Maps

1,622 maps found.

1940, Cackle Street Ref. NPO658338
1946, Church Street Ref. NPO668589
1946, Cock Street Ref. NPO672899
1940, Cock Street Ref. NPO672900
1896, Broad Street Ref. RNE650817
1895, Brook Street Ref. RNE652008
1895, Cackle Street Ref. RNE658339
1946, West Street Ref. NPO865013
1945, Thorley Street Ref. NPO846906
1946, Wickham Street Ref. NPO869869
1940, Upper Street Ref. NPO857822
1946, Upper Street Ref. NPO857827
1895, Mill Street Ref. RNE780559
1897, New Street Ref. RNE790358
1895, New Street Ref. RNE790360
1946, Low Street Ref. NPO768544
1946, Nether Street Ref. NPO788776
1940, Reading Street Ref. NPO814037
1946, New Street Ref. NPO790360
1940, North Street Ref. NPO793952

Books

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Memories

6,666 memories found. Showing results 721 to 730.

Lavender Hill Mob

I was born in Lambeth hospital in 1936. My parents moved into Nepaul Road off Falcon Road. My first memories of the Second World War were the blitz and air raid shelters. We were not bombed out but the estate was saved by Christ ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1947 by Edward Nicholls

Buying Sixpence Worth Of Stale Buns

I remember as a wee girl going with my brother Donald to buy sixpence worth of stale buns. I don't remember the bakers but it was behind Boots the Chemist. It was always a treat if your mum had a spare sixpence and ...Read more

A memory of Ayr in 1967 by Laura Wilson

Wolverhampton

Milano's was always a place my mother told me not to go to. I worked in Queen Street in a solicitors and had to deliver mail to all the other offices by hand. I saw my first Beatles movie in Wolverhampton. My sister 's haunt was ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton in 1965

Fun On The Ferry

Around about l956/57 we would all go to dances or parties in Southampton and of course, from memory, the last bus home to Hythe/Holbury/Fawley/Calshot was about 10.30p.m. Inevitably we girls missed it so there was a mad dash ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1956 by Jeannette Lomas

Working At Blagg Son And Masefield

I remember living on Charles Street in Cheadle, used to walk to Blaggson and Masefield every day and on Saturday mornings. My best friend was Julie Bryant, we loved dancing at the guild hall. My father ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle in 1962 by Marion Klein

My Gran

My gran was born on this street, she lived here till she married then moved to Huthwaite village where we grew up. I loved exploring Derbyshire. Most of my ancestors were born here including Sir Richard Arkwright (Inventor of the cotton mill)..Great memories...

A memory of South Normanton by Chrissy Walker

My Holiday Home

My name is Judy. During the early 1950s I lived in the National Children's Home in Harpenden. Every year a lovely family used to have me for a holiday, I would so much like to find them. I remember they lived in Gravesend in the ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1953 by Judy Garner

Cranford Shops 1980s 2010

Starting from Tesco Express: This used to be a block of about 2 or 3 shops which included a building society and a travel agent. Next to this was Barclays Bank which closed down in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It remained ...Read more

A memory of Cranford

Is It True

A friend of mine told me a tale of a small farm, or small holding, that existed in Beckett Street in Bilston. The man who ran it delivered milk from a pony and trap and sold it from a milk urn. Does anyone remember this, or was it a tale?

A memory of Bilston in 1951

The Grocers Next To Morgan's!

Born in 1939 and living in Banstead Road during the war, I have many memories of Purley, Croydon and Coulsdon. An alleyway ran from the High Street to the station, where I used to meet my father in the evenings from the ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1940 by Frances Casey

Captions

5,381 captions found. Showing results 1,729 to 1,752.

Caption For Liskeard, Library And Stuart House 1900

We are looking along Barras Street towards the Parade in the background. The Passmore Edwards Free Library, centre, was opened in 1896.

Caption For Cuddesdon, High Street C1955

This photograph shows Cuddesdon's long High Street, with the pub sign just visible at the far end.

Caption For Hitchin, Hermitage Road C1955

Further up the street the Hermitage cinema with its imposing entrance, is still open for business.

Caption For Poole, Parkstone From Constitution Hill 1904

A tram travels along the main street of Parkstone nearly a century ago.

Caption For Horningsea, The Village C1955

Attractive thatched and pantile-roofed houses line the street, the skyline softened by the mature trees on the left-hand side.

Caption For Flookburgh, The King's Arms 1903

But no one would dare leave a hand cart in the middle of the street today, as these children have!

Caption For Fareham, Holy Trinity Church C1965

Sir Henry Thompson, son of a vice admiral and curate of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, helped to found Holy Trinity Church in West Street, as well as church schools in Park Lane and Fontley

Caption For Brading, High Street C1960

Early inhabitants of the High Street faced a range of fierce punishments if they transgressed the law, including flogging, mutilation and death by hanging.

Caption For Kingsbridge, Fore Street And Bank 1896

Fore Street boasts many excellent examples of Georgian and Victorian architecture, with a Shambles and market arcade rebuilt in 1796.

Caption For London, A Hokey Pokey Stall, Greenwich 1884

Children cluster round licking at the cheap ice cream from the hokey pokey stall.They look like ragged street urchins in their rumpled suits and battered boots, and were probably bought their treats

Caption For Poole, High Street 1931

We are looking south from outside the Methodist Church on a stretch of the High Street which is now pedestrianised.

Caption For London, A Hokey Pokey Stall, Greenwich 1884

Children cluster round licking at the cheap ice cream from the hokey pokey stall.They look like ragged street urchins in their rumpled suits and battered boots, and were probably bought their treats

Caption For Rochdale, Healey Dell 1898

Three-storey stone cottages on Market Street can just be seen at the top of this photograph. There is another man- made weir above the rocks in the Thrutch.

Caption For York, Low Petergate C1960

This view was taken from King's Square.The street was originally part of the Roman city's main road, or Via Principalis.

Caption For Ramsbury, High Street 1906

The narrow street is fringed with cobbles.

Caption For Maids Moreton, The Leys C1955

North of Main Street, the dignified 1950s council housing was built on The Leys field.

Caption For Torquay, Fleet Street 1906

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Caption For Larne, Main Street 1900

An excellent view of Boyd's souvenir shop, situated in Larne's Main Street. A wide range of knick-knacks of all descriptions are waiting for customers.

Caption For Monaghan, Old Cross Square 1900

This picture of the square at the south end of Dublin Street, is interesting in that it shows the original market cross, which was repositioned here when the Rossmore Memorial was erected in the Diamond

Caption For Chepstow, The Museum 2004

Originally, 18th-century Gwy House in Bridge Street was a privately owned family home.

Caption For Weymouth, The Promenade C1955

No street in the town is more than a few minutes' stroll from the water.

Caption For North Walsham, Market Street C1955

The fine, large town church is situated up an alley at the east end of Market Street and behind the market-place. Only remnants of its medieval tower survive.

Caption For Chester, Bridge Street, The Old King's Head 1888

Lower Bridge Street included a number of interesting buildings. The Old King's Head dates from the early 17th century, as does The Falcon (1626).

Caption For Ambleside, Market Place 1927

The street is almost deserted apart from a motor lorry, motorcycle and a few pedestrians, showing that the photograph was probably taken in the winter, outside the tourist season.