Maps

9,439 maps found.

1897, Low Gate Ref. RNE768114
1898, Lyngate Ref. RNE771130
1883, West Town Ref. HOSM63992
1899 - 1904, Morton Ref. HOSM54117
1892, Newton Morrell Ref. HOSM54993
1893 - 1907, Little Stainton Ref. HOSM51614
1892, Green End Ref. HOSM37332
1923, Thurlby Ref. POP848014
1919, South Hill Ref. POP834886
1901-1902, Keswick Ref. RNC746594
1925, Clapham Green Ref. POP669405
1946, Billingford Ref. NPO640071
1902-1903, Morton Ref. RNC783988
1925, Lodge Green Ref. POP765795
1947, Green End Ref. NPO720798
1945, Lyngate Ref. NPO771130
1947, Long Marston Ref. NPO766543
1947, Morton Ref. NPO783988
1946, South Hill Ref. NPO834886
1946, Twitchen Ref. NPO854810

Books

39 books found. Showing results 2,401 to 2,424.

Memories

1,548 memories found. Showing results 1,001 to 1,010.

Shillingstone Station

I have always been interested in trains, and Shillingstone Station gives me some great memories. I did not enjoy the best of health when I was young so spent a lot of my childhood down at the station, even on days when ...Read more

A memory of Shillingstone in 1954 by Brian Newman

Slinfold In The War Years

I visited this site and was intrigued to find pictures of Slinfold. One of them, the village hall, recalled the time when I belonged to a village group called The Stane Street Players run by Mrs Knibbs. We performed ...Read more

A memory of Slinfold in 1940 by William Cooper

39th Signal Regiment At Annual Camp In Scarborough

I signed up for the Territorial Army and was posted to the Royal Corps of Signals in 1967. but after serving for two years in the Manchester area I relocated to London and - just my luck - one ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough in 1970 by John Howard Norfolk

Shelter

How could I forget these shelters (there were two of them)? We moved to North Deal in 1954 when I was 10. The shelter at the top of Farrier Street was nearest to me - a place to stand in a storm, I practised hitting hockey balls against the ...Read more

A memory of Deal by William Horwood

Over The Water !

The Woolwich Ferry was the only way I can remember in the 1950s and 60s that we could go 'over the water ' from South to North London. I can remember trips with my Nannie as a child , catching a bus from Eltham to Woolwich and then ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1958 by Gaynor Wingham

Whitethorn Morris Return To The Case Is Altered In 2007

On March 3rd 2007 Whitethorn Morris danced at The Case is Altered at Eastcote again. Although my wife Elizabeth and I had retired from the morris "side" to live in Devon in ...Read more

A memory of Eastcote in 2007 by John Howard Norfolk

Holidays

Summer holidays riding bicycles, and horses, playing football on the Village Green or by Blindburn Hall, fishing under the bridge or wading through the water onto the stone island. Helping the village farmer walk the ...Read more

A memory of Wark in 1968 by Paul Sailsman

My Days At The Ormerod Home

I believe I went to the Ormerod Home, at the age of about eight or nine, as a result of the Local Authority (Blackpool) having a number of reserved places at this establishment. Homes such as this were built along the ...Read more

A memory of Lytham in 1952 by Roy Haskett

Morris Dancing And Clog Dancing At The Steam Packet Inn

This is the view from the Steam Packet Inn where there is a splendid large patio area which we used for morris dancing recently.  We chose an early Summer's evening in June but were ...Read more

A memory of Totnes in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

The Village Shops Etc

Born & bred 'Tarpotion'. The shops? The best I can remember, starting (1) Junc/Rushbottom Lane/London Rd - NAT, parcels & goods service (later Essex Carriers, Atlas Express), now the bank, cycle shop. (2) - Pie ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1950 by Horace Rogers

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 2,401 to 2,424.

Caption For Hunstanton, The Green And The Pier 1927

Tourists are ordering tickets for the twice-nightly end-of-the-pier show. Children are drinking from the outside fountain (right), and to top it all there is a horse-drawn ice cream cart.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour C1955

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

Caption For Penrith, Askham Bridge 1893

Forming a picturesque scene near Askham, the bridge arches over the River Lowther whose waters have their origin in the north-east Lakeland fells above Shap.

Caption For Ewhurst, Deblins Green C1965

This small green is at the north end of the village - the Bull's Head pub stands on the left out of the picture.

Caption For Amberley, The Gatehouse 1898

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

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Caption For Hose, C1955

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Caption For Graffham, The Village C1955

Located in a remote region north of Petworth, the village was originally formed in a clearing in the woods. The local wealden clay district is remarkable for large oak trees.

Caption For Aberystwyth, North Parade 1949

North Parade was one of these, but it was made much wider than the others to allow the local militia to use it as a parade ground.

Caption For Sunderland, Shipyards On The Wear C1900

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilders' Southwick yard in 1989.

Caption For Bude, On The Canal 1920

By the 1830s over thirty miles of canal had been constructed, which was used to transport 50,000 tons of sea sand a year from the north Cornwall coast for use as fertiliser on inland farms.

Caption For Ecclesfield, General View 1902

Situated five miles north of Sheffield, the large parish of Ecclesfield was semi-industrialised by the late 18th century.

Caption For Houghton Conquest, Houghton House 1897

A mile or so north of Ampthill, we divert right to visit the ruins of Houghton House.

Caption For Elstow, The Priory Church 1897

To the far left are the ivy-clad remains of Hillersden Hall, a Jacobean E-plan mansion with the church as the north wing.

Caption For Egremont, Landing Stage 1890

In 1940, during war-time blackouts, the pier was hit again, very badly, by a ship ready to form a convoy to cross the North Atlantic.

Caption For Lavendon, The Parish Church C1965

This is the furthest north part of Buckinghamshire, beyond the stone-built market town of Olney, and not far from the Northamptonshire border.

Caption For Newport Pagnell, Tickford Abbey C1965

The house was given more Gothic trim in the early 19th century, and is now a residential home for the elderly. The Priory was founded by Fulk Peynel (or Pagnell) in the early 12th century.

Caption For Bottesford, Market Street C1955

An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797. This view looks south, away from the church.

Caption For Ollerton, Sherwood Forest C1955

Sherwood Forest once covered over 100,000 acres between Nottingham and Worksop, although the great ducal estates of the Dukeries enclosed much of the north part for their parks.

Caption For Hendon, Watford Way C1955

Hendon was first recorded in the 10th century, but the Hendon we see in this photograph has very little in common with the original mediaeval centre about half a mile (as the crow flies) to the north.

Caption For Groby, The Pool C1960

The photograph looks north, with Pool House glimpsed on the extreme right, while the granite quarries are beyond the trees.

Caption For Kegworth, St Andrew's Church C1965

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

Caption For Saxelby, St Peter's Church C1955

The not unlovely village of Saxelby is situated about a mile north of industrial Asfordby, and on a stream which empties into the River Wreake.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1955

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw over one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

Caption For Eastleigh, Miniature Golf Course, Fleming Park C1955

In 1929 the council negotiated the purchase, at a very reasonable figure, of a large area of land owned by the Fleming family, who were the patrons of North Stoneham, and it was named Fleming Park.