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Photos

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Maps

150 maps found.

1947, Woodend Ref. NPO873056
1946, Woodend Ref. NPO873065
1946, Woodend Ref. NPO873069
1897, Woodend Ref. RNE873057
1896, Woodend Ref. RNE873066
1898-1901, Woodend Ref. RNC873069
1899, Shenstone Woodend Ref. RNE829684
1903-1904, Woodend Ref. RNC873062
1897, Hanbury Woodend Ref. RNE726319
1895, Woodend Green Ref. RNE873092
1901-1904, Woodend Ref. RNC873057
1921, Hanbury Woodend Ref. POP726319
1903-1904, Woodend Ref. RNC873056
1902-1903, Woodend Ref. RNC873064
1919, Woodend Green Ref. POP873092
1919, Lower Woodend Ref. POP769950
1946, Woodend Green Ref. NPO873092
1895, Lower Woodend Ref. RNE769950
1902, Hanbury Woodend Ref. RNC726319
1921, Shenstone Woodend Ref. POP829684

Books

4 books found. Showing results 121 to 4.

Memories

2,335 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

On Our Way To Longleat.....

After walking the footpath from Rodden Farm we would end up on the main Frome /Warminster road, not far from the start of Friggle Street. This was our route to Longleat we often took on foot during our school holidays. We ...Read more

A memory of Elliots Green in 1980 by Jt Davies

Busk Crescent

Late in 1945 my parents moved to 25 Busk Crescent, in Cove. The house was on top of a hill and overlooked the Farnborough airfield. From the front bedroom you could see aircraft landing on the runway. The house was one of a string of ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman

Delamere By Sid Grant

The Jewish Fresh Air Home and School was founded in 1921 by Miss Margaret Langdon, MBE, MA (1890-1980) and located at Blakemere Lane, Delamere near Norley, in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.  My time spent there was from age ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1930 by Sid Grant

I Remember...

I remember Huntingdon's High Street in 1965. I was only a little girl then, holding on to my grandmother's hand.  My grandparents were Kate and Reginald Wayman and they lived in Hartford Road opposite the River Ouse.  Nanna and I would ...Read more

A memory of Huntingdon by Gillian Shaw

Schooldays At Arley Castle

I went to Arley Castle as a boarder in 1943/44. It made a lasting impression on me. The Arboretum was my favourite place and we had names for many of the trees which we would climb from time to time. Miss Kell and Miss ...Read more

A memory of Upper Arley in 1943 by lucyontheinternet

The Old Ride

I first saw Frankleigh House through the trees in the distance as I was driven there for my first day at The Old Ride Preparatory School for Boys. The school and its predecessor had been based there for many years. As a seven ...Read more

A memory of Bradford-On-Avon in 1974 by Ian Frost

St Mary's Church

I have come across a lovely drawing of St Mary's Church by H J Woods, I also have lots of other original pictures by this artist and wondered if he was well know in Pulborough?

A memory of Pulborough in 1920

A Day At Alum Chine In The 1960s

It's a few minutes before 8.30am, and I've just returned with the newspaper for Dad bought from the Riviera Hotel next door. I have to rush downstairs again in time to ring the gong for breakfast - Mr Lacey, ...Read more

A memory of Westbourne in 1966 by Michael Bond

The Raf Estate

We lived on the RAF estate in Ickenham during the late 1950s, in a semi-detached house at 14 Nettleton Road. Every RAF home mirrored the next; their furnishings were also identical. You could move from Scotland to England (which we had ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham in 1957 by Mo Haarhoff

Pwll Y Crochan Woods

My late father was born in Colwyn Bay and his father and some of his relatives resided in Grove Park.  Every year my parents and my siblings had to visit the relatives, especially one we called Aunty Polly who I think was ...Read more

A memory of Colwyn Bay in 1947 by Susan Jones

Captions

583 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Abergavenny, River Usk And Sugarloaf 1898

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

Caption For Uley, The Street C1965

The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

Caption For Cragg Vale, St John's Church C1955

The pinnacled Victorian Parish Church of St John, Cragg Vale, with its crowded graveyard, looks down the isolated, wooded valley where the coiners once operated, far from the eyes of the law and authority

Ref. H293004
Caption For Halstock, C1960

It is a land of woods, pleasant meadows, winding footpaths and quiet-flowing streams.

Caption For Uley, The Street C1965

The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

Caption For Shovers Green, The Village 1903

An evocative picture of the signpost and a cart at this scattered hamlet in the wooded hilly Weald south-east of Wadhurst.

Caption For Grindleford, View From Goatscliff C1960

In the background are the wooded slopes of Froggatt and White Edge and the National Trust's Longshaw Estate.

Caption For Hawkchurch, The Church Tower C1955

Hawkchurch is situated in wild and wooded country, close to where Devon slips imperceptibly into Dorset.

Caption For Ashmore, The Pond C1960

Ashmore is a village of Cranborne Chase, with a splendid setting and a large pond that attracts a variety of birdlife.

Caption For Caterham, Pepper Alley 1907

A finely-composed scene, reflecting the verdant and rural side of this former military town. The view shows one of the wooded and sloping pathways that abound on the steep sides of the North Downs.

Caption For Blackhall Colliery, Crimdon Dene C1965

The wooded valley of Crimdon Dene is an unspoilt area close to Blackhall, where the beach is not polluted with coal spoil.

Caption For Ascot, High Street 1906

Ascot, close to the Surrey border and situated in a wooded corner of the county that was once part of the ancient Windsor Forest, has a strong suburban feel to it, with an abundance of Edwardian

Caption For Ascot, High Street 1906

Ascot, close to the Surrey border and situated in a wooded corner of the county that was once part of the ancient Windsor Forest, has a strong suburban feel to it, with an abundance of Edwardian

Caption For Emery Down, 1904

Badgers live deep in the woods, deer can be seen by the patient watcher, and buzzards circle overhead.

Caption For Lyndhurst, Crown Hotel 1897

The town's name comes from Old English and means lime or linden wood. Domesday Book calls the settlement here Linhest.

Caption For Hitchin, Lavender Field, Mount Pleasant 1901

Perks and Llewellyn's Mount Pleasant lavender fields, on the western outskirts of Hitchin in 1901.

Caption For Richmond, View From Castle Walk 1913

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Caption For Falmouth, Arwenack Avenue 1904

A good selection of early Edwardian costume can be seen in this well-wooded avenue. New trees have been planted between their older cousins, and a gas lamp struggles to be seen on the right.

Caption For Dartmouth, Dartmouth Regatta 1889

Queen Victoria much admired the town of Dartmouth and its beautiful estuary, recording in her journal that '...the place is lovely, with its wooded rocks and church and castle at the entrance.

Caption For Rowsley, The Peacock Inn 1886

Middleton – its full name is Middleton- by-Wirksworth – was a quarrying and mining village which produced the famous Hopton Wood stone.

Caption For Richmond, From West 1908

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Caption For Maidstone, Old House, Chatham Road C1965

This house has been restored and is typical of 15th-century building in the wooded Weald.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Ferry Arriving At The Nab C1955

By the time this photograph was taken, cars had replaced the horses and carts, and the crossing was accomplished by a chain-operated pulley.

Caption For St Ives, 1898

Artists such as Christopher Wood, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon and Patrick Heron all lived and worked here, making use of the unique quality of Penwith's light.