Photos

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Maps

90 maps found.

1908-1910, Old Westhall Ref. RNC797267
1898-1899, Westhall Hill Ref. RNC866056
1947, Westhide Ref. NPO866080
1885 - 1886, Westhide Ref. HOSM64093
1899-1901, Westhide Ref. RNC866080
1898, Best Beech Hill Ref. RNC639302
1920, Best Beech Hill Ref. POP639302
1895, Best Beech Hill Ref. RNE639302
1940, Best Beech Hill Ref. NPO639302
1896 - 1919, Chapmore End Ref. HOSM71220

Books

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Memories

408 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

Growing Up In Dartford

I lived in Dartford from 1955 (born in West Hill Hospital) til 1977 when I moved to Wales. My dad was manager of the"Bacca Pouch" next to the old Post Office , and opposite the back entrance to the Co-op. He then had the ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1955 by David Hillman

The Hub Of My Young Universe

London's main railway stations truly are wonderful and Charing Cross was the one that I frequented the most as I travelled every weekday from Woolwich Arsenal in SE London to Green Park Underground, near the great Victoria ...Read more

A memory of London in 1959 by Dylan Rivis

Follansbee Aka Follingsby Or Foljambe Of Hamsterley Durham England

This isn't exactly a 'memory' as it is a fact relating to my ancestors, the Follansbee's of Hamsterley, County Durham, England. It is recorded that the Follansbee's (various ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley by Cheryl Follansbee/Foljambe

Glenys And Haydn.

Friends of mine, Glenys Thomas (nee Burrows), Haydn Burrows and their family lived off Newcastle Hill at "The Graig". Much of Newcastle Hill remains unchanged today with the bottom of the hill closed to through traffic. I used to use ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend by Charles Trevelyan

The Two Bob Gun

At the top of Queens Road in Buckhurst Hill is a small newsagents shop. It was owned by the Mr & Mrs. Silk.  The shop sold papers magazines cigarettes, sweets and a few toys. Situated right across the road from where Princes ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Denman Lalonde

Elmsleigh School St Polycarp School

Born in Aldershot in 1939 my father worked for a builder in Farnborough, Chuter, and eventually moved to a rented house on Folly Hill. I initially went to St Polycarp but moved to Elmsleigh where both myself and my ...Read more

A memory of Farnham in 1945 by Mike Archdeacon

My Fading Memories

I was but a lad of 8 when my folks bundled us all off to a wide land downunder. Since 1968, Australia has been my home. I often speak of my fading memories of Queensbury, my walks through the village, living on 'The Mountain', ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury in 1968 by Stephen Mckinley

Pavenham 1945 1970

This is the village where I grew up, my parents moving into their very old, somewhat dilapidated cottage at the end of the war. This was 'The Folly' at the eastern end of the village opposite one of Tandy's farms. Why it had that name ...Read more

A memory of Pavenham by Stephen Wessel

Village Shop

I lived in the bungalow at the end of the spinny on West Avenue in the late 1960s and went to Highcroft School from age 4 to 5, which was an old Victorian building which always smelt of tomato soup and stood on the corner of ...Read more

A memory of Castle Bromwich in 1960 by Mark Waters

Dartford

Is West Hill Hospital still at the top of West Hill? And do some of you remember the trams going from the Dartford libary and up West Hill? I cannot remember how far they went to.

A memory of Dartford by Danny Bowman

Captions

198 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Launceston, South Gate And Castle 1893

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

Caption For Hessenford, C1955

We are looking west as the A387 drops down into the hamlet to the bridge over the River Seaton at the bottom of the hill, before the road climbs up the other side on its way to Looe.

Caption For Lincoln, Castle Hill 1906

Reaching the top of Steep Hill, the photographer looks west from Exchequer Gate, the medieval gatehouse into the cathedral close, towards the Castle gatehouse.

Caption For Chaldon, St Lawrence's Hospital C1965

This stretch of country used to have three major hospitals, the most famous of which was Cane Hill, built as a lunatic asylum in 1882.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Boating Lake And Pier Hill C1950

This photograph looks west beside the boating pool, with the Palace Hotel dominating the scene.

Caption For Sudbury, Market 1904

We are looking from the west end of Market Hill into Friars Street.

Caption For Peaslake, The Village Green C1955

Peaslake is a small village west of Holmbury St Mary, separated from it by a ridge of wooded hills.

Caption For Pickering, Smiddy Hill C1955

Smiddy Hill in Pickering, a bustling little market town west of Scarborough on the edge of the moors, probably takes its name from the site of a former blacksmith's shop in the area.

Caption For Hunstanton, Green And Pier 1907

On the north-west angle of the coast of Norfolk stands the pretty watering-place of Hunstanton St Edmunds, which, during the summer months, is crowded with visitors, the rooms, which out of the season

Caption For Morfa Bychan, Garreg Wen Lake 1925

Known today for its caravan parks and the long sandy beach of Black Rock sands, Morfa Bychan, just west of Porthmadog, was long celebrated for the story of Dafydd Garreg-Wen, the blind harpist, known for

Caption For Launceston, South Gate And Castle 1893

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

Caption For Cleeve Hill, 1907

The Cotswolds reach their highest point at West Down, 1083 feet above sea level, above this parish of Cleeve Hill, east of Cheltenham.

Caption For Heptonstall, The Two Parish Churches C1965

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

Caption For Midhurst, North Street 1921

Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.

Caption For Doddington, Church 1906

The stone walls of St Peter's Church, to the north of the forecourt to Doddington Hall, are a marked contrast to the mellow red brick of the Hall, which might be by Robert Smythson, the architect of Hardwick

Caption For Doddington, Church 1906

The stone walls of St Peter's Church, to the north of the forecourt to Doddington Hall, are a marked contrast to the mellow red brick of the Hall, which might be by Robert Smythson, the architect of Hardwick

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

Caption For Wellington, The Square 1912

Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.

Caption For Othery, Main Road C1955

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

Caption For Coverham, Abbey Church 1926

In between the dramatic hills of Great and Little Whernside, Coverham lies in a hollow 2 miles west of Middleham.

Caption For Crouch End, Christ Church, Crouch End Hill C1965

Standing high above the town centre and attractively sited on the crown of the hill, the church with its elegant broach spire was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in c1861, but not completed until 1881

Caption For Ilfracombe, The Cairn From The West 1911

At 511ft, Cairn Top is the highest of the hills overlooking the town.

Caption For Aberystwyth, The Promenade 1960

A large pleasure boat beaches to unload its passengers, and a bandstand could still attract an audience in this university town cum resort in West Wales.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other