Places
36 places found.
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- Leitrim Village, Republic of Ireland
- Swanley Village, Kent
- Ewden Village, Yorkshire
- Glentrool Village, Dumfries and Galloway
- Aycliffe Village, Durham
- Clewer Village, Berkshire
- Crookham Village, Hampshire
- Church Village, Mid Glamorgan
- Carn Brea Village, Cornwall
- Elan Village, Powys
- Luccombe Village, Isle of Wight
- North Hinksey Village, Oxfordshire
- Cumeragh Village, Lancashire
- Hulland Village, Derbyshire
- Park Village, Northumberland
- Model Village, Warwickshire
- Outlet Village, Cheshire
- Hansel Village, Strathclyde
- Portlethen Village, Grampian
- Stockbridge Village, Merseyside
- Talbot Village, Dorset
- Abbey Village, Lancashire
- Aber Village, Powys
- Chelmer Village, Essex
- Dog Village, Devon
- Glenprosen Village, Tayside
- Hutton Village, Cleveland
- Heathfield Village, Oxfordshire
- Grange Village, Gloucestershire
- Perkin's Village, Devon
- Mawsley Village, Northamptonshire
- Wynyard Village, Cleveland
- Albert Village, Leicestershire
- Brockhall Village, Lancashire
- Cardrona Village, Borders
- Dutch Village, Essex
Photos
13,159 photos found. Showing results 3,001 to 3,020.
Maps
517 maps found.
Books
26 books found. Showing results 3,601 to 3,624.
Memories
4,713 memories found. Showing results 1,501 to 1,510.
4 Years At The Castle School Stanhope
In 1945 I was placed in South Hetton Remand Home at the age of 10 by Sunderland Magistrates Court.(I had a difficult homelife with a very physically abusive stepfather, otherwise I would have been fined 5 ...Read more
A memory of Stanhope in 1946
Nostalgia
I lived in Burton from 1948 until 1966. I have such fond memories of the village as it was then. There were a group of lads that I was part of viz. Brian Bradshaw, Stewart Salrein, Roger Taylor, Anthony Blundell and we were ...Read more
A memory of Burton in Lonsdale in 1948 by
Pub Crown And Thistle Just Out Of View
I moved into the Crownd and Thistle about 1941 aged 4 and I left village in 1960. Arthur Benstead was landlord for many years. He and Muriel his wife retired just across the road to a house left by Mr ...Read more
A memory of Fulbourn in 1940 by
We Lived At 3 Chapel End With Mrs Crook
I was evacuated aged 5 years old to Akeley during the war with my mother. I can remember going to the school on the village square and being allowed to play in the field behind when the weather was fine. My ...Read more
A memory of Akeley in 1942 by
Me Granda
I am writing this because I have been back to Clara visiting after I was contacted by Brian and Helen who now live in me Granda's house, they had read my memories of Newburn which mentioned Clara and sent me a message. Me Grandad ...Read more
A memory of Clara Vale in 1947 by
Dunstaffnage The War Years 1942 45
In 1942 aged 5 due to my father being a shipwright in the Portsmouth Dockyard he was transferred to a satellite dockyard at Dunstaffnage where we stayed as a family until the war finished and we then moved back to ...Read more
A memory of Oban in 1942 by
Fond Memories Of 1950s Goffs Oak
I was born in 1945 at the end of the Second World War at was then 3 Park Villas, Goff's Lane, the home of my grandmother, Alice Emma James. House renumbering during the 1950s resulted in the house becoming 393 ...Read more
A memory of Goff's Oak by
Wingate
I was born 1943 in 6 Moor Lane, Wingate at my grandparents' house (Joe and Margaret(Ginny)Lee, then moved to 53 Kings Road, before moving to Trimdon Village in 1953 just after the coronation. I too have fond memories of the place. The ...Read more
A memory of Wingate in 1952 by
Growing Up In No 3 Eardiston View
My name is Derek Hall, the brother to Martin Hall & Pamela Hall, we used to live at No 3 Eardiston View in Menith Wood in the 1960s with our mom Velta Hall. I am now 58 years old living in London with four ...Read more
A memory of Menithwood in 1965 by
1966 1982
Ford End is now a shell of its former self, almost like the UK. When I was a child in the village, growing up, there was no better place to be. There was a shop, two pubs, the Spread Eagle at the top of the village and ...Read more
A memory of Ford End by
Captions
5,033 captions found. Showing results 3,601 to 3,624.
The village bypass is just to the other side of the church.
Formby was once a fishing village, but the sea has receded at a number of places along the west coast (as at Southport), leaving the town two miles inland from Formby Point.
Horses have given way to the ubiquitous motor car, and the village is catering for the car-borne tourist.
It is strange to think that until the 1830s Acock's Green was a rural village. In 1839 the estate was sold to developers, but it was 1911 before it became part of Birmingham.
It was erected by Sidney Hill, a local benefactor who also provided several almshouses for the elderly in the village.
He lived at Fairthorn Farm, and described Botley as 'the most delightful village in the world'.
Once largely occupied by stoneworkers from the nearby stone quarries, this village stretches along the highway for a considerable distance, hence its name, a corruption of 'Longtown'.
One of its customers was George Bernard Shaw, who rented a house in the village.
In 1850 South Shields (including Westoe) became a municipal borough; Harton was added in 1901, and Cleadon Bank and Harton Village in 1921.
In late Victorian and early Edwardian times, this part of the village was regarded as a select residential area. The turning to the right off St Bride's Hill leads down to the Glen.
The abbey, the oldest building in Minster, is to be found at the lower end of the village.
Given the Viking origins of the village, one should not be too surprised to find 'evidence' of romantic legends.
'A thriving village with some collieries and extensive cotton factories' was how Bollington was described in 1848. Those factories were especially renowned for the quality of their Liberty cottons.
A bygone era of rail travel is perpetuated in the name of this road, photographed some five years before the village station closed.
St Margaret's stands on high ground at the southern end of the present village near the green at Newgate.
Its brand new village hall, right of centre, is outwardly much the same today although the inside is much changed.
Near the village of Madron, to the north of Penzance, is the 8-foot tall Men Scryfa,which means 'written stone'.
Just beyond R Arnold & Son's butcher's shop is a building that had been the village smithy. Ten years after this picture was taken, Ernest King, the Medstead blacksmith, died aged 70.
The village of West Lulworth is seen looking north- westwards from the slopes of Hambury Tout.
Axmouth is one of Devon's loveliest villages, and boasts one of Britain's finest and most unspoiled Norman churches.
West Bay has now become the setting for a popular television series, 'Harbour Lights', which has brought many more tourists to the village.
Madeley Court dates from the Tudor period, and was the oldest building in the old village of Madeley (now a part of Telford).
East Dean's simple war memorial fits well on the green of this flint-built village.
The eastern end of the village of Baslow is known as Nether End. This 50s view is from outside the Cavendish Arms Hotel, looking west.
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