Photos

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Maps

181,031 maps found.

1910, Calder Vale Ref. HOSM39828
1910, Eagland Hill Ref. HOSM44129
1892, Higher Walton Ref. HOSM48481
1891 - 1910, Larbreck Ref. HOSM50790
1892, Much Hoole Ref. HOSM54267
1897, Princes Risborough Ref. HOSM35079
1897, Parslow's Hillock Ref. HOSM56147
1896, Goose Green Ref. HOSM46563
1895 - 1896, Nutbourne Ref. HOSM55479
1888 - 1899, Chwilog Ref. HOSM41061
1888 - 1899, Llangian Ref. HOSM51981
1899, Morfa Nefyn Ref. HOSM54180
1899, Pentreuchaf Ref. HOSM56464
1884, Chewton Mendip Ref. HOSM40757
1884, Midsomer Norton Ref. HOSM53790
1884, Ston Easton Ref. HOSM60587
1884, Upper Vobster Ref. HOSM63056
1896 - 1905, Manston Ref. HOSM53096
1897 - 1905, Pegwell Ref. HOSM56327
1897, Broad Oak Ref. HOSM38998

Books

442 books found. Showing results 20,809 to 20,832.

Memories

29,074 memories found. Showing results 8,671 to 8,680.

No 489 Squadron Flew From Raf Langham

A commemorative brass plaque in the church of St Andrew and St Mary, Langham was erected in memory of these men of 489 Torpedo Bomber Squadron RNZAF (and their comrades in other Coastal Command Squadrons) ...Read more

A memory of Langham in 1944 by David Burrowes

Seedhill Cottage

The house in the foreground is known as Seedhill Cottage.  My family lived there from the mid sixties to late seventies. My father was the gamekeeper for the local shoot and water baliff for Whitewell area. My mother was the school ...Read more

A memory of Whitewell in 1967 by Ian Idiens

A Schoolboy In Petts Wood

My parents Arthur and Hilary Cork bought their house in Towncourt Crescent in 1927 from Mr Coleman for £1000. Twice a day I would walk to the station to go to school at St Dunstan's in Catford. In those days there was the ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood in 1930 by Diana Cork

Youth Club

Dear Paul, I feel I should know either you or your brother but don't.  However, the Youth Club was originally Little Sutton library and prior to that the reading room.  I remember going there to choose my books from a very young age. ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1965 by Kathleen Green

Courtenay Park Salcombe

This view of Courtenay Park is quite poignant for me.  It shows houses at the lower end of Devon Road and also the land on which Egremont Terrace was later built. My parents lived in no. 10 Egremont Terrace from the late ...Read more

A memory of Salcombe in 1950 by William Lapthorn

Great Place Lost.

Grange Farm was the place to go for all teens.   You could swim or just hang around with friends.  To get there we walked across the fields and over the bridge across the Roding.  Now of course this place is no more.  A great loss.

A memory of Chigwell in 1957 by Kathleen Rice

Old Oxted

I was born in Springfield Road, Old Oxted in 1951.  I attended Beadles Lane School and Oxted County Secondary School.  I recall Old Oxted High Street when it was the main A25, before the by-pass, when the village shops consisted of Deans the ...Read more

A memory of Oxted by Jenny Baker

Clara Pine, My Grandmother Lived Here

Clara Pine was born in 1891 at Shute Farm in Lower Town, Malborough (see other photo). Aged 3 years she went with her Mum and older brother to America where she met her Dad for the first time in New York. ...Read more

A memory of Malborough in 1890 by Anne Speight

Lunch Time Bowling

I worked at Zwicky in Buckingham Avenue and some lunch times my friend Ann and I would have a game of bowling, a light lunch, then back to work.  My brother Frank used to be in one of the bowling teams that played in the evenings. ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1966 by Monica Peck

Baldwin's Butchers Shop

I have this photograph on the wall as it reminds me of my dad, Arthur Edward Elson. He was born in Mill Lane in 1914 and worked as a 'butcher's boy' for Baldwin's which is just visible on the right of the photo. He delivered meat ...Read more

A memory of Ewell in 1920 by Patricia Howard

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 20,809 to 20,832.

Caption For Redcar, The Bandstand 1906

On the right, there appears to be one of the few musical urinals in the British Empire: a combined toilet and bandstand.

Caption For Hillsborough, The Courthouse C1890

Originally built in 1760 as a market house, the courthouse, which stands in the centre of the square, was enlarged in 1810.

Caption For Bradford, Town Hall Square 1903

On the right is the Town Hall in all its Gothic splendour, which was completed in 1873 at a cost of £100,000.

Caption For Hull, Market Place 1903

The ancient parish church of Holy Trinity dates from the 13th to the 15th centuries and has an unusual brick-built chancel.

Caption For Mundesley, High Street 1921

Looking west along the High Street, we see buildings which are characteristic of North Norfolk: flints set in mortar, with brick facings.

Caption For Mundesley, High Street 1921

Looking west along the High Street, we see buildings which are characteristic of North Norfolk: flints set in mortar, with brick facings.

Caption For Rumney, The Church C1960

St Augustine's church is of the Early English period, with a later Perpendicular embattled tower with pinnacles. It was restored in 1860.

Caption For Harrold, The Pound And Thatched Cottage C1960

Although the base of the building may be older, the village pound, or lock-up, was certainly in use during Victorian times.

Caption For Monmouth, The Bridge Over The Monnow 1891

This gate is a Norman structure dating from 1262, and it is a rare example of a fortified gateway on a bridge.

Caption For Wednesbury, Market Place 1968

Wednesbury grew rapidly between 1851 and 1861 with the opening of firms like the Old Park Works and Lloyds, Foster & Co.

Caption For Tintern, The Village 1893

The ruins of the abbey are visible in the distance. This photograph shows how Tintern nestles in amongst the surrounding hills.

Caption For Darite, Trethevy Quoit 1890

The name Trethevy means 'place of the dead'.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Rifts Wood Mill 1891

Another view of the mill, showing the attractive double fronted mill manager's house. Note the large haystack in the centre foreground.

Caption For Tideswell, Queen Street C1950

In the background (centre) is the Methodist chapel, a common feature of most former lead mining villages in the White Peak.

Caption For Darite, Trethevy Quoit 1890

The name Trethevy means 'place of the dead'.

Caption For Plymouth, Drake's Statue 1930

SIR DRAKE, whome well the world's ends knewe Which thou didst compasse rounde: And whome both poles of Heaven ons saw, Which North and South do bound : The starrs above will make thee known,

Caption For Etal, Village C1955

Despite the fact that they were supposed to be on the same side when it came to defending the Borders, the Herons of Ford and the Manners of Etal did not always see eye-to-eye.

Caption For Chorley, Astley Hall C1960

The hall, parts of which date from 1550, has been re-built and added to over the years.

Caption For Manchester, Eye Hospital 1889

Here we see the Royal Eye Hospital, Oxford Road, just three years after it was opened in 1886 by Philip Goldschmidt, Mayor of Manchester. The road to the left is the aptly named Nelson Street.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, The Ruins 1891

After three centuries of dereliction, the Abbey was purchased from the Cardigan estate by Colonel North in 1888.

Caption For Liverpool, The Floating Road 1895

Our photographer is standing on the Prince's Landing Stage, looking up the floating road towards St Nicholas' Place and the church of Our Lady and St Nicholas at the top.

Caption For Westbury, The Market Place C1965

There has been an inn on the site since the 14th century. It became the St George and Dragon in 1596, the Lord Abingdon Arms in 1754, and the Lopes Arms after a terrible fire in 1809.

Caption For Dunoon, 'columba' 1904

Launched on 11 April 1878, the Clyde paddler 'Columba' was the last vessel built for David Hutchinson & Co; the firm changed its name to David Macbrayne the following year.

Caption For Skegness, Compass Gardens C1960

the Clock Tower, were properly landscaped to become the Quadrangle Gardens; the name was eventually changed to Compass Gardens, as the giant ground compass with direction pointers was the main feature of