Maps

776 maps found.

1886 - 1887, Pont-Faen Ref. HOSM56850
1923, Pont-Tyweli Ref. POP808682
1903-1910, Pont Hwfa Ref. RNC808520
1900, Pont Pill Ref. RNC808540
1898, Ponts Green Ref. RNC808672
1947, Pont Cysyllte Ref. NPO808497
1947, Pont Hwfa Ref. NPO808520
1947, Pont Llogel Ref. NPO808523
1946, Pont Pill Ref. NPO808540
1947, Pont-Faen Ref. NPO808623
1947, Pont-Rhythallt Ref. NPO808665
1896, Pont Pill Ref. RNE808540
1898, Pont-Faen Ref. RNE808627
1898, Pont-Siân Ref. RNE808678
1909 - 1910, Pont Cysyllte Ref. HOSM40534
1909, Pont-Faen Ref. HOSM38976
1901, Pont-Newydd Ref. RNC808649
1924, Pont-Newydd Ref. POP808648
1923, Pont-Newydd Ref. POP808649
1922, Pont Siôn Norton Ref. POP808556

Books

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Memories

2,732 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

Happy Days

Medmenham was a beautiful posting and a happy place. I attended the local dance hall.... where I was in great demand having danced to Silver medal class beore joining the RAF. Dream on you say !!!!!! Yes indeed. I am still in touch with ...Read more

A memory of Medmenham in 1956 by Paddy Pollock

Post Office

We moved to nearby Kingshurst and the Post Office on the corner of Hurst Lane was the nearest for collecting the much needed Family Allowance. It was a good walk as the buses were not very frequent. When I was newly married 13 ...Read more

A memory of Castle Bromwich in 1956 by Lynda Ridgard

Summer Holidays At Tyn Y Morfa

In the early 60s we used to travel to Talacre for a fortnight holiday in a caravan. One year my parents didn't pre-book but we travelled from Liverpool on the off chance we would find a place. I remember my father ...Read more

A memory of Tyn-y-Morfa by Nancy Bell

18 Two Meadows

As a Londoner, when my new husband was offered a job in Great Yarmouth in 1964, I was excited, although a bit apprehensive about moving to the small village of Hemsby. We bought a brand new house in a new subdivision at Two Meadows. It ...Read more

A memory of Hemsby by Carol Watts

Wrinstead Court

I went to Wrinsted Court with my mother and brother and sister in 1950. We went as tenants. Here is a short background. My father was killed in 1941 as he was in the Navy. Then my mother met my first step-father who was also in ...Read more

A memory of Wrinsted Court by Christine Smith

Upper Heyford School

My father was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford 1949 to 1953.  My brothers, Peter, Michael and myself, Mary, went to the village school.  My older brother Richard went to school in Steeple Aston.  I remember the two ...Read more

A memory of Upper Heyford in 1949 by mooremary4

So Many Memories

My family arrived in Wargrave just after the war. We moved into a flat above the Post Office/ Telephone Exchange. Dad was a caretaker operator. Things I remember about the village were of course the nearby river, the houses so ...Read more

A memory of Wargrave by M Ichael Aldridge

Happy Weekends

For some time back in the late '70's/early '80's I used to ride my motorbike from Worcester to visit my then girlfriend, Judith, at Sawtry. She had a post as a teacher at the nearby school. Used to love the ride on a sunny, summer Friday ...Read more

A memory of Sawtry by bru.enzer

Elmers Mill Family History

Hi there. Harry Elmer (who I understand was my Grandad's brother) owned and ran this Mill into the 1940s. The Muggeridge Collection has some wonderful images of him replendent in the very gentlemanly working clothes of a ...Read more

A memory of Woolpit in 1890 by Les Elmer

Critchlows Corner

The building in view was a Post Office and General Stores, the area was known as "Critchlows Corner" after the name of the family that owned the shop. The post office was the only one in the area. At the age of 10 I would cycle to the ...Read more

A memory of Blurton in 1963 by David Moore

Captions

1,653 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Thames Ditton, High Street C1955

The best part of Thames Ditton architecturally is north and west of this viewpoint, which shows the post office at the High Street's junction with Ashley Road.

Caption For Inskip, Main Road C1950

Not all post offices in the Fylde had a telegraph office early in the 20th century, nor could they deal with postal orders.

Caption For Betchworth, Post Office 1928

This post office was built in 1900 on land belonging to the Betchworth Park Estate, and was designed to deal with the business of three villages, Betchworth, Brockham and Buckland, including sorting and

Caption For Aylesbury, High Street C1960

The photographer has climbed onto the upper storey of the building next to Marks & Spencer's to look past the 1890s Post Office, the Tudor-style building with the ball finial to its gable on the right,

Caption For Abergavenny, Cross Street 1893

The lamp post on the right marks the site of the town's first post office of 1835.

Caption For Bratton, The Village 1923

Webber's Post 1923 From near Luccombe the road climbs through Horner Woods to Webber's Post on Luccombe Hill and onto the wildest parts of Exmoor.

Caption For Aylesbury, Tring Road C1965

We can see tall lampposts, telephone line posts (still here), a bus stop and local shopping.

Caption For Malmesbury, Memorial And Post Office C1950

by the Gothic-style Methodist church (left) belongs to W Redman & Sons, the butchers, whose premises are next door to G H Handy, a tobacconist`s, which was once Westport Post

Caption For Burton On The Wolds, The Post Office And Square C1960

Next to an 18th century house of some interest, the post office, along with the pub, was the focal point of village life.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, Winchester Road C1965

We can see part of the old post office, now a heating and plumbing shop (left), and the entrance to the precinct on the right.

Caption For Liphook, The Village 1906

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree and originally a posting and coaching house, The Royal Anchor Hotel (centre) dates from the time of Samuel Pepys, who found 'good, honest people' here.

Caption For Liphook, Royal Anchor Hotel 1911

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree and originally a posting and coaching house, The Royal Anchor Hotel (centre) dates from the time of Samuel Pepys, who found 'good, honest people' here.

Caption For Magham Down, Old Road C1955

The late Victorian Red Lion pub on the left is closed and for sale (January 2004), while the post office on the right is, as in many other villages, closed and now a house, Post Office House.

Caption For Irby, The Village C1955

The white-painted single-storey building in the middle of the row of shops originally had a thatched roof and was Irby's only shop, doubling also as the village post office.

Caption For Datchworth, The Post Office And The Plough C1965

The 17th-century post office stands at the corner of Bramfield Road and Mardlebury Road.

Caption For Gristhorpe, The Post Office And Memorial C1955

Looking down the main street, we see the old post office (right), now two cottages.

Caption For South Normanton, The Old Windmill C1965

Here we see a post mill with an open trestle in its last stage of dereliction.

Caption For Pendleton, The Village C1955

Post Office Row (right) is remembered for Ellen Haworth, a diminutive lady.

Caption For Grantham, Angel And Royal Hotel C1960

Lamp-posts that had lost their lamps now became supports for road directions, and streets were lit by electric lamps on long concrete posts; these were not in the least attractive, but were functional

Caption For Leeds, The Post Office And Revenue Office 1897

The Post Office (1896) overlooks City Square, around which are now grouped the railway station, the Queen's Hotel and the former News Theatre.

Caption For Barry, Holton Road 1903

This is a typical scene of the early 1900s: when word got out that a photographer was in the area, passers-by stopped and posed for the picture, just like today when TV crews and cameras come into town

Caption For Abingdon, The Square 1893

However, the two post-fire Victorian buildings are complete, the one nearer Smith's the post office (today it has a 1954 stone-framed shop front).

Caption For Chelmsford, The Cathedral 1919

When Chelmsford became the centre of a new diocese, it pipped several other applicants at the post.

Caption For Saffron Walden, High Street 1919

The Post Office bought it for their use and moved from King Street in 1919.