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Maps

2,499 maps found.

1897, Ingst Ref. RNE743694
1897, Itchington Ref. RNE744599
1898, Earthcott Green Ref. RNE696659
1898, Frampton End Ref. RNE709062
1898, Emerson's Green Ref. RNE701234
1898, Horwood Riding Ref. RNE740913
1879 - 1881, Bagstone Ref. HOSM36733
1880, Buckover Ref. HOSM39384
1880 - 1881, Whitfield Ref. HOSM64441
1913 - 1920, Cleadon Ref. HOSM41209
1913 - 1920, Whitburn Ref. HOSM64427
1904-1905, East Mains Ref. RNC697616
1904-1905, Eastfield Ref. RNC698519
1904-1905, Eddlewood Ref. RNC699098
1904-1905, Elvanfoot Ref. RNC701120
1905-1906, Failford Ref. RNC702648
1899, Falfield Ref. RNC702984
1899, Filton Ref. RNC705621
1904-1906, Forehill Ref. RNC707799
1904-1905, Forth Ref. RNC708186

Books

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Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 601 to 610.

Pre War Teignmouth

Wandering through the old photos prompted a memory of the opening of the Boating Pond. What year was that? With others from the Barbara Spencer Edwards dance school, wearing white pleated skirts navy blue waistcoats and hats, we ...Read more

A memory of Teignmouth by pjbeaux

South Woodford And Historic Buildings

SOUTH WOODFORD LONDON E18 Does anyone have a photo of the old school outfitters on George Lane South Woodford? Think I got school uniform for Nightingale High School there around 1969. I think the ...Read more

A memory of South Woodford by trishab710

First Camp With Scouts

As an innocent 11year old in August 1957, I had my first experience of camping in a field in Stanton Fitzwarren. I belonged to a Scout troop from Woolwich in South East London. Most of us came from a poor area of ...Read more

A memory of Stanton Fitzwarren by ianhilton

V2 Rocket Attack St Bartholomews Road.

My father Leonard Duffield was brought up in the family home at 52 St Bartholomews Road. His father and uncle owned and ran a wholesale and retail bakery business H & GS Duffield which had a shop in High Street ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by anthonyduffield

Treco Bay

We stayed in a small caravan the first holiday we had in Porthcawl during the miners fortnight holiday in June many years ago. Other wise it would be day or afternoon trips to Porthcawl and other seaside resorts along the South Wales coast . ...Read more

A memory of Porthcawl by Brian Neale

Old Fire Station St Andrews Road North

When I was a child in the 1960's, my granddad would take my brother and myself to the old Fire Station. He had just retired after 30 years in the Fire Service. His name was Albert Newns. He had been Station Officer ...Read more

A memory of St Annes by shepherdplanning

My First 22 Years

I was born at 48 Durban Road pathway in Jan 1944. Went to school at pathway Junior school and then to Patchway Secondry Modern School as it was called then. I had so many friends whilst growing up and played in the fields and at the ...Read more

A memory of Patchway by tommosue

1957 Upwards Susan June Keeler

I was a little girl who was adopted to Cecil John Keeler and my first visit to Petham was as a 5yr old. My Granny Fanny keeler and had 5 sons. Dick.Ray.Ted.Cecil and Reg.Granny Keeler also had 3 daughters Daisy.Girlie and ...Read more

A memory of Petham by sjmurray278

The Pits And The Heath

Alan Benfell, born 43. Moulton Avenue near Wellington School/Sutton Lane. Went to Wellington until about 52 then moved to Marshall Close off Wellington Road South. Went to Grove road for a couple of years then on to SGGS (Black ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Alan Benfell

The Temporary Chapel, Bede College Durham

This photograph of 1929 is of special interest to me because of the long, white building in the top left-hand corner of the image. This was the temporary chapel at the College and served in that capacity from ...Read more

A memory of Durham by keith.i.bulley

Captions

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Caption For Easby, Easby Hall 1913

Here in the far north of the county, 2 miles south of Great Ayton, stands this 'Gentleman's Residence', built in Georgian times for the Emerson family.

Caption For Abbotsbury, Chesil Bank And St Catherine's Chapel C1955

Looking south-eastwards from Abbotsbury Hill to Abbotsbury Gardens in Stavordale Wood (right) and Cleverlawns (centre).

Caption For Acton, Church 1906

This 14th-century church contains one of the oldest and finest brasses in England, that of Sir Robert de Bures (d1302).The 18th- century south chapel is 20 feet longer than the chancel, and

Caption For Sudbury, The Park C1965

This is the south side of the house, which is now the Sudbury Learning Centre.

Caption For Sonning, Village 1904

Fortunately, south of Thames Street you can escape the modern traffic. This view looks east down Pearson Street, with the High Street off to the left just past the cart..

Caption For Reading, On The Thames 1924

East from the south end of Reading Bridge John Tims Boatyard building, with its punts and boats for hire, has now all gone, replaced by the less than wonderful eleven-storey Reading Bridge House.

Caption For Reading, St Mary's Church C1955

Inside, the south arcade of the nave dates from about 1200, but the rest is from Edward VI's reign. Until its restoration in the 1860s there were dormer windows in the aisle roof.

Caption For Tettenhall, St Michael's Church C1965

Only the medieval west tower and the Victorian south porch survived. The church was rebuilt by Bernard Miller, who made no attempt to recreate the style of the original.

Caption For Loose, Village 1898

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

Caption For Cawsand, The Bay 1904

We are on the south-east coast at Cawsand Bay; the twin villages perched above the beach, where fishing boats are drawn up. The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

Caption For Barnstaple, From Rock Park 1890

This area was once known as South Walk. It was bought in 1879 by William Rock, a son of the town who had made his fortune in London before returning home.

Caption For London, Elephant And Castle 1885

This crowded region south of the river was once the heart of London cockney life.

Caption For Borrowdale, The Hotel C1870

The traffic-free minor road meanders between drystone walls through the dale south towards Grange and Rosthwaite.

Caption For Milton Malsor, Post Office C1960

Milton Malsor is a charming, typically English village to the south of Northampton and the M1. This picture shows the village post office, delightfully housed in a picturesque thatched cottage.

Caption For Cirencester, Market Place 1898

Much of south-west England was administered from here. It revived as a Saxon settlement, but it did not become prominent again until the emergence of the wool trade.

Caption For Daventry, Sheaf Street C1950

In the distance to the north, earlier housing estates, mostly Pre-War and 1950s, can be seen - the Development Corporation plans mainly expanded the town to the south and north-east.

Caption For Stanwick, The Duke Of Wellington C1965

Stanwick is a village two miles south-west of Raunds. In 1960 Phipps was taken over by the giant Watney-Mann brewery, which retained the Phipps name but introduced the lettering shown here.

Caption For Douglas, Rough Sea 1903

The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.

Caption For Culham, College 1900

South-east of Abingdon, on the A415 and a mile west of the Culham Science Centre, the former Culham College is a large and austere Victorian Gothic building based on an Oxford collegiate layout with a

Caption For Biddenden, High Street C1950

Half-timbered weavers' houses, with broad first-floor work-room windows, can be found on the south side.

Caption For Caversham, Bridge Street 1908

The 1869 bridge seen here replaced an odd 18th-century one: it was made of timber on the Berkshire south side and stone on the Oxfordshire or Caversham side, owing to a cross border disagreement.

Caption For Camelford, Advent Church 1906

The south aisle has been added, built with granite blocks, as seen at Boscastle's St Juliot church.

Caption For London, Crystal Palace 1900

After the Exhibition, it was moved to wooded parkland at Sydenham in south-east London.

Caption For Southport, London Square 1902

The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.