Photos

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Maps

181,031 maps found.

1899, Pan Ref. RNC799692
1902, Lower Bradley Ref. RNC768827
1901-1903, Spinney Hills Ref. RNC836333
1902-1903, Top Valley Ref. RNC850133
1899-1900, Plymstock Ref. RNC807774
1903-1910, Point Lynas Ref. RNC807860
1899, Pondwell Ref. RNC808450
1903-1906, Port Edgar Ref. RNC809291
1903-1904, Prestonfield Ref. RNC810719
1899, Quarr Hill Ref. RNC812055
1899, Queen's Bower Ref. RNC812279
1896 - 1907, Parkhurst Ref. HOSM39919
1896 - 1907, Carisbrooke Ref. HOSM40140
1896, Mark's Corner Ref. HOSM53178
1896, Parkhurst Forest Ref. HOSM56134
1881 - 1883, Wilford Ref. HOSM57301
1881 - 1883, Wilford Ref. HOSM64710
1888 - 1899, Rhoscefnhir Ref. HOSM57717
1887 - 1899, Deeping Gate Ref. HOSM42953
1887 - 1899, Longthorpe Ref. HOSM52324

Books

442 books found. Showing results 15,193 to 15,216.

Memories

29,040 memories found. Showing results 6,331 to 6,340.

Childhood Memories Of Linshader

During my childhood we went to Linshader every summer holiday and stayed at my auntie's house (No 7). It was great ... we enjoyed collecting eggs, putting the cow out to pasture, helping to make haystacks with my ...Read more

A memory of Linsiada by Anne Douglas

Family History

My great grandfather lived in and owned Lea Park and I am interested in the history of this wonderful building. My father Austin Stone wrote in one of his crime novels of the underwater fountain in the lake?! Any information and records/photographs would be most gratefully received.

A memory of Witley by Edmund Stone

Tunstall Village Circa 1949/50

My parents used to own the local post office/ grocery store which I now believe is a private house. One of my brothers took it over from my mother and I used to stay there on holiday. When my parents ...Read more

A memory of Tunstall in 1949 by Barry Ellis Brown

Oak Bank Open Air School

I was sent to Oak Bank school as a seven year old and stayed for about two years. The Matron was a lovely lady called Miss Bremner, and I remember I stayed in a dorm called Oak, all the dormitories were named after trees. I have ...Read more

A memory of Seal in 1951 by Tina Shaheen

Shrewsbury

I lived here for a while before I moved to East Anglia. My mother still lives here and I visit her at least twice a year. On my last visit we went up to the top of the Lord Hill momument - it looks relatively small until you get up to ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1967 by Allen Warrender

Fox & Hounds Ramsden Bellhouse

I just found the Ramsden Bellhouse site and wrote in the guest book. My memories of Wickford are shopping there, watching cricket, catching the bus. I worked in London and more than once getting off the train in ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1950 by Brenda Hayward

Place Of My Birth

I was born in Gosport in 1959. As the daughter of a sailor we left a couple of times but always returned. I married at St Marys Alverstoke in 1980. I have very fond, maybe a little rose-tinted, memories of ...Read more

A memory of Gosport by Sue Hibberd

Dent School

In 1946-7 I lived at Peggleside. I can remember the German POWs (who were billeted at Sedbergh Workhouse) clearing the snow off the road to Dent with shovels. Not sure how often the school taxi got us to school but I can remember sitting ...Read more

A memory of Dent in 1947 by Ron Howard

Tracing My Ancestors

Hello all, my name is Steve Lane and I found this site whilst tracing my family. As a kid I lived in [Conningsby Court] Armfield Cresent. My dad Alf Lane used to drink in the Buck's Head and as a kid I remember sitting outside ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1960 by Steve Lane

Growing Up

I remember the long hot nights when we would all play football down the park till it got dark, the shops on the main street when you could buy any kind of sweets (or nick them if you were skint he,he), the bridge that divided the two ...Read more

A memory of Salsburgh

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 15,193 to 15,216.

Caption For Middlesbrough, The Transporter Bridge 1913

The building of this extraordinary bridge was discussed in Victoria's reign, but it was not opened until 1901.

Caption For Wellingborough, Silver Street C1950

Many of the shops you see in this picture have changed hands. The shop on the corner with the awning is now McDonalds, and what was United Counties on the opposite corner is now a travel shop.

Caption For Lytham, From The Pier 1901

The children's amusements at Lytham consisted of a few swings, donkey rides and a couple of stalls. There is quite a large crowd gathered down toward the old windmill.

Caption For Oxford, High Street 1900

St Mary the Virgin Church stands on the site of an 11th-century church which was once Oxford's most famous building.

Caption For Tealby, The Village C1960

Tealby has the reputation of being Lincolnshire's most beautiful village, and as beauty is in the eye of the beholder it may well be, as it truly is picturesque.

Caption For Loftus, Coronation Park C1960

This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1960

The first modern shop façade in the High Street was Fine Fare (left), a small supermarket on the corner of Meadow Road, vying with the more old-fashioned International Stores opposite.

Caption For Cwmcarn, The Park And Memorial 1954

These memorials, found in nearly every town in both England and Wales, tell of the terrible consequences of the two World Wars to the small communities from which the men named on them were drawn.

Caption For Avebury, The Cove 1899

The barn and outbuilding seen here were demolished in the 1940s as part of the long-overdue restoration programme.

Caption For Coniston, Ruskins Monument 1912

This Celtic-style monument in the Lake District marks the grave of John Ruskin, the artist and philosopher, who helped to bring about the Gothic revival in Victorian architecture and a resurgance of interest

Caption For Sale, Town Hall C1955

It was a state-of-the-art facility, so whatever the residents of Sale flushed down their loos was chemically purified before it was pumped into the Mersey (up to 750,000 gallons a day); the sludge was

Caption For Bournemouth, The Pier Entrance 1925

A view of busy Bournemouth pier, attracting strollers and sightseers. The pier has undergone several transformations since it was first built, but retains its popularity.

Caption For Lulworth Cove, Beach And A Steam Boat C1955

The beauty of Lulworth Cove has always attracted writers and artists. John Keats spent some of his last days in England here, as did Rupert Brooke.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Pleasure Steamer

Packed to the gunwales, the newly-commissioned pleasure steamer 'Teal' leaves Bowness Pier for a trip on Windermere.

Caption For Grasmere, Church Stile 1926

Church Stile is the name of the road which goes around the parish church.

Caption For Bramshott, Quince Farm 1917

It was rural, bucolic scenes like this one at 600-acre Quince Farm that inspired Tennyson to write a poem of 47 words while visiting the area one summer's day in the 1860s.

Caption For Alnwick, The White Swan1948

The White Swan stands on the north side of Bondgate Within. The frontage is mid 19th-century, but the real gem is inside.

Caption For Andover, Iron Bridge 1908

In 1908, the view of the town looking back under the bridge was unobstructed.

Caption For Fittleworth, The Village 1908

The local people call this 'Hallelujah Corner' because it is a sharp bend on a narrow and busy main road, near the church of St Mary.

Caption For Wells, Cathedral, Jack Blandiver 1906

In the stonework to the right of the clock sits a medieval mechanical wooden puppet called Jack Blandiver; he was repainted in the early 17th century.

Caption For Stonehenge, 1887

This monument is an epic feat of prehistoric technology, bearing in mind the way the stones are put together and that the stones were brought from miles away.

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Caption For Newby Bridge, Nickle Landing Stage 1914

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.

Caption For Buckden, The Village C1955

In this charming photograph, a collie sheepdog marshals a flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep past the village green at Buckden.

Caption For Poole, High Street 1900

The prosperous town, built where the sea meets the wild heathlands of Dorset, is one of the largest on England's south coast.