Maps

181,006 maps found.

1896, Pauperhaugh Ref. HOSM56185
1896, Pigdon Ref. HOSM56629
1896, Stanton Ref. HOSM60300
1896, Tranwell Ref. HOSM62225
1882, Presthope Ref. HOSM57099
1882, Shipton Ref. HOSM59226
1882, Weston Ref. HOSM64131
1897, Hack Green Ref. HOSM36685
1897, Broomhall Ref. HOSM39170
1897, Faddiley Ref. HOSM45066
1897, Hunsterson Ref. HOSM49152
1897, Ravensmoor Ref. HOSM57504
1897, Stapeley Ref. HOSM60333
1897, Barbridge Ref. HOSM60540
1897, Willaston Ref. HOSM71345
1887, Narberth Ref. HOSM34946
1887, Llan-Mill Ref. HOSM51943
1906, Stepaside Ref. HOSM60425
1903, Banwen Ref. HOSM36974
1897, Cimla Ref. HOSM40975

Books

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Memories

29,016 memories found. Showing results 1,721 to 1,730.

Hopedene

I was born in Hopedene at the beginning of July 1960. I think it was good neutral territory as my father was Nursing at the General, and my mother was a Physio at the RVI. They had moved down to Corby at the start of the year ...Read more

A memory of Elswick in 1960 by Richard Wilson

Football

I left Blaengwynfi in 1952 when I was fourteen. My father was Emlyn (Capers) Thomas and my mother was Betty (Scotch) Thomas. I had four brothers and a sister. I remember that I was one of the ball boys at the football pitch at the top of ...Read more

A memory of Abergwynfi in 1950 by Robert Thomas

The Old Quay, Newlyn

This photograph shows "The Old Quay" which was a medieval construction inside the outer arms of the Newlyn Harbour. Behind the Old Quay is the South Pier and the extreme end of the North Pier shows to the left of the picture (the ...Read more

A memory of Newlyn in 1955

My Paper Round

I worked as a paper boy at Newby's in Taunton Lane. I got up at 5 am and went to the shed behind the shop to sort and mark-up the papers. I then did 2 rounds before school for 6/- a week per round and 5/- for the marking up; a ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1959 by Richard Everest

Great Haseley

I was five when I moved to Great Haseley from Newington, near Stadhampton, with my mother, father and brother. The year was 1957 and Horse Close Cottages was a new housing estate - we were thrilled to have a bathroom and an inside ...Read more

A memory of Great Haseley by Linda Twibill (Nee Ring)

Eastwood Nottinghamshire

I lived with my grandmother (Elizabeth Jones), mother and sister at 72 Church Street Eastwood until I was about 7 years old (1956). My grandmother owned 4 (possibly 5) cottages in a row (ours being number 72) in Church ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood in 1954 by Diane Elizabeth Hobson

My Memories

There is a museum inside this building which is only open to the public on certain days. This is one of my early memories of Healton Park, when I was a child my parents took me and my sister for a day out, to the park. Later we moved ...Read more

A memory of Prestwich in 2011

Listers Of Willington

My mother told me about her great-uncle who was schoolmaster at Willington during 1850's,'60's or '70's before moving on to a school at Tudhoe. He was John Lister and his wife was Sarah Lister. Are there any Coates or Lister families still there?

A memory of Willington in 1870 by Jenny Lister

Mother's Memory

My mother remembered being looked after by Olive and Jack Carr of Chester-le Street during her teenage years. Kitty, my mother, attended 'Chester-le-Street Secondary School' where she won a prize in 1932-33: the Theodore ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street in 1930 by Jenny Lister

Firwood

Firwood 1958 our family came from the US to settle our Aunt Ethel & Uncle Edmund Smyth's estate Firwood. Edmund had been the 1st Bishop of Lebombo, Africa & Ethel had been a missionary & painter. Firwood had a dairy on the ...Read more

A memory of Brownshill in 1958 by Terri Smyth

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Captions

29,158 captions found. Showing results 4,129 to 4,152.

Caption For Leiston, Sizewell Road 1922

Awnings are out on the sunny side of the street, and the long shadows point to the end of the afternoon. The children are just out of school.

Caption For Coombe Bissett, The Village C1955

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

Caption For West Bay, The Harbour 2003

Choppy water washes between the piers of Brisport Harbour; the cranes of Costain and other contractors working on the extension of the basin are to the left.

Caption For Newquay, The Beach 1925

This was for many years the popular image of surfing and bathing at Newquay, when plywood surfboards were the order of the day - this was long before the coming of wetsuits and fibreglass

Caption For Loders, The Village 1903

Loders was built in the domain of a Benedictine Priory founded by the Norman grandee Baldwin de Redvers during the reign of Henry I.

Caption For Littleham, The New Inn C1955

Modern-day Exmouth sprawls across the two ancient parishes of Withycombe Raleigh and Littleham. The latter became a suburb of Exmouth in the last decades of the 20th century.

Caption For Broad Chalke, All Saints' Church C1955

All Saints' is known as the cathedral of the Nadder Valley. Its crossing tower is possibly of the 14th century; it is buttressed by simple moulded half arches at the east end of the nave.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Cannington Viaduct 1903

The viaduct, supported on nine piers, is 609 feet long and 93 feet high.

Caption For Olton, Warwick Road C1965

John Constable is known to have painted Malvern Hall at least three times - one of these paintings is now in Tate Britain.

Caption For Holker Hall, 1894

The west wing of the original old hall at Holker, home of the Preston family since the 16th century, was destroyed by fire in 1871.

Caption For Farnborough, Rectory Lane 1909

This fascinating photograph shows an assortment of individuals all of whom appear to be mesmerised by the camera.

Caption For York, St William's College 1909

The building was named after William Fitzherbert, who was the great-grandson of William the Conqueror. At the turn of the 19th century, the building was used as tenements.

Caption For Leeds, The Parkinson Building C1960

This building, which was part of Leeds University, was designed by T A Lodge and opened in 1951. Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Caption For Frimley Green, The Lock 1906

A peaceful view of Frimley Lock, the last of the Deepcut locks flight, which total 14 in all. The Basingstoke canal of 1794 linked the Wey and Godalming Navigation (the River Wey) with Basingstoke.

Caption For Castleton, Peveril Castle C1864

Henry II's 12th-century keep at Castleton, seen here from Cave Dale with Lose Hill in the background, was an obvious sign of the Norman's dominance of the Peak District.

Caption For Mawgan Porth, 1935

The stream here flows through the Vale of Mawgan from St Columb. A couple of miles inland is the Village of St Mawgan, from which the giant airbase takes its name.

Caption For Hope, The Church 1919

The churchyard of St Peter`s parish church at Hope is filled with gravestones commemorating local families, such as the Eyres and the Woodruffes.

Caption For Baxenden, Church 1897

The Church of St John the Baptist, Baxenden was completed in 1877 as the population in that area increased. Christ Church had opened in 1840, and Baxenden was originally part of that parish.

Caption For London, St Pauls C1955

In the 1950s part of the bombed land around the cathedral was designated for open space to enhance the view of Christopher Wren's masterpiece.

Caption For Cornholme, General View C1955

An archetypal Pennine industrial landscape is presented in this view of Cornholme, in the deep valley of the River Calder between Burnley and Todmorden.

Caption For Calstock, Station 1908

A modest train of the old London & South Western puffs into Calstock station, having crossed the slender viaduct that bridges the glittering waters of the Tamar.

Caption For Launceston, Windmill Hill C1960

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

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Caption For Stroud, 1900

Britain's most important centre for the manufacture of broadcloth, this mill town sprawls across its wide valley, a huge piece of industrialisation in a wonderfully natural setting.

Caption For Madingley, Hall C1955

This beautiful Tudor mansion was built at the end of the reign of Henry VIII by the successful lawyer Sir John Hynde, partly from materials salvaged when they pulled down the church of St Etheldreda