Maps

181,031 maps found.

1883, Standeford Ref. HOSM60232
1900, Trescott Ref. HOSM62409
1902, Hollesley Ref. HOSM48715
1883, Letheringham Ref. HOSM51129
1881, Martlesham Ref. HOSM53365
1884, Saxtead Ref. HOSM58612
1898, Woodleys Ref. HOSM65061
1884, Cotheridge Ref. HOSM41967
1884, Grimley Ref. HOSM47128
1903, Inkberrow Ref. HOSM49389
1883, Shrawley Ref. HOSM59305
1884, Stoulton Ref. HOSM60676
1884, Strensham Ref. HOSM60806
1884, Warndon Ref. HOSM63440
1897, Rhodesia Ref. HOSM57708
1881, Kingswood Ref. HOSM50222
1881, Bradley Green Ref. HOSM61094
1910, Acrefair Ref. HOSM35638
1909, Burton Ref. HOSM39627
1909, Johnstown Ref. HOSM49670

Books

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Memories

29,044 memories found. Showing results 1,431 to 1,440.

Childhood Treasured Places

Visiting Box Hill brings back many happy family memories. I come from Manchester & we used to visit my aunt & uncle who moved from Kingston to Leatherhead. I loved swimming & this has always been one of my ...Read more

A memory of Box Hill in 1967 by Lorna Robinson

Bridge Of Muchalls School

My name in 1950, was Joan Wood. We lived in Newtonhill but went to Bridge of Muchalls School. It was a lovely little school. We were taught by Miss Betty and Miss Mary Geddes. Every year we had a concert - Alladin ...Read more

A memory of Bridge of Muchalls in 1950

Isaac Green 1800's

Alas, I have no memories of Camerton. I have never visited this town of my ancestors. I have been to Bath, but at the time never knew of the existence of my family having originated in Camerton. My ...Read more

A memory of Camerton by Ruth Warner

My Oldham

I was born in Oldham in 1946. Lived in Norfolk Street, Chadderton until 1953 then moved to the Isle of Wight. My mother, Marjorie Bolton, lived in Hollinwood and represented Oldham as Cotton Queen in the 1930's. Have always loved the ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1946 by Margaret Lorraine Toms Nee Mangnall

A Happy Accrington Childhood

My brother Anthony and I grew up in Barnes Street/Lee Street where my parents ran an off-licence from about 1953 - 1962. We both went to Miss Caulfield's Preparatory school and my brother went on to Blackburn Grammar ...Read more

A memory of Accrington in 1960 by Marie Meakings

The Seats At Lynemouth

When we were teenagers and bored we would sit on old men's seat at the junction over the bridge and watch the smelly tankies go by. Some of the lads would go tanky hopping and grab on the back for a ride! The girls would wait ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin by Ruth Purvis

Shops In The 1950's

Your memories of the following shops please - Bower's near All Saints church, Knight's High St, George Warren, Alton coaches.

A memory of Alton by Chris Parrack

Harthill Agricultural Show And Sports

My maternal grandfather James William Dukes won 1st prize in the half mile bicycle race (open) in 1903. He won a very impressive afternoon ... tea knives and spoons with mother of pearl handled butter knives ...Read more

A memory of Harthill in 1900 by Ann Player

Severn Beach 1937 To 1956

I was born in Severn Beach in 1937 and lived in number 11 Ableton Lane, later to become Church Road! I remember the Stockham family very well and the Scrivens, Mrs Lukins, and all along the road, Vowles, Grimes, Tudors, ...Read more

A memory of Severn Beach in 1930 by Sheila Mead

Boeth Boy

Boeth Boy Dig for me a Boeth boy’s grave Spare no sweat or time Measure how I lived my life Then build for me a shrine Scroll on the slab of pure gold I lived a Princely life For I have gazed the richest prize Touched their ...Read more

A memory of Ynysboeth

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 3,433 to 3,456.

Caption For Llanvetherine, Church C1950

A most interesting architectural feature of the church of St James the Elder at Llanvetherine is the tower.

Caption For East Budleigh, The Waterfall 1928

A feature of several East Devon villages is a brook running alongside a main street.

Caption For Maidenhead, High Street And Town Hall 1903

Typically, much of the older part of Maidenhead has long since disappeared, replaced by modern urban development.

Caption For Maidenhead, Boulters Lock 1913

Boulters Lock is probably the most famous lock on the Thames, and was the first and the lowest on the river of the first set of eight to be built under the legislation of 1770.

Caption For Sutton, The Green 1894

The road to London passes through The Green, which was preserved by the 1810 Act of Parliament that enclosed the rest of the former common land of the parish for agriculture.

Caption For Skegness, Pier 1899

In 1978 the section of the pier between the concert hall at the end, from which this view was taken, was destroyed in storms.

Caption For Coningsby, Silver Street C1955

Tattershall and Coningsby lie just south of the last slopes of the Wolds, with the flat Fens stretching away to the south.

Caption For Sleaford, Southgate C1950

Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house

Caption For Chelmsford, High Street C1955

Chelmsford has been the county town of Essex since at least the 13th century. Here we see the busy High Street in the days long before it was pedestrianised.

Caption For Cockerham, The Old Rectory C1965

Besides a devastating fire, the original village of Cockerham also experienced flooding from the River Cocker, another reason to move to higher ground.

Caption For Caister On Sea, The Holiday Camp C1955

In 1906, Fletcher Dodd began to provide holidays for groups of socialists from the East End of London in the grounds of his house on Ormesby Road.

Caption For Looe, From The Bridge 1893

As a port, Looe declined with the coming of the railways, though it continued to maintain a fishing fleet; there were also exports of granite from local quarries, which was used for harbours, breakwaters

Caption For Hitchin, Bancroft C1955

When in the 1950s Reginald Hine, the great Hitchin historian, wrote of the town, 'It is lamentable what we have lost during the last 100 years', he was complaining of the desecration of the buildings and

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, C1960

A fun fair can be seen in the foreground, and the beach entertains many visitors in this view of old Saltburn, with the Ship Inn just visible over the shoulder of Cat Nab (right).

Caption For Yarm, High Street 1963

We are looking south, with a good view of Yarm Town Hall, built in 1710 and standing in splendid isolation in the centre of the High Street.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, The Pantiles C1955

The Garden of Rest is on the left of this photograph, in which we can also see the colonnade which enabled visitors to shop under cover all down one side of the Pantiles.

Caption For Rye, Harbour C1955

Good supplies of local oak supported Rye's thriving boat and barge building industry, and as the patches on the hull of the sloop indicate, facilitated repair work.

Caption For North Nibley, The Tyndale Monument 1897

Two carefully-posed groups of young girls are a feature of this photograph of the village of North Nibley, with the 111 foot- high memorial tower to the martyr William Tyndale on the knoll

Caption For Cowley, Iver Lane C1955

In the parish churchyard at Cowley lies the body of William Dodd, novelist, religious author and social celebrity.

Caption For Wendover, From The South West 1901

This long view of Wendover is taken from the opposite direction to No 44773, looking north-east from the foot of Bacombe Hill; here the national long distance footpath, the Ridgeway Path, leaves the road

Caption For Luton, New Bedford Road 1897

The main road was diverted when Napier set out the grounds of Hoo Park.

Caption For Ludlow, St Lawrence's Parish Church 1949

The tree on the right has since been replaced with cherry trees on either side of the west door.

Caption For Stirling, Old Parliament House 1899

It was here that both James II and James V were born and where Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI both lived for a number of years.

Caption For Wilmington, The Long Man C1960

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.