Maps

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Books

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Memories

8,147 memories found. Showing results 501 to 510.

Our House In Lusted Hall Lane.

A very happy time when we lived there. 22 houses on this land now. We had the woods down the hill with bluebells, white bells, snowdrops and Hazel nut trees.

A memory of Biggin Hill by Sioban Martin

Mayford Road, Calbourne Road, Airdale, Gosburton Etc.

I am trying to contact someone who lived in and around the Mayford Rd area during the 50's and remembers in particular the Coronation and the street parties circa 1953 and any photographs taken during ...Read more

A memory of Balham in 1953 by Philip Spencer

Great Childhood Memories

I remember living in Middleton on Sea when I was between the ages of eight and 11 in the early 60’s and I went to Edward Bryant school in Bognor. We lived in a road called North Avenue East and I just remember the roads ...Read more

A memory of Middleton-on-Sea by Lynne Bate

The 1940s

Hi all. My name is John Potter. I have found out the last address of my Gran and Grandad Hollands, at 78 High Street, Halling. I remember going across a bridge past the graves in a wood on the right to the allotments to help my grandfather, ...Read more

A memory of Halling in 1940 by John Potter

My Eli Memories.

Just found this site. I was born in Euxton in the early 50s, went to school there for a while and finally left in the early 70s. My dad's family had lived in the village since the late 19th century. They came from Wrightington and before ...Read more

A memory of Euxton by haydocks

English At Heart

I am an American who went to school in Chester in 1966/67. Rather, should I say, I was registered for school at Chester College. However, I can't say I was actually in the building very often. There just always seemed to be somewhere ...Read more

A memory of Chester in 1966 by Linda Snyder

The Bushey Arches Traffic!

I first saw Oxhey in 1956 when I would take the train from Hatch End to Bushey & Oxhey station (as it was called then) on Saturday afternoons to see Watford play football at Vicarage Road in the old Third Division South. The ...Read more

A memory of Oxhey in 1956 by John Howard Norfolk

Where I Was Born

I was born at 24 Freehold Street in September 1939. My mother told me that a man who lived at the top of the street came down on his bike blowing a whistle to warn people of an air raid the same day. I can still remember most of ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heyford in 1930 by Marion June Messenger

The Bakery

When I lived in the village there was a bakery at the building on the corner of this road where it went down to the canal. The flour was ground at the Mill over the drawbridge for making the most delicious bread you could buy in those ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heyford in 1940 by Marion June Messenger

Standon Life.

I had a wonderful childhood growing up in Standon. I went to the old school in Standon High Street. We walked across the road to have dinner in the village hall. We had the luxury of a swimming pool - outdoor changing rooms. We had drinking ...Read more

A memory of Standon by Melanie Tharby

Captions

2,258 captions found. Showing results 1,201 to 1,224.

Caption For Cockerham, The Old Rectory C1965

On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.

Caption For Sabden, The Caravan Site C1965

A favourite walk is down the valley between the rivers Calder and Ribble. The climb to the pass of Nick o' Pendle is another favourite.

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 Penzance, Market Jew Street 1920

This, the most westerly town in England, has been raided down the centuries by Spanish ships and by pirates.

Caption For Haverfordwest, Market Street 1950

Looking down Market Street towards St Mary's with the spire of St Martin's just visible beyond.

Caption For Porthgwarra, Cove And Caves 1908

There is just space to bring a few open fishing boats between the rocks to a slipway at this little cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head.

Caption For High Wycombe, View From The Guildhall C1955

From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street. The buildings on the right replace medieval market place encroachment.

Caption For Thrapston, De Vere Road C1955

Pairs of 1930s semis seem to march down the hill, the view made more bleak by the brutal municipal pruning of the silver birch trees - they are now no more substantial than the street lamp or the telephone

Caption For Guildford, High Street 1903

A picture taken eight years later than No 35060A, and lower down the High Street towards the river.

Caption For Kings Lynn, The Broad Walks 1891

In the 19th century, fungus started to attack the elm and ash trees, and in August 1891 an ancient mulberry tree planted by monks from Blackfriars Monastery blew down.

Caption For Youlgrave, Church Street C1955

The splendid Perpendicular tower of All Saints, Youlgreave, is one of the finest in the Peak District, and commands this view down Church Street.

Caption For Teignmouth, From The Pier 1903

The bathing huts will soon be winched down to the shallows so that modest ladies can paddle discreetly.

Caption For Chatham, High Street C1955

The dome further down the street was on the old Empire Theatre, which could seat 2,500 people. It specialised in music hall-style entertainment before it closed during the 1960s.

Caption For Wantage, Market Place C1965

The statue of King Alfred, erected in 1877, looks down on a car park taken over every Wednesday and Saturday by market stalls.

Caption For Ryde, Union Street 1904

Much of its architecture dates from the 19th century, a reminder that the Victorians made this island their own as a holiday and residential location.

Caption For Warnham, Corner House 1921

After the horses had been changed at Kingsfold, the stagecoaches ran through Warnham down Little London Hill, past Warnham Corner at the junction of Station Road.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Pier 1925

Two smart white-liveried motor charabancs are collecting holiday makers from the pier, possibly for the advertised excursion over the South Downs.

Caption For Wass, The Village C1960

The view from Keeper's Cottage, left, leads us down the lane towards the Wombwell Arms, named after local landowner, Sir George Wombwell.

Caption For Pendleton, The Village 1921

Owned for centuries by the Aspinall family, Pendleton was an old village when the Domesday Book was compiled.

Caption For Wales, The Square C1955

In the days when the Reverend William Downes was rector, and William Wilkinson kept the Leeds Arms, local farmers included Joseph Booth, Jonathan Marshall, Maude Thomas, John Shirt and Thomas Stanland

Caption For Muthill, Culdees Castle 1899

Fittings from Hawkhill in Edinburgh were saved by the Scottish Georgian Society just two days before the building burnt down. Culdees Castle was demolished in 1967.

Caption For Bradford, Tyrrell Street 1903

The aroma of freshly-ground coffee used to drift down this street in the heart of the city. Collinson's Café, above John Smith's on the left, also offered a three-piece orchestra.

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, Knight Street 1903

An inquisitive dog with a docked tail keeps an attentive eye on proceedings further down the street.

Caption For Cromer, The Sands 1906

Cromer stands high and bracing on its breezy cliffs, from which stairs and zig-zag paths lead down to the sands. On undeveloped tastes Cromer would be thrown away.