Photos

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Maps

181,031 maps found.

1946, Mount Gould Ref. NPO784790
1946, Mount Wise Ref. NPO785094
1946, Mutley Ref. NPO786301
1947, Nebo Ref. NPO788180
1945, Southsea Ref. NPO835791
1946, Spondon Ref. NPO836519
1946, Staddiscombe Ref. NPO837691
1945, Staplers Ref. NPO838675
1946, Stoke Bishop Ref. NPO840015
1946, St Anne's Park Ref. NPO823599
1945, Sandown Ref. NPO825137
1945, Shalcombe Ref. NPO828727
1945, Shide Ref. NPO829991
1946, Shirehampton Ref. NPO830384
1945, Shirley Warren Ref. NPO830425
1947, Trearddur Ref. NPO851640
1947, Trwyn Penmon Ref. NPO853962
1945, Rew Street Ref. NPO815507
1947, Rhoscefnhir Ref. NPO815901
1947, Rhoscolyn Ref. NPO815903

Books

442 books found. Showing results 16,057 to 16,080.

Memories

29,040 memories found. Showing results 6,691 to 6,700.

Growing Up

I moved to Shawforth from Rochdale around 1977 and grew up on Knott Hill Farm. It was an idyllic childhood, with lots of good friends. I remember at least 5 shops and a library and the Red Lion pub. We spent lots of time playing in the ...Read more

A memory of Shawforth by Richard Whittaker

Lessingham Avenue

I am so please to have found this site. I was brought up in Lessingham Avenue (off Franciscan Road) but moved to Chasefield Road when i was about 11. I remember going to Saturday morning pictures at the Mayfair and singing the ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1961 by Linda Silver

The Days Seem To Go On Forever

I was brought up in Pode Hole from 1967, my mother Joan is still alive but now living in Spalding, sadly my Dad Ken died in the Fishermans Arms pub on Sept 23 1977. I have a brother Nigel and a sister Susan. We lived ...Read more

A memory of Pode Hole in 1967 by Stephen Cropley

Helping A Well Known Comedian

Being brought up in Knotty Ash I lived quite close to Liverpool's famous comedian Ken Dodd. In those days Ken had a large van, and used to come around the area selling pots and pans and many other household items. ...Read more

A memory of Knotty Ash in 1948 by Gordon Smith

Boil's Adenoids And Tonsils

My overriding memory of "The Aldershot Cottage Hospital"was of blind panic and fear, and of a day in 1946 aged six years old I was taken to what must have been the out-patients department to have a very large carbuncle ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1946 by Raymond Hay

Village Days

I was born in Upper Clatford in 1945. I have fond memories the good and bad times. I went to the local school where we would draw on slates with chalks. I used to live in cottages now pulled down. There was a well at the bottom of ...Read more

A memory of Upper Clatford by Maurice Owen

The Fields Us Kids Used To Play On.

Many years ago, about 1951, us children myself and my brothers and our friends used to play on the fields where now Bilston Colledge is situated off the Wellington Roa in Bilston. We had such fun playing on those ...Read more

A memory of Bilston in 1954 by Pauline Powell

Youth

I was born in Cardinal Avenue before my village changed completely, I went to the nursery which was 2 big buildings opposite Cardinal Avenue in a piece of scrub land, behind that was the park and library and behind that was the Rock film ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1958

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 16,057 to 16,080.

Caption For London, Horse Guards Arch C1880

A crowd, mainly male, has gathered for the Changing of the Guard in five minutes' time at 11.00am.

Caption For London, Park Lane 1890

Park Lane, running from the western ends of Oxford Street and Piccadilly, was a narrow road down the side of Hyde Park.

Caption For Barry, Broad Street 1899

The London and Provincial Bank on the corner of Market Street (left) opened in 1898, and is still and impressive structure. Work on surfacing the road with tarmac is still under way.

Caption For London, Rotten Row C1915

Crowds and some cars gather by the eastern end of Rotten Row in Hyde Park.

Caption For London, Euston Square C1950

To the right we can see the cupola of St Pancras's Church peeping above the Friends' Meeting House.

Caption For Olton, The Monastery C1965

Founded by Bernard Ullathorne, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, it was completed in 1873.

Caption For Walberswick, River Bank 1892

The name of this village means 'Walhbert's farm', and dates from at least Saxon times.

Caption For Sileby, The Memorial Gardens C1960

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

Caption For Totnes, Totnes Castle At The Landing Stage 1896

The river Dart is one of the many delights of Totnes. Here a paddle steamer reverses off the landing stage. Trips down the river were as common then as they are today.

Caption For Hereford, Cathedral, South West 1891

This interesting photograph shows Hereford Cathedral before the reconstruction and considerable embellishment of the west front by Wyatt, which was completed in 1908.

Caption For Deal, The Bandstand And The Pier 1906

Birch's pier was a victim of the Second World War: only the tollhouses remained after the damaged structure had been pulled down to assist the needs of a coastal gun battery.

Caption For Southwell, King Street 1920

King Street is the location of the former market place, which was built over many years ago. Also along here is the timber-framed Saracen's Head.

Caption For Bedruthan Steps, 1887

This stretch of coast is one of Cornwall's famous beauty spots, with dramatic cliffs and islands all accessible by road from Newquay and Padstow alike.

Caption For Tintagel, King Arthur's Castle 1894

Fabled Tintagel is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur.

Caption For Boscastle, The Harbour And Profile Rock C1871

Boscastle's rugged harbour is a romantic inlet, twisting and turning for half a mile between brooding cliffs of slate and shale.

Caption For Haverfordwest, From The River 1890

A superb view looking up the Western Cleddau into Haverfordwest with the castle in the center and the tower of St Thomas a Becket on the hill overlooking it.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, The Western Facade C1861

Kirkstall is one of the finest and most complete examples of early Cistercian architecture in Britain.

Caption For Buriton, The Church Of St Mary 1898

The picturesque village of Buriton stands in the shadow of Butser Hill, and by the pretty, tree-fringed pond lies the church, with its 13th-century tower watching over the tranquil scene.

Caption For Weymouth, The Parade 1898

The early use of bathing machines made Weymouth a popular resort for sea bathing.

Caption For Aldeburgh, Esplanade 1894

This view looks south from one of the two lookout towers on the beach.

Caption For Cambridge, Guildhall From Peas Hill 1938

Here we see Addenbrooke's from the roof of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Trumpington Street.

Caption For Exmouth, The Sands 1890

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

Caption For Devonport, Mount Wise 1890

Below the fortifications of Mount Wise we can see a variety of shipping, from paddle steamers to ancient naval vessels, which were probably used as training depots.

Caption For Worcester, The Foregate C1960

The Foregate and Foregate Street continue the line of High Street northwards and developed as a suburb many centuries ago.