Maps

789 maps found.

1895, Park Wood Ref. RNE801330
1895, Park Wood Ref. RNE801331
1899, Pelsall Wood Ref. RNE802722
1897, Prees Wood Ref. RNE810536
1895, Spencers Wood Ref. RNE836236
1897, Renshaw Wood Ref. RNE815369
1946, Tettenhall Wood Ref. NPO846165
1946, Tewin Wood Ref. NPO846197
1940, Park Wood Ref. NPO801330
1946, Pelsall Wood Ref. NPO802722
1946, Petts Wood Ref. NPO805513
1947, Ramsden Wood Ref. NPO813217
1895, Thorpe Wood Ref. RNE847558
1898, Whins Wood Ref. RNE867387
1899, Warley Woods Ref. RNE860802
1897, Wollerton Wood Ref. RNE872279
1899, Wood End Ref. RNE872454
1898, Wood Green Ref. RNE872637
1899, Wood Hayes Ref. RNE872666
1896, Wood House Ref. RNE872711

Books

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Memories

2,403 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Reminiscing

I was born in NW London. My first visit to Woburn Sands was about 1950 when my Uncle Ted and Aunt Ada moved here. They lived at the 'Dene' Aspley Hill. Aunt Ada did the housework for Mrs Russell the owner of the 'Dene' and my uncle ...Read more

A memory of Woburn Sands in 1950 by Roy Batham

Eric Smith''''s Greengrocer''''s 21 Lordship Lane Se22

My Dad, Eric Smith, opened a Greengrocer's shop at number 21 Lordship Lane in 1962. At that time there was a traditional butchers shop one side and a grocery shop the other side. Opposite was a piano ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich in 1962 by Debbie Williams, Nee Smith

Ackroyd Coffee Bar

Just down the road from the Shoulder of Mutton pub was Ackroyds coffee bar. In the 60s we young ones would meet, listen to the juke box, drinking frothy coffee. The horse and cart outside the pub belonged to Herman Wood the local milkman. The cart was a daily sight outside the pub.

A memory of Clayton West in 1966 by David Johnson

Living With Nanny

I remember well living with my nanny in Neames Forstell, she was Rose Beake, a formidable lady, but oh how I loved her. I remember going to Selling school, and if it rained or snowed being brought home in the police car by Sargeant ...Read more

A memory of Selling in 1954 by Pam Tinsley

Happy Days In Thorne Park

Happy days in the paddling pool and on the swings, the old parkie taking your name for riding your bike in the park, what did he do with all the names? Remembrance Day in the park in 1963 as a cub, Mr Metcalf leading us. Church ...Read more

A memory of Thorne in 1962 by Nigel Shearman

The Shore Of Wood And Glass

Eynort shore is not the prettyist in the west, but it's washed up some odd things from time to time, Both myself and my brother have found messages in a bottle, and a least half a dozen bombs or old test missiles which all ...Read more

A memory of Eynort

Childhood Holidays

My gran bought 3 caravans in 1957 which were on the caravan site at Lower Largo.  My parents, brother, me, my aunt, my uncle and their 2 children all spent all our holidays there - summer, easter, bank hols, etc. Us children ...Read more

A memory of Lower Largo in 1957 by Maureen Drake

Wood House

Early C20 formal gardens and parkland designed and landscaped by Thomas Mawson and implemented by Robert Mawson of the Lakeland Nurseries, Windermere, surrounding a house designed by Dan Gibson with a ground plan by Thomas ...Read more

A memory of Taw Green by Tonnie Keith

1950s In Hook Heath, Woking

In 1949/50 my parents moved to Little Morton, Hook Heath Road when I was 2 years old. The house (now advertised as having 6 bedrooms) seemed enormous and the garden was very large. In about 1960 my parents sold part of it ...Read more

A memory of Hook Heath

Farley Croft Wwii

I am 86 but still remember the time at Farley Croft during WWII. My siblings and I were evacuated to Westerham in 1939. Around 1942/46 my sisters Rose, Sylvia and I were taken from the billet we were in and put in Farley Croft which ...Read more

A memory of Westerham by rbbrett2004

Captions

663 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Sutton, Woodside House School 1898

This is another of Benhilton's 1870 villas in attractive wooded grounds. By 1898 Woodside House, in Woodside Road, had become a small private school.

Caption For Blackboys, The Post Office C1960

Its name is believed to have come from the appearance of charcoal workers as they emerged from working in the woods.

Caption For Mill Hill, The Golf Club, Barnet Way C1955

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

Caption For Bath, The Circus 1896

A walk up Gay Street, named after Robert Gay, who granted John Wood the lease on this hilly area north-west of the old city, leads to one of the most celebrated pieces of this remarkable city's townscape

Caption For Sudbury, Grammar School 1904

The Grammar School was founded in 1491 by William Wood of Sudbury College. These buildings were designed by Robert Page of London, and opened in 1858 with 26 pupils.

Caption For Oakley, The Church C1960

The name of the village means 'a clearing in the oak woods'.

Caption For Cranham, The Woods 1907

This large area of deciduous woods, in which beech predominates, is a favourite with walkers.

Caption For Sheffield, Fargate And Surrey Street 1893

It was removed to Endcliffe Woods in 1903; a statue of the Queen replaced it here in 1905, but it was itself taken to the woods in 1930.

Caption For Sheffield, Fargate And Surrey Street 1893

It was removed to Endcliffe Woods in 1903; a statue of the Queen replaced it here in 1905, but it was itself taken to the woods in 1930.

Caption For Buxton, In Corbar Woods 1915

This wooded area to the north of the town was laid out and intersected with walks in the latter half of the 19th century and remain today a pleasant, if steep walk to the northern rim of the bowl

Caption For Hanbury, Dodderhill Common C1965

Also known as Piper's Hill Common, this beautiful nature reserve has developed from wood pasture; that is, rough grazing with a scattering of trees.

Caption For Radcliffe On Trent, The Weir C1955

The Trent Valley Way long-distance footpath runs through the cliff-top woods for over a mile.

Caption For Boreham Street, White Friars Hotel C1955

It is an attractive village, and at the west end, on the corner of Wood Lane, is the White Friars Hotel; we see it here from Wood Lane, with the main road passing between the creeper-clad hotel

Caption For Sharpness, The Docks C1955

Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.

Caption For Hanbury, Dodderhill Common C1965

Also known as Piper`s Hill Common, this beautiful nature reserve has developed from wood pasture; that is, rough grazing with a scattering of trees.

Caption For Madeley Wood, From The South 1896

During the 18th century Madeley Wood grew into large industrial community where 3,500 people worked in the iron industry.

Caption For Graffham, The Village C1955

Graffham is a wooded hillside village under the Downs. Pescod's Stores has a Hovis sign on a painted wall.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Silver Street 1906

Appropriately still running beside trees at Burley Villas and Abbeyfield (centre), Silver Street was named in the Middle Ages for the Latin word for a wooded setting, rather than the precious metal.

Caption For Trossachs, Hotel And Loch Achray 1899

This picture shows the Trossachs Hotel situated on the northern shore, and the wooded slopes of Sron Armailte.

Caption For Ipswich, On The River Orwell 1909

A sailing barge makes its way along the Orwell, with lush wooded hillsides coming down to meet the broad tidal mudflats at the water's edge.

Caption For Trossachs, Hotel And Loch Achray 1899

This picture shows the Trossachs Hotel situated on the northern shore, and the wooded slopes of Sron Armailte.

Caption For Hopwas, The Canal C1965

At Hopwas, just beyond Tamworth, the canal threads its way through attractive wooded country.

Caption For Chester, Cathedral Deans Seat 1913

The Dean's seat is just one of the many superb examples of wood-carving in the stalls. Bench ends, misericords and canopies are individually carved.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Regatta Day 1899

The environs are very beautiful, and comprise one of the finest reaches of the Thames, flanked by gentle hills or cliffs covered with hanging woods.