Maps

876 maps found.

1919, Stoke Gabriel Ref. POP840060
1919, Stoke Hammond Ref. POP840069
1920, Stoke Lane Ref. POP840090
1919, Stoke Rivers Ref. POP840126
1922, Stoke Rochford Ref. POP840127
1919, Stoke Wake Ref. POP840140
1919, Stoney Stoke Ref. POP840701
1901, Stoke Ash Ref. RNC840011
1899, Stoke Fleming Ref. RNC840056
1902, Stoke Heath Ref. RNC840070
1899, West Stoke Ref. RNC864991
1919, Itchen Stoke Ref. POP744590
1946, Lower Stoke Ref. NPO769764
1946, Middle Stoke Ref. NPO779235
1945, Stoke Charity Ref. NPO840026
1940, Stoke Farthing Ref. NPO840051
1946, Stoke Gifford Ref. NPO840061
1947, Stoke Lane Ref. NPO840090
1945, Stoke Poges Ref. NPO840117
1947, Stoke Pound Ref. NPO840121

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Memories

691 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

100 Melody Road. Wandsworth S.W.18

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

Cheslyn Hay 1960 1977

My parents moved from Essington to Cheslyn Hay in 1960. We briefly lived in one of the cottages in Hollybush before moving to Low Street. I remember Harry Bates selling fruit & veg from his horse & cart and people ...Read more

A memory of Cheslyn Hay by andyandjan35

Bordon County Junior School Budds Lane

Teachers in the 1970s Mr Pearson - an elderly man whose dentures moved around in his mouth when he spoke. He was great fun and shared his family cinefilms with us during the lessons. It was great fun when he played ...Read more

A memory of Bordon by D Toovey

Trips To The Blacksmiths

In the 1950's I used to ride my pony from the Leatherhead Road in Gt. Bookham through Fetcham to Leatherhead to get to the blacksmiths.  The blackmsiths was a proper big old forge at Prewetts Dairy off Randals Road. I used to ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham by Paula Clements

Skewen 1983 4

I lived in Skewen from September 1983 to May 1984 - only a short time in my life but it made a big impression on me. My wife Fiona, new baby Siobhan and I rented a house at Caenant Terrace facing the railway and the mountain.  We had moved ...Read more

A memory of Skewen by John Mc Millan

Memories

I was born in 54 Mill Street, Trecynon. As was my sister, our mother and her brothers and sitsters. A little 2 down 2 up, stone cottage. It was on the top of the hill, and we could run down "the trip" as we called it, and play there, ...Read more

A memory of Trecynon in 1947 by Heather Forey

Qeggs

I attended Queen Elizabeth’s Girls Grammar School from 1954 to 1959, and in 1957 the Queen came to visit. We all had to practise our lessons for ages beforehand (mine was French), and when she came to our classroom she spoke to us in French. We all ...Read more

A memory of Barnet by Linda Smith

Wonderful Times

My father moved to Cold Meece in 1960 to take up his job as a prison officer at the nearby Drake Hall open prison, and we stayed there for a couple of years before we moved to live at the prison itself. At the time I was between 9 ...Read more

A memory of Coldmeece in 1962 by John Grehan

Corset Shp

Does anyone remember the corset shop, did you work in the shop or use it? I am preparing a book on foundation wear and peoples relationship with foundations corselette / girdle etc so any info would be great, no matter how ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1982 by Geoffrey Duffield

Teenage Years In Fareham

I lived and worked in Fareham when I moved with my family from Hertfordshire. My father and uncle worked for Fareham District Council. I remember going to the Odeon and Embassy cinemas on many occasions with my fiance. I ...Read more

A memory of Fareham in 1953

Captions

132 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Brockham, The Green 1958

The 2003 event surpassed all records, with 25,000 people watching two and a half tonnes of fireworks go up in smoke, while £25,000 was raised for good causes.

Caption For York, Minster C1890

Pollution, mainly from the smoke from the railway, did a lot of damage to both glass and stone.

Caption For Sevenoaks, Constitutional Club 1895

The foundation stone of this building was laid with two gold sovereigns beneath it, not in the north-east corner but at the southern end of the building, in 1889.

Caption For Darlington, S & D Railway, Number One Engine 1892

'Locomotion' was one of the stars of the S&DR centenary celebrations in 1925, though the old girl was not quite herself; her power came from a hidden petrol engine, and the smoke from her chimney was burning

Caption For York, Minster C1890

Pollution, mainly from the smoke from the railways, did a lot of damage to both glass and stone.

Caption For Littlehampton, Harbour 1903

Although cumbersome to handle, a paddle tug still manages to turn her charge professionally in the centre fairway of the River Arun, whilst a stiff breeze catches smoke from the funnel and

Caption For Chartham, Paper Mills & Hatch 1906

The smoking chimney of the paper mill is in the middle foreground, with the cottages of Chartham Hatch just behind.

Caption For Plymouth, St Andrew's Cross 1900

While St Andrew's was still a smoking ruin, someone wrote the word Resurgam (Latin for 'I will rise again') above the door of the north porch (left), and ever since it has been known as

Caption For Tarbert, From The South 1890

Dense smoke from a distant inward-bound steamer is caught by strong winds and blown across the horizon towards the dockside shipping in this busy commercial port.

Caption For York, Minster C1890

Pollution, mainly from the smoke from the railways, did a lot of damage to both glass and stone.

Caption For York, St Marys Abbey C1873

Pollution, mainly from the smoke from the railways, did a lot of damage to both glass and stone.

Caption For Whitby, New Quay Road 1936

The Angel Hotel, an old coaching inn, can be seen on the left, and Collier's hardware store stands beside the bridge.

Caption For Newcastle, High Street 1951

By the beginning of the 17th century those Englishmen who could afford it had taken up the craze for smoking tobacco in pipes made of clay.

Caption For Forest Green, The Smithy 1924

The smoke emerging from the chimney indicates that the furnace is alight, and the stooped figure of the blacksmith is visible in the open doorway.

Caption For Hitchin, The Market C1965

The programme of urban clearance started in 1923 may have been prompted by comments like that of John Thompson, who spoke one hundred years previously of the 'very depressed and profligate inhabitants

Caption For Cheddar, The Thomas Family Outside Their Cottage 1908

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

Caption For Wetherby, Weir On The River Wharfe 1909

The old brewery chimney smoked for the last time in 1937, and was taken down brick by brick by two skilled chimney jacks.

Caption For Greenock, Custom House Quay 1897

Dense smoke from a distant inward-bound steamer is caught by strong winds and blown across the horizon towards the dockside shipping in this busy commercial port.

Caption For Belfast, The Lagan Canal, Stranmillis 1936

The smoking chimneys tell of the cramped homes of the river people - in their parlance they were at 'Molly Ward's Lock'.

Caption For Whitby, West Cliff 1891

Since this photograph was taken in the summer time, there is not as much smoke coming from the dwelling houses along the Crag (which lies behind the houses on the river front), but there

Caption For Hampstead, Bull And Bush, North End Road 1898

The building seen in the photograph appears as an atmospheric drinkers' dream pub, with its low doorway stepping down into a dark panelled bar, with its inevitably yellowy-brown smoke-stained ceiling.

Caption For Sevenoaks, Constitutional Club 1895

The foundation stone of this building was laid with two gold sovereigns beneath it, not in the north-east corner but at the southern end of the building, in 1889.

Caption For Ashford, Rowlands Hill Almshouses 1895

By 1894, the smoke and fog of London eventually prompted the Trustees to move their residents to Ashford, and these new buildings were opened in March 1895 - their occupants arrived by train from Waterloo

Caption For Greenock, From Whinhill 1899

In this view, we see the smoking chimneypots of Greenock and the entrance to Gare Loch.