Maps

789 maps found.

1947, Wood End Ref. NPO872446
1946, Wood End Ref. NPO872455
1946, Wood Green Ref. NPO872638
1945, Wood Green Ref. NPO872642
1946, Wood Hall Ref. NPO872652
1946, Wood Hayes Ref. NPO872666
1947, Wood Row Ref. NPO872773
1946, Woods Bank Ref. NPO873855
1947, Woods End Ref. NPO873861
1947, The Wood Ref. NPO846569
1946, Ticket Wood Ref. NPO848198
1895, Furnace Wood Ref. RNE710220
1896, Gustard Wood Ref. RNE723694
1902, Renshaw Wood Ref. RNC815369
1925, Ireland Wood Ref. POP744266
1919, Kerthen Wood Ref. POP746563
1946, Higham Wood Ref. NPO733787
1919, Norton's Wood Ref. POP794703
1925, Low Wood Ref. POP768617
1947, Crow Wood Ref. NPO684835

Books

4 books found. Showing results 265 to 4.

Memories

2,403 memories found. Showing results 111 to 120.

Vague Swirls

I was very young, so don't remember a lot, just bits and pieces. I was sent convalescent after rheumatic fever. I had my 5th birthday there and my cake was cut, usually one slice was given to the headmaster? Anyway I was a bit ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School

Our Life At Llangwstenin Hall 1983 1986

When we moved here in the summer of ‘83, we were so enchanted with the hall and grounds that even included a gaggle of geese in the adjoining field. They were great ‘guard dogs’ so to speak, as we never ...Read more

A memory of Llangwstenin Hall by Jamie Cuthbert

My Sister Worked There

We lived in Macclesfield. My sister worked there with the children. I suppose she was some sort of aide or nanny. She was a live in anyway. She came home on weekends. My cousin would drive her back on a Sunday night. ...Read more

A memory of Pallotti Hall by Gail Mitchell

Shops And Places The High Road And Ealing Road.

I was born and lived in Wembley until 1960. The Railway Hotel was the pub on the corner of Ealing Road and my mother was head housekeeper there for a long time. On the day of the Coronation the pub was ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1953 by Barbara Fisher

Reminders Of My Youth

I remember being taken to the village when I was very young - I believe one of my great uncles ran the Pub - One of the ubquitous Jermy Family - I am coming to Norfolk to try and research my roots at the end of July this ...Read more

A memory of Great Hockham by Paul Burroughes

Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

Happy Days In Coulsdon, 1947 To 1955

Born in Purley Hospital in 1947, we lived in Bramley Avenue for the first 2 years of my life, but of course I have no memories of that. We then moved to 30 Grove Wood Hill, which is off Woodcote Grove Road. I had a ...Read more

A memory of Coulsdon by Peter Harvey

Growing Up In Cold Ash

I spent the early years of my life in Cold Ash and Thatcham. We lived in a detached house on Cold Ash Hill called Midway. I believe it has since been renamed. The house was built by my grand father Alfred Gadd, the carpenter, ...Read more

A memory of Cold Ash by grahamfsmith

Lived Worked And Played Here

My mother was born in keepers cottage in Battle Wood, who grew up and later got married in Battle church. My grandfather, Leonard Glyde was a fireman during the second world war stationed at Battle fire station. I was born ...Read more

A memory of Battle by terry_ross17

Dersingham 1954 C

We lived in the village shop Virginia Stores owned by Peatling & Cawdron.  My dad won the Vernons Football Pools in 1955 - a great sum of  £505.6s -  my sister and I had new bikes and Mum and Dad went for a holiday to ...Read more

A memory of Dersingham by Carolynn Langley

Captions

663 captions found. Showing results 265 to 288.

Caption For Buxted, Park House 1902

The house is recorded in 1910 as being in 'a well wooded park of 300 acres'.

Caption For Halesworth, Market Place C1955

The King's Arms, then run by R G Wood, has closed, but the arms remain on the present carpet shop. Beyond is the brick Lloyds Bank of 1896.

Caption For Chepstow, Horseshoe Bend 1950

The woods on the left continue along the top of Piercefield Cliffs.

Caption For Garstang, Nicky Nook C1955

The wooded ravine of Nicky Nook draws botanists and sketchers.

Caption For Brockenhurst, The Village 1949

The name Brockenhurst means 'the badger's wood'.

Caption For Bulphan, Fen Lane C1955

The second element of Bulphan's name is the word 'fen'.

Caption For South Benfleet, Boyce Hill Golf Links C1955

Benfleet's wooded hills once provided vital material for fuel and boat-building.

Caption For Barry, Romilly Park 1931

The large wooded area behind the Grove (to the right in photograph 62549) is gradually getting smaller.

Caption For Milland, The Cottages 1901

Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

Caption For Doncaster, Sprotborough Hall 1900

By the 1650s Lionel Copley had become one of the leading ironmasters in South Yorkshire, thanks to a leasing arrangement with the Earl of Shrewsbury which gave him access to Shrewsbury charcoal woods and

Caption For Hawthornden, 1897

Located nine miles south of Edinburgh, Hawthornden stands high above the river North Esk amid a densely wooded estate.

Caption For Ivy Hatch, The Village 1901

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

Caption For Ascott Under Wychwood, C1950

Along the Evenlode, that gentle Cotswold stream, stands a string of villages all 'under Wychwood', that ancient wood that still remains one of the most extensive stretches of woodland in Oxfordshire, but

Caption For Exmouth, The Plantation 1890

The Plantation and Madeira Walk below The Beacon and Louisa Terrace are a delightful stretch of green wooded shelter on hot days.

Caption For Wakefield, Wood Street C1953

Also in Wood Street in the 1920s was Hyland's Car and Boat showrooms.

Caption For Cromford, From Harp Edge 1890

This view from the wooded heights of Harp Edge above Cromford shows Arkwright's Masson Mill in the centre of the picture, with Willersley Rocks above and the River Derwent on the right.

Caption For Bath, From Rainbow Woods 1929

past the villas of Bathwick across the northern half of the city, we can see how the formality of the ramrod-straight Great Pulteney Street to the left contrasts with, in the right distance below the woods

Caption For Bath, Theatre Royal C1965

The entrance block of the theatre was formed from Beau Nash's first house in Bath, a pre-Wood era building of 1720 with heavy moulded window surrounds and cornices.

Caption For Rochdale, Carr Wood Waterfall 1895

Just downstream of Carr Wood waterfall is this smaller weir, whose race carried water via a flagstone channel under fields to the left to the Ashworth Estate corn mill.

Caption For Holne, The Dart Valley 1890

The steep, densely wooded gorge below Dartmeet is a wild, inaccessible place, and farmers, exhibiting their usual good sense, have never tried to cultivate it.

Caption For Ivy Hatch, The Village 1901

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

Caption For Kingsbridge, Tackett Wood Cottages 1896

Tackett or Ticket Wood is said to get its name from the nonconformists who worshipped here illegally centuries ago.

Caption For Coniston, From Church Tower 1906

This view from the church tower was taken looking towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.

Caption For Clifton, Leigh Woods 1887

The view from the suspension bridge towards Leigh Woods.