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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.

During the holiday our Gift Cards may still be ordered for any last minute orders and will be sent automatically by email direct to your recipient - see here: Gift Cards

Maps

1,865 maps found.

1925, Manor Park Ref. POP773963
1921, Manor Park Ref. POP773967
1924, Newton Park Ref. POP791961
1919, Old Park Ref. POP796990
1947, Hampton Park Ref. NPO726255
1945, Grove Park Ref. NPO723036
1947, Old Park Ref. NPO796982
1946, Old Park Ref. NPO796990
1945, Leigh Park Ref. NPO754826
1946, Park Corner Ref. NPO800483
1947, Park End Ref. NPO800508
1946, Park Gate Ref. NPO800925
1940, Park Hill Ref. NPO801006
1946, Park Town Ref. NPO801258
1947, Manor Park Ref. NPO773965
1945, Manor Park Ref. NPO773971
1946, Manor Park Ref. NPO773972
1940, Moor Park Ref. NPO783209
1945, Moor Park Ref. NPO783210
1898, Queen's Park Ref. RNE812313

Books

1 books found. Showing results 1,129 to 1.

Memories

4,383 memories found. Showing results 471 to 480.

Cracknells

Going to my nan and grandad's every week; Frank and Ellen Cracknell. Meeting all the family there, going strawberry picking, swimming in the ford, cutting across to the Wellington Country Park through the back way, going to Sunday school ...Read more

A memory of Bramshill by Deborah Ayres

Off Licence

My mum used to run the off licence...she started working there the year my older sister turned 11 and passed her 11+. My mum ran the off licence until she had to leave in 1979 when my dad had his first heart attack. Dad is still alive ...Read more

A memory of Stanwell in 1966 by Sue Blay

Park South

I can remember 1963 very well. I lived in Kingsway Close. My father was an insurance agent named Reg Dady and later became an assistant manager. I attended Swindon College and then joined my father as an insurance agent for United ...Read more

A memory of Swindon in 1963 by Barry Dady

Bury Road

I well recall helping to pull the 40th Epping Forest Scouts trek cart with its iron shod wheels loaded with camping gear, along here on the way to Gilwell Park.

A memory of Chingford by Ted Dowling

Bomb Blast `siding` Margaret Street/Victoria Street.

I recall as a young boy of 7 or 8, that I was among a group of friends playing on the siding at the bottom of Margaret Street. We, as friends, found the bomb on the Rhigos Mountain and carried it ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert in 1943 by Ben Thomas

Born On Sutton Flats

I was born on Sutton Flats (now demolished) Pendleton in 1941. My first vague memory was sitting under a table with a blanket draped over it and a lit candle (must have been an air-raid on at the time). My first real memory was a ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Edward Ashton

Collyhurst Flats, Southern Drive

Lived at 17 Southern Drive, went to St Oswalds. One of my memories was helping Harry the firewood lad; he used to sell firewood from his handcart. Marco real ice-cream. Harry Wilkinson in the chip shop - if you put ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1952 by Jimmy Jones

My Life In Battersea

We used to live in Henning Street in Battersea, we were always in Battersea Park and "the jungle" which was a playpark for teenagers with ropes and pulleys, my brothers had great fun in there whilst my friends and I were always ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1960 by Margaret Cheeseman

Colville Road, Sparkbrook

I was born at 4 Back, 34 Colville Road in January 1950. These back houses were very small with a shared outside toilet. We had all manner of creatures that lived there too, massive spiders, blackbats and beetles that lived ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook in 1950 by Janet Devine

Barking Lake

Not sure of the date; one of my memories is being over the park the whole day fishing and catching a jar full of stickle backs. The were so packed in I think when I got them home they were nearly all dead.

A memory of Barking in 1942 by Maureen Salle

Captions

2,179 captions found. Showing results 1,129 to 1,152.

Caption For Flookburgh, Market Street 1903

The only traffic is a cart parked by a barn on the right of the road, its shafts up in the air (right). To its left is the Crown Hotel.

Caption For Uttoxeter, Market Place C1955

Notice the old Whieldon's green bus parked outside.

Caption For Warrington, The Bowling Green, Bank Park C1955

Bank Park was fashioned out of the private gardens of Bank Hall.

Caption For Bawtry, Buttercross, Market Place C1965

This view shows a virtually-deserted Market Place at Bawtry, with a 'half-timbered' Morris Minor prominently parked by the old Buttercross.

Caption For Gravesend, New Road C1955

Behind the parked car on the left, the striped awning protects a tobacconist's display from the sun, while next door is the extensive frontage of the British Home Stores, with the offices of the Pearl

Caption For Ravenscar, The Camping Coaches C1955

This pair of old railway coaches parked on the cliff top at Ravenscar, the eastern terminus of the Lyke Wake Walk, served as basic accommodation for campers in the mid-Fifties, but they have long since

Caption For Dinnington, Lordens Hill C1965

There are few cars parked along the street, but in those days private car ownership amid working families was still something of a novelty.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The Regatta 1890

The Firs on the left, with its oriel window, is at the end of Riverside, now private parking for the hotel.

Caption For London, Hyde Park Corner, The Screen And Apsley House C1908

The handsome triple-arched gateway, with its classical screen and groups of Ionic columns, was intended originally to create a noble approach to the Park from Buckingham Palace.

Caption For Moelfre, The Bay C1955

On this bright summer's day, the car park in the heart of the village is packed full of cars.

Caption For Caernarfon, The Square 1933

In this view of the square, coaches are parked in the broad open expanse. The town consists of ten streets within the walls, which are defended by round towers, and around twenty outside.

Caption For Taunton, Park Gates 1906

Crossing Mary Street from the southern end of the High Street brings the explorer of Taunton to Vivary Park.

Caption For York, Exhibition C1885

An exhibition of fine art was held in the grounds of Bootham Park Hospital in 1866.

Caption For Willenhall, Memorial Park C1965

Willenhall recently won a national lottery grant to restore the park.

Caption For Beoley, Village Inn C1965

The car park was a garden then, and many thousands of afternoon teas were served there to townsfolk over the years.

Caption For Bristol, Tennis Courts C1935

In August 1920, Bristol Corporation obtained an Act to take over the former BP&PR railway line between Sneyd Park Junction and Hotwells.

Caption For Beoley, Village Inn C1965

The car park was a garden then, and many thousands of afternoon teas were served there to townsfolk over the years.

Caption For Cawthorne, Taylor Hill C1955

There was no traffic on Taylor Hill, Cawthorne when this picture was taken, and the parked car was the only sign of life, apart from the two pedestrians on the right.

Caption For East Runton, High Street C1955

The sea is immediately to the right of the caravan park; there are steep steps down to the beach here, as at several other places on the Norfolk coast.

Caption For Histon, High Street C1965

the Village Green, the Boot (left), one of the oldest pubs in the village, and the Barley Mow beyond, are both still trading, although the General Stores between them has been demolished to make a car park

Caption For Ramsey, High Street C1955

The Horse and Gate pub (left) has been redeveloped into shops, the Lion Hotel (right) is now flats, and parking is only allowed on the left-hand side of the street.

Caption For Warrington, St James's Church And Wilderspool C1965

The two parked minis and the Volkswagen car show that this is the era of The Beatles.

Caption For Saffron Walden, The Church From The Golf Course C1955

The golf course was laid out in the deer park of Audley End House. From the course there is a fine view of the town.

Caption For Launceston, Fore Street 1893

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.