Maps

4,509 maps found.

1940, Hill View Ref. NPO736060
1946, Hitchin Hill Ref. NPO737049
1945, Holders Hill Ref. NPO737712
1946, Hollacombe Hill Ref. NPO737941
1945, Hollybush Hill Ref. NPO738455
1946, Holt Hill Ref. NPO738941
1947, Hood Hill Ref. NPO739873
1945, How Hill Ref. NPO741288
1946, Double Hill Ref. NPO692243
1947, Dunston Hill Ref. NPO695810
1947, Hasting Hill Ref. NPO728236
1921, Mowmacre Hill Ref. POP785285
1923, Myrtle Hill Ref. POP786810
1919, Neight Hill Ref. POP788262
1925, Netheroyd Hill Ref. POP788963
1923, Park Hill Ref. POP800994
1919, Pict's Hill Ref. POP805848
1919, Piper's Hill Ref. POP806494
1923, Pismire Hill Ref. POP806572
1919, Pitsford Hill Ref. POP806860

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Memories

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A Yokels Tale

A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1941 by Tom Thornton

Family Picnics In 1950s

In the 1950s my family made regular summer trips to a scenic and elevated spot somewhere in the general area of Aylesbury for family picnics.  I have a few b&w snaps - one of which shows a road wide enough for two ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1955 by Susan Coleman

Chingford Hatch

I remember the Manor pub, it used to have an air raid warning siren on the building. I remember hearing it once, testing it I think as the year was about 1956. I too remember the tea van which had an awning on it in the rain. As ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1956 by Lynne Bacon

An Old House

Alan, can you jog my memory please? As you came down the hill, on the left just before the little Tesco's, there was a small derelict cottage. I can remember creeping in there one day and finding an ornate cast iron fireplace. I went ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1954 by Sandra Waite

Re. Betty Hills

I am looking for my sister Betty Hills, taken to Easneye Childern's Home in approximately 1952, later to be adopted by Cyril William Groom and his wife Eileen Mary Groom, her birth mother was Grace Florence Hills [Dec]. Betty ...Read more

A memory of Stanstead Abbotts in 1952 by Janet Tinklin

Boyhood Memories

I have great memories of Cinderford [Bilson Green areas] from 1953 to 1961 when I was growing up. I remember riding go-carts down the hill. My mother was born in Cinderford [Margaret Hale, married name Hancox and she worked at ...Read more

A memory of Cinderford in 1955 by Phillip Hancox

My Childhood

My parents were married at Stranton, and I was baptised there. We lived in a neighbouring street, Bower Street, in what would now be regarded as a slum property, with outside toilet and a single tap that was also outside. My lifelong ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool in 1955 by John Pladdys

Childhood Memories

My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by George Whittingham

Coming To Devon

We were living in Barry Island in south Wales, I was getting ready to take the 11 plus, one day when I came home from school my dad was waiting to tell me that we were on the move to Devon. We had spent four years on the Nells ...Read more

A memory of East Prawle in 1946 by Patricia Perring

Newbottle Village

I remember coming from school and running up to the hillside fields helping Wheightman to load the hay onto his tractors and building the haystacks on North Pasture, off down to the yard pond looking for frogs and newts ...Read more

A memory of Newbottle in 1956 by Richard Leadbitter

Captions

1,906 captions found. Showing results 1,657 to 1,680.

Caption For Colne, Parish Church C1955

We move to the third of our three rivers, and go high into the hills to find Colne Water. The area used to be known as Marsden.

Caption For Worcester Park, Central Road C1955

This is a view of Central Road, originally called Cheam Common Hill. This area was extensively rebuilt in the 1930s, when a tide of semi- detached housing swept across the fields.

Caption For Rivington, The Barn C1955

When Lord Leverhulme, the Sunlight Soap king, bought Hall Barn and Great House Barn he had them renovated as public refreshment rooms.

Caption For Ingleton, 1929

Ingleton is the gateway to the Three Peaks, and has been a popular destination for hill walkers and climbers for over a hundred years.

Caption For St Davids, The Cathedral And Bishop's Palace C1960

'When the evening sun falls over St Davids Cathedral, gilding the old stone, shining on the gentle green hills, the white twisting roads and the little farms, the smallest “city” in the kingdom lies lost

Caption For Uckfield, 1902

The signal cabin at the bottom of the hill survives with the modern station to the right of it. The station was originally on the left-hand side of the road beyond the level crossing.

Caption For Crawley, East Park 1907

East Park was developed after 1880 with terraces of artisan housing, mostly built by James Longley and Sons who moved here from Turners Hill.

Caption For Bamburgh, The Castle 1954

The Scottish army clashed with the English at Halidon Hill and was routed. Berwick was forced to surrender.

Caption For Washington, The Post Office C1960

There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up on the top of the Downs.

Caption For Abertillery, General View C1955

The new housing built for the workers can be seen rising up the hill like a tide.

Caption For Hampstead, High Street 1898

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

Caption For Edgware, Railway Hotel 1948

the underground station and the parish church, this is a wonderful neo-Tudor pub of 1936 by A E Sewell; he also designed the Crown and Anchor in High Street, Chipping Barnet, and the Goat near Forty Hill

Caption For Alton, The Castle C1955

Perched high on its hill, Alton Castle dominates the area. The original castle is thought to have been built by Bertram de Verdun, who also founded the Cistercian abbey at Croxden.

Caption For Lyme Regis, From West 1890

From Ware Cliffs we can see the medieval Cobb harbour (centre right) and the coastal skyline of Stonebarrow Hill, Golden Cap and Thorncombe Beacon.

Caption For Chalfont Common, Post Office C1965

East of the Misbourne, beyond Gravel Hill, Chalfont Common was one of Chalfont St Peter's three commons.

Caption For Luton, Manchester Street C1955

As one of four major thoroughfares leading to the Town Centre, and formerly called Tower Hill, Manchester Street's importance was typified by the presence of many privately-owned shops and businesses and

Caption For Houghton Conquest, Houghton House 1897

This view of the ruinous west front of John Bunyan's 'Palace Beautiful' atop the 'Hill of Difficulty' shows why historians are excited by the building.

Caption For Barnet, High Street 1950

A view down the hill towards London, with the Wellington pub on the right sporting its sign depicting the Duke.

Caption For East Blatchington, Church 1891

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

Caption For East Grinstead, College Lane 1907

The cottage on the left has gone, but the stone wall to the street survives, as does the cottage with two bay windows beyond, Hill Cottage.

Caption For Tenby, The Harbour 1925

Castle Hill is virtually hidden by residential buildings, at the top right-hand side, whilst St Catherine's statue on the hillock dominates the sky line.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1949

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north- west corner of the Town Hall.

Caption For Avebury, Silbury Hill 1902

Silbury Hill, near Marlborough, is the largest man-made mound in Europe. It was once thought (justifiably at that time) to be a large burial mound for an important Bronze Age chieftain.

Caption For Ashtead, The Fish Pond C1950

Note the William Hill hoarding: this is still a major firm of turf accountants today.