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Photos

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Maps

181,031 maps found.

1882 - 1901, Swannington Ref. HOSM61036
1898 - 1899, Bewaldeth Ref. HOSM37634
1898 - 1923, Bridekirk Ref. HOSM38841
1898 - 1899, Greysouthen Ref. HOSM47109
1898, High Lorton Ref. HOSM48343
1898 - 1899, Sunderland Ref. HOSM60924
1895 - 1896, Abberton Ref. HOSM35006
1895 - 1896, Birch Ref. HOSM37778
1884, Great Wenham Ref. HOSM46968
1884 - 1896, Higham Ref. HOSM48391
1896, Little Bentley Ref. HOSM51402
1895 - 1896, Peldon Ref. HOSM56250
1896, West Bergholt Ref. HOSM63751
1878 - 1901, Broadwell Ref. HOSM39039
1878 - 1900, Ellwood Ref. HOSM44748
1900, Shortstanding Ref. HOSM57533
1878 - 1900, Palmer's Flat Ref. HOSM62577
1911 - 1912, Graig Ref. HOSM46720
1888 - 1903, Farway Ref. HOSM45206
1897 - 1908, Buglawton Ref. HOSM39412

Books

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Memories

29,073 memories found. Showing results 8,231 to 8,240.

Stocks Lane

My family and I lived in Stocks Lane, Drury's Garage was next to us at the top on the corner. The house we lived in still looks exactly the same today as it did so many years ago. Sadly Drury's house, which is shown in the picture, is in a ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1949

Llancaut Cottagr

I have a similar photo to this one ref 32487 in an old photo album of my great grandfather's. His maternal grand-parents were the Warder of Chepstow Castle ( George Morrey) This album is now being returned to Wales and will be given ...Read more

A memory of River Wye by Joyce Dunn

Merry Christmas

What a joy to see the stained glass window again. Every childhood Christmas with my beloved mum & dad, my brother and I would enter the fancy dress competition in this very room. Also we eagerly awaited the arrival of Father ...Read more

A memory of Bispham in 1974 by David A

Strathmore

My parents bought Strathmore which was a large house with 4 1/2 acres of garden just opposite the village shop on the road to Charlwood. We lived there as a family until about 1965, Peter Butterworth was a neighbour. Both my sisters Anne ...Read more

A memory of Ifield in 1950 by John Bass

Glasgow Agency Of The Bank Of England

"The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" as the Bank of England is known maintained a small office in Glasgow fir many years. It was on the north side of St VIncent Place and I worked there between 1975 and 1978. ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1975 by John Howard Norfolk

Stanhope Boys Home A Horrible Place To Be

I was in Crawly House in Stanhope Castle School from 1978-1981. My memories were not too good, it was a horrible place to be when you were 11 years old. I visited Stanhope Home a year ago and it has been ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1978 by Trevor Corner

An Evacuee During World War Ii

My name then was Babs Collins and my memory goes back to World War II, when I and others from my school in Victoria, London were evacuated to both East & West Clandon. We had been moved very hurriedly in July ...Read more

A memory of East Clandon in 1940 by Gina Arnold

From 1944

Memories from that long ago tend to stick in the back of the mind until an association brings them out. Being a small child, the village green at Bearsted seemed gigantic and the village pond was just a pond. We used to paddle in the pond ...Read more

A memory of Bearsted by Beverley Simmons

St Christopher School

Hi my name is Noreen and I lived in Farnham for quite a few years. I was actually born in Ash. As you go past the library, from the town centre, there used to be a private school called St Christopher, where I worked for a good ...Read more

A memory of Farnham in 1996 by Noreen Simons

Lived Here

I was sent here some time around 1944/45?, I lived in a farmhouse to the left of this picture, just after the turning left, in fact the entrance was just on the right as one turned left. The family I think were called "Choules", or Choles", ...Read more

A memory of Goring in 1944 by Don Lucas

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Captions

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Caption For Northampton, All Saints Church 1922

Since this photograph was taken, the street has become much busier with traffic; these days it would be difficult to stroll about without fear of being knocked down.

Caption For Wilsford, St Michael's Church C1955

St Michael's at Wilsford has herringbone flintwork and a large unbuttressed Norman tower on the west end.

Caption For Hailsham, Old Houses C1955

Fleur-de-Lys, the timber-framed building, is one of Hailsham's most interesting and oldest buildings.

Caption For West Byfleet, Rosemount Parade C1955

West Byfleet is more stylish with its architecturally-considered parade of shops and flats: this is quite a successful composition, with occasional timber-framed accents.

Caption For Sudbury, Ballingdon Street 1904

On the left, the second house with the lower roof has been demolished.

Caption For Avebury, The Stones C1955

The Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.

Caption For Little Baddow, Grace's Walk 1906

This point - where Grace's Walk crosses Sandon Brook - has a ghost-story attached to it: Lady Alice Mildmay (d1615), child-bride of Sir Henry, supposedly drowned herself in a pond here after he was unkind

Caption For Yeovil, The Park And Church 1900

All the houses on the left went to make way for the inner ring road and its roundabout; the gable on the far right belongs to The Armoury pub, which does survive.

Caption For Winsford, Village 1930

This village is virtually the creation of its 19th-century rector, Joseph Relph, who built large numbers of houses to double its size, including Tarrs Inn, which we can see in this view, with

Caption For Nether Stowey, Post Office And The Cross 1935

Here, at the junction of St Mary Street and Castle Street on the right, which leads to the Norman castle ruins, is the Clock Tower of 1897 topped by its timber belfry and weathervane.

Caption For Norton St Philip, The George Inn C1950

Built in the late 14th century for the Carthusian monks of Hinton Priory, the George Inn catered for the wool merchants who came to the town's two annual fairs: it performed a useful service and was

Caption For Luton, Airport, Modern Jets 2005

LOOKING TO the future, a lot depends on the fortune of the nation and its place in the world.

Caption For North Berwick, The Seafront 1897

The popular seafront of North Berwick.

Caption For Bridport, South Street 1897

This is looking northwards up South Street, to Stag House at the top end of West Street and the Town Hall (centre).

Caption For Eype, Village 1930

This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter's Church (centre).

Caption For Milton Lilbourne, The Village C1955

This peaceful village to the south of Marlborough is one long street retaining many old cottages.

Caption For Rickmansworth, The Canal 1897

By 1796 the Grand Junction Canal passed through Rickmansworth on its way from Brentford on the Thames to Braunston.

Caption For Syston, High Street C1955

An attractive corner of medieval Sithestan (1254). The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

Caption For Wrea Green, The Grapes Hotel C1965

The hotel's old name was the Dumpling Inn because of the annual custom of eating dumplings in broth.

Caption For Betchworth, Post Office 1928

This post office was built in 1900 on land belonging to the Betchworth Park Estate, and was designed to deal with the business of three villages, Betchworth, Brockham and Buckland, including sorting and

Caption For Welshpool, The Mermaid Inn C1955

Welshpool has had an anxious history, situated on the border with England, and has been destroyed on several occasions.

Caption For Waddington, War Memorial 1921

The roots of tradition run deep here, and some old customs were observed until the 19th century.

Caption For Inskip, Main Road C1950

On the left we can see a line of old-fashioned telegraph poles. Not all post offices in the Fylde had a telegraph office early in the 20th century, nor could they deal with postal orders.

Caption For Rivington, The Barn C1955

The only original components left of this ancient barn are its oak cruck supports.