Maps

9,439 maps found.

1898, Thorganby Ref. RNE846887
1898, Stainburn Ref. RNE837795
1895, Upperthorpe Ref. RNE858000
1898, Whorlton Ref. RNE869678
1895, Windsor Ref. RNE871178
1897, Rosehill Ref. RNE820094
1895, Roxby Ref. RNE821318
1898, Ryton Ref. RNE823364
1898, Stock Ref. RNE839684
1897, Well Ref. RNE862861
1947, Woodside Ref. NPO873989
1947, Worlaby Ref. NPO874542
1947, Wressle Ref. NPO874928
1898, Darley Ref. RNE688668
1898, Farlington Ref. RNE703442
1898, Downside Ref. RNE692809
1898, Brockley Ref. RNE651436
1897, Burradon Ref. RNE656850
1898, Hewish Ref. RNE732099
1898, Flixton Ref. RNE706858

Books

39 books found. Showing results 1,801 to 1,824.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 751 to 760.

Barnstaple Girlfriend Church And School 1939

As my fourteenth birthday hove into view and we entered the summer of 1939 it became clear that we could soon be at war with Germany. Bushey Heath was just fifteen miles north-west of central London. My ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1930 by Paul Wigmore

So Far Away Yet So Near

Such a familiar sight - the High Street with what looks like a number 47 RT AEC bus approaching. I actually lived in Coney Hall, but Bromley was only a 5d ride away (or 6d to the North if going to the Odeon or Pullman ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Peter Leach

Yha

My first holiday away from parents was Youth Hostelling in North Wales in 1972 with Ken White. We started off at Conway, and took in Penmaenmawr, Bangor, Bryn Hall, and others. My fondest memory was at Penm, and I returned whilst on honeymoon ...Read more

A memory of Penmaenmawr by Peter Whitworth

Charlie Bristow

It always seems a pity when someone's life ends and there is a decreasing memory of their place in the town as the years go by. Hence, if I may, I would like to share with current readers in the town the memory of one of its figures of ...Read more

A memory of Thorne by Brian Bristow

Fond Memories Happy Days

I was born at 44 Main Street, better known as Music Row, in 1943 and moved to Kimberley in 1958. I have many fond memories of living there, huge bonfires on the "donkey piece", making "winter warmers" out of a tin with holes ...Read more

A memory of Awsworth in 1943 by Denis Morley

Faint Remembered Memories

I was born in 70 Thornlaw North in 1945, my parents were Herbert and Josephine Mary Cumming and my sister was Joan. I believe that the people next door were the Dunnets (Salvation Army). I used to play with Eileen Toy who ...Read more

A memory of Thornley by Dennis Cumming

Birchington, Epple Bay And Minnis Bay

Birchington with two bays and a village atmosphere 'in town'. A rail station with the most wonderful ice cream parlour opposite - wicker chairs on those old fashioned curved steel bases and circular wicker ...Read more

A memory of Birchington in 1955 by Sandra Dudley

Anvil St

I suppose it's my age, but I am getting a little nostalgic about my youth. I used to live in Anvil Street (no longer exists) and remember well my first day at school, St John's on Altom Street, now a mosque. I certainly have some well ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn by Philip Robinson

Osterley Park

In 1930 I was born at Northumberland Avenue, Isleworth: parallel to the Great West Road and behind St Francis Church. As Osterley Park was so near I used to play, with my chums, frequently in the grounds of the park. We had many happy ...Read more

A memory of Osterley in 1945 by John Rose

Chipping Hill Infant School

My name is Janet (nee Smith) McGraw, I was born in Witham, Essex in the year 1942. I also went to Chipping Hill Infant School. I started school April 16th 1947, the day before my 5th birthday. I remember Ann Goodchild very ...Read more

A memory of Witham in 1947 by Janet Mc Graw

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 1,801 to 1,824.

Caption For Launceston, South Gate And Castle 1893

The North and West gates were demolished in 1832 and 1812 respectively.

Caption For Launceston, The Priory 1938

This jumble of stones, just to the north of St Thomas's Church, is all that remains of a priory so wealthy that it once lent money to the King.

Caption For Edinburgh, Princes Street 1897

The most expensive to stay at was the North British at Waverley Station.

Caption For Chedgrave, Church C1955

The unusual square tower at the north-east corner is thatched with Norfolk reed.

Caption For London, Buckingham Palace And The Mall C1955

until 1850, when it was removed to its present position at the top of Park Lane.The Mall, an expansive and formal approach to the Palace, is fringed with limes, planes and elms, and skirts the north

Caption For Bedale, From The Tower Of St Gregory's Church 1896

In the centre is the old cross: the blur to the left is a pony and trap moving too quickly for the photographer's camera.

Caption For Hitchin, Churchyard C1955

The view looking north in the Churchyard in the mid 1950s was much the same then as it is today.

Caption For Kensington, St Mary Abbott's 1899

To the right we can see Kensington Church Street leading north to Notting Hill Gate.

Caption For Woolacombe, The Village 1899

The village is at the north end of a magnificent two-mile long sandy beach.

Caption For Richmond, Aske Hall South Front 1893

This mansion just north of Richmond has been altered by successive owners: the Aske, Bowes and Wharton families, Sir Conyers D'Arcy, and, since 1763, the Dundas family, now ennobled as Marquesses of

Caption For Darlington, North Lodge Park 1903

Featured here is the fish pond and castellated boathouse that once belonged to William Backhouse; they were retained when North Lodge Park was developed.

Caption For Durham, The School 1929

This is perhaps the most famous, and most expensive, public school in the North East.

Caption For Edgware, Edgwarebury Lane C1955

Romantically titled King's Parade, it is sited at the southern end of Edgwarebury Lane as it strikes north to cross open farmland at Edgware Bury, and on to Elstree.

Caption For Bath, On The Canal 1895

This view from the canal towpath looks north to the George Street bridge in Bathwick, with the backs of Sydney Buildings on the right.

Caption For Bath, Fernley Hotel 1935

It is part of the elder Wood's Royal Forum, with its long, formal composition fronting North Parade.

Caption For Oakham, Church Interior 1927

On the left, a curtain covers the north door.

Caption For Hanbury, Post Office C1965

Hanbury sprawls along the B4091, which runs north from the Saltway to Bromsgrove.

Caption For Carew, From North West 1893

The west range of the castle to the right dates back to the 13th century, whereas the heavily fenestrated north range to the left is Elizabethan, the work of Sir John Perrot, half-brother

Caption For Daventry, North Street C1965

For many years Grammar School pupils used North Street to reach their sports ground at the bottom of the hill.

Caption For Ebbw Vale, From Beaufort Hill C1960

Before this date there were three separate industrial settlements, Beaufort in the north, Ebbw Vale in the centre, and Victoria in the south.

Caption For Bourne, North Road C1955

This is the extremely busy A15 main road heading north to Folkingham, Lincoln and eventually the Humber Bridge and south (the way we are facing) to Market Deeping and Peterborough.

Caption For Taunton, Fore Street 1902

Much has changed here: the trams have long gone, the Celtic cross memorial to the Somerset Light Infantry's Burma Campaign in the 1880s is now a traffic island further up in North Street, while the open

Caption For Waddington, High Street C1960

This view looks north along the High Street.

Caption For Little Haywood, Meadow Lane C1955

It was built in 1848-49 by the North Staffordshire Railway Company (nicknamed the Knotty after its emblem the Stafford Knot), to link local services to the main London line at Colwich.