Maps

170 maps found.

1945, Drayton Ref. NPO693011
1898, Drayton Ref. RNE693004
1898, Drayton Ref. RNE693005
1898, Drayton Ref. RNE693011
1921, Drayton Ref. POP693000
1919, Drayton Ref. POP693002
1919, Drayton Ref. POP693003
1920, Drayton Ref. POP693004
1919, Drayton Ref. POP693005
1898, Drayton Ref. RNE693001
1896, Drayton Ref. RNE693002
1898, Drayton Ref. RNE693003
1898, Drayton Ref. RNE693006
1946, Drayton Ref. NPO693010
1919, Drayton Ref. POP693001
1919, Drayton Ref. POP693007
1922, Drayton Ref. POP693011
1945, Drayton Ref. NPO693005
1945, Drayton Ref. NPO693006
1895, Drayton Ref. RNE693007

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Memories

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Memories Of Market Drayton

This once sleepy hamlet was first home to me, a better place for childhood there could not be. Little Drayton church and it`s `olde` Sunday school. fishing excursions with Uncle to Buntingsdale pool, Dalelands West; ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

Lost Opportunity?

I was born in Drayton in 1943 and was at Solent Road School and the Northern Grammar School for Boys. I then went to London University and subsequently worked abroad while returning to Portsmouth regularly where I have my UK Home for ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth by Sir Roger Fry

Jr Robinson And Maison Drayton

The farthest shop on the left was owned by my grandparents and I lived there until I was 3 with my parents, Ivan and Betty Robinson. They sold prams and baby goods. My mother Evelyn Betty McTurk did ...Read more

A memory of Drayton in 1954 by Lynne Wood

Southall Memories

My parents, who came to England from India in 1955, when I was 3 months old, moved to Southall in 1959, from Whitton, when I was 4. I remember Southall Broadway at that time-there was actually a saddlery business there! C. Quinion, ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Sandya Narayanswami

199 Havant Road, Drayton

I was born on 6th feb 1944 at 199 Havant Road, Drayton and had a happy childhood there with my 5 sisters and parents.    My father was a painter and decorator and we lived in the house until the late '50s. I ...Read more

A memory of Drayton in 1944 by John Cowan

The Bakery

In my school days I used to go to the bakery with my school pal George. It was owned by Mr Rhodes, George's father. Helping to make all the bread-cakes-pork pies, Mr Rhodes would put a pork belly joint in the oven for our breakfast. Can taste ...Read more

A memory of Hinstock by John Heeley

Family Connections.

My grandfather, William Simpson Bruchshaw, is the man coming out of the greenhouse with the plant in his hand.  He was head gardener to Mr Munro Walker until Mr Walker died.  My grandfather's youngest brother, Henry, was farm ...Read more

A memory of Pell Wall by Claire Allen

Drayton Jottings

Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, from ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

Market Drayton Revisited

I visited my mother in the Midlands (Shrewsbury)recently. A trip to Market Drayton on Wednesdays is mandatory (my stipulation) each time I travel from my home in Essex where I have resided for many years now. Although ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 2010 by Allen Warrender

Betton A Rural Idyl

I literally stumbled upon this website and have been interested to read the memories of people who lived in Betton, a place well known to me. I lived there as a wartime evacuee in the 1940s, and Marc Chrysanthou's ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1940 by Edward Gill

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Captions

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Caption For Drayton Bassett, The Canal And Swing Bridge C1965

The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements.

Caption For Drayton Bassett, The Canal And Swing Bridge C1965

The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements.

Caption For Drayton, Village And War Memorial C1955

Drayton's thatched, grey lias war memorial stands across Church Street from the Drayton Arms.

Caption For Market Drayton, The Canal At Tyrley Locks C1955

Tyrley (pronounced Turley) Locks consists of a flight of five locks south of Market Drayton.

Caption For Holywell, The Great Ouse 1914

It gained importance from the ferry which it operated over the Ouse to Fen Drayton.

Caption For Market Drayton, Market Day 1911

Market Drayton's weekly market (every Wednesday) is still famous in Shropshire, drawing people from all over the county.

Caption For Market Drayton, From The South 1898

Market Drayton stands on a hill-top site overlooking the River Tern, which flows in the foreground of this photograph, and the settlement probably originated in prehistoric times.

Caption For Drayton, Havant Road C1955

Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.

Caption For Drayton, Havant Road C1955

Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.

Caption For Shrewsbury, The Square C1960

He was born near Market Drayton, and on his return from India he became both mayor of the town and its MP.

Caption For Market Drayton, High Street C1955

Consequently, the buildings on the far left were later demolished when the road was widened to ease the flow of traffic through Market Drayton.

Caption For Drayton, Havant Road C1955

Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.

Caption For Market Drayton, The Swimming Pool C1960

The open-air swimming pool in Market Drayton was built in the 1930s; it attracted people from a large area around the town, even from as far away at Stoke on Trent.

Caption For Rochdale, Healey Dell, Fairies Chapel 1913

Of the fairies, Fferrand wrote: 'amongst the uneducated people in Rochdale the superstition of fairies has not been dispelled, and Shakespeare, Drayton, and other poets, in the exercise of their poetical

Caption For Drayton, The Green C1955

Although not the post office at the time of this photograph, the post box outside must have been an omen of things to come, because today the building houses the Drayton Post Office and Stores.

Caption For Drayton Bassett, The Green C1965

Drayton Bassett is situated four miles south of Tamworth.

Caption For Portsmouth, Post War Housing 2005

containable on Portsea Island itself and boundary extensions in 1904, 1920 and 1932 embraced, in due course, the northern parts of Portsea Island itself, Cosham, Paulsgrove and Wymering and, finally, Drayton

Caption For Drayton, Havant Road C1955

This building was extended but was still too small, so the new Drayton Surgery was constructed in 1996 at No 280.

Caption For Market Drayton, Bank Buildings C1955

In fact, there was a disastrous fire in the heart of Market Drayton that took place in 1651, and so despite its appearance the building must be later.

Caption For Drayton, Church Lane C1960

West of Sutton Courtenay the route reaches Drayton.

Caption For Poole, The Town Cellars 1887

Poole had many independent breweries at this time; here we see one of their horse drawn drays on a delivery round.