Maps

181,031 maps found.

1882, Trewidland Ref. HOSM62489
1908, Greatham Ref. HOSM47104
1910, Langley Ref. HOSM50724
1896, Angmering Ref. HOSM36101
1906, Fazakerley Ref. HOSM45233
1906, Kensington Ref. HOSM49728
1907, Kirkdale Ref. HOSM50355
1904, Llanarth Ref. HOSM34802
1888, Llanbedrgoch Ref. HOSM51738
1885, Staylittle Ref. HOSM60494
1885, Bethlehem Ref. HOSM37600
1886, Llansawel Ref. HOSM51972
1885, Rhosmaen Ref. HOSM57728
1904, Myddfai Ref. HOSM54448
1887, Bettws Ref. HOSM37619
1887, Llandrindod Wells Ref. HOSM40463
1888, Llanbister Ref. HOSM51740
1887, Llandegley Ref. HOSM51779
1902, Llanwrthwl Ref. HOSM52009
1887, Henllan Ref. HOSM48152

Books

442 books found. Showing results 8,257 to 8,280.

Memories

29,034 memories found. Showing results 3,441 to 3,450.

Born In Essex...

Hello to all. I was born to Irish Parents who lived in Essex in 1956. My birth is registered from Club Cottage, Kingsmoor Road, Great Parndon in Essex. My Mum was a caretaker and assistant at a Girls school, that year. Rose Murphy ...Read more

A memory of Great Parndon in 1956 by Roseanna Donohoe

Stanley J Lee's

In 1964 I started working at Stanley J Lee's in Edgware (family owned Dep't store). I made friends with so many people that worked there. I stayed there for about 5-6 years, and were some of the happiest of my working life. I ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1964 by David Harris

Remebering Maindy

I fondly remember Maindy. I was born in Mynachdy Road which is just down the road from Maindy. I worked in the big Wonderloaf bakery on Maindy Road, it was a great bakery I made some great friends there. My sister used to live in ...Read more

A memory of Maindy in 1968 by Lyndon Dyer

I Lived In 1 Rockcliffe View Carlin How

I lived in 1 Rockcliffe View Carlin How, from about 1946 to 1952, then my father retired and we then moved to Loftus. My father was Jim Conway the Police Constable. I went to Skinningrove Senior School, was ...Read more

A memory of Carlin How in 1946 by Sylvia Fayers

Memories Of Sandy

I lived in Sandy between about 1963 and 1979 and have seen changes even in that short time. It was a fairly quiet village when we first came in spite of the adjacent A1. I went to St Swithuns school in St Neots Road, then Sandy County ...Read more

A memory of Sandy by Sue Horne

Wiggins Sankey

I used to work in the shop in the photo at about the time the photo was taken. That company also had a depot in Junction road next to the pub and the railway crossing, and I also worked in that depot. I have very happy memories of ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1964 by John Starley

Draycott Police House

I was born in the Police House, my parents had moved into it from new. My older brother David, and my Dad (Constable Hind) made a garden swing for me out of railway sleepers. I can remember going to Sunday school and having to ...Read more

A memory of Pear Tree in 1959

Growing Up In Dymchurch In The 1950s

I lived in Marshlands during the 1950s and started school there, Miss Weth was the headmistress and my favourite teacher was Mrs Nichols. I moved away in 1960 but still remember a lot of my friends names ...Read more

A memory of Dymchurch by Tony Beacroft

St. Oswalds Girls School

I came to Alllerwash Hall, Fourstones, when it was a private girls' boarding school called St.Oswalds. The Second World War had ended that summer and my mother had died just before Xmas that year, I was eleven. I had had a ...Read more

A memory of Allerwash in 1945 by Heather Rosser

Anyone Recognise The Surname Lejeune Or Lejaune?

My father, who is now 92, is very keen to know what happened to the girlfriend of his war service years. He has given me the name Christina Lejeune. However, he also insists it was Lejaune! His name ...Read more

A memory of New Malden in 1945 by Sandra Gibbens

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 8,257 to 8,280.

Caption For Bakewell, Old Pack Horse Bridge 1923

Here we see the Packhorse Bridge from downstream, with a clear indication of the speed of the water hereabouts.

Caption For East Blatchington, The Village 1891

We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford. The church of St Peter has a fine Norman font. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is buried here.

Caption For Portchester, The Castle 1898

The original Norman fort at Porchester was merely a corner of the old 3rd-century Roman Saxon Shore fort defended on the two open sides by the building of a wooden palisade.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street C1955

It grew from the humble beginnings of a bathing shelter on the border of North Meols into the sizeable conurbation depicted here.

Caption For Cherhill, White Horse And Monument C1955

Situated on the edge of the Cherhill Downs, just below the earthworks known as Oldbury Castle, this is the second oldest of the Wiltshire white horses.

Caption For Southgate, High Street And The Bourne C1965

Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.

Caption For Bridport, From Allington Hill 1897

The main street of Alllington village (bottom left) leads into this panorama of Bridport town, looking south-east from Allington Hill, with the outer parish's St Swithun's Church being the prominent building

Caption For Cosby, Croft Road From The Nook C1965

The openness of the village centre is striking, with some good later 18th/early 19th-century houses ranging either side of the grass-banked brook, with its modest urban district council railings

Caption For Thebes, The Broken Obelisk C1857

The Late 19th to the Early 20th Century Forget six counties overhung with smoke Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on

Caption For Falmouth, The Quay 1908

This celebrated port prospered as a result of its natural deep-water anchorage. The quay was constructed in 1640 and soon after Falmouth was granted the status of Britain's Mail Packet station.

Caption For Lands End, First And Last House 1908

'The First and Last Refreshment House in England' doubtless took full advantage of the captive audience.

Caption For Oxford, Eights 1922

The Thames is not sufficiently wide at Oxford for the conventional kind of race in which one boat, known as an eight, overtakes another.

Caption For Wellingore, The Church C1960

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

Caption For Banbury, Old Houses, Market Place 1922

Robins Brothers, not content with filling their windows to bursting, have extended out on to the pavement and into the road.

Caption For Stamford, St Martin's Church, Burghley Monument 1922

This is the monument to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, builder of Burghley House and perhaps the most famous member of the Cecil family.

Caption For Evershot, Fore Street C1965

Situated on the high downlands where the flowing waters of St John's Spring become the source of the River Frome, Evershot had as its vicar in the 18th century the poet George Crabbe.

Caption For Stirling, Castle From King's Knot 1899

Stirling Castle, sited on a precipitous hill 420 feet high, has been intimately bound up with the fortunes of Scotland from the 12th century until the union of the crowns in 1603.

Caption For Southport, From Water Chute 1908

This area of the fairground was redeveloped and incorporated into the King's Gardens, which were opened by HM King George V in 1913.

Caption For Exeter, High Street 1900

They halted on the banks of the Exe in about 50AD and founded the town of Isca. The West Country see was transferred to the safety of the Exeter city walls in 1049.

Caption For Paignton, The Promenade And Sands 1907

The ungainly motor vehicle in the centre is still an unusual enough feature for it to be attracting the attention of bystanders.

Caption For Leeds, Briggate 1951

On the left is Leeds' oldest shop, which dates from 1613 and is receiving a face lift. Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.

Caption For Gorleston, The Harbour 1894

The fishing fleet, having waited patiently for a breeze, can at last set sail in pursuit of the herring.

Caption For Horning, The Village 1934

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings - the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing