to pass freely round each side of it.

Caption For Wimborne, From The Meadows 1899

The two squat towers of the Minster dominate Wimborne. In the choir of this lovely building is the reputed tomb of the Saxon King Ethelred I.

Caption For Ipswich, The Power Station C1955

A 20th-century means of pro- ducing power shares the banks of the Orwell with vessels which harness one of the oldest forms of power.

Caption For Bray, Village 1911

This photograph of Bray shows the village centre, with the perpendicular chalk and stone tower of the parish church of St Michael peeping above the rooftops.

Caption For Pontypridd, Taff Street 1899

A busy turn-of-the- century scene worthy of detailed study. The photographer is obviously arousing the interest of the collection of boys in the foreground.

Caption For Accrington, The Haworth Art Gallery C1945

The house was designed by the eminent architect, Walter Brierley of York (who also designed Dyke Nook, the home of the Blake family on Whalley Road).

Caption For Scarborough, 'evening' 1890

There is plenty of activity in the South Bay as fishing boats are prepared for sea.

Caption For Perranporth, The Rocks 1912

The cliffs to the south of Perranporth are riddled with the adits of old mine workings, which followed the rich veins of tin and copper that ran from the granite intrusion of Cligga Head into the surrounding

Caption For Sprotbrough, The Village C1960

The commanding tower of the village parish church overlooks the quiet South Yorkshire village of Sprotbrough, now divorced from the neighbouring town of Doncaster by the busy A1M motorway.

Caption For Bedford, Castle Close C1960

The garden shown in this photograph was situated in the south-eastern corner of the grounds of Castle Mound.

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

It was once one of the most important castles in the country, but little now survives of Berkhamsted except for the motte.

Caption For Oxwich, The Castle 1910

At Christmas 1557, Oxwich would be the scene of an incident that would result in litigation before the Court of the Star Chamber. Sir Rhys was distantly related to Sir George Herbert (?

Caption For Boston, Church 1890

Richard Fleming Richard Fleming (died 1431) was rector of Boston from 1408 to 1419, when he became Bishop of Lincoln.