Maps

181,031 maps found.

1895, Shiremoor Ref. HOSM59239
1901, Carlton Ref. HOSM40091
1884, Clopton Green Ref. HOSM41282
1884, Stradishall Ref. HOSM60716
1901, Woodditton Ref. HOSM64999
1879, Awre Ref. HOSM36616
1906, Parrog Ref. HOSM56230
1900, Christchurch Ref. HOSM40886
1899, Llandegveth Ref. HOSM51780
1899, Cwm Dows Ref. HOSM56076
1896, Arreton Ref. HOSM36344
1907, Rowbridge Ref. HOSM58202
1899, Filgrave Ref. HOSM45396
1924, Moulsoe Ref. HOSM54190
1900, Camp Fm Ref. HOSM45504
1879, Mitchell Ref. HOSM53971
1906, Treninnick Ref. HOSM62394
1887, Liverton Ref. HOSM51709
1904, Luton Ref. HOSM52836
1884, Moretonhampstead Ref. HOSM54175

Books

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Memories

29,033 memories found. Showing results 1,761 to 1,770.

Cooksons Leadworks Part 2

1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1965 by Jimmy Burrows

Fond Memories Of My Stay At Heswall Hospital

I was sent to the hospital from Liverpool Myrtle Street Hospital some time in the late 1940s or 1950 and I was in Holbrook Gaskel ward for about 3 months. I remember a Nurse Smith who was very kind to ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1950 by Cathy Thomson

Bookham Grange

Like many of my student friends from the area, we all worked at Booham Grange under the watchful eye of Jimmy Sale and his wife Valma, then later on the hotel was managed by his nephew Mike and his wife Jan. We worked on ...Read more

A memory of Little Bookham in 1972 by sue.rainer

Higher Bebington Road

I grew up in Higher Bebington Road, my mum lived there from 1957 up until she died in 2008. I have seen so many changes. When we were kids we would pond-dip in the ponds on the fields at the back of the Oval now football ...Read more

A memory of Bebington by Sue Fowler

Halton Gorse Cottages And Castle Road

I too spent my school holidays in Halton village, my grandparents were Lillian and Benjamin Atkinson, they lived in Gorse Cottages, you had to go up the steps from the underpass to get to it, or down the steps ...Read more

A memory of Halton in 1955 by Beryl Gordon

Spring House Farm And Spring Cottage

I also have special memories of the two houses shown - Spring House Farm and Spring Cottage. Tilly and Fred (as mentioned by Marie Sloane) were my great aunt and uncle as were the Davis sisters and ...Read more

A memory of St Mary Bourne by Jan Doling

Dawsons Avenue

I was born in the front bedroom of 63 Dawsons Avenue on the 19th December 1954. I went to Grays Farm Primary School, then on to Midfield Secondary School for Boys. My local shops were Cotmandene Crescent. I remember the rag ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1954 by John Benson

Family History

My ancestor was born there in 1793 and worked on the land. he then walked down to Barham where he met and married his wife. A couple of years ago I visited Occold and wandered the same streets he probably walked. At that time the ...Read more

A memory of Occold by Maggie Cook

Help Please

Hello can any one help me please? This is not specifically to Minehead but in April 1960 I stayed at a wooden chaleted holiday camp on the north Somerset coast to the east of Minehead, I think. All I can remember is that I stayed at ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1960 by Pat Horton

Great Grandparents

Most of my great-grandparents were born in the Banff area. They later moved to Huntly in Aberdeenshire. Their surname was Robertson, most of them are intered at Huntly. If anyone has any memories of the Robertsons could you please ...Read more

A memory of Keith by Christine Bremner

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 4,225 to 4,248.

Caption For New Mill, The Implement Gate C1955

Here we see an imaginative and creative new use for a selection of discarded farm implements, including a scythe, sickles, hay rake, spades, ploughshare and pitchforks, which has become a minor curiosity

Caption For Rodborough, The Fort 1890

By exploring the high ground around the town it is possible to gain some idea of the scale of industrialisation around Stroud.

Caption For Oxford, High Street 1937

When walking the street's length from east to west, you can appreciate the sweeping curve which gradually reveals some of Oxford's most striking landmarks.

Caption For Oxford, Addisons Walk, Magdalen College 1937

The tree-shaded Magdalen Walks along the bank of the Cherwell are truly delightful and a perfect way to study the changing seasons.

Caption For Hilton, The Village C1955

Two miles south of Bulbarrow, one of Dorset's highest summits, Hilton and neighbouring Milton Abbas share some of the most beautiful countryside in the county.

Caption For Newquay, Dancing On The Beach 1912

Dancing to the accompaniment of the small band playing on the left is clearly a popular pastime. Note the lines of canvas bathing tents at the head of the beach.

Caption For Leiston, Sizewell Road 1922

Awnings are out on the sunny side of the street, and the long shadows point to the end of the afternoon. The children are just out of school.

Caption For Coombe Bissett, The Village C1955

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

Caption For West Bay, The Harbour 2003

Choppy water washes between the piers of Brisport Harbour; the cranes of Costain and other contractors working on the extension of the basin are to the left.

Caption For Newquay, The Beach 1925

This was for many years the popular image of surfing and bathing at Newquay, when plywood surfboards were the order of the day - this was long before the coming of wetsuits and fibreglass

Caption For Loders, The Village 1903

Loders was built in the domain of a Benedictine Priory founded by the Norman grandee Baldwin de Redvers during the reign of Henry I.

Caption For Littleham, The New Inn C1955

Modern-day Exmouth sprawls across the two ancient parishes of Withycombe Raleigh and Littleham. The latter became a suburb of Exmouth in the last decades of the 20th century.

Caption For Walmer, Castle 1892

Along with Deal and Sandown, Walmer was one of the 'Three Castles which keep the Downs'.

Caption For Abinger Hammer, The Village 1928

On the road linking Guildford and Dorking, this hamlet was one of the medieval centres of the local iron industry, and is named from the hammer-pond that worked a furnace here.

Caption For Reigate, The Pageant 1913

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

Caption For Catterick, The Village 1913

Catterick has three greens; this one looks along Sour Beck to the 15th-century parish church of St Anne, financed by the owners of nearby Brough Hall.

Caption For Nottingham, University, Hugh Stewart Hall C1955

Nottingham University started in the city in 1881 on South Sherwood Street.

Caption For Liverpool, Ss Paris, Library 1890

of accommodation, eating haute cuisine food and drinking the very finest of wines.

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

Kilby is a Scandinavian form of the Old English 'cilda-tun'; the first part means 'child', or more probably 'young nobleman'.

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 Ashwell, The Church Of St Mary The Virgin C1951

The spire of St Mary's dominates the village and the surrounding countryside. It has overlooked pleasure, tragedy and, it is said, the supernatural.

Caption For Ickleford, The Church And Lychgate C1960

St Katharine was the patron saint of millers, saddlers, wheelwrights and teachers - all trades and professions which appropriately flourished in Ickleford.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

The fact that is was possible to park on the side of the hill without a problem makes this photograph one to be treasured. The building on the left is K Block, with F Block on the right.

Caption For Stafford, Pennycrofts Court C1965

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.