Maps

671 maps found.

1898, Newton Ref. RNE791721
1896, Newton Ref. RNE791723
1947, Newton Ref. NPO791668
1947, Newton Ref. NPO791676
1947, Newton Ref. NPO791682
1947, Newton Ref. NPO791707
1946, Newton Ref. NPO791708
1940, Newton Ref. NPO791710
1946, Newton Ref. NPO791720
1946, Newton Ref. NPO791723
1946, Newton Ref. NPO791724
1925, Newton Ref. POP791666
1925, Newton Ref. POP791671
1923, Newton Ref. POP791673
1921, Newton Ref. POP791686
1920, Newton Ref. POP791696
1923, Newton Ref. POP791704
1922, Newton Ref. POP791705
1919, Newton Ref. POP791710
1919, Newton Ref. POP791712

Books

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Memories

218 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.

Our Street

Our Street was named Aston Street at the back of the Kings Arms pub in Rochdale Road. It was an amazing little street with a tripe shop and pies at the top of the street, a garage next door which housed Johnny Raffo's Ice Cream Vans, ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1949 by Bernice Wood

Childhood Memories

I was born in Hereford County Hospital in 1945 and together with my twin sister was bought back to Broad View, Llangrove where I lived with my Mum and Dad and older brother from 1945 until I got married in 1965. My Dad had lived ...Read more

A memory of Llangrove in 1950 by Sheila Gwilliam

Brothers And Sisters

My brother Christopher and I first went down to school at Visitation Convent, Bridport in September 1957. We lived in Ascot as our father had been an officer in the Royal Horse Guards and had been based at Windsor. We took a ...Read more

A memory of Bridport by Timothy Clarke

Kettering Tyres Ltd

I joined Kettering Tyres in Newton Road in the late sixties, as assistant to the late Cedric "Tiny" Guilford - "Tiny" was a larger than life character in every way - twenty-odd stone and with a personality to match. The Socialist ...Read more

A memory of Rushden in 1967 by Adrian Speakman

My Life In 1955 In The Manor House Coln St Aldwyns

In 1955, my mother was hired as a housekeeper for Mrs Pam Spanogh, a polio victim in a wheelchair. It was for me, a five year old, the most idyllic time of my life and my memories of this ...Read more

A memory of Coln St Aldwyns in 1955 by Caroline Newton

Policeman's Daughter

My dad Harry Newbon, became the village bobby in 1956. We lived in the police house in Wellfield Road until 1964 - the happiest days of my young life. Attending the village school where the head was Mr Hayton. Does anyone ...Read more

A memory of Alrewas by Christine Burton

Johnson Family

My grandmother Selina Lucy Tank Hotten fell pregnant at the age of 18 years. Her father, Charles Henry Hotten was a gardener and felt he would lose his job if anyone found out about this. Selina was sent to a workhouse to have her ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 1890 by Susan Trickett

Uxbridge, Windsor Street

I had forgotten Suiters 'quirky' cash system but I do remember another store called Manettas which was to the right of Uxbridge station. In 1966 it caused an uproar in town as it displayed a topless dress, which was the ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Kathy Mc Nally

Grandfather

My grandfather, Frederick William Crossland, lived in Newton le Willows for many years running the village shop. In circa 1962 we attended his 80th birthday, possibly the only time all the family came together as my cousin and his young family moved to New Zealand.

A memory of Newton-le-Willows in 1962 by Marion Crossland

Childhood Memories

My family lived at 6 Tynedale Road and my two sisters and I were all born there. We attended Brockham School when Mr. Rogers was the Headmaster. Mr. & Mrs. Foster owned the Sweetshop & Newsagents and I did a paper ...Read more

A memory of Strood Green by Maureen Hollingdale

Captions

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Caption For Grantham, High Street 1904

More survives on the left; in the distance are the pilasters of Newton and Derry's building to give the viewer a point of reference.

Caption For Sudbury, St Leonard's Hospital 1900

The endowment was used to support the new St Leonard's Hospital, which was established in 1867 in Newton Road.

Caption For Newton Abbot, From Decoy 1906

As the town grew it spread rapidly across the parishes of Wolborough, Highweek and Newton Bushel, forming the conurbation we see today.

Caption For Newton Abbot, From Decoy 1906

As the town grew it spread rapidly across the parishes of Wolborough, Highweek and Newton Bushel, forming the conurbation we see today.

Caption For Grantham, High Street 1904

More survives on the left; in the distance are the pilasters of Newton and Derry's building to give the viewer a point of reference.

Caption For Leicester, Eastgates 1949

The Gothic Clock Tower, designed by local architect Joseph Goddard in 1868, is decorated with pinnacles and canopies, along with four Leicester worthies including Alderman Gabriel Newton and Simon de Montfort

Caption For Aycliffe, The Green C1955

The resulting industrial estate formed the nucleus in 1947 for the creation of Newton Aycliffe New Town.

Caption For Maiden Newton, High West Street 1906

Maiden Newton stands on the high road between Dorchester and Crewkerne, an old route connecting Dorset with Devon. Its old mill became a carpet factory in the 20th century.

Caption For Newton Ferrers, From Noss Mayo 1890

This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill

Caption For Grantham, Grammar School 1890

This range is now the library and was, as a plaque informs us, where Isaac Newton was a pupil in the 1650s. No 1 on the right, a good 18th-century stone front, is now a Centre for Industrial Studies.

Caption For Newton Abbot, Courtenay Park Bowling Green 1907

Courtenay is the family name of the Earls of Devon, who were the major landowners in the area and responsible for much of the Victorian expansion of Newton Abbot.

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

Caption For Roseberry Topping, And The Kings Head C1960

It is seventy-five years on from view 18148, and the scene is little changed other than a slight realignment of the track in the foreground, which leads to the centre of the village of Newton

Caption For Selborne, The Bostal 1928

It gives an easier climb to the top of the Hanger, and it was a shorter route for Gilbert when he visited his friend Richard Yalden of Newton Valence.

Caption For Colsterworth, The Village C1960

with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman parish church the great Isaac Newton

Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

Caption For Grantham, High Street C1955

Beyond it, where the road narrows, is a good building of the 1840s with paired giant pilasters, now Newton and Derry, estate agents.

Caption For London, Westminster Abbey, The Nave Altar C1965

The pulpitum or screen behind the altar is mainly 1828, and the monument in the left recess is to Isaac Newton.

Caption For Sudbury, St Peter's Church 1932

The endowment was used to support the new St Leonard's Hospital, which was established in 1867 in Newton Road.

Caption For Sudbury, The Park C1965

A Georgian house called Belle Vue was built at the foot of Newton Road in the 1780s.

Caption For Fleckney, Wistow Hall C1960

With the parish church, the Hall stands on the deserted medieval village of Wistow, about half a mile to the south of Newton Harcourt.

Caption For Penrith, St Andrews's Church, The Giant's Thumb 1893

Newton's brewery formerly stood adjacent, but by 1911 it had been replaced by the Alhambra entertainment hall, now a cinema.

Caption For Trough Of Bowland, Sykes Farm 1921

The Quakers favoured this remote area, and founded a Meeting House at Newton-in-Bowland.

Caption For Fleckney, The Grand Union Canal C1965

The canal bypasses Fleckney on its eastern side; the photograph looks north east across Second Lock, towards Kibworth bridge and Bridge House, as the waterway winds towards Newton Harcourt