Maps

1,651 maps found.

1898-1901, Kempston West End Ref. RNC746030
1899, Westend Ref. RNC865403
1919, Westend Ref. POP865402
1946, Westend Ref. NPO865403
1896, Westend Ref. RNE865402
1919, Westend Ref. POP865403
1897, Westend Ref. RNE865403
1946, Westend Ref. NPO865402
1897, Westend Ref. HOSM70929
1898-1899, Westend Ref. RNC865402
1881 - 1882, Westend Ref. HOSM64057
1899, Wilcot Ref. HOSM63813
1900, Caldicot Ref. HOSM63812
1923, Westmoor End Ref. HOSM63917
1920, Heath End Ref. POP730026
1897-1899, Street End Ref. RNC841617
1897-1900, Heath End Ref. RNC730026
1919, Street End Ref. POP841617
1940, Heath End Ref. NPO730026
1895, Heath End Ref. RNE730026

Books

19 books found. Showing results 289 to 19.

Memories

2,049 memories found. Showing results 121 to 130.

Convalescence 1960’s Style

My Grandmother was sent to Woodhurst Hospital, Peas Pottage, to convalesce following suffering from Bronchial Pneumonia. At the time we were living in Stockwell, South London, and for a small child it seemed to be a ...Read more

A memory of Pease Pottage by Ann Morrison

Better Than A Knickerbocker Glory

Following a week at school the weekend was always eagerly anticipated, especially Saturdays. On this day I would take the long walk from home at the north end of Gipsy Road and make my way via Pickford Road to the ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Watching A New Town Grow.

We moved to Harlow from Leyton shortly after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation. We were all given a commemorative book. Our house was in a row which was completed; the rest was a huge building site - magic for exploring kids! I ...Read more

A memory of Harlow by Hilda Seaton

Grandma's Shop

I was born Nov 5, 1939 at 81 Star Lane, the home of my maternal grandparents, James and Anne Maria Bullock. My mother, Annie Grace Bullock, was the youngest of six children. She married my father, Henry George Hooper, in 1935 at ...Read more

A memory of Canning Town by Derek Hooper

Mrs Marzetties Farm

In 1956/7 I lived with my parents on a farm opposite West End pond. The farmer was a strange lady (in a little boy’s mind) called Mrs Marzetty. I remember she dressed like a man. Her daughter was called Nancy. Mother ...Read more

A memory of West End by delavarde

Coronation Day 1953

My brothers and I watched the Queen Elizabeth's Coronation with a neighbour; the screen was so small they added a special magnifying glass. Even in black and white I thought it was wonderful. It was a cold day so felt chilly as ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead by Pam Piper

A Polzeath Lad

I grew up in Polzeath and my two best mates also lived in the area, sadly, both dead now. I remember in the summers the CSSM coming down and staying in New Polzeath, arranging lots of beach games in the afternoons but building a ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath by Christopher Le Bailly

Memories

I was born in 54 Mill Street, Trecynon. As was my sister, our mother and her brothers and sitsters. A little 2 down 2 up, stone cottage. It was on the top of the hill, and we could run down "the trip" as we called it, and play there, ...Read more

A memory of Trecynon in 1947 by Heather Forey

First Job.

For about 6 wks prior to joining the navy in 1963, I worked at the Fyffes banana warehouse in Williamson St. (in photo). It paid about 3 quid a week (and all you could eat). Still, a handy easygoing fill-in job for a naive halfwit 15yr old ...Read more

A memory of Luton

Campsbourne Junior School Around 1960

I attended Campsbourne Junior School between 1958 and 1961. I arrived during the 2nd Year at the age of 8, having moved from St Michael's School in Highgate. I was placed in the top stream and my class teachers ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey by al.birkett

Captions

1,994 captions found. Showing results 289 to 312.

Caption For Wales, The Church C1955

The church of St John Baptist dates back to Norman times, when it consisted of a west tower, nave and chancel.

Caption For Leeds, St Stephen's Church, Kirkstall 1894

St Stephen's has a west tower with a spire and was almost entirely altered internally in the late Victorian period.

Caption For Rochdale, Parish Church Interior 1892

A west gallery was added in 1693 and a gallery on the south side in 1698, but both were removed in 1855.

Caption For Westbury Leigh, The Church C1955

It is quite a stocky, neo-Perpendicular building, with a west tower, nave and south aisle; the interior has single-framed roofs, and arched braces to the high collar beams in the chancel.

Caption For Wimborne, From The River 1899

It is hard to disagree with the Dorset writer Sir Frederick Treves's comment, made almost 100 years ago, that Wimborne 'looks its best when seen from a distance'.

Caption For Barford St John, The Village C1965

This is the countryside at its best!

Caption For Leeds, St Stephen's Church, Kirkstall 1894

St Stephen's has a west tower with a spire and was almost entirely altered internally in the late Victorian period.

Caption For Leeds, St Stephen's Church, Kirkstall 1894

St Stephen's has a west tower with a spire and was almost entirely altered internally in the late Victorian period.

Caption For High Halden, The Church C1955

Once surrounded by forested land, this church boasts remarkable timbered west and south porches built in the early 14th century, and comprising some fifty tons of oak wood.

Caption For Coalville, The Clock Tower C1965

The clock tower with its slated spire-like roof sits on the western range of the claustral buildings, above the enclosed garden to its west and the small cloister to its east.

Caption For Hamble, The Village C1955

Pevsner likened Hamble to a West Country fishing village, and he was right to make the comparison.

Caption For Odiham, The War Memorial C1955

The wide, gently curving High Street is perhaps best admired from its lowest point and looking west.

Caption For Gulval, The Village And Church C1900

Thatched cottage roofs are unusual in Cornwall, particularly this far west, and this one has seen several repairs.

Caption For Lulworth, Bishops Cottage 1894

The villages of West and East Lulworth now stand adjacent to vast military firing ranges, though fortunately they never suffered the fate of nearby Tyneham, which was taken by the army during the Second

Caption For Fishbourne, The Roman Palace, A Mosaic Floor C1968

Fishbourne in West Sussex is by far the most impressive Roman building in Britain, and is rightly called a palace.

Caption For Salisbury, The Cathedral, Choir East 1887

The stone is from Chilmark, ten miles to the west, and the slender black shafts supporting the arches are of Purbeck marble.The wooden choir seats can be seen in the foreground: to the right is the

Caption For Midhurst, North Street 1921

Fishbourne in West Sussex is by far the most impressive Roman building in Britain, and is rightly called a palace.

Caption For Westbourne, The Square C1960

An old centre for the district that had a market close to the Hampshire border and the coast.

Caption For Featherstone, Town Hall C1955

This Grade II listed building was built about 1824 for Thomas Hall, a West Riding magistrate from Castleford.

Caption For Manchester, Corporation Street C1885

Before it was cut and constructed in the 1870s, traffic from the north-west and higher Salford had to wend its way through small back streets to reach the market and central Manchester (the Shambles).

Caption For Uckfield, Church Street 1902

This view looks west along Church Street.

Caption For Bath, London Road 1907

Continue east along London Road to Beaufort Buildings West and East, long gently curving terraces of 1791 to 1815.

Caption For Port Erin, Bradda 1907

Development spread beyond the immediate area of the town to Bradda West and Bradda East; many of the houses in this picture have been built since picture No 47241 was taken in 1901 (page 113).

Caption For Wroxham, The Bridge C1940

The bridge joining Wroxham to the west and Hoveton to the east was declared unsafe in the 1960s.