Photos

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Maps

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1919, Hound Hill Ref. POP741122
1920, Ide Hill Ref. POP743167
1919, Dry Hill Ref. POP694206
1920, Dudden Hill Ref. POP694589
1919, Kents Hill Ref. POP746340
1924, Keresforth Hill Ref. POP746416
1919, Kings Hill Ref. POP747896
1925, Kingside Hill Ref. POP748112
1919, Knapp Hill Ref. POP749573
1919, Knowles Hill Ref. POP750588
1919, Ladyes Hills Ref. POP750968
1923, Hargate Hill Ref. POP727281
1920, Hedgerley Hill Ref. POP730508
1925, Hedley Hill Ref. POP730518
1920, Hollybush Hill Ref. POP738455
1921, Grimes Hill Ref. POP722412
1920, Grove Hill Ref. POP723005
1920, Gun Hill Ref. POP723551
1920, Hampton Hill Ref. POP726242
1923, Primrose Hill Ref. POP810925

Books

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Memories

3,572 memories found. Showing results 591 to 600.

Davyhulme Park And Around

Living on the Lostock Estate in a Council house on Radstock Road, I can remember being taken as a treat, to Davyhulme Park and the paddling pool/boating lake. What a big treat that was !! and then we used to, when older, go ...Read more

A memory of Stretford by bartonhillbum

Westbourne House

I was about five or six when we moved the Westbourne House, Mount Park, Harrow on the Hill. Mount Park use to be private an there was a couple called the Morrisons who were in charge of opening and closing the gate. Their ...Read more

A memory of Harrow on the Hill in 1948 by Valerie Collinson Bland

Brook Green

Hi Peter, I was one of those kids playing 50-a-side football on Brook Green; you and your brothers being older than us. I lived in Lindenhill Road up the hill. There use to be a brook going through the green. Also used to play tincan alley up in front of Admiral.

A memory of Bracknell in 1962

Milkman

I remember Mr Souter and the Calverts who ran the garage, and Mr Pears in the corner shop. Started work as a hairdresser apprentice in Headley then moved to Bordon. Had hairdressing shop in Chalet Hill in Mr Simpkins next to Kings baby ...Read more

A memory of Lindford in 1960 by Robert Ellis

Childhood Yrs, Enham Alamein, 1940s

Hi to anyone still left that remembers my grandads bakery behind George Brights bicycle shop. he made the best doughnuts ever, my uncle ted and daisy ran the farm at the top of the hill known as 'Shanghai Homestead', ...Read more

A memory of Andover in 1940 by Terry Cleverley

The Warren

From about 1930 to 1939 my family had a shack/bungalow on the Warren. Every summer we loaded the car at our home in Exeter, drove to Exmouth, and were ferried to our shack by a boatman, Bill Hocking. My brother John became an accomplished ...Read more

A memory of Exmouth by Anthony Westell

When We Were Young!

Way back in the early 1950's my friends and I went everywhere on our cycles. On one occasion three of us set out from Grays and went across the ferry at Tilbury to Gravesend then down the old A road to Canterbury where we had a ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by Albert Wm Gosnall

An Idyllic Childhood In New Haw

I wanted to add my own memories of growing up in New Haw from 1965 until moving again in 1973. The family moved from Richmond (then in Middlesex) to 187 New Haw Road, a detached 3-bedroom house with 1/3 acre of ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1966 by Andrew Taylor

Wonderful Childhood Memories

I lived in Cannock from 1963 to 1970. We lived on the Longford Estate in Leamington Close, we were the first family to live in that house after it was built. I went to Bridgetown Primary School and started year 1 in ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1860 by Agnes Paterson

From The 2nd World War

My grandparents lived at The Cottage in South View, Uppingham for 40 years from 1908 where he was a well known Director of Music at the public school. From a very early age during the second world war I made my first visit. ...Read more

A memory of Uppingham in 1943 by Barry Sterndale Bennett

Captions

1,749 captions found. Showing results 1,417 to 1,440.

Caption For Lilleshall, The Hill C1960

The monument on the hill was erected by the local people in 1836 in memory of their landlord, George Granville Leveson- Gower, Duke of Sutherland.

Caption For Sutton, The Angel 1896

At the top of Angel Hill is the Angel Inn, an early 19th- century building. It was once a stop where coaches and travellers changed horses before the descent into Sutton.

Caption For Preesall, The View From Preesall Hill C1955

This view shows the village spread out on the Fylde plain, an area prone to flooding. On the hill stood Preesall village school.

Caption For Charlton Kings, Charlton Hill From Cirencester Road C1955

Bradley Road, which we see here, was the only section completed before local objections and the outbreak of hostilities shelved the plan indefinitely.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, 1906

The slopes to the rear of West Street are still green, and the view at the end of the 20th century is a little less smoke-hazed.

Caption For Wallington, Woodcote Road C1950

The station is on the left, but is concealed by the distant shops.

Caption For Ightham, Village 1901

This delightful rambling village acquired its name from the Saxon king Ehta, or Otha's settlement. But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

Caption For Dunoon, Argyll Hotel, Main Street 1904

This view was taken from Castle Hill looking north. The Argyll Hotel continues to attract guests, and the scene today is much as is shown here, except for the fashions and the absence of horses.

Caption For Ightham, Village 1901

This delightful rambling village acquired its name from the Saxon king Ehta, or Otha's settlement. But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

Caption For East Farleigh, River Medway 1898

The village sits high above the flood plain of the Medway. This peaceful scene shows the 14th-century five-arched ragstone bridge, which is considered by some to be the finest in the south-east.

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 Hitchin, Bridge Street C1955

At the top of the street stand the Lister Hotel and the Half Moon, looking onto the area known as 'the Triangle'.

Caption For Uley, The Tumulus C1960

Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley

Caption For Fairford, High Street C1955

Like other wool towns in the Cotswolds, such as Stroud, Painswick and Woodchester, Fairford has a 'Rack Hill'.

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 Anderby Creek, Beach Road C1960

The far distant houses are built on the sand hills, and would get the full force of any gales. All that was needed is here: the petrol station is on the left, and on the right Rose's Stores.

Caption For Blacko, From Noggarth C1960

Blacko Tower (just visible on the top of the hill), marking the boundary of Pendle Forest, was built by Jonathan Stansfield in 1891.

Caption For Halton, From Castle Hill C1955

An ancient settlement, Castle Hill near the church of St Wilfrid is the site of both Saxon and Roman fortifications.

Caption For Bridport, West Road 1909

Foundry Cottages (left) and three-storey Foundry House (far right), in West Allington, were the hub of Richard Robert Samson`s Grove Iron Works.

Caption For Addlethorpe, Church C1955

Locally the church is known as 'the Queen of the Marsh'. Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Street C1955

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Caption For Freshfield, Victoria Buildings C1965

Here we see Victoria Buildings on the corner of the road to the sand dunes, known as Formby Hills, and to Mad Wharf beyond them.

Caption For Colwyn Bay, On The Sands 1898

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Old Sea Walls C1960

This is a historic lost view of Lyme's eastern cliffs before they were entombed and extended in 1984, by sea defence works which incorporated and hid sewage disposal facilities.