Photos

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Maps

181,031 maps found.

1882, Church Stretton Ref. HOSM34330
1882, Cardington Moor Ref. HOSM40041
1883, Henley Common Ref. HOSM48151
1882 - 1883, Ticklerton Ref. HOSM61839
1879, Lower Soudley Ref. HOSM52657
1882, Duntisbourne Abbots Ref. HOSM70290
1882, Duntisbourne Leer Ref. HOSM44158
1901 - 1920, Kemble Ref. HOSM49691
1875 - 1882, Norcote Ref. HOSM55115
1882 - 1883, Rapsgate Park Ref. HOSM57456
1875 - 1882, Stratton Ref. HOSM60870
1896, Weeley Heath Ref. HOSM63608
1882 - 1892, Hunsworth Ref. HOSM49157
1902, Kingston Seymour Ref. HOSM50203
1907, Bashall Eaves Ref. HOSM37276
1910 - 1930, Chatburn Ref. HOSM40736
1893 - 1894, Paythorne Ref. HOSM56193
1893 - 1907, Sawley Ref. HOSM71058
1887 - 1888, Llanycefn Ref. HOSM52019
1882 - 1901, Sinope Ref. HOSM59301

Books

442 books found. Showing results 19,729 to 19,752.

Memories

29,040 memories found. Showing results 8,221 to 8,230.

Same Family.

My dad was Cyril Henry Sprake, I have memories of travelling to Eype to see my gran, she was Day then. As grandad and uncle Robert died during the war, I am interested in knowing which of the local Sprake families was grandad's. I too ...Read more

A memory of Eype's Mouth in 1953 by Leslie Sprake

1976 In Llanbradach

I visited my gran and my aunts in Llanbradach twice in the early 1970s. It was my first ever visit to Great Britain and I fell in love with the church. To someone accustomed to supermarkets, shopping from grocer to butcher to ...Read more

A memory of Llanbradach by Catherine Walcott

A Holiday In South Street, Seahouses March 2004

A friend let me stay in her wee fisherman's cottage in Seahouses for an early holiday in March 2004. My wife Elizabeth and I drove up from our home in Watford through the unseasonal snow and we were ...Read more

A memory of Seahouses in 2004 by John Howard Norfolk

Piddock And Smiths

My gt. grandfathers married sisters named Brothers. The three familes have been in and around Deal for centuries Gt. grandfather Maxwell was a Royal Marine, as was grandfather Piddock.  My father 'Phys' Pidddock was welterweight boxing ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1860 by Herbert Piddock

Stocks Lane

My family and I lived in Stocks Lane, Drury's Garage was next to us at the top on the corner. The house we lived in still looks exactly the same today as it did so many years ago. Sadly Drury's house, which is shown in the picture, is in a ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1949

Llancaut Cottagr

I have a similar photo to this one ref 32487 in an old photo album of my great grandfather's. His maternal grand-parents were the Warder of Chepstow Castle ( George Morrey) This album is now being returned to Wales and will be given ...Read more

A memory of River Wye by Joyce Dunn

Merry Christmas

What a joy to see the stained glass window again. Every childhood Christmas with my beloved mum & dad, my brother and I would enter the fancy dress competition in this very room. Also we eagerly awaited the arrival of Father ...Read more

A memory of Bispham in 1974 by David A

Strathmore

My parents bought Strathmore which was a large house with 4 1/2 acres of garden just opposite the village shop on the road to Charlwood. We lived there as a family until about 1965, Peter Butterworth was a neighbour. Both my sisters Anne ...Read more

A memory of Ifield in 1950 by John Bass

Glasgow Agency Of The Bank Of England

"The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" as the Bank of England is known maintained a small office in Glasgow fir many years. It was on the north side of St VIncent Place and I worked there between 1975 and 1978. ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1975 by John Howard Norfolk

Stanhope Boys Home A Horrible Place To Be

I was in Crawly House in Stanhope Castle School from 1978-1981. My memories were not too good, it was a horrible place to be when you were 11 years old. I visited Stanhope Home a year ago and it has been ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1978 by Trevor Corner

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 19,729 to 19,752.

Caption For Gloucester, Northgate Street From The Cross 1949

Samuel Long (right) was a well-established fishmonger, so the bustle of people outside the shop suggests that something tasty was on special offer - elvers or lampreys locally caught in the Severn, perhaps

Caption For Saundersfoot, The Harbour C1965

The exporting of coal has ceased by this date, and the loading gear and coal trolleys are long gone.

Caption For Edwinstowe, High Street C1955

The Mansfield, Sutton and District Co-operative Society shop on the corner (left) was funded by Earl Manvers in 1895.

Caption For Formby, The Old Lifeboat Cottage C1965

Records show that Formby was the site of the first lifeboat station in the British Isles.

Caption For Studland, The Beach 1925

The journey to Studland Bay was probably the favourite excursion for tourists from Swanage, who could either get there by walking along the cliff tops or by taking a carriage or charabanc along the

Caption For Godmanchester, The Causeway C1950

Townsend`s Stores (left) have become J G Clifford, dispensing chemist; the tearooms and cafe are now Riverside Hair Design; Ali`s Tandoori Restaurant lies on the opposite side of the arched

Caption For Uppingham, School Tower 1922

The statue is Archdeacon Robert Johnson, the founder, who is holding a model of the school in his hand.

Caption For Salisbury, Poultry Cross And Silver Street 1906

People sit and watch life go by under the hexagonal arches of the Poultry Cross. For five hundred years commerce has surrounded this area with ironmongers, shoemakers and fish and meat shops.

Caption For Ashwell, West End C1951

Little has changed at this junction on the roads to Newnham and Hinxworth, known as West End and Back Street.

Caption For London, Fore Street And St Giles, Cripplegate C1880

The road has now been truncated to allow for the building of the Barbican; the church survived severe Second World War bombing to stand in the way of the development, which was completed in the early 1980s

Caption For Eccleston, Eccleston Ferry 1895

Following the publication of Jerome K Jerome's book 'Three Men in a Boat', the pastime of 'messing about in boats' became very popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.

Caption For Great Meols, St Johns Church C1965

The foundation stone of this very attractive red brick building was laid on 21 October 1911 by Lord Derby, and the church was finally consecrated on 12 April 1913.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park Lake 1902

Roath Park was laid out in 1894 at a cost of £62,000 - a considerable sum in those days. The land, 132 acres, was presented to the city by Lord Bute.

Caption For Great Staughton, The Sundial C1955

The shops, work-shops and brick houses are built on the street edge, while the older cottages and farmhouses are set back, possibly on the line of the original village green.

Caption For Ormskirk, Aughton Street 1902

The parish itself included the outlying villages of Bickerstaffe, Burscough, Lathom, Scarisbrick and Skelmersdale; the population of Ormskirk itself grew from 2,554 in 1801 to 3,838 in 1821.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place 1929

On the left outside Rodber's furniture and floor coverings shop can be seen tables, beds and a chest of drawers, and also their delivery van.

Caption For Brancepeth, The Village 1914

It was from Brancepeth in November 1569 that the rebel earls of Westmorland and Northumberland launched their attack on Barnard Castle, which was being held for Queen Elizabeth by Sir George Bowes.

Caption For Broadstairs, Viking Bay 1951

Broadstairs was the queen of all watering places as far as Charles Dickens was concerned; he first visited here in 1837, and subsequently wrote 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'Barnaby Rudge', 'The Pickwick Papers

Caption For Greatham, Front Street C1955

On the left are the boundary walls of the Hospital of God at Greatham, founded in 1273 – this was not a hospital in the modern sense, but accommodation for the elderly and the poor, the earliest present

Caption For New Quay, The Harbour C1935

This view from the end of the stone pier shows the four-storey Custom House surrounded by rowing boats, which were used by both local fishermen and holidaymakers.

Caption For Chippenham, The River And Bridge C1966

In 1959 a pedestrian bridge (C294083, pages 48-49) was built on the Cooperative side to the rear of the new shops; it was used until 1964, when it was taken down.

Caption For Saffron Walden, The Old Sun Inn C1955

There are dates on the bressummer beam (1600), on the two small gable windows (1625), on the stork in the roundel (1871) and on the highest gable (1676), showing that work was undertaken in different centuries

Caption For Moffat, High Street 1890

At this time Moffat was one of Scotland's chief inland resorts, boasting several hotels and private boarding houses.

Caption For St Ives, The Harbour 1892

The man steers his craft to pass astern of the boys' boat, whilst the fishing boats provide an impressive backdrop.