Maps

181,006 maps found.

1895, Alton Ref. HOSM34037
1909, Blacknest Ref. HOSM37974
1897, Ashley Ref. HOSM36345
1912, Colthouse Ref. HOSM41559
1923, Amersham Ref. HOSM34041
1899, Burwen Ref. HOSM39637
1899, Nebo Ref. HOSM70817
1899, Penrhyd Lastra Ref. HOSM56407
1905, Garnant Ref. HOSM46139
1905, Twynmynydd Ref. HOSM46481
1877, Llandyfan Ref. HOSM51804
1905, Tycroes Ref. HOSM62763
1894, Andover Ref. HOSM34044
1894, Fyfield Ref. HOSM45934
1909, Linkenholt Ref. HOSM51283
1894, Longparish Ref. HOSM52384
1894, Stoke Ref. HOSM60539
1894, Thruxton Ref. HOSM61869
1897, Colby Ref. HOSM41446
1896, Houghton Ref. HOSM49129

Books

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Memories

29,050 memories found. Showing results 891 to 900.

Tea Times At Beadnell

My name is Sean Sweet. I have many memories of Beadnell. My Grandparents owned a cottage near the harbour called Sandy Dell and later my parents had a static caravan on the links. Every summer seemed to be hot and sunny and we ...Read more

A memory of Beadnell by Rosemary Sweet

Pinehurst Childrens Home Park Rd Camberley

Memories of Camberley come from my childhood days as an orphan residing at 'Pinehurst', a Surrey County Child Welfare Home 1949-1953. I was put there as a 9-year-old and recall spending a very happy part ...Read more

A memory of Pinehurst in 1949 by David Share

Pheobe Ross, My Grandmother

My grandmother, Pheobe Ross was born in Knockadoois. I believe her birthdate was 30 January 1884. She left Ireland with her sister Sarah from Londonderry on the ship "Furnessia". I don't have the departure date, but the ...Read more

A memory of Knockadoois in 1880 by James Dunn

Quinneys

The original name of the place was Quinneys, not the Pig and Whistle as previous correspondents have noted. It was built between the wars by my grandfather Jack Swarbrick for my Grandmother (Elizabeth) to run. One of the features of the place (so I'm told) was a sprung dancefloor.

A memory of Lea by David Law

Oh And

King Street and its area was known as 'over the other side' to everyone on the Broadway side of the railway bridge - a mysterious place that adults would talk of to each other concerning pubs or the cemetery or the tax office. "Oh, he used to ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1975 by Neil Emery

Hammer Of The Year Dance

At the end of the 1972/1973 football season, and at the age of 17, I went for the first (and only) time to the annual Hammer of the Year dance at East Ham town Hall organised by West Ham United. I went with my friend Diane ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1973 by Ann Martin

Collecting Soft Fruit In The Retreat House Garden

As a child I remember collecting loganberries, raspberries, strawberries and gooseberries in the garden at the back of the house. My mother used to make them into jam which would last ...Read more

A memory of West Lulworth in 1940 by Albert Spavins

Malvern Wells

Does anyone remember the army transit camp in Malvern Wells called Wood Farm Camp? I looked on Google Earth and all that is there is a field, I had some great memories of this place when I was a kid.

A memory of Malvern Wells in 1967 by George Megginson

Hare Park Terrace

My uncle and aunt, Frank and Lilian Simpson (nee Wilson)used to live over looking the Spen Valley in a terraced house on a hill at the bottom of which was Rawfolds Mill. Is the photo H199022 this road and is the wall on left the ...Read more

A memory of Rawfolds in 1920 by Eunice Wilson

Dysart In The 60s

I was brought up in Dysart, first in Howard Place then the High Street, where my mum and dad still live. I remember all the shops that were there in the 1960s when I was a little girl, the little wool shop where you could buy odd ...Read more

A memory of Dysart by Karen Dunn

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Captions

29,158 captions found. Showing results 2,137 to 2,160.

Caption For Bishop Burton, The Village Corner C1960

This unforgettable village cupped in a hollow with a large wayside pond is the home of All Saints' Church.

Caption For Burton On Trent, C1960

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, The White Lion Inn 1903

This junction of two streets marks the site of the former market place, with the stolid red-brick White Lion, on the extreme right, and the King of Prussia pub along the road on the left, ready to slake

Caption For Bolsover, The Castle 1902

Here we see the ruins of the once luxurious state rooms of Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I.

Caption For Buxted, Park House 1902

This house was built by the three Medley brothers in c1750 in the grounds of Buxted Park, situated about two miles north of Uckfield.

Caption For East Grinstead, Tooth's Shop 1927

This interior of a 15th-century Tudor house is part of Tooth's stationery shop, located on the south side of the High Street.

Caption For Melton Constable, The Village 1922

Children from the rather plain terraced houses have been given the job of taking the baby out for a pram ride.

Caption For Hadleigh, The Row Chapel 1922

Under the will of Archdeacon Pykenham, twelve almshouses were built in 1490 on either side of the earlier wayside chapel of St. Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Sienna.

Caption For North Holmwood, Village 1906

In the 19th century, this area south of Dorking was a wild and dangerous part of Surrey, where highwaymen pursued their villainous trade and smugglers transported their contraband goods at night along

Caption For Mickleton, Main Street C1960

A few miles to the north of Chipping Campden lies Mickleton, a small town that displays both the limestone buildings of the Cotswolds and the traditional half-timbered style of the Vale.

Caption For Wimborne, The Minster, From The Chancel 1886

A striking feature of this picture is the contrast between the rounded, early Norman arch in the foreground and the taller, narrow pointed arch of a later period at the western end of the nave.

Caption For Ellesmere Port, The Shropshire Union Canal C1955

The town owes its very existence to the building of the Ellesmere Canal (as it was then called) by Thomas Telford and William Jessop in the 1790s.

Caption For East Wittering, Beach 1930

Both villages, which lie at the end of the Selsey peninsula, just a few miles from the historic cathedral city of Chichester, have long been associated with seaside holiday recreation.

Caption For Burton On Trent, C1960

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

Caption For London, Trafalgar Square C1900

Here we see the equestrian statue of George IV, who was Prince Regent at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

Caption For Great Budworth, School Lane C1965

'The village of Big Budworth! You may travel England round, There is not such a village in the kingdom to be found.'

Caption For Northallerton, Romanby Green C1955

Romanby Green at Northallerton, a little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors, gives the impression of a village green.

Caption For Stanmore, Village 1906

Here are buildings of the second half of the 19th century, with an object lesson to be observed in the treatment of boundary walls and railings - all neat and carefully designed.

Caption For Finchley, High Road C1890

This is a classic photograph of a north London suburb around the turn of the century, with a mix of design and scale in the road-side buildings.

Caption For Corfe Castle, The Hotels 1899

The little town of Corfe is older than its castle; it is the Corvergate of the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'.

Caption For Earl Shilton, The Hollow C1965

The driver of the 658 Leicester to Coventry Midland Red bus service breaks his journey to await passengers in this familiar view of the centre.

Caption For Totnes, High Street 1896

The ancient town of Totnes was once second only to Exeter as a prosperous merchants' town, but declined in importance in the 19th century.

Caption For Aldbrough, Cross Street C1955

This street, in one of the largest of the Holderness coastal villages, used to be called Poskett Lane.

Caption For St Annes, Clifton Drive South 1914

It is only forty years after the first ground was turned, and the scale of development is breathtaking.