Maps

357 maps found.

1924, Woodgate Hill Ref. POP873186
1924, Woodhey Ref. POP873341
1947, Jericho Ref. NPO745045
1947, Fernhill Ref. NPO704588
1947, Carr Ref. NPO662739
1947, Wood Road Ref. NPO872771
1947, Woolfold Ref. NPO874250
1896, Bank Lane Ref. RNE632395
1947, Unsworth Ref. NPO856781
1947, Walmersley Ref. NPO860015
1947, Walshaw Ref. NPO860099
1947, Holcombe Ref. NPO737651
1947, Hollins Ref. NPO738152
1947, Kirklees Ref. NPO749090
1947, Nuttall Ref. NPO795111
1947, Outwood Ref. NPO798549
1896, Fishpool Ref. RNE706231
1896, Chapel Field Ref. RNE666405
1896, Chesham Ref. RNE667457
1896, Elton Ref. RNE701095

Books

4 books found. Showing results 337 to 4.

Memories

964 memories found. Showing results 141 to 150.

The Rubble On The Beach

I spent my teenage years in Dunwich, and in retrospect they were wonderful. Freedom, long walks, the beach and sea, cliffs, marshes and the old tank defences from WWII. My best friend Justin North, who lived at 'Marshside' ...Read more

A memory of Dunwich in 1966 by James Ritchie

My Family Church

This was the church I attended with my family as a child from 1950-1966 when I moved away to college. My father is buried at the end of the path up to the entry to the church. The rector for some time was Rev. Cottrell with three ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1950 by Sanna Say

1959 To 1964

In the bottom left corner of the photo is a row of four white bungalows. My father --Ron Bartlett built these and several others on the estate from about 1959 onwards. We lived in the top one. The house immediately to the right of ...Read more

A memory of Mochdre by Colin Bartlett

Burials At St Mary's

My maternal grandmother was born in Selby. Annie McMenamin ( McManum or various spellings depending on who wrote the name down !) She lived in Hutchinsons Yard, Selby with her mother Catherine, father Michael, sisters Mary, ...Read more

A memory of Selby in 1953 by Moira Casey

Visits To Wareside 1964 Present

My dad was born at Hillside Cottages in Wareside in 1929 (I think). I remember visiting my Grandmother there up until she moved to Ware round about 1978/9. She lived in the house with the "Hillside Cottages" sign on ...Read more

A memory of Wareside in 1975 by Sandra Penstone Smith

St Johns Priory (Private Girls School)

I was a pupil at St Johns Priory, and whilst I did not appreciate it at the time, it was an amazing start in life. The Nuns were incredibly strict so we all studied hard. Our classes were really small, by the ...Read more

A memory of Banbury in 1978 by Sarah Hartley

My Great Granny Barker

At the far end of photo number H183005a - on the right - is a white wall. Mr and Mrs Barker lived in a one room plus a tiny kitchen downstairs, two tiny rooms up, from the 1930s until my great-grandmother died in the ...Read more

A memory of Heighington in 1944 by First Name Last Name

Cornwell Church

This is a beautiful little church, well worth the walk to get to it. My great-great-great grandfather is buried in the church yard and I went there in 2004, with my mother when she came home for what was to be her last visit. She ...Read more

A memory of Cornwell by Carol Garcia

My Great Grandparents In Kirkoswald

My Great Grandparents, James & Annie Robinson and their daughters Caroline & Jane, moved to Kirkcoswold in early 1900's. Annie died in childbirth soon after. James remarried Mary Hetherington and had a ...Read more

A memory of Kirkoswald in 1958 by Carol Fish

Spaldwick Windmill The Belton Family

The Belton family has a long association with Spaldwick as millers, witnessed by a hill being in the family name, (O.S. map 153), just north of the village. My mother's sister Violet Bass, from nearby ...Read more

A memory of Spaldwick in 1955 by Paul Digby

Captions

367 captions found. Showing results 337 to 360.

Caption For Pitsea, View From Church C1955

The victims of the Kynochs tragedy in 1913 (three employees of the explosives factory were killed in an accident) are buried in this now disused churchyard.

Caption For Pitsea, Railway Hotel And London Road C1955

Howard's Dairies grew over 60 years into a prosperous business with eight distribution centres, 30 shops and 1,000 employees.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Abbey, The Transept Arches 1912

Besides connections with Arthur, there is a story that Joseph of Arimathea, in whose tomb Jesus was buried, came here as a trader and brought the Glastonbury Thorn.

Caption For Beachy Head, 1912

During the early part of the 18th century, a local parson named Jonathan Darby from the parish of East Dean unofficially displayed a candle-burning lantern hung in a hollow carved out of the chalk

Caption For Grantham, St Wulfram's Church, The Chained Library 1889

Bishop Foxe was appointed Bishop of Winchester in 1501; he died in 1528, and is buried in Winchester Cathedral.

Caption For Pembroke, The Castle C1955

Poyer and Laugharne capitulated, but not before the traitor was caught and poetically buried in the water pit.

Caption For Milton Keynes, Woughton On The Green 2005

Among discoveries made are a coin found in Wolverton by Galleon's Wharf; a ring brooch at Bury Lawn, Great Linford; a clay weight for a weaving loom at Pennyland; a spearhead near Rickley Wood

Caption For Fareham, The Quay C1950

They were buried in a field nearby, which became known as Hospital Field.

Caption For Dorking, From The Nower 1936

Richard was laid to rest beneath the tower, buried upside-down: he believed that the world would have turned on its axis before Judgement Day, and he 'wished to stand before his Maker right way up

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Box Moor 2005

The deed was witnessed by Francis Combe of The Bury and Richard Gawton, the Vicar of St Mary's.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Chapel Road C1955

Beside the A34 in Nether Alderley is the grave of the third Lord Stanley, buried apart from the rest of his relations as he was a Muslim.

Caption For Kings Lynn, The River, The Walks C1965

This idyllic scene covers a grisly history: this area was a burial ground, which was frequently robbed to provide bodies for the science of anatomy.

Caption For York, View From Station Hotel C1885

Outside the walls along the section near the hotel and station was a burial ground.

Caption For York, View From Station Hotel C1885

Outside the walls along the section near the hotel and station was a burial ground.

Caption For London, Riding In Green Park C1955

Green Park, situated opposite the north end of Buckingham Palace, was a burial ground for nearby St James's Palace at a time when it was a hospital, but since Tudor times this has been parkland.

Caption For Poole, Rockley Sands, The Palladium C1965

The zig-zag roof now covers a swimming pool, and the displaced bar is in a new part of the extended building.

Caption For Hinxton, Red Lion C1960

The main bar is dominated by a central fireplace with built-in bread oven.

Caption For Harborne, Princes Corner C1965

Of Harborne’s pubs, the Bell, Old Church Street has survived for three hundred years; its bar is in the passageway.The Junction, High Street has one very big room, an island bar, and some fixtures

Caption For Wimborne, The Minster, The Crypt 1886

The western part is a burial vault for the Bankes family.

Caption For York, Bootham Bar & The Minster 1893

The little cabmen's shelter at the side of the bar is no longer there.To the rear right of the bar we can see the turret on the roof of the Minster Chapter House.

Caption For York, Bootham Bar & The Minster 1893

The little cabmen's shelter at the side of the bar is no longer there.

Caption For Harborne, Princes Corner C1965

Of Harborne's pubs, the Bell, Old Church Street has survived for three hundred years; its bar is in the passageway.The Junction, High Street has one very big room, an island bar, and some fixtures

Caption For Winsford, The Royal Oak Inn 1930

Over time a hostelry developed, but only a hundred years ago, a dairy stood where the back bar is today.

Caption For Bristol, The Docks 1953

Though it was less than one mile long, it was expensive to build, requiring three bridges, a viaduct and a 282-yard-long tunnel under a burial ground, the cutting of which entailed the digging up of numerous