Maps

1,622 maps found.

1897-1902, South Street Ref. RNC835293
1897-1898, South Street Ref. RNC835294
1897-1898, Horn Street Ref. RNC740384
1897-1909, North Street Ref. RNC793952
1898, Park Street Ref. RNC801231
1897-1898, Silver Street Ref. RNC831364
1898-1899, Reading Street Ref. RNC814038
1940, Cackle Street Ref. NPO658340
1946, Broad Street Ref. NPO650817
1947, Broad Street Ref. NPO650821
1940, Dunn Street Ref. NPO695588
1946, East Street Ref. NPO697903
1947, East Street Ref. NPO697904
1896, Hare Street Ref. RNE727053
1897, Green Street Ref. RNE721128
1897, Hook Street Ref. RNE739948
1895, Horn Street Ref. RNE740384
1896, Howe Street Ref. RNE741460
1895, Kent Street Ref. RNE746280
1895, Church Street Ref. RNE668588

Books

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Memories

6,666 memories found. Showing results 511 to 520.

Place Of Birth No Memories!

I was born in Kench Hill Nursing Home to parents living in Payne Street Farm, Charing but have never visited. Does it appear on the map or jigsaw puzzle?

A memory of Charing in 1944 by Ann Manno

Coopers And Booths

My Great, Great Great Grandfather, William Booth, used to push a cart up and down the streets of Clayton le Moors with his son John Booth, selling shellfish. He was known as 'Muscle Bill' and his son, 'Oyster Jack'. (This is ...Read more

A memory of Clayton-Le-Moors in 1890 by Donna Cooper

Summer 1980

My memories of the heath are from 1980 when my mother - Kathleen (Topsy) Whybrow and father bought me and my brother to the heath in the summer of 1980 for five months.   My parents had emigrated to NZ and gave myself and my brother ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1980 by Sarah Mc Gee

William Titterton's Butcher Shop

William Titterton and his son had a Butcher Shop on this street. He was a pork butcher.

A memory of Caernarfon by Gwenn Selvaggio

My Early Years In Salford

I was born in Salford, at 15 School Street in 1951. My first school was Stowells Memorial, I think the headmistress was a Miss Dent. There was a butchers shop one the corner with the same name as our family, but I don't think ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1951 by Jacqueline Timperley

A Little Bit Of Chudleigh History

When a boy, my father, Donald William Stevens, used to show visitors through the Pixie caves for 1/2d per person, with the light from a candle for illumination. After WWII he followed in his father's (William Henry ...Read more

A memory of Chudleigh by Richard Stevens

52 The Meadows

My sister, Joan, lives at No.52, and several years ago she gave me a copy of a book prepared and published by one of her (recently deceased) neighbours. This man, with friends and acquaintances all suffering from the postwar housing ...Read more

A memory of Ingrave in 1947 by Ronald Haslock

Memories Of Benson

My memories of Benson started in 1946/7 when we moved to Sunnyside, which in those days did not have the recreation field. Nor did the village have street lighting apart from a couple in the High Street, one of which was on the wall ...Read more

A memory of Benson in 1947 by John Webb

Before School

Mr & Mrs Potter managed Bon March shop and they had two young boys, Robert and Edmond.  My mum, Edna Griffiths, helped to look after the children and, being pre-school age, I used to go along with her.  Mrs Potter used to bring us ...Read more

A memory of Kington in 1955 by Avril Layton Morris

My Years Living Next To The Butchers

My dad Rowland Cook took over Lasts butchers in 1985. I grew up in The Maltings which was attached to the shop and is the house on the right hand side of the photo with the big bay window from the age of 11 until ...Read more

A memory of Botesdale in 1985 by Kevin Cook

Captions

5,381 captions found. Showing results 1,225 to 1,248.

Caption For Manchester, Market Street 1889

We are looking from the Cross Street / Corporation Street corner. The art of bartering was just dying out.

Caption For Manchester, The Cathedral 1897

This view looks from Fennel Street, with Cathedral Street going off to the left. This corner of the Cathedral (the Manchester Regiment Chapel) was badly damaged in the blitz of the Second World War.

Caption For Corby, High Street C1955

The High Street of the old village, now traffic calmed, has shops somewhat marred by security shutters, but in the 1950s all that was in the future.

Caption For Kettering, Sheep Street 1922

This busy junction, uniting five roads, including Northampton Road and Sheep Street, was lit by a single, central lamp post.

Caption For Kettering, Silver Street C1950

Silver Street was a place for refreshment; the ornate façade of the Rising Sun is on the right near the corner of Montagu Street, with a cluster of cafés like the Hollywood Restaurant and London Grill.

Caption For Wells, Sadler Street C1960

Sadler Street was subject to an enhancement scheme in 2001, and much of the asphalt road has been replaced by more picturesque material.

Caption For Gloucester, Eastgate Street 1949

Others included The Bell Hotel and The New County in Southgate Street and The Fleece in Westgate Street.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street C1950

Bridge Street is bustling with Saturday afternoon shoppers. Next to Singleton's the butchers is the Midland Bank's fine facade.

Caption For Manchester, Royal Exchange C1885

Here we see the Royal Exchange from the corner of Market Street and Cross Street.

Caption For Skegness, Lumley Road C1955

This is the main shopping street, and it leads up to the Victorian clock tower at one end from the railway station at the other.

Caption For Rye, Mermaid Street 1901

This cobbled street is one of the best known in this compact town, which preserves its medieval street plan almost intact.

Caption For Bothenhampton, The Village 1904

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing on

Caption For Holmbury St Mary, Post Office C1965

views of post offices has led him to ignore the beautifully-situated village centre around its green and also the good 1879 church, designed, built and paid for by the architect George Edmund Street

Caption For Redhill, The Earlswood Lakes C1950

This view looks north along the High Street, which curves to the right; the cottages beyond Merstham Garage are in Quality Street.

Caption For Redhill, High Street 1906

This bustling scene of Redhill's High Street, now a pedestrian precinct, captures the brash, commercial spirit of this town, which developed after the arrival of the railway in 1841.

Caption For Hampstead, High Street 1898

The camera looks from the High Street towards Holly Hill, and on towards West Heath.

Caption For Southport, Kings Gardens 1921

The entry for Southport in one 1921 guidebook states: 'on the once lonely shore has now developed a very attrac- tive seaside-resort and residential town, whose fine streets, notably Lord Street, challenge

Caption For Kettering, Silver Street C1950

Silver Street was a place for refreshment; the ornate façade of the Rising Sun is on the right near the corner of Montagu Street, with a cluster of cafés like the Hollywood Restaurant and London Grill.

Caption For Bothenhampton, The Village 1904

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing

Caption For Abingdon, The Square 1893

Now in Ock Street, Frith's photographer was looking into High Street (right) a decade after the fire that destroyed this corner.

Caption For Hungerford, High Street 1903

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing rights

Caption For Bidford On Avon, High Street 1910

The High Street still retains some 15th- and 16th-century buildings.

Caption For Sheffield, The Lyceum Theatre, Tudor Square 2005

But the most impressive Victorian building in Sheffield was the new town hall on the corner of Surrey Street and Pinstone Street, where an area of old housing had been demolished to make way for

Caption For Stamford, Brooke's Court 1922

This passageway, which now runs from St Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this