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Maps

2,499 maps found.

1946, Sundayshill Ref. NPO842796
1946, Ram Hill Ref. NPO813098
1946, Rangeworthy Ref. NPO813359
1946, Northwick Ref. NPO794501
1946, Nupdown Ref. NPO795009
1946, Over Ref. NPO798586
1898, Marsden Ref. RNE774947
1898, Little Sodbury End Ref. RNE757977
1897, Hawkesbury Ref. RNE728820
1897, High Shields Ref. RNE733486
1898, Latteridge Ref. RNE753249
1898, Holbrook Common Ref. RNE737618
1898, Iron Acton Ref. RNE744308
1898, Harton Ref. RNE727939
1898, Monkton Ref. RNE782689
1897, Upper Hill Ref. RNE857456
1897, Upper Morton Ref. RNE857662
1898, Warmley Ref. RNE860826
1898, Yate Ref. RNE875679
1897, The Hacket Ref. RNE846394

Books

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Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 921 to 930.

Tywyn Capel / Trearddur Bay

This is a view across Trearddur Bay, looking south - the beach is known in Welsh as Tywyn Capel. The house behind the beach is Glan-y-Môr built in 1889 and next to it is the Dune Mound which was the location of St.Ffraid’s ...Read more

A memory of Holyhead

Nostalgia

I have been reading many articles printed here & it got me & my wife thinking back to our childhood days (my wife was born in Llanelli, South Wales , & her childhood memories of the 1950's & were very much akin to mine ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone by Alan Guy

When We Played In The Road

Gipsy Road in Welling where I lived as a child in the 1950's was a long one. It stretched from Okehampton Crescent near Bostall heath and woods at its north end, down to the Welling/Bexleyheath mainline railway and a short ...Read more

A memory of Wellings, The

Milk And Fish!

In the 1950s we spent several family holidays in the South Hams, staying at the Dairy in Stoke Fleming. We lived in south west London and travelled overnight on the A30 in my Dad's wet fish van, my brother and I sleepiing on a ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Fleming

School Journey

As a sickly child, I missed much of my early schooling and eventually attended schools for the physically handicapped. My senior school was the Venetian School for boys in Camberwell, south London. We went on School Journeys during my ...Read more

A memory of Rustington by Peter Nunn

After The War In Burnt Oak

Being conceived at the end of the war I don't have memories of it of course, but my late brother, my mum and sister had lots. The only street party I remember was the Queen's one in Mostyn Road where we all got a cup with ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1953 by Fred East

National Sea Training College At Gravesend

I spent the academic year 1987/88 in Kent training to become a Careers Adviser on a post-graduate course run by Kent College for the Careers Service. During my course I had to visit businesses, ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1987 by John Howard Norfolk

Memories Of Stockland, Bristol

My mother's father and mother Mr & Mrs Tom Dibble lived in the Cooperage, Stockland. Thomas's parents Thomas snr and Jane (nee) Palmer had children Sam, George from the Old Oak pub on the Cornhill, Mary + Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Woolavington in 1930 by Audrey Spearing

Watson House

What a delight to find this site and the photographs of Sutton Coldfield. I too have memories of a children's home but mine were of Watson House. From what I remember it was a big beautiful Tudor-built house, with the biggest in ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield in 1965 by Maria Carey

Childhood In Waterloo

Lived at 4 Walmer Road, Waterloo and 21 Cambridge Road Waterloo in the 1950's. Both houses were divided into flats. I have fond memories of the Beach, Potters Bar Park, the Five Lamps, South Road and St John's Road. Would ...Read more

A memory of Waterloo in 1952 by Sheila Shanley

Captions

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Caption For Albury, The Village C1960

The main village was moved west and south of the Tilling Bourne and out of the park in the early 19th century, but the best buildings date from the 1850s.

Caption For Bagshot, High Street C1961

Frith's photographer has chosen the best bit of Bagshot to photograph: he is looking south-west along the High Street from its junction with Bridge Road towards the Square.

Caption For Hascombe, The Village C1965

There is a large Iron Age hillfort at the end of Hascombe Hill's ridge a little south-east of the village.

Caption For Little Bookham, Little Bookham Street C1955

Little Bookham's tiny 12th- century church and manor house lie south of the Guildford Road.

Caption For Culham, College 1900

This view of the south front shows well the plain cusped tracery windows and the use Clarke made of chimney stacks to augment the design.

Caption For Congleton, The Roundabout C1960

This view of the roundabout - a novelty in Congleton - shows where the south end of the bypass joins the existing main road.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The Promenade C1965

These views take us downstream towards the bridge from the south. We

Caption For Nottingham, University, Hugh Stewart Hall C1955

Nottingham University started in the city in 1881 on South Sherwood Street.

Caption For Charlestown, Harbour 1904

The principal export from the tiny south Cornish port of Charlestown was china clay, much of it bound for Runcorn; from there it would be forwarded on to the Potteries.

Caption For Leeds Castle, 1892

The south front was recast in 1822.

Caption For Bitteswell, White Cottage And St Mary's Church C1960

On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

Caption For Kingsbury, Church Of St Andrew C1965

In contrast to the picturesque qualities of St Andrews Old Church to its south, the late arrival has a not surprisingly metropolitan arrogance, as it was moved stone by stone from Well Street, close to

Caption For Pennard, The Castle 1893

Pennard stands high above a tidal creek some eight miles west-south-west of Swansea.

Caption For Glasson Dock, The Docks C1955

The area around Glasson is teaming with wildlife, and is a bird watcher's paradise from Conder Green down to Cockerham Sands in the south. Swans and ducks live in the canal basin.

Caption For Abingdon, Stert Street 1893

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

Caption For Bitteswell, White Cottage And St Mary's Church C1960

On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

Caption For Portreath, Harbour C1955

Portreath was built to serve the mines around Camborne and Redruth, and in the 19th century it was busy with sailing ships bringing coal from South Wales and returning with copper ores.

Caption For Bedford, St John's Street 1921

Our tour starts south of the River Ouse in the area developed by King Edward the Elder in AD919; it was defended by the King's Ditch, some of which still remains after all these centuries.

Caption For Brierley Hill, Delph Locks C1965

The Main Line of the Stourbridge Canal swung south and then east around Brierley Hill to meet up with the Dudley Canal at Black Delph Locks.The Dudley Canal passed through Round Oak Steel Works and

Caption For Tenbury Wells, Teme Street 1898

Around Ludlow South Along The River Teme Tenbury Wells, Teme Street 1898 Known in the past only as Tenbury, the Wells in its name was added in the late 19th century as a deliberate marketing

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Holy Trinity Church C1955

The stained glass in the south window has several Netherlands roundels of the 16th century and later. Brasses commemorate the great clothier Thomas Horton and his wife.

Caption For Bamburgh, The Village And Castle 1954

Unable to take the fortress from Robert de Mowbray, third Earl of Northumberland, William headed south, leaving the prosecution of the siege to others. Mowbray attempted to escape, but was captured.

Caption For Braintree, Bocking End C1955

The first shop was in a house in South Street, and then new premises were found in Swan Street, to the left of the island site. As business grew, it moved in 1875 to this site in Bocking End.

Caption For St Neots, The Bridge And Bridge Hotel C1955

The white building is the Bridge Hotel, whilst on the south side are the Public Rooms, opened in 1855 to provide a place for public meetings and concerts.