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Maps

1,622 maps found.

1940, Cackle Street Ref. NPO658338
1946, Church Street Ref. NPO668589
1946, Cock Street Ref. NPO672899
1940, Cock Street Ref. NPO672900
1896, Broad Street Ref. RNE650817
1895, Brook Street Ref. RNE652008
1895, Cackle Street Ref. RNE658339
1946, West Street Ref. NPO865013
1945, Thorley Street Ref. NPO846906
1946, Wickham Street Ref. NPO869869
1940, Upper Street Ref. NPO857822
1946, Upper Street Ref. NPO857827
1895, Mill Street Ref. RNE780559
1897, New Street Ref. RNE790358
1895, New Street Ref. RNE790360
1946, Low Street Ref. NPO768544
1946, Nether Street Ref. NPO788776
1940, Reading Street Ref. NPO814037
1946, New Street Ref. NPO790360
1940, North Street Ref. NPO793952

Books

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Memories

6,666 memories found. Showing results 721 to 730.

Lavender Hill Mob

I was born in Lambeth hospital in 1936. My parents moved into Nepaul Road off Falcon Road. My first memories of the Second World War were the blitz and air raid shelters. We were not bombed out but the estate was saved by Christ ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1947 by Edward Nicholls

Buying Sixpence Worth Of Stale Buns

I remember as a wee girl going with my brother Donald to buy sixpence worth of stale buns. I don't remember the bakers but it was behind Boots the Chemist. It was always a treat if your mum had a spare sixpence and ...Read more

A memory of Ayr in 1967 by Laura Wilson

Wolverhampton

Milano's was always a place my mother told me not to go to. I worked in Queen Street in a solicitors and had to deliver mail to all the other offices by hand. I saw my first Beatles movie in Wolverhampton. My sister 's haunt was ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton in 1965

Fun On The Ferry

Around about l956/57 we would all go to dances or parties in Southampton and of course, from memory, the last bus home to Hythe/Holbury/Fawley/Calshot was about 10.30p.m. Inevitably we girls missed it so there was a mad dash ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1956 by Jeannette Lomas

Working At Blagg Son And Masefield

I remember living on Charles Street in Cheadle, used to walk to Blaggson and Masefield every day and on Saturday mornings. My best friend was Julie Bryant, we loved dancing at the guild hall. My father ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle in 1962 by Marion Klein

My Gran

My gran was born on this street, she lived here till she married then moved to Huthwaite village where we grew up. I loved exploring Derbyshire. Most of my ancestors were born here including Sir Richard Arkwright (Inventor of the cotton mill)..Great memories...

A memory of South Normanton by Chrissy Walker

My Holiday Home

My name is Judy. During the early 1950s I lived in the National Children's Home in Harpenden. Every year a lovely family used to have me for a holiday, I would so much like to find them. I remember they lived in Gravesend in the ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1953 by Judy Garner

Cranford Shops 1980s 2010

Starting from Tesco Express: This used to be a block of about 2 or 3 shops which included a building society and a travel agent. Next to this was Barclays Bank which closed down in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It remained ...Read more

A memory of Cranford

Is It True

A friend of mine told me a tale of a small farm, or small holding, that existed in Beckett Street in Bilston. The man who ran it delivered milk from a pony and trap and sold it from a milk urn. Does anyone remember this, or was it a tale?

A memory of Bilston in 1951

The Grocers Next To Morgan's!

Born in 1939 and living in Banstead Road during the war, I have many memories of Purley, Croydon and Coulsdon. An alleyway ran from the High Street to the station, where I used to meet my father in the evenings from the ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1940 by Frances Casey

Captions

5,435 captions found. Showing results 1,729 to 1,752.

Caption For Darlington, North Lodge Park 1903

Entered from Gladstone Street, North Lodge Park is the remnant of the parkland that once surrounded William Backhouse's villa.

Caption For Crawley, The Fair, Upper Square 1905

Although a market is still held in the High Street, there are no cattle fairs any more.

Caption For Bridport, West Allington 1913

This view is looking north-westwards from the junction with North Allington, at the bottom end of South Street.

Caption For Petersfield, From Tilmore 1906

Petersfield is famous throughout Hampshire for several unusual street names.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1907

Although there were many shops in this road few people are visible in this scene, though a cart turning into the High Street brings it to life.

Caption For Coltishall, The Village 1902

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

Caption For Oxford, St Giles' Street 1890

Founded for women 28 years before this photograph was taken, Somerville College is barely visible from the street.

Caption For Oxford, High Street 1922

The graceful 14th-century spire of St Mary the Virgin Church, rising to nearly two hundred feet, dominates this photograph of the High Street. The tower is 13th-century.

Caption For Great Chart, The Village 1908

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

Caption For Epping, High Street 1921

A lunchtime view, with Epping's wide High Street and the 1907 tower of St John's church forming the backdrop, of an early London omnibus.

Caption For Lower Heyford, Freehold Street C1955

Here we are looking up Freehold Street towards the B4030 road.

Caption For Chepstow, High Street 1936

The hotel far down the street on the right is the Beaufort Hotel today.

Caption For Much Wenlock, Gaskell Arms 1911

He described Wenlock as an 'ancient little town . . . with no great din of vehicles . . . a dozen 'publics' (pubs), with tidy whitewashed cottages . . . and little girls bobbing curtsies in the street

Caption For Chesterfield, Knifesmithgate C1955

It is possible that knife-making was carried on in the town; it is also possible that the street was named after the Knivesmith family.

Caption For Manchester, Brooks Bank C1873

Chancery Lane is to the left of the building, and Brown Street runs away to the right. The whole building was put up by the Bank of England in 1826, its second branch in the provinces.

Caption For South Cerney, The Village C1965

South Cerney has some delightful street names, such as Bow Wow, close by the Old George Inn, and Upper Up, which now adjoins the village proper, but a reminder of the days when it was an outlying farming

Caption For Cambridge, Pembroke College C1955

This view looks south down Trumpington Street, with the Front Court of Pembroke College on the left with its distinctive classically designed Wren Chapel.

Caption For Melplash, The Village 1907

A delivery cart from Hine Brothers, butchers in Beaminster, is seen here in the main street at Melplash.

Caption For Great Chart, The Village 1908

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

Caption For Luton, The Corn Exchange C1950

Looking towards Chapel Street from Cheapside, we see a variety of building styles.

Caption For Bletchingley, The Village 1905

This is the wide High Street along the A25, where once a market was held; now it is all too often choked with traffic. The White Harte was built in the 16th century and refronted in the 18th century.

Caption For Liskeard, Library And Stuart House 1900

We are looking along Barras Street towards the Parade in the background. The Passmore Edwards Free Library, centre, was opened in 1896.

Caption For Rye, West Street 1888

timber-framed building on the left, has been well restored, while the corner house was replaced in 1920 by a brick and tile-hung Neo-Georgian Lloyds Bank, a most attractive building fronting the High Street

Caption For Cuddesdon, High Street C1955

This photograph shows Cuddesdon's long High Street, with the pub sign just visible at the far end.