Maps

9,439 maps found.

1895, Castlethorpe Ref. RNE664295
1947, Hunton Ref. NPO742470
1946, Stonebridge Ref. NPO840421
1947, Suffield Ref. NPO842455
1946, Sandford Ref. NPO824975
1947, Selside Ref. NPO827556
1947, Sproxton Ref. NPO837051
1947, Normanby Ref. NPO792729
1947, Oxton Ref. NPO799269
1897, Londonderry Ref. RNE766204
1895, Luddington Ref. RNE770360
1897, Litton Ref. RNE758409
1897, Laverton Ref. RNE753433
1897, Leighton Ref. RNE754854
1898, Hillend Ref. RNE736158
1895, Gunthorpe Ref. RNE723630
1895, Woodhouse Ref. RNE873393
1895, Woodside Ref. RNE873989
1898, Thimbleby Ref. RNE846704
1898, West Town Ref. RNE865077

Books

39 books found. Showing results 2,281 to 2,304.

Memories

1,548 memories found. Showing results 951 to 960.

St Walburg''s

My great-grandfather Hugh Bell (born 1854) was the 13th child to be baptised at the then new church. He was later married there in 1874 to an Alice Gradwell from Preston. One of many children of William Gradwell (born 1818) and a ...Read more

A memory of Preston by Brian Freeman

Horden And St Marys Church

My mum was born in March 1931 in the Easington Colliery area, 26 Boyd Street, and was the youngest of 5.  All the men in the family were miners - they lived close to Easington and Horden for work. The two elder sisters, Doris ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1940

Whitethorn Morris Dance For Girlguiding At The Willow Tree Activity Centre

The Harrow and Pinner Division of the girl guides organised a huge May Day celebration on 1st May in their new Willow Tree Activity Centre in Breakspear Road North, ...Read more

A memory of Harefield in 2006 by John Howard Norfolk

Oh Yes He Is! Oh No He Isnt!!!!

(ANOTHER PANTO STORY) It’s like some eureka moment from no ware! Out of the fog of time come more memories of the early days in theatre, this time yet another Panto story. We were doing Aladdin in a large ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1949 by David Hinge

To North Town

I'd get the number 11 or 12 bus (I think?) religiously for 3 years, every day after school, having gone across the railway bridge at the station, from the now defunct St. Joseph's Primary. Sometimes it would go via the military area up ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1975 by yannymac

Found Good Accomodation

I think it was 1972, when I was hitchhiking north to Scotland and stranded in Alnwick late in the evening. I sat with my girlfrend at the well on a kind of marketplace thinking 'bout a place to sleep. Later a nice guy with a ...Read more

A memory of Alnwick in 1972 by Andreas Hille

St Mary Church, Devonport

This picture shows St Mary Church which extended from west to east between Edinburgh Road (previously named Dock Wall Street), and James Street. It might have been taken from the top of The Column in Ker Street. The long ...Read more

A memory of Devonport by Terence Hawton

Happy Days

Having been so lucky as to spend my childhood in a big house in Royal Avenue and spending many long summer evenings playing cricket on the beach with my grandad I have always wanted to return to Scarborough.  In particular the Zoo & ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough in 1969 by Carol Best

Arnage Castle, Ellon

Arnage Castle belonged to Donald Charles Stewart from the early 1930s until it went out of the Stewart family at the end of the 1980s. D C Stewart as he was known was the largest privately owned housebuilder in the north east of ...Read more

A memory of Ellon in 1970

Happy Days In The 1960s

I started coming to Brid for family holidays in 1961 at the age of 5 months!!!  We stayed in a flat owned by Mr Jamroz?? opposite Marks n Sparks.  I remember at the top of the harbour there was a Flintstones roundabout.  I ...Read more

A memory of Bridlington by Mandy Ainsworth

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 2,281 to 2,304.

Caption For Buckland, Post Office Corner C1955

To the north is a pretty pond, and to the south of the main road is the excellent dark brown greensand sandstone parish church, rebuilt apart from the belfry timber posts in 1860.

Caption For Abingdon, St Helen's School 1925

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

Caption For Boston Spa, Thorp Arch Hall 1895

The lord of the manor, William Gossip, purchased land here with the view to owning a substantial but convenient house in this rural part of the West and North Yorkshire border.

Caption For Hampstead Norreys, Church Street C1950

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

Caption For Newport Pagnell, Ousebank Gardens 1956

The High Street turns north, and it and the town end abruptly at the River Great Ouse, which flows through meadows liable to flooding.

Caption For Broughton Astley, The Stream C1967

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill

Caption For Nottingham, University C1955

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

Caption For Ingoldmells, The Hotel, Butlin's Holiday Camp C1955

Before you reach Ingoldmells, north of Skegness, you pass one of Butlins' largest holiday camps. Indeed, it was Billy Butlin's very first one, opened in 1936 and the first in the country.

Caption For Boston, The River C1955

This view is looking towards the town centre, and the boat ('BN3', a Boston-registered boat) is heading out to the Wash and the North Sea.

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Caption For Settle, Castlebergh Wells And Steps 1924

Two railways touched the town: the North West line was followed by the famous Settle-Carlisle line in 1876.

Caption For Broadwater, Village 1906

This view is taken at the north-west end of what is now the recreation ground, and the area beyond the carriage is now the teeming roundabout where the A24 London Road meets the A27 which runs from Eastbourne

Caption For East Grinstead, College Lane 1907

The name of this lane, which runs north from the junction of High Street and Lewes Road, refers to Sackville College.

Caption For Eastleigh, North Stoneham Church C1955

Not far from the airport is North Stoneham Church, which has undergone many alterations since it was first built in the 10th century.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Mill End Church 1897

The hamlet is now greatly expanded to the north and merges with Rickmansworth.

Caption For Chalfont Common, Post Office C1965

To the north, the National Society for Epileptics, informally grouped round Arts and Crafts style houses and cottages, started in 1895 and still going strong.

Caption For East Finchley, High Road C1965

To the south-east of mediaeval Finchley, the High Road drops down from the North Circular Road between an almost standard series of parade shops built around the turn of the century, and past the Rex Cinema

Caption For Hatch End, The Broadway C1960

The village is on the north-west edge of Pinner Park, itself a 14th-century deer park owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Caption For Walditch, Village 1899

Looking north-east, from Hyde Hill, we can see Hyde in the foreground (left) and Berry Farm and Walditch hamlet in the middle distance (centre).

Caption For Crummock Water, From Loweswater 1889

The hills around were less wild and rugged, and its many inlets and headlands brought it a distinct individuality.

Caption For Dunwich, The Beach 1909

The story of the demise of Dunwich, in medieval times a prosperous port until the ravages of the North Sea gradually demolished its soft, sandy cliffs, is one of the most romantic of the Suffolk coast.

Caption For Ilkley, Brook Street 1911

The North View Hotel was remodelled as the Midland, and became a firm favourite with the new visitors.

Caption For Baldock, White Horse Street 1925

The Rose & Crown and the Whitehorse Hotel on the right were among the numerous inns which made this small town one of Hertfordshire's premier coaching centres, thanks to its position on the Great North

Caption For Barrow Upon Soar, High Street C1965

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

Caption For Newark, Stodman Street C1955

Newark enjoyed great prosperity in the 18th century through industrial growth and through its status as a coaching town on the Great North Road.