Photos

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Maps

181,031 maps found.

1886 - 1901, Haydon Ref. HOSM47919
1901, Sherborne Ref. HOSM52525
1901, Milborne Port Ref. HOSM53795
1885 - 1901, Stowell Ref. HOSM60705
1880 - 1882, Haughton Ref. HOSM47840
1880 - 1884, Milford Ref. HOSM53820
1880, Norbury Junction Ref. HOSM55112
1880 - 1881, Weston Ref. HOSM64138
1886 - 1906, Goonbell Ref. HOSM46558
1886 - 1906, Mithian Ref. HOSM46675
1910 - 1932, Wraysbury Ref. HOSM65353
1896, Bricket Wood Ref. HOSM38835
1896 - 1897, Frogmore Ref. HOSM45978
1891 - 1906, Carrbrook Ref. HOSM40173
1885 - 1903, Belmesthorpe Ref. HOSM37467
1886 - 1887, Careby Ref. HOSM40048
1886 - 1903, Casewick Hall Ref. HOSM40260
1900 - 1902, Duddington Ref. HOSM43921
1886 - 1903, Essendine Ref. HOSM44943
1886 - 1903, Pickworth Ref. HOSM56618

Books

442 books found. Showing results 18,433 to 18,456.

Memories

29,040 memories found. Showing results 7,681 to 7,690.

Penton Park Caravan Ppark

My memory of Laleham is of when my father would come and collect us for weekend visits, he would come and collect us on a Saturday, and take me and my brother to the caravan park where he lived at the time, now known as ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1960 by Linda Stock

Evacuation From Coventry

After the 'blitz' we , the young children were shipped of to Dosthill. My brother and I were to live with an elderly woman, a Mrs Pike. Mrs Pike had a married daughter named Dolly, a very kind woman. I remember the school, ...Read more

A memory of Dosthill in 1940 by Trevor Jones

Down Memory Lane

I was born in Nottingham and came to live in Gateshead when I was 4 years old. My mother was in the W.R.A.C and met my father when she was stationed down there. He was a Waiter in the Crown Hotel in Bawtry and was originally from ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by Pauline Thompson

The War Years In Alston

I lived in Alston during the Second World War. My father was the manager of the foundry there. We left in 1948 I was 10 years old. I have visited many times over the years but am now finding it a difficult place to walk around ...Read more

A memory of Alston in 1944 by Patricia Elkins

My Home For 22 Years

I was born 21st august 1943 at 60 Bellefield Road, a house that is still standing, only a blue brick terraced house with a cold tap and an outside loo. This was quite posh because some people had to share their toilets with ...Read more

A memory of Winson Green in 1951 by John Hughes

My Beginning

I returned to Andover in August 2010 and was as excited as the day we left in November 1956 when my family decided we were going to Australia. 54 years is a long time and I think that my wife was surprised at how much I remembered ...Read more

A memory of Andover in 1956 by John Abbess

The Cameo Cinema Bargoed

I grew up in the Bargoed area, in Cardiff Road to be precise! It was Gladestone Villa which is now known as the Parc Hotel or Reds. My parents were divorced and my mam and I lived with my grandparents there. Every Saturday my ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed in 1977 by Andrew Dexter

Coolham House

I had happy holidays at Coolham House with my Auntie Jean and Uncle Douglas (Colonel Cameron) when I was about 10 years of age. I remember there was a prisoner of war called Coconi (an Italian) working on the farm. I remember driving ...Read more

A memory of Coolham in 1943 by John Potter

Young Corby, Once Called Corbie.

This photo must have been taken early in the morning because that play area was always packed with wee yins in the 1960s. I know because I was one of them. There were lots of what I used to call swing parks in Corby in ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Kenneth Little

Wartime In Ivybridge 1939

I was one of ten little girls, plus our teacher, who arrived in Ivybridge as evacuees from Acton, London, at the outbreak of the Second World War. We were taken to a hall (probably at the school) where we were ...Read more

A memory of Ivybridge in 1940 by Geraldine Gasparelli

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 18,433 to 18,456.

Caption For Seaton Carew, The Sands C1965

Large cargo ships standing off the mouth of the River Tees are still a familiar sight today.

Caption For Warrington, Town Centre From Boots Corner C1950

Burton's the tailors displays its fine facade with Portland stone columns, which was created by rebuilding the corner of Horsemarket Street and Buttermarket Street in 1937.

Caption For Aberystwyth, Rheidol Valley Railway 1903

This 12-mile-long railway was constructed along the south side of the Rheidol in 1901 to transport lead ore from the mines to the harbour, but it became a very popular tourist attraction for those wishing

Caption For Hereford, Eign Gate C1950

A century earlier, during the Civil War, one Roundhead sergeant said of the local people, 'The inhabitants are totally ignorant in the ways of God, and much addicted to drunkeness and other vice

Caption For Leominster, Corn Square C1955

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

Caption For Birkenhead, Charing Cross 1967

We are looking along Grange Road from the corner of Oxton Road.

Caption For Eastham, Queen Elizabeth Docks C1955

To the left, and above the bow of the tanker Dauphine, we can see the huge lock gates that give access to the Manchester Ship Canal. The canal was opened on 1 January 1894.

Caption For Clydach, The Wells 1893

It is certainly not unlikely that these men and boys are workers at what remained of the indigenous ironworking industry after the 1877 collapse.

Caption For Redditch, Market Place C1955

The market originally took place on the Green, but was confined to the south side of it after the Chapel on the Green was built in 1805.

Caption For Newhaven, The Harbour C1960

A cargo ship is visible on the left.

Caption For Arundel, The Black Rabbit 1898

The Black Rabbit 1898 Overlooking the pretty Arun near Arundel, the Black Rabbit was first licensed in 1804; at that time it was a popular watering-hole for workers digging a new cut of

Caption For Rustington, The Church And Lychgate C1960

Another of Sussex's seaside villages, Rustington boasts a few flint-walled cottages and a medieval church.

Caption For Richmond, The Channel 1929

The coffee merchant E W Coleman's van is parked outside his shop (centre); beside its window is an LNER train timetable - Station Road is off to the left.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place 1929

The ball finial of the Obelisk looks new; it had been replaced in 1907. At least one household living upstairs in the Toll Booth has lit a fire.

Caption For Richmond, Castle Hill 1929

In the centre is a fish and chip saloon; to its right is the narrow wynd called The Bar, and on the railings is an advertisement for wet fish on sale in the basement of No 1 New Road.

Caption For Sherburn, The Parish Church C1955

Little remains of the original structure save for the south wall of the chapel. It was redeveloped in the 1760s, and a new master's house was added in 1832.

Caption For Leamington Spa, Regent Hotel 1932

On 10 September 1819, the Prince Regent came to stay at the recently opened William's Royal Hotel. As a result the hotel was renamed The Regent.

Caption For Stroud, High Street C1955

Beyond Smith's chemist's shop, on the left, and the entrance to the Shambles, is another Smith's: Alma House clothing store.

Caption For Barton Upon Humber, St Peter's Church C1960

The church of St Peter was made redundant in 1972, and is now protected by English Heritage. Lincolnshire possesses very many Anglo-Saxon church towers, and St Peter's is one of England's best.

Caption For Market Deeping, Stamford Road C1955

Mill Cottage is on the right, and the River Welland is at the other side of the house. The timbers of the upper storey have since been covered over by sandstone-coloured paint.

Caption For Heywood, The Centre C1955

St Luke's is Heywood's oldest place of worship, and is known to have existed prior to 1611.

Caption For Wickersley, Royds Moor C1955

A royd is a northern name for an assart, a practice going back to medieval times when the population of a hamlet cleared land, usually sufficient to make one or two fields, for crops.

Caption For Macclesfield, St Peter's Church 1903

Built in 1848 with funds raised almost entirely from public subscriptions, St Peter's was consecrated in July 1849 by the Bishop of Chester, Dr Graham.

Caption For Langdale Pikes, The Valley 1892

Stickle Ghyll, which flows down from Stickle Tarn, passes under the bridge in this view, which looks towards the 2,403 ft summit of Harrison Stickle, the highest of the pikes.