Maps

2,499 maps found.

1904-1906, Annbank Ref. RNC625797
1899, Bromley Heath Ref. RNC651641
1904-1905, Burnbank Ref. RNC656230
1905, Burnhead Ref. RNC656398
1904-1905, Carmichael Ref. RNC661581
1904-1905, Carnwath Ref. RNC662688
1904-1905, Carstairs Junction Ref. RNC663274
1904-1906, Barbieston Ref. RNC632848
1904-1905, Blantyre Ref. RNC643825
1901-1904, Cleadon Ref. RNC670018
1901-1904, Cleadon Park Ref. RNC670021
1904-1905, Coalburn Ref. RNC672569
1899, Conham Ref. RNC676549
1904-1905, Causewayend Ref. RNC664876
1898-1899, Charfield Green Ref. RNC666736
1898-1899, Churchend Ref. RNC668621
1904-1905, Larkhall Ref. RNC753099
1904-1905, Limekilnburn Ref. RNC756024
1899, Longwell Green Ref. RNC767247
1904-1906, Low Coylton Ref. RNC767925

Books

23 books found. Showing results 1,489 to 23.

Memories

1,578 memories found. Showing results 621 to 630.

Looking Back

Spring Grove Central was one of the happiest times of my life. Sadly the school closed and we were all moved to Heathlands in Wellingron Road South. I have been long gone from the area, leaving to train as a nurse at Guys Hospital. But ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow

1960s & 70s

My grandparents (McNaught) lived in Henrietta Street, and my parents & I stayed with them for many holidays in the 60s and 70s. An uncle & aunt lived in George Street - they were retired teachers from Barrhill school. Another aunt ...Read more

A memory of Girvan by kennethcockburn

Tanktops And Bellbottoms

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone we ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

Cycling To Helston

At No 50 on this road is the Blue Anchor, which is my favourite pub in the entire world. The visit I remember best was in 2000. I was on a fortnights leave from work, & had used a bonus to buy my first brand new vehicle, a ...Read more

A memory of Helston by bru.enzer

A Million Miles From A Game Of Football.

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The day ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

Park Ave South, Hornsey

I lived at 78 Park Ave South, Hornsey from 1943 to 1959. I was 4yrs old when we moved in. My first memory is wheeling my doll pram with my parents from Crouch End to our new apartment. We were two houses away from the narrow ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey by Netta Lawrence

An Image From My Memory....!

My mother passed away in 1955 just two days after my 12th birthday following which a couple who my father knew and who had a handicapped son in a children's home in the village in Suffolk where I lived took me to their home ...Read more

A memory of Little Common by bewhiting

Awliscombe Lower Mill On River Wolf

I'm an Awliscombe Loaring descended from at least 2 generations of Loarings who operated the mill c1700 on the River Wolf just down the lane to the southwest of the Honiton Inn in Awliscombe. I'm hoping someone ...Read more

A memory of Awliscombe by David Loaring

Northolt Wonderland

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell

Mother Stay At Hut Hotel

When my Mother died in 2000 we found a letter saying my mother nee Mary Kingston and her friend stayed at the hotel . The lake had frozen and they went skating on it at Christmas time . She would have been about 12 at the time ...Read more

A memory of Wisley by Barry Woodward

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 1,489 to 1,512.

Caption For Halland, Cross Roads C1965

We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield. Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family.

Caption For Skillington, Village C1965

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Caption For Clayton West, Long Lane C1955

Clayton West was typical of many South Yorkshire coalfield villages in the 1950s, when this photograph was taken.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, Mount Pleasant C1955

The carefully-pollarded lime trees along both sides of this north to south street help to shade the frontages of the varied shops and other retail establishments which flourish here.

Caption For Ludford, Post Office C1955

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

Caption For Skillington, Village C1965

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Caption For Sheffield, The Crimean Monument 1893

This is the junction of South Street and Union Street. The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with many such monuments, it came complete with a captured Russian cannon.

Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

The photographer was looking south towards Troutbeck, with the shoulder of Broad End on the left.

Caption For Tenby, South Sands 1890

Both on the north and south sands there are numerous bathing machines.

Caption For Torquay, The Bowling Green 1906

This celebrated and fashionable winter resort occupies the northern corner of Tor Bay, and is securely sheltered from all winds, except those from the south-east.

Caption For Mawnan Smith, The Village 1930

South-west of Falmouth, Mawnan Smith is at a crossroads where one lane continues on to Helford Passage beside the sheltered waters of the Helford River.

Caption For Sully, The Hospital C1950

Ideally located to take advantage of the beneficial properties of sea air, the south-facing hospital wards further benefited from the shelter of existing trees.

Caption For London, Crystal Palace 1900

After the Exhibition, it was moved to wooded parkland at Sydenham in south-east London.

Caption For Glasgow, Atlantic Quay 2005

It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom.

Caption For Amesbury, St Mary And St Melor's Church C1955

He put in the vivid coloured tiles on the east wall, and he is responsible for the Perpendicular south aisle and west end. The outline of a chapel remains in the east side walls.

Caption For Boston, Doughty Quay 1890

Further south, High Street opens up to the river, the buildings terminating in an elegant early 19th-century five-storey warehouse with a hipped roof: more like a very tall villa than a warehouse.

Caption For Grantham, Market Place C1955

This section is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

Caption For Ogmore By Sea, Stepping Stones And Ogmore Castle 1937

Ogmore lies two miles to the south-west of Bridgend.

Caption For Bodmin, Lanhydrock 1890

The rest of the house and the south wing were badly damaged in a fire in 1881, but they were rebuilt in the same style three years later.

Caption For Uley, The Tumulus C1960

Inside is a stone-lined gallery some 20ft long, with two side chambers leading off on the south side. A matching pair on the north side has long since collapsed.

Caption For Aylesbury, Walton Street 1901

Further south-east, the old village of Walton suffered greatly in the 1960s. The buildings on the left went to accommodate a dual-carriageway road widening.

Caption For Chudleigh, The Pixies' Cave 1907

These caves, in the south face of Chudleigh Rock, were used in prehistoric times.

Caption For Wilmington, The Long Man C1960

The Long Man of Wilmington stands on the northern slope of the South Downs, today marked out in white bricks. Who he is and when he was originally cut into the downland turf is not known.

Caption For Penton Hook, The Lock 1934

But river traffic at this point has now been greatly increased with the opening of the vast Penton Hook Marina in a flooded gravel pit on the south bank, which is accessed from just below this lock.