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Maps

2,499 maps found.

1898, New Cheltenham Ref. RNE789517
1898, North Common Ref. RNE793077
1898, North Corner Ref. RNE793094
1897, Northwick Ref. RNE794501
1898, Oldland Ref. RNE797447
1898, Over Ref. RNE798586
1898, Ram Hill Ref. RNE813098
1898, Petty France Ref. RNE805517
1881 - 1919, Hawkesbury Ref. HOSM47869
1881, Hawkesbury Common Ref. HOSM47870
1881 - 1919, Hawkesbury Upton Ref. HOSM47871
1880, Rockhampton Ref. HOSM57927
1884, Abington Ref. HOSM35587
1881, Abson Ref. HOSM35364
1879 - 1880, Gaunt's Earthcott Ref. HOSM46131
1901, Hallen Ref. HOSM47404
1880 - 1900, Ingst Ref. HOSM49364
1879 - 1881, Iron Acton Ref. HOSM49467
1881, Little Sodbury Ref. HOSM51686
1881 - 1902, New Cheltenham Ref. HOSM54708

Books

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Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 801 to 810.

George Norman Brown Footballer For Jarrow St Bedes 1948 49

Hello, My dad used to play football for Jarrow St Bede's and later, South Shields Mariners. I want to research this as he has no momentoes from this era. I know that he was known as ...Read more

A memory of South Shields in 1949 by Heidi Turner

Coverack 1969

In 1969 I was 15 and quit school. I was hitch hiking and ended up in Coverack. I was drinking in the local pub, the Paris Hotel I think, when some construction guys offered me a job digging ditches and laying sewer pipes. It was ...Read more

A memory of Coverack in 1969 by Rod Templar

Life In Newport

I lived in Newport with my Mom Gladys, Father Jock and sisters Tina, Trisha and Jacky. We lived in Prospect Road for many years. My fondest memories are of meeting the gang in The Town Square outside "Mary Lambs" wearing ...Read more

A memory of Newport in 1957 by Alex Henderson

Best Years Of My Life

From my birth in 1945 to my departure from Greenock in 1958 I think I can honestly say were the best years of my life. I was born in Oakfield Terrace, I was the middle of three children. Tough times? Who knew, everybody was in ...Read more

A memory of Greenock in 1958 by Allister Jones

South Harrow In The 1950s 60s

I was born in 1950 and lived at 27 Eastcote Lane, with a superb view of the gas holder from my bedroom window. I remember Macdonalds the fishing equipment shop which was almost opposite my house and apparently ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow by Christopher Porter

St Catherine's Boarding School

I have very fond memories of the school and Mr and Mrs Cooper, and I was one of the privileged children to move to Parkstone in Dorset when the Coopers moved there. I was in Miss Stoddart's class and I can still ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1960 by Robert Broughton

Privateers And Pirates

The Llandoger Trow - It is rumoured that Daniel DeFoe had met Alexander Selkirk ( shipwrekced sailor who had been rescued by a Bristol ship) in the Llandoger, on whose story he based his book 'Robinson Crusoe'. The ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Bristol University Facts

While Bristol may be better known nowadays for being home to Wallace and Gromit than to a top-class university, its college has gained a reputation as a science leader, particularly in medicine and engineering. Founded in ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Old Hall

This is the seat of the Biddulph family; it was built in the early sixteenth century, probably to replace an earlier Saxon, possibly fortified, house that has been identified on Bailey's Hill, to the south west of the Old Hall.  It was ...Read more

A memory of Biddulph by Lauren Hughes

Growing Up In South Woodford

I lived In Priory Close which faces the shops on South Woodford high road, I left when I married aged 19. My memories are of a wonderful childhood. I used to play out with all the other children who lived in the ...Read more

A memory of South Woodford in 1965 by gelobeney51

Captions

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Caption For Kidderminster, Harvington Hall C1960

Harvington Hall near Chaddesley Corbett lies 3 miles south east of Kidderminster.

Caption For Lanchester, The Green And King's Head C1955

Roman Lanchester, or Longovicium, lies half a mile to the south-west; it was one of the principal forts along the road between York and Hadrian's Wall, and was built about the year 122.

Caption For Storrington, The Monastery 1894

The view looks south-east; the pond on the right survives, and on the left is the Boys' and Girls' School with its bellcote.

Caption For Beachy Head, 1903

Between Seaford and Eastbourne the South Downs reach the sea in spectacular style with chalk cliffs rising sheer over 500 feet from the sea.

Caption For Uckfield, High Street 1904

Continuing south-east across Ashdown Forest, the tour finishes at Uckfield, a town now by-passed and the terminus of a commuter railway line to London, the continuation to Lewes having been closed.

Caption For Crawley, Tillgate Mansion 1907

Tilgate Mansion was situated about a mile south of the town on the edge of Tilgate Forest, part of the woodlands that comprise St Leonards, Tilgate and Worth Forests; they run in a swathe from Horsham

Caption For Penarth, The Roundabout C1940

The south side of Windsor Road lay undeveloped until c1880 with the construction of the block seen here beyond the roundabout.

Caption For Sutton, Grange Vale 1904

The Epsom Downs railway line was opened in 1865, and branched south from Sutton station to its first stop, which was Belmont.

Caption For Chesham, Red Lion Street C1950

Here the photographer looks south-east from the East Street junction past Hyatts Yard and, past the gable of Zion Hall, to White Lion Yard with the roof of the Trinity Baptist Church beyond, whose

Caption For Barrow In Furness, North Vickerstown

Baden-Powell, who served with distinction in South Africa, and Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in South Africa, are both honoured in the street names of Vickerstown.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, North Vickerstown

Baden-Powell, who served with distinction in South Africa, and Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in South Africa, are both honoured in the street names of Vickerstown.

Caption For Aberdovey, The Front 1895

It is sheltered from the north wind by hills rising to the sombre Welsh mountains south of Cadair Idris. Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port.

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Caption For Rye, 1894

This view shows the town from the south and the fine parish church of St Mary. Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

Caption For Charlwood, Recreation Ground 1904

The house to the left is an 1850s villa named Charlwood House, not to be confused with the 15th-century timber-framed one south of Gatwick Airport's perimeter fence.

Caption For Ab Kettleby, St James' Church C1955

On the exposed Wolds, the ironstone church is situated on the south side of the village street, away from the main A606 Nottingham to Stamford road.

Caption For Blunham, The Hill And Square 1968

Firmly back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also

Caption For Crichel House, House And Park 1904

He at once embarked on a programme of rebuilding and extension, doubling the size of the house, and moved the entire village of More Crichel except for St Mary`s Church, a mile away to the south in

Caption For Bodmin, St Petroc's Church 1931

The embattled south porch has two upper floors for priest's chambers. A little stone roofed house close to the west door is St Guron's Well.

Caption For Sutton, Cheam Road C1960

Between those on the right is the south porch of Trinity Methodist Church. Just beyond, a saloon car turns into Church Road, at the foot of which stands the parish church of St Nicholas.

Caption For Retford, Sir Frederick Milner School C1955

The Sir Frederick Milner School was built as a secondary modern school in the south- east of the town, amid a maze of narrow streets.

Caption For Herstmonceux, Castle, West Front 1890

A mile south of the main road, on a spur some 80 feet high on the edge of the Pevensey Levels, lies the parish church of Herstmonceux and this spectacular brick-built castle.

Caption For Chiddingfold, The Pond And Village C1955

This attractive group, which makes the most of the possibilities of tile-hanging walls, is on the Petworth Road just south-west of the Green.

Caption For Abingdon, East St Helen Street From Town Hall Roof 1900

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

Caption For Corfe Castle, From The West 1890

Masonry rises on the skyline from the Butavant Tower (left) and the walls of the west bailey to the 80ft-high keep and the south-west gatehouse.