Places

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Maps

24 maps found.

1901-1904, Town Head Ref. RNC851063
1947, Town Head Ref. NPO851062
1897, Town Head Ref. RNE851062
1897, Town Head Ref. RNE851063

Books

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Memories

47 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Walker, Newcastle Upon Tyne

I was born in Moorland Crescent in the 1950’s. This council housing estate was built a few decades earlier and has a variety of different style good quality houses. Most people had nice gardens with flowers etc ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne by James Cooper

Holes, Hoardings & Hythe Ferry

On returning from the Middle East, my family holed up across the water at Fawley. A big city was very exciting for me and after getting off the Hythe Ferry it was all bomb craters up to about the Dolphin. Above Bar ...Read more

A memory of Southampton in 1954 by Jeannette Lomas

Plympton Station Holiday Memories

My grandparents, my mother's parents, lived in Vicarage Road, Plympton until 1962 when they moved to Moorland Avenue. As children we always spent our holidays with them and I have early memories of accompanying ...Read more

A memory of Plympton in 1958 by Edward Godfrey

The People Of Kilfinan

The year my mum and dad got married in Kilfinan Church. My mum was born and brought up in Kilfinan Post Office where my granny, Mrs Maclachlan was the post mistress for many of my childhood years. I don't actually remember ...Read more

A memory of Kilfinan in 1951 by David Goodman

Written While I Can Still Remember .

My name is Bernard Hagon I was born 1933 in city Road maternity home which had a direct hit during the war everybody killed . My parents had the British Empire in Barking Road Plaistow a Taylor Walker’s house just ...Read more

A memory of Calmore by bernard.hagon

Crawley House Number 95 Pupil 1969 To 1974 .

My memory of Stanhope castle school was always the knuckles hitting the top of your head and punched in the gut for not doing as you were told to do it too slow in doing what the master's asked you to do . ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope by westpaul458

Pinchaford Farm 1954

The person who remembered going to Pinchaford Farm in 1973 was there 20 years after the Lamb family's first visit to the Haytor area. This B&B guest house was owned by a single lady who had two daughters Panda and Pom ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale by dblamb

Us Air Force Family Living In Knodishall 1968 1971

We lived in Knodishall from 1968 to 1971. My dad was stationed at Bentwaters and we lived at 123 Judith Avenue in Knodishall. We lived next door to Brian and Connie Moore, and they had a ...Read more

A memory of Knodishall in 1968 by Jo Capps Horsley

Shop

I have no real memory of Flawborough. The interest that I have in it was prompted by finding that my great-grandfather, Thomas Moore, and his wife Susan, nee Singleton, had a grocer's shop there. I found this through a nephew still ...Read more

A memory of Flawborough by George Moore

Newton House, 1 Commonside West

Opposite the pond was my mum Lois's family home. My grandfather was a master builder and his name was Thomas Baker. My grandfather had his office in Newton House and as children my brothers and I liked to explore it ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1959 by Monica Peck

Captions

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Caption For Morland, The Village 1893

'Morlund', an ancient spelling preserving the word 'lundr', suggests that hereabouts Norse settlers entertained a superstitious awe for a wood or sacred grove set upon or close by moorland

Caption For Ilkley, The Moors 1914

At the time when this picture was taken, moorland walking had still to catch on; most walkers were ill-equipped, and ladies were expected to turn out in long dresses and totally inadequate footwear.

Caption For Middleham, Race Horses On The Moor 1914

The Middleham Gallops occupy a beautiful stretch of moorland high above the town. Riders and jockeys enjoy stunning views over Wensleydale.

Caption For Slaidburn, From The Bank 1921

7 miles from Clitheroe on the banks of the River Hodder amidst moorland, Slaidburn is a popular village with walkers and cyclists. The view from the bank shows the 15th-century church of St Andrew.

Caption For Winsford, Village 1892

Climbing up from Dulverton the road crosses typical sheep-grazed Exmoor moorland, bright with yellow gorse flowers and heather, before descending into Winsford in the upper Exe valley.

Caption For Lancaster, Williamson Park 1912

Williamson Park was begun in the late 1860s as a scheme for the unemployed; they were to turn the bleak moorland and the quarries, that had once provided so much stone for the building of Lancaster

Caption For Hayfield, Kinder Road C1960

The Mass Trespass, organised to deliberately publicise the situation where ramblers were excluded from large areas of mountain and moorland by a few grouse-shooting landlords, became an important catalyst

Caption For Dolphinholme, St Mark's Church C1950

Before the factory came, there was nothing here but farmland, moorland and Fenton Cawthorne's tower.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Box Moor 2005

Box Moor consists of moorland, commons, and various meadows. On 19 July 1574 Elizabeth I gave the moor, which was part of the Manor of Hemel Hempstead, to Robert, Earl of Leicester.

Caption For Cobham, Mill 1919

It was built in the early 19th century as a corn and grist mill, and was run by the firm Henry Moore and Son when this picture was taken. It fell into disuse, and is now mostly demolished.

Caption For Eastleigh, The Airport C1960

It was originally on the fields of North Stoneham Farm where Eric Moon landed a light aircraft in 1910.