Maps

789 maps found.

1920, Wood Green Ref. POP872640
1921, Wood Lane Ref. POP872720
1923, Wood Lanes Ref. POP872723
1922, Wood Street Ref. POP872779
1919, Woods Eaves Ref. POP873860
1902, Marchamley Wood Ref. RNC774424
1899, Leigh Woods Ref. RNC754839
1925, Low Wood Ref. POP768617
1919, Norton's Wood Ref. POP794703
1919, Kerthen Wood Ref. POP746563
1925, Ireland Wood Ref. POP744266
1946, Higham Wood Ref. NPO733787
1946, Norton's Wood Ref. NPO794703
1947, Knowl Wood Ref. NPO750491
1946, Leigh Woods Ref. NPO754839
1940, Spencers Wood Ref. NPO836236
1946, Trench Wood Ref. NPO852592
1947, Rudheath Woods Ref. NPO822500
1896, Rudheath Woods Ref. RNE822500
1895, Paddock Wood Ref. RNE799399

Books

4 books found. Showing results 289 to 4.

Memories

2,407 memories found. Showing results 121 to 130.

Tooting From 1974 2009

I have very fond memories of Tooting. My parents and I moved to Fairlight Road in Tooting in 1974. My first memory of that is the smell of paint, and sausage rolls bought from the bakery shop just round the corner; the paint ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1974 by Anne Marie Ayton

Childhood And Adult Memories

I was born in Thorpe Combe in 1937 and went to Hale End Road, Wood Street and then William Morris Tech. Schools. My surname then was Bowers. As a fairly young child we used to play over in Epping Forest, having a ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow in 1930 by Jean Elphick

What A Joy!

I am Pewsey born and bred and what a joy it is to discover a site where memories of our country's unique village life can be shared and stored for the future. So much to share about Pewsey life... I remember playing with all the ...Read more

A memory of Pewsey in 1976 by Emma Miles

Mike's Barber Shop

I knew Mike. I used to go round his house and he would give me health foods and tell me how to stay healthy. I think he lived in Greenstead Road. He was a very nice man, very quiet but friendly. When he told me he was a barber ...Read more

A memory of Loughton in 1963 by Alan Payne

Vindicatrix

I remember the nurse, she was called Codine Anne - you got that tablet for everything. We went to the Berkley gospel hall Sundays. We got tea and sandwiches and that was a luxury. Being at the sea school I had food parcels from ...Read more

A memory of Sharpness in 1956 by John Bird

East View And Munich

I lived at East View, Number 31 with Edgar and Myfannwy Howells from 1955 onwards. They were my aunt and Uncle. They looked after me when my parents died when I was 5 years of age. East View was a great street to be brought up ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by dave

Egg And Chips???

I have a strange but lovely memory of Forest Coal Pit. Mum and Dad worked shifts when we were kids so dad would often take the four of us out and about on his own, but being a 70's dad wasn't so good at cooking or organising ...Read more

A memory of Forest Coal Pit in 1973

Caravan Park

The caravan park by the river Derwent has now closed, my extended family had a static there and the countryside was beautiful. In the 1960s Romany gypsies would camp in the woods.

A memory of Whatstandwell in 1976

Wembley Triangle

I was 12 when I bought my first balsa wood glider from Wally Kilmisters model shop on Wembley Triangle. It made me more interested in model making as I continued to buy and make models and fly them at Sharons farm, a local park ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1972 by Virendra Chavda

The 1950s At St. Annes

I loved St Anne's. Great theatre, music and games, an all-round education. I'll always think that I got a great education there and I'm sad it's been pulled down. I wish I could find some of my class mates; Wendy Dew is ...Read more

A memory of Sanderstead in 1953 by Monica Woodgates Brett

Captions

663 captions found. Showing results 289 to 312.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Parade 1912

Beach facilities comprise clusters of bathing tents and unfolded wood and canvas deckchairs.

Caption For Bonchurch, The Beach C1955

But the pond and the wooded nooks around Bonchurch are as great an attraction as they were for the Victorian visitor.

Caption For Ripon, The Cathedral And The Weir C1885

The wood carving in the choir, dating from the 14th century, depicts many fantastic creatures.

Caption For Luxulyan, Valley 1907

The beautiful Luxulyan valley has great rounded granite boulders among the trees on its wooded slopes, and at one point it is crossed by a stone viaduct completed by Joseph Treffry in 1842 to carry both

Caption For York, Ouse Bridge 1885

Built in the 12th century, the original bridge was of wood and was probably sited nearer the Guildhall. Shops and houses, perhaps as many as fifty, were built on it. In 1565 the bridge collapsed.

Caption For Andover, Beech Avenue, Harewood Forest 1899

Since the war it has returned to its original state with deer and foxes and a variety of other wildlife roaming the woods.

Caption For Bath, Queen Square C1955

Queen Square was laid out by John Wood the Elder, and building started in 1728 to his designs.

Caption For Brockenhurst, The Village 1949

The name Brockenhurst means 'the badger's wood'.

Caption For Gloucester, Lassington Lane 1906

This is the lane at Highnam wood.

Caption For Milland, The Cottages 1901

Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

Caption For St Blazey, Luxulyan Valley 1893

The wooded and beautiful Luxulyan valley is a magnet for lovers of industrial archeology, with its 1839 Treffry viaduct and aqueduct linking the mining and china clay industries with the coastal ports.

Caption For Petersfield, Station Road 1898

The sign by the people on the footpath advertises Woods, Coal & Coke Merchants, later to become 'Punch' Mullard's builder's yard and presently, Spinningfield House flats.

Caption For Bramerton, The Village Street 1953

There is a riverside inn at Bramerton called the Wood's End: its recorded history stretches back well over 300 years.

Caption For Buxted, Park House 1902

The house is recorded in 1910 as being in 'a well wooded park of 300 acres'.

Caption For Dallington, Woods Corner C1955

Woods Corner is a hamlet in the parish of Dallington, about four miles north-east of Herstmonceux.

Caption For North Holmwood, Village 1906

In the 19th century, this area south of Dorking was a wild and dangerous part of Surrey, where highwaymen pursued their villainous trade and smugglers transported their contraband goods at night along

Caption For Chalford, The Valley And Hill C1960

Lovely at all times of the year, the Golden Valley where Chalford clings on its hillside is indeed glorious when autumn touches its many wooded steeps and slopes, dips and dells with a golden

Caption For Aylesford, Kits Coty House C1960

The name is possibly derived from the Celtic 'ked koit', the tomb in the wood.

Caption For Halesworth, Market Place C1955

The King's Arms, then run by R G Wood, has closed, but the arms remain on the present carpet shop. Beyond is the brick Lloyds Bank of 1896.

Caption For Lickey, The Cofton Wood Pleasure Grounds C1955

The miniature railway at Cofton Wood was nearly as popular as the tea room, though one cannot help wondering if the adults in this picture are not just the teeniest bit embarrassed.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1921

Nalder & Collyer have had their sign re-lettered, but the Greenstede Café is still at No 82 and the shop between Cromwell House and Sackville House is still a butcher's, Ernest Octavius ('Ocky') Wood

Caption For Yarmouth, The Pier C1955

Yarmouth Pier opened in 1876, and was built out of wood, a common material for the less elaborate piers.

Caption For Abergavenny, The Little Skiridd And River Usk 1893

Beyond the town, in the background, is the Little Skirrid mountain, the top of which is not quite as wooded as it is today.

Caption For Chepstow, Horseshoe Bend 1950

The woods on the left continue along the top of Piercefield Cliffs.