Maps

1,622 maps found.

1940, Standen Street Ref. NPO838116
1946, Washbrook Street Ref. NPO861289
1947, Tong Street Ref. NPO849915
1946, Wilde Street Ref. NPO870228
1947, Wickridge Street Ref. NPO869892
1895, David Street Ref. RNE688913
1895, Deerton Street Ref. RNE689684
1898, Hulver Street Ref. RNE741962
1895, Down Street Ref. RNE692630
1898, Ham Street Ref. RNE725960
1898, Hardley Street Ref. RNE726889
1947, Exlade Street Ref. NPO702418
1946, Eyhorne Street Ref. NPO702491
1947, Finkle Street Ref. NPO705794
1946, Cross Street Ref. NPO684410
1945, Crossdale Street Ref. NPO684466
1946, Colney Street Ref. NPO675727
1945, Durley Street Ref. NPO695980
1946, Elder Street Ref. NPO700333
1945, Barrow Street Ref. NPO634149

Books

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Memories

6,666 memories found. Showing results 261 to 270.

Happy Youth

I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned in ...Read more

A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by Donald Rumbold

The Gardens Remembered

I am puzzled as to which year this photo was taken. It must have been very late fifties because my earliest memory of The Rest Garden, as we called it, was when it was still recognizeable as a graveyard. The gravestones (many ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

The Horse And Cart

I had the perfect Job for me when I was 10. John (Jacky) Robinson had me working for him on the horse and cart. Fridays and Saturdays you could hear us walking the streets of Easington - our famous yell was "ANY STICKS ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1969 by Kevin Wilson

Coronation Day

I would luv to see any photographs of the street parties for Steeley Lane, especially those taken in and on the front of the.RAILWAY PUB! thanx to anyone who who could help!

A memory of Chorley in 1953 by Marjorie Bone

Looking For Anyone Who Knew Me

Hi, I was born in 1945 at 9a Rectory Road, Gateshead. I was adopted 6 weeks later by Edna and Jack Dixon. My name then was Joy Dixon. I attended Brighton Road school for 10 years. I left the the north when I was 19 ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1950 by Joy Shaw

Harlow In 1950 1966

Hi, we also lived in Sharpecroft. The Last family moved there in 1956. Also went to Hare Street School. Can't remember our door number. Then we moved to Rivermill. Loads of happy memories, It was a lovely place to grow up in back in the 1950. Barbara Yeowell {Last}

A memory of Harlow in 1956 by Barbara Yeowell

Tooting From 1974 2009

I have very fond memories of Tooting. My parents and I moved to Fairlight Road in Tooting in 1974. My first memory of that is the smell of paint, and sausage rolls bought from the bakery shop just round the corner; the paint ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1974 by Anne Marie Ayton

Starting School

I started school in the September after my 5th birthday. We had a school holiday in October in those days for potato picking and harvest. My mother had a few hens on Freehold Street in a piece of ground near the shed that was ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heyford in 1944 by Marion June Messenger

Childhood And Adult Memories

I was born in Thorpe Combe in 1937 and went to Hale End Road, Wood Street and then William Morris Tech. Schools. My surname then was Bowers. As a fairly young child we used to play over in Epping Forest, having a ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow in 1930 by Jean Elphick

East Hill Estate

I lived in 16 Newlyn House firstly, and then moved to 52 Falmouth House. I remember the blitz still; we lived in the shelter four nights in a row at one time, the air raids never semed to stop. I was born in 1934 so was still a ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1944 by Colin Archibald

Captions

5,381 captions found. Showing results 625 to 648.

Caption For Chippenham, High Street C1955

Chippenham High Street is much changed today. The street is closed to traffic, Lennards on the left is now a solicitors and the drab building to the right has been spruced up.

Caption For Falmouth, Church Street C1950

Always bustling with shoppers, Falmouth's main thoroughfare turns to the right here at the church to continue along Arwenack Street.

Caption For Bisley, High Street 1910

Running north to south with closely built houses of all ages, the High Street of this quaintly composed village is set in a large parish rich in vernacular architecture, ancient burial

Caption For London, Shaftesbury Avenue C1900

In the background is the County Fire Office at the end of Regent Street. A similar replacement building was erected on the site in the 1920s.

Caption For Reading, St Mary's Butts 1912

From south west of the station go first to St Mary's Butts, whose wide street was used until about 1600 for archery practice at the 'butts'.

Caption For Redditch, Evesham Street 1967

This must have been taken very shortly before work began on the demolition of Evesham Street. E A Hodges has become just another branch of Dillons, presumably as a result of a take-over.

Caption For Laindon, King Edward Road C1960

The grid-like pattern of the streets west of Laindon High Road preserves the layout of some of the early plotland estates.

Caption For St Day, Fore Street C1955

Terraces of miners' houses form a triangle in Fore, Scorrier and Telegraph Streets. Here in Fore Street the shops include the post office and a hairdresser.

Caption For Hitchin, Bancroft C1955

50 years later and Bancroft is on its way to becoming a busy shopping street. We last met Sanders in the High Street.

Caption For Berkhamsted, High Street C1955

A beautifully proportioned view of the High Street, looking southwards towards St.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1960

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

Caption For Haverfordwest, High Street C1950

The sign on the lamp post indicates that the Post Office can be found in Quay Street, to where it was moved from the corner of High Street and Dark Street in 1936.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1960

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

Caption For Bridport, South Street 1912

This photograph looks southwards along South Street from the Cross Keys (left) next to butcher Arthur Lewis and cycle agent Charles Frederick Fooks. The cart belonging to the former is moving off.

Caption For Bisley, High Street 1910

Bisley stands high on a hillside to the north of the River Frome; it has a wonderful assortment of winding streets and rooftops at different levels, as though the village has grown out of the landscape

Caption For Raunds, Brook Street C1960

Further south, the High Street becomes Brook Street as it heads towards the unromantically named Hog Dyke. To the right are the walls and gate piers of the Methodist Church built in 1874.

Caption For Ware, High Street 1925

We are looking north down the High Street towards its division into East and West streets.

Caption For Burton Joyce, The Wheatsheaf C1965

Accessed from both Main Street behind and from Church Road, the A612, behind the camera, the Wheatsheaf pub still thrives.

Caption For Nottingham, Clumber Street C1950

Although it was a one-way street for traffic, in this photograph Clumber Street has the appearance of being a precinct, with shoppers walking in the road.

Caption For Kimbolton, The Village C1955

This is the High Street, the main street in Kimbolton. The George Hotel is now a private house. The garage beyond it, with a fake timber-framed frontage, has long gone.

Caption For Peterborough, Church Street 1952

This busy street scene is nowadays replaced by occasional delivery vans and taxis, because the lower half of Church Street has been closed to through traffic.

Caption For Coventry, Hertford Street C1955

Broadgate was always the hub around which Coventry revolved, and Hertford Street was once one of the main streets running into it, though it was constructed only in 1912.

Caption For Crewe, Market Square C1960

The road system around the Square is beginning to be changed, with one side of the street now closed to regular traffic.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street C1955

Much of Grange was constructed during the later 19th century from local stone and slate, and there is a pleasing uniformity to the buildings that line its principal shopping street.