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Maps

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1904-1906, Craigie Ref. RNC680795
1904-1905, Crawford Ref. RNC681538
1904-1905, Crawfordjohn Ref. RNC681546
1904, Dolphinton Ref. RNC691898
1904-1905, Douglas Ref. RNC692272
1904-1905, Earnock Ref. RNC696621
1898-1899, Hawkesbury Upton Ref. RNC728823
1904-1905, Haywood Ref. RNC729475
1901-1904, Hebburn Colliery Ref. RNC730399
1901-1904, Hedworth Ref. RNC730539
1905, Heronsford Ref. RNC731830
1899, Crossways Ref. RNC684673
1899, Great Stoke Ref. RNC720420
1899, Hambrook Ref. RNC726030
1899, Hanham Green Ref. RNC726501
1905, Garleffin Ref. RNC711437
1904-1905, Auldhouse Ref. RNC628999
1899, Awkley Ref. RNC629276
1905, Ballantrae Ref. RNC631289
1904-1906, Alloway Ref. RNC621742

Books

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Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 611 to 620.

Blissful Memories

Sat Mar 20th 2021, at 3:22 pm Peter Tuthill commented: Yes, thanks for the photo of Smuggler's Cottage. It was criminal,wanton destruction to demolish it and throw up those totally characterless boxes. How planning permission was ...Read more

A memory of Portreath by Peter Tuthill

Whittlebury Lodge College

Dear Whittlebury Alumni, I have many pictures of my late Dad Sunil Bramdaw's stay at Whittlebury in the early 60s. First a student at Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire and subsequently at Whittlebury Lodge College in ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury by Nirode Bramdaw

Growing Up In Foxton Cambridgeshire

How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” all ...Read more

A memory of Barrington by masters.clifford2

Crescent Way 1957 1977

I was born at 70 Southlands Avenue and lived there with my mum and dad and elder sister and attended Warren Rd and St Olaves schools. My mum worked at the South Suburban Co-op which had a butchers one side and possibly a ...Read more

A memory of Orpington by bryan.biggs

Post War Memories

I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

Kingsbridge Secondary School

I was in 1935 and in the early 1950's lived in Thurlestone. I initially attended the Thurlestone Primary School but after sitting the 11 plus exam and failing I went to Kingsbridge Secondary School (it was called ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbridge by Mike Linscott

Holidays In The 60s

We lived in South Shields and used to come to Allendale every year for our summer holidays. Can you imagine it now? A lot people from South Shields used to do the same. We always stayed at the Ashleigh Hotel and once stayed ...Read more

A memory of Allendale Town by jill.graham

Kay’s Hairdressers

I did my apprenticeship in Kay’s ,I was 15 years 3 months when I started in 1965, so there is a very good chance I was working there when the South Street photo was taken. My boss was Mr Roy Collins who became Mayor of Dorchester. ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester by Ailsa Bowring

Paradise!

My grandparent's on mother's side lived in top flat of Otterburn, Stroncarraig Brae, Rhubaan and my first visit was in August 1938 on a three weeks holiday from my home in Penarth, South Wales. My grandfather had a small open motor boat ...Read more

A memory of Tighnabruaich by Alastair Urquhart

A Baby Boomer's Memories Of Groombridge

I was born in 1947 and as a baby lived for a short time with my parents at Leyswood Lodge south of the village. My family on my mother's side had lived in Groombridge for many, many years and I was the first ...Read more

A memory of Groombridge by Keith Grose

Captions

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Caption For Hopton, The Holiday Camp C1955

Hopton is a diminutive village resort on the A12 just south of Great Yarmouth.

Caption For Grantham, Market Place 1893

Chapter Three is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

Caption For Southwold, North Cliff And Coastguards 1896

The white building was the Coastguard Station, built in 1884-1904 here on the corner of South Parade to replace the Watch House, which was on the beach. Next to the flagpole is a signalling device.

Caption For Swanage, The Mill Pond 1890

The setting south-eastwards from the Mill Pond includes tenements in former Church Farm (left) and cottages on Church Hill (centre), though those below Wyvern Cottage have since been replaced by the

Caption For Rochdale, Carr Wood Waterfall 1895

This waterfall just south of School Lane had a race feeding the waterwheel of Ashworth Fulling Mill, which was to the right.

Caption For Gawcott, Main Street C1960

Gawcott, a mile and a half south-west of Buckingham, lies at the head of a stream (flowing north into the River Ouse) whose course runs along the right-hand side of this road.

Caption For Rothley, Town Green C1965

We are south-west of the village centre, and the photograph exudes a strange feeling of well- cared-for neglect.

Caption For Uppingham, The School House C1950

This was the headmaster's house until 1975 when a new house was built in the garden facing South Backway.

Caption For Charlwood, The Archway 1906

A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs.

Caption For Halland, Cross Roads C1965

We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield. Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family.

Caption For Skillington, Village C1965

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Caption For Clayton West, Long Lane C1955

Clayton West was typical of many South Yorkshire coalfield villages in the 1950s, when this photograph was taken.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, Mount Pleasant C1955

The carefully-pollarded lime trees along both sides of this north to south street help to shade the frontages of the varied shops and other retail establishments which flourish here.

Caption For Ludford, Post Office C1955

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

Caption For Skillington, Village C1965

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Caption For Sheffield, The Crimean Monument 1893

This is the junction of South Street and Union Street. The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with many such monuments, it came complete with a captured Russian cannon.

Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

The photographer was looking south towards Troutbeck, with the shoulder of Broad End on the left.

Caption For Tenby, South Sands 1890

Both on the north and south sands there are numerous bathing machines.

Caption For Torquay, The Bowling Green 1906

This celebrated and fashionable winter resort occupies the northern corner of Tor Bay, and is securely sheltered from all winds, except those from the south-east.

Caption For Mawnan Smith, The Village 1930

South-west of Falmouth, Mawnan Smith is at a crossroads where one lane continues on to Helford Passage beside the sheltered waters of the Helford River.

Caption For Sully, The Hospital C1950

Ideally located to take advantage of the beneficial properties of sea air, the south-facing hospital wards further benefited from the shelter of existing trees.

Caption For London, Crystal Palace 1900

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

Caption For Glasgow, Atlantic Quay 2005

It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom.

Caption For Amesbury, St Mary And St Melor's Church C1955

He put in the vivid coloured tiles on the east wall, and he is responsible for the Perpendicular south aisle and west end. The outline of a chapel remains in the east side walls.