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Christmas Deliveries: If you placed an order on or before midday on Friday 19th December for Christmas delivery it was despatched before the Royal Mail or Parcel Force deadline and therefore should be received in time for Christmas. Orders placed after midday on Friday 19th December will be delivered in the New Year.

Please Note: Our offices and factory are now closed until Monday 5th January when we will be pleased to deal with any queries that have arisen during the holiday period.

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Maps

1,714 maps found.

1903, Little Airmyn Ref. RNC756804
1903, Ousefleet Ref. RNC798395
1903-1908, Owthorne Ref. RNC799016
1903, Sand Hole Ref. RNC824840
1903, Scalby Ref. RNC825921
1903-1908, Preston Ref. RNC810634
1903-1908, North End Ref. RNC793239
1903-1908, Hilston Ref. RNC736669
1903, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor Ref. RNC738737
1903, Hayton Ref. RNC729449
1947, Burnby Ref. NPO656261
1947, Burton Agnes Ref. NPO657099
1947, Burton Pidsea Ref. NPO657181
1924, Wilberfoss Ref. POP870171
1924, Willitoft Ref. POP870514
1924, Withernsea Ref. POP871931
1947, Atwick Ref. NPO628377
1947, Bishop Wilton Ref. NPO641086
1947, Brandesburton Ref. NPO648692
1947, Brantingham Ref. NPO648880

Books

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Memories

1,705 memories found. Showing results 111 to 120.

Endbutt Lane

I was born in Crosby in 1958 and lived in Endbutt Lane for years, not far from the Endbutt Hotel. I had very mixed memories some happy, a lot sad. St Peter & Paul's school, friends Marie G, Susan C, Jeanette and Pat F, horse riding in ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1969 by Cathy Joseph

Kitchen Staff

I worked at Moorlands with Chef Freddie Davis, a Basque Chef, great man, brandy and a garlic clove before we started the day, had a pastry cook who drove an Austin Champ. I believe the manager was called Smith. Freddie gave me a ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale in 1967 by Julian Edgecombe

The Old Quay, Newlyn

This photograph shows "The Old Quay" which was a medieval construction inside the outer arms of the Newlyn Harbour. Behind the Old Quay is the South Pier and the extreme end of the North Pier shows to the left of the picture (the ...Read more

A memory of Newlyn in 1955

Firwood

Firwood 1958 our family came from the US to settle our Aunt Ethel & Uncle Edmund Smyth's estate Firwood. Edmund had been the 1st Bishop of Lebombo, Africa & Ethel had been a missionary & painter. Firwood had a dairy on the ...Read more

A memory of Brownshill in 1958 by Terri Smyth

Pinchaford Stables

Just wondering if anyone knows what happened to Pinchaford riding stables in Haytor? I seem to remember heading up to the Rock Hotel circa 1973/74/75 for a shandy! Some of the very best times... Ii remember Caroline ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale in 1974 by Caroline Scoular

Old Manor Cafe

My memory of Blackwater started when I was 14, for those of you who don't know what the Old Manor was, it was a transport cafe, which stood on what is now a supermarket site, on the right, at the junction with Rosemary Lane. In the ...Read more

A memory of Blackwater in 1960 by Graham Davis

46 Bridge Road, Cove

46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1943 by Graham Davis

Old Southall Remembered

I lived in old Southall (Norwood Road - Norwood Green end) during the 1960s to the 1990s and have seen great changes. I went to school at Clifton Road, and the school had a great Headmaster, Mr Hancock, for a while. One ...Read more

A memory of Southall

Warners

As a young child I can remember several holidays taken at the Warners holiday camp at Seaton. The serious business of 'motoring down to Devon' was never taken lightly, lunch was prepared the night before to be eaten at Stonehenge, where one ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1965 by Michael Gough

Happy Days In Latimer

It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, ...Read more

A memory of Latimer in 1959 by John Sayer

Captions

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Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village C1955

Taken from the bridge over the River Bride, this view looks northwards into the southern section of the High Street.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, 1909

We are looking inland north-eastwards from what is now National Trust land above Burton Cliff, over the Dove Inn and Southover (foreground) to the meadows of the River Bride (centre).

Caption For Little Baddow, Grace's Walk 1906

This point - where Grace's Walk crosses Sandon Brook - has a ghost-story attached to it: Lady Alice Mildmay (d1615), child-bride of Sir Henry, supposedly drowned herself in a pond here after he was unkind

Caption For Llanfair Caereinion, The Railway C1960

It used to be a bona fide railway, but today it only runs in the summer season as an attraction for tourists. It opened in 1903 to link the local farming communities to the market town of Welshpool. 

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village C1960

Looking eastwards along Church Street from Magnolias, across the River Bride, in a sylvan setting beside a clapper bridge next to the village school.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, Freshwater Caravan Park C1960

Below it the River Bride trickles through the shingle into Lyme Bay.

Caption For Cobham, The Hall 1899

Queen Elizabeth I slept here in 1559, and so did Charles II and his new bride in 1660. In 1882, it was to Cobham Hall that English cricketers brought the Ashes from Australia for the first time.

Caption For Great Chart, The Church 1901

They include Captain Nicholas Toke, who set out at the age of ninety-three to walk to London in 1680 to find a sixth bride, but died before encountering her.

Caption For Great Chart, The Church 1901

They include Captain Nicholas Toke, who set out at the age of ninety-three to walk to London in 1680 to find a sixth bride, but died before encountering her.