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Maps

2,499 maps found.

1919, Kingswood Ref. POP748289
1919, Kington Ref. POP748327
1919, Nibley Ref. POP792168
1919, North Corner Ref. POP793094
1919, Nupdown Ref. POP795009
1919, Hill Ref. POP734822
1919, Latteridge Ref. POP753249
1919, Alveston Ref. POP624726
1919, Wapley Ref. POP860418
1919, Warmley Tower Ref. POP860828
1925, West Boldon Ref. POP863743
1919, Willsbridge Ref. POP870694
1919, Woodhouse Down Ref. POP873413
1925, West Park Ref. POP864822
1919, Whiteshill Ref. POP869118
1919, Upper Hill Ref. POP857456
1946, Bradley Stoke Ref. NPO647960
1946, Dyer's Common Ref. NPO696118
1946, Dyrham Ref. NPO696352
1946, East End Ref. NPO697168

Books

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Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 881 to 890.

Berry Brow, A Thriving Community

Back in the 1950s I lived in Primrose Hill, my father was a plumber / electrician working for Joe Ellam in Lockwood, my mother a millworker at Brooks Mill, Armitage Bridge, before I was of school age I can remember ...Read more

A memory of Berry Brow by john.holmes83

From Kendal To The New World.

My roots in Kendal go very deep indeed, my Great Grandfather was James Dawson Garnett who was born there in 1851 on Lake Road and married Elizabeth Sherrin a local girl in 1871. Their son James Langhorn Garnett was my ...Read more

A memory of Kendal by Rob Beilby

Tattenham Corner In The 1950,S

I use to live along Epsom Lane North Known as the switchback to locals because of the dips up and down in the road, my father bought South Tadworth along there , where I grew up from 1940 to 1957 when I got married. I ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by junesaunders

Portwood Memories

I have vivid memories of the slippery rock in Vernon Park. Other memories from the park were, the bench in the shelter at the lower entrance, I used to run around on top of the bench. The rhodedendron bushes, they were great for ...Read more

A memory of Stockport by lcwood

Swindon 1957 To 1966

We moved to Swindon in 1957 from London (Wimbledon, actually) when my dad, a skilled engineer, got a job at Vickers Armstrongs at South Marston, with a brand new council house thrown in. In those post-war austerity days there was no ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by besafisher

The "Brackston" Family

Good morning. I'm researching my family history and have census records of unknown date (possibly1880's) in which Rosina (Rosenna??????) Brackston (38) wife of Uriah, a gardener (41) have a daughter Rosina (16) who was a silk ...Read more

A memory of Croscombe by bracky

Watching Brentford Playing Football 60years Ago.

I have only just found this site for sharing your memories of days long gone by, I used to live at No 30 Coningsby Rd South Ealing W5, we lived in 3 rooms upstairs in this house until my dad was given a ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by wrgbuck69

My Early Days In Hackney

Hi , My name is Vic Ballard , I was brought up by my Grandparents from 1942 and lived next door to Cassland Rd school which later became my secondary school , my first school was Orchard Rd at the end of Cassland Rd and ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

Captions

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Caption For Rickmansworth, Moor Park 1897

Moor Park was built in the 1720s for the banker and South Sea Bubble profiteer Benjamin Styles.

Caption For Amersham On The Hill, Sycamore Road C1955

This view is at the junction of Woodside and Rickmansworth Roads and looks south-west towards Oakfield Corner.

Caption For Chiddingly, The Village C1955

South-east of East Hoathly lies the large scattered parish of Chiddingly, a typical rolling Wealden-edge village composed of scattered hamlets, farmsteads and woodland.

Caption For Wilmington, The Long Man C1965

A familiar sight for those heading to or from Eastbourne along the A27 as it passes north of the South Downs escarpment is the Long Man of Wilmington, a gigantic chalk figure of a man holding 250ft-long

Caption For Ewell, High Street C1955

This view, though, is of the south end, which has fared less well: typical suburban mock-Tudor shopping parades proliferate both on the left and out of view to the right and behind the camera

Caption For Studland, On The Beach C1950

Old Harry Rocks (far left) are to the south-east.

Caption For Long Melford, Church Interior 1900

The stone reredos dates from 1879; its design is based on the description of the pre-Reformation reredos by Roger Martin of Melford Place, whose brass is in the south chapel.

Caption For Northleach, Market Square C1950

The half-timbered Kings Head inn in the background recalls the coaching age: Northleach was on the main London, Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales road (the main A40 road now by-passes the

Caption For Adel, The Church 1891

It was built around 1150 on the site of a Saxon church, and the south porch was added a decade later. Ancient animal symbols festoon the porch - they represent the four evangelists.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Cobb C1955

This, at 617 feet above sea level, is the highest point on the south coast.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The End Of The Cobb C1910

That Meryl Streep moment, as it became after 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' had been filmed here in 1980, with the Outer Breakwater of the Cobb awash in a bursting south-westerly wave.

Caption For Bicknoller, The Village 1940

The Cross and the Carew Arms 1929 Further south, Crowcombe is the largest village on the western flanks of the Quantocks, and once was a small market town.

Caption For Cranleigh, The Village 1904

The village of Cranley originally took its name from the craneries at Baynards and Vachery to the south, but it was renamed Cranleigh in 1867 at the instigation of the Post Office because of confusion

Caption For Ollerton, Rufford Abbey C1955

South of Ollerton is Rufford Country Park, run by the County Council.

Caption For South Cerney, The Water Park C1960

Some 24 square miles of the 4,000 acres that constitute the Water Park are fully established at South Cerney, offering water sports, angling and sailing within a holiday and recreational centre

Caption For Langham, The School And School Lane C1950

There are two prominent buildings of quality in the village, firstly the 13th-century parish church of St Peter and St Paul, and Langham Old Hall with its date stone of 1665 built into the south

Caption For Swindon, Town Hall C1965

Looking South This view of the Town Hall shows the main entrance at the centre.

Caption For West Kirby, The Promenade C1965

We are looking south along West Kirby's busy Promenade, with the marine lake to the right.

Caption For Bridport, West Allington 1899

Further along the south side of the street (left of centre) is the Old Inn. West Court is behind the hand-cart.

Caption For Chesham, Market Square C1970

Ironically, when finally built in the 1980s the relief road, St Mary's Way, demolished the south part of market-place, and the town hall need not have been demolished.

Caption For Odiham, All Saints Church 1903

The porch of the doorway on the south wall was removed about this time.

Caption For St Neots, High Street 1925

On the south side, whilst a touring charabanc waits for its customers outside the Royal Oak public house, a handcart makes a delivery to Fraser`s, piano sellers and household outfitters.

Caption For Preston, River Ribble From Miller Park C1935

This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.

Caption For Lechlade, The Old Market Place C1950

Lechlade, situated on the river Thames, is the gateway to the Cotswolds from the south-east.