Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Hest Bank, Lancashire
- Kents Bank, Cumbria
- Copthorne Bank, Sussex
- Banks, Lancashire
- Sutton Bank, Yorkshire
- Astwood Bank, Hereford & Worcester
- Dacre Banks, Yorkshire
- Ten Mile Bank, Norfolk
- Matlock Bank, Derbyshire
- Bank, Hampshire
- Hesketh Bank, Lancashire
- Far Bank, Yorkshire
- Bank's Green, Hereford & Worcester
- Banks, Cumbria (near Lanercost)
- Banks, Dumfries and Galloway (near Kirkcudbright)
- Bunsley Bank, Cheshire
- East Bank, Gwent
- Hanwood Bank, Shropshire
- Hoole Bank, Cheshire
- Howbeck Bank, Cheshire
- Papermill Bank, Shropshire
- Pickup Bank, Lancashire
- Malkin's Bank, Cheshire
- Meal Bank, Cumbria
- Sandy Bank, Lincolnshire
- Scilly Bank, Cumbria
- Steel Bank, Yorkshire
- Bogs Bank, Borders
- Alsagers Bank, Staffordshire
- Bury's Bank, Berkshire
- Brandon Bank, Cambridgeshire
- Cat Bank, Cumbria
- Cadney Bank, Clwyd
- Dawley Bank, Shropshire
- Dean Bank, Durham
- Lade Bank, Lincolnshire
Photos
1,065 photos found. Showing results 221 to 240.
Maps
786 maps found.
Books
15 books found. Showing results 265 to 15.
Memories
6,677 memories found. Showing results 111 to 120.
Herbert Avenue Pontymister
This is a lovely historic photograph showing the backs of the houses in Herbert Avenue in Pontymister. The Avenue was built roughly between 1922 and 1932. Herbert Avenue is now to be found under postcodes NP11 6JS AND ...Read more
A memory of Pontymister
The Only Television Set In The Street.
I don't suppose that many of my friends will have watched the last Coronation on TV, partly because it was 70 years ago, but mainly because very few people had a television. My father, Frank, had a Radio and ...Read more
A memory of Glasgow by
1965
1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more
A memory of Market Harborough by
A Lad In Blue
Around 1959 I appeared on the stage of the Davis as part of a group of Lifeboys a junior group of the Baptist church in Selsdon's organisation The Boys Brigade. It must have been a Christmas Revue as it was called Alladin Blue or ...Read more
A memory of Croydon by
More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield
Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
Children's Convalescent Home Charnwood Forest 1949
I was three years old when I went to Charnwood Forest for four weeks to convalesce in late spring 1949. I was recovering from pleurisy and pneumonia. My parents didn't have a car so I was ...Read more
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves
Best Holiday Ever
When I saw this photo, and read the memory by Jill Graham, I have to admit that tears filled my eyes. I stayed at Ashleigh with my parents and sister in the 60s. It was the first time that my parents had ever booked a holiday ...Read more
A memory of Allendale Town
Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I Part 2
Like everyone else growing up in Newarthill, life wasn’t easy, as times were tough in the 50s and 60s and I suppose in many ways it is today. But back then people really had nothing, but one thing I do ...Read more
A memory of Newarthill by
Air Force Brat
My father was stationed in Lakenheath, England in 1963. My mother and 2 brothers followed 3 months later - I was 12 at the time. Coming from Texas, November in England was a shock, and it was the coldest winter they'd had in 60 years. ...Read more
A memory of Newmarket
Old Friends
I lived in Smallfield during the war years, firstly in Broadbridge Cottages surrounded by barrage balloons and then New Road. My best friend was Sandra Steel, remember all the children in the road had chickenpox at the same time. We ...Read more
A memory of Smallfield by
Captions
2,423 captions found. Showing results 265 to 288.
Four years after this photograph was taken, the Thames burst its banks and floodwater raged through Bray.
The site was redeveloped as Barclays Bank and several shops, while the former Wilts and Dorset Bank to its left is now Lloyds TSB.
This shows the bank designed by Archibald Simpson (1839), topped with a statue of Demeter, and a large block of houses by John Smith (c1810), showing Smith's characteristic recessed, curved corner.
The busy industrial town can be seen on the opposite bank.
This group of children and their parents or nannies is enjoying the sun and fresh air on the bank of the River Deben.
A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.
The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.
The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.
The entire left bank in the picture would then have been uncultivated.
On the right, the old Crown Bank of 1866 became the post office.
Sir John Soane, who rebuilt the Bank of England, was born here.
The fine Italianate stucco building of about 1850 on the right survives, and is now Lloyds Bank.
We are looking from the Frimley Road up a busy Osnaburgh Parade, with Barclays Bank on the corner.
Sir John Soane, who rebuilt the Bank of England, was born here.
The Midland Bank occupies the site of Scales' boot and shoe shop and Spencer & Co's grand frontage has fallen victim to an infestation of 'Magnet Ales' signs on behalf of the Wheat Sheaf.
On the right of the photograph are various businesses, including Barclays Bank, a tobacconist, a hardware store and a dairy.
On the opposite bank is a typical fen farmhouse with a steep roof and tall parapet gables.
The bank of the river Deben.
On the far bank is one of the stages for excursion steamers, and a station for the hire of rowing boats.
The most notorious abbot of Furness Abbey was undoubtedly Alexander Banks.
At the end of the street the Midland Bank took over Whipps in 1963 and extended the bank over the site.
The building in the centre of the row, at the end of Bancks Street, was all that remained of the older buildings.
Their younger sister stands on the bank, clear of trouble.
Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).
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