Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Brook, Kent
- Brook, Surrey (near Haslemere)
- Timperley Brook, Greater Manchester
- Brook, Surrey (near Guildford)
- Mellor Brook, Lancashire
- Brooke, Norfolk
- Stockton Brook, Staffordshire
- Brook Green, Greater London
- Brook, Isle of Wight
- Brooks, Powys
- Brooks, Cornwall
- Brook, Devon (near Dunsford)
- Brook, Dyfed
- Brooke, Leicestershire
- Brook, Hampshire (near Totton)
- Brook, Hampshire (near Romsey)
- Brook, Devon (near Tavistock)
- Brook Hill, Hampshire
- Brook Street, Essex
- Brooks End, Kent
- Load Brook, Yorkshire
- Ecton Brook, Northamptonshire
- Kingswood Brook, Warwickshire
- Wymans Brook, Gloucestershire
- Clayton Brook, Lancashire
- Brook End, Buckinghamshire
- Brook Hill, Nottinghamshire
- Brook Waters, Wiltshire
- Brooks Green, Sussex
- Brook End, Hertfordshire
- Brook Green, Suffolk
- Quina Brook, Shropshire
- Lower Brook, Hampshire
- Halton Brook, Cheshire
- Holly Brook, Somerset
- Knuzden Brook, Lancashire
Photos
354 photos found. Showing results 21 to 40.
Maps
453 maps found.
Memories
519 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Hoyles
I would like more info on the Hoyles of Haslingden, plus the Burns family from Accrington, and Baxendale. My great grandfather was a accomplished runner Samuel Brookes Hoyle, and also delivered mail in the locality especially Grane Road. ...Read more
A memory of Haslingden in 1920 by
Our Honeymoon
These pictures bring back delightful memories! We spent a week of our honeymoon in the 16th century mill at Lydia Bridge. Across the lawn was a view of the brook and early spring flowers. We stepped outside to the sound of the ...Read more
A memory of South Brent in 1999 by
Raglan Castle Street
My childhood memories of Raglan are indelible in my mind. I lived with my Aunt and Uncle (Bessie and Ernie Morgan) at No 3 Castle Street during the war years. I well remember my first day at school, sitting on the obelisk at the ...Read more
A memory of Raglan by
Ye Old Tuck Shop And Mrs Price
My grandmother was Ann Elizabeth Price and lived in a beautiful house. She ran a little shop in the house and it was called YE OLD TUCK SHOPE. It is the most beautiful little village I have every seen. I remember the ...Read more
A memory of Lucton in 1962 by
The Howard Family Of Barnes And Hammersmith
My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations of my ...Read more
A memory of Barnes in 1870 by
Police House 1939 45
The Police House was located on Radcliffe Road, Cropwell Butler. (now called 'The Old Police House'). On the front wall it bore a sign bearing the words 'County Police'. From 1939 to 1945 it was occupied by the ...Read more
A memory of Cropwell Butler in 1940 by
Where I Lived In 1960
We moved into the flat above Snodland station on 9th January 1960 (my 8th birthday) and the extreme left upstairs window was the view from our lounge (or, rather - sitting room). I attended Brook Street CoE Primary school ...Read more
A memory of Snodland in 1960 by
Little Sutton In 1950s And 1960s
What memories your comments conjure. How I loved the 'rec' as a child. We started on the 'baby swings' and progressed to the 'big swings' and see-saw and round-a-bout. The old shelter there was a favourite ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by
The Crisswell Family
I would like to ask whether anyone might be able to help me piece together a mystery. Five weeks ago, whilst walking through the local Derby countryside, my wife and I discovered a briefcase dumped in a brook. There were ...Read more
A memory of Newmarket by
The High Street Sayer's Store 'nim' And Phyl Alen
My name is Barbara Tester and I live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. My beloved (late) husband, Brian Tester, was born on 26th July, 1930 at No. 1 Station Cottages, 1 Station Road, Ardingly. His ...Read more
A memory of Ardingly in 1958 by
Captions
253 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
The poet Rupert Brooke died in the Dardanelles in 1915. In the years that followed, the village became a popular place to visit, with a number of places of refreshment springing up.
Slaid means 'flat marshy ground', burn is the Old English word for brook, so the name means 'flat marshy ground by the brook', which describes the area well.
This peaceful unassuming lane crossing the brook is typical of the quiet countryside that has now gone with the expansion of Manchester Airport.
This is a well-known beauty spot on the north face of Haytor where the Becka Brook hurtles down to join the River Bovey.
The name 'cropredy' is thought to come from Old English - 'redy' meaning brook. The village lies on the banks of the Oxford Canal and the river Cherwell.
So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester's mill. The river may well be immortal, but the mill certainly was not. It burned down in 1928.
So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester's mill. The river may well be immortal, but the mill certainly was not. It burned down in 1928.
At Colesbourne the River Churn is joined by Hilcot Brook, one of the tributaries that swell this normally slow-flowing waterway on its meandering way to Cirencester.
The Wallop Brook flows past on the left toward Middle and Nether Wallop, behind the camera. Cottages change names from time to time but the scene remains much the same.
Children sit astride the Beer Brook outside the vast, sprawling Shepherd's Cottage.
Turning to our left, this is what we would have seen in 1903, with the Windle Brook flowing towards the viaduct.
The poet Rupert Brooke died in the Dardanelles in 1915. In the years that followed, the village became a popular place to visit, with a number of places of refreshment springing up.
The village of Cound is split in two by the Coundmoor Brook - this photograph was taken in Upper Cound, which is separated from the earlier part of the village (where the church stands).
Cosby brook runs through the centre of this pleasant village, which is a doorstep to the city; the village was the first in the county to have a conservation area.
The openness of the village is readily apparent in this photograph: it ranges along a brook, criss-crossed by modest Urban District Council railed footbridges.
After a fire new premises were built on the site, called The Windle Brook.
Ann or Anna was originally the name for the shining stream now known as the Pillhill Brook, a tributary of the River Anton.
Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally
Abbotts Ann takes its name from the Pillhill brook, originally the Anna or Ann stream.
A Calor Gas stockist, the shop also boasts Brooke Bond and Walls ice cream. The parasol outside advertises Martini. On the left of the picture are the familiar red telephone box and post-box.
The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.
Apart from the electricity poles, the only clues to this scene being in the 20th century are the ubiquitous signs for Walls, Brooke Bond Tea and Woodbines, which probably now stir many an early memory
A feature of several East Devon villages is a brook running alongside a main street.
The Town Hall was built in 1618, the gift of Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron Brooke, a friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
Places (70)
Photos (354)
Memories (519)
Books (707)
Maps (453)