Photos

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Maps

1,651 maps found.

1902-1903, Saughall Ref. RNC825675
1902-1903, Newtown Ref. RNC792063
1902-1903, Norley Ref. RNC792703
1902-1903, Moston Ref. RNC784572
1902-1903, Hooton Ref. RNC740048
1902-1903, Ince Ref. RNC743359
1902-1903, Marton Ref. RNC775346
1902-1903, Higher Burwardsley Ref. RNC733929
1902-1903, Higher Wincham Ref. RNC734281
1902, Hob Hill Ref. RNC737134
1902-1903, Lach Dennis Ref. RNC750764
1902-1903, Little Stanney Ref. RNC757997
1902-1903, Kelsall Ref. RNC745891
1902-1903, Lostock Green Ref. RNC767545
1902-1903, Comberbach Ref. RNC676022
1902, Cuddington Heath Ref. RNC685695
1902-1903, Blacon Ref. RNC643068
1902-1903, Bruera Ref. RNC653337
1902-1903, Boughton Heath Ref. RNC646763
1902-1903, Boots Green Ref. RNC646057

Books

19 books found. Showing results 1,033 to 19.

Memories

2,049 memories found. Showing results 431 to 440.

Radlett Prep

I attended Radlett Prep between 1958 and 1965. It was located in a converted three floored Edwardian house on the corner of Hillside Avenue and Aldenham Grove, and has since been converted back to a private residence. Aldenham Grove was ...Read more

A memory of Radlett by Hamish Adam

Living On The Coastguard Station

The year England won the World Cup (1966) I was 8 years old and living on the coastguard station at Newhaven with my younger brother, you could hear my late father yell as England lifted the World Cup, we beat West ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1966

Selling Ice Creams On Beach

I remember fondly working during school holidays selling ice creams on Bournemouth beach. I worked for the Corporation and had to wear full length white overalls and push a large yellow barrow filled with ice creams. ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1959 by Richard Faure Field

An Addition To My Thornhill Memory

I've remembered those names. Bob's name was Corrie; Wilf was Wilf Myers, they were two of three Overmen (Deputies) at Haile Moor. The third was big Alf Varah. A gentleman called Chris Gibson sent me a message ...Read more

A memory of Thornhill in 1961 by Geoff Potts

Grandparents And Father

Grandparents lived in Farrington Gurney and my father was born there in 1922. Grandfather was Rees West-Gaul, father Geoffrey West-Gaul, does anyone know the family?

A memory of Farrington Gurney in 1920 by David West Gaul

The Nursery

I was born in 4 The Nursery in 1944. My gran Elizabeth Bayles, my mother Emma Bayles. I went to Millbank School at age 4yrs. I can remember my first teacher there Miss Watkins. My Mother worked at Lockeys buses as a bus conductor. ...Read more

A memory of West Auckland in 1953 by Christine Bayles

Childhood To Marriage

MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to own ...Read more

A memory of Llanhilleth by Derek Hughes

Tinker Tailor Solder Sailor 1916

Lynette Carter nee Evans My grandfather was Romany Gypsy, Stephen Evans, who better known as (Stinny)? During 1916 he lived in Gorseion, while his wife; my grandmother Mary Ellen Boswell lived in Gowerton. Nobody ...Read more

A memory of Gorseinon in 1900 by Lynette Carter

Roots

Lived in Eltham from 1940, when Dad was in Artillery, and off to France, came back injured from Dunkirk, but alive, just ! Homes were, Rancliffe Gdns, Milburn Gdns, and Meadowside. Lovely road with unrestricted views across what is now ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham in 1940 by Peter Russell

Northern Drive Collyhurst

Hi everyone, my family lived in Northern Drive from 1955 - 1966. I lived with my granparents, Jake Winter and Flo his wife. I remember the [flats] street parties we had at Whit Week. My uncle Norman used to play the ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1955 by Elaine Carlin

Captions

1,994 captions found. Showing results 1,033 to 1,056.

Caption For Little Sutton, Chester Road 1966

Little Sutton lies just north-west of Ellesmere Port, and in recent years, along with Great Sutton, it has more or less coalesced with it.

Caption For London, Westminster, Crimean Monument C1880

The monument stands in the centre of an area known as the Sanctuary by the west door of the abbey and on the site of the abbey gateway.

Caption For Doddington, Church 1906

Immediately north-east of the Hall is St Peter's Church, almost entirely rebuilt in the 1770s by Thomas Lumby in partly scholarly Gothic, although a cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick breaks out here and

Caption For Rothley, Town Green C1965

We are south-west of the village centre, and the photograph exudes a strange feeling of well- cared-for neglect.

Caption For Avonmouth, Docks 1901

Avonmouth was used by the Imperial Direct West India Mail Service Co, whose ships sported white hulls and yellow funnels.

Caption For Leicester, Town Hall Gardens C1965

In 1965 the birds still sang in the Town Hall gardens, and although relatively noisy, it was an extremely pleasant place to sit and mull over the fortunes of the day.

Caption For York, Infantry Barracks, The Armoury 1886

York was a military centre, and over 1,000 men were stationed here when the barracks were built.

Caption For Uppingham, School 1927

The chapel is on the left with the school quadrangle and associated buildings in the middle distance.

Caption For Branston, The Church C1955

All Saints' Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, The Marina And Britannia Pier C1955

Victorian concert party enclosures progressed to concrete shelters and rooftop walkways in the 1950s.

Caption For Geddington, Church Hill C1955

We are now standing in a position to the east of the Cross and are looking towards West Street, with Church Hill on the immediate right of the pantiled lean-to building and the Star Inn

Caption For Sawston, High Street C1965

Further along the High Street, we see the Black Bull (left) with the White Lion in the distance.

Caption For Waterbeach, High Street C1955

In the 1960s two large housing estates were laid out on the east and west of the main street, and in 1972 a Village Society was formed to oppose the continued growth.

Caption For Mytholmroyd, View From Scout Road C1955

There could not be anywhere more northern-sounding than Mytholmroyd, the woollen village crammed into the bottom of the Calder Valley west of Halifax.

Caption For Bradford, Mechanics' Institute, Market Street 1897

Built in 1870, this was one of the many West Yorkshire institutes to offer working craftsmen the opportunity to study new skills and learn more about the world.

Caption For Colsterworth, The Village C1960

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

Caption For Thorpe Le Soken, The Village C1955

Wares from the small shop on the right spill out onto the pavement, and among other commodities it advertises petrol!

Caption For Belford, St Mary's Church C1955

Dobson restored the chancel and nave and added a north aisle and the west tower.

Caption For Dublin, St. Patricks Cathedral, Nave East 1897

A view taken from the west entrance, looking straight down the nave to the east window.

Caption For Mevagissey, The Harbour 1935

In 1886 Mevagissey landed 255,000 hundredweight of fish, the greatest quantity of any port in the west.

Caption For Launceston, Windmill Hill C1960

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

Caption For Cardiff, Sophia Gardens Pavilion C1960

The Gardens have two more claims to fame: they became the home of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, and much earlier, in September 1891, they had staged Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Caption For Budleigh Salterton, Promenade 1898

Budleigh Salterton stands to the west of the silted estuary of the River Otter.

Caption For Hounslow, Staines Road C1955

Beyond Hounslow, the Great West Road divided into the two coaching routes leading to Bath and Exeter.