Maps

316 maps found.

1924, Pentre Ref. POP804289
1921, Pentre Ref. POP804293
1924, Pentre Ref. POP804295
1921, Pentre Ref. POP804298
1923, Pentre Ref. POP804328
1947, Pentre Ref. NPO804285
1947, Pentre Ref. NPO804296
1899, Pentre Ref. RNE804278
1921, Pentre Ref. POP804286
1921, Pentre Ref. POP804297
1901, Pentre Ref. RNC804305
1947, Pentre Ref. NPO804294
1947, Pentre Ref. NPO804295
1947, Pentre Ref. NPO804297
1947, Pentre Ref. NPO804312
1947, Pentre Ref. NPO804328
1897, Pentre Ref. RNE804292
1899, Pentre Ref. RNE804293
1897, Pentre Ref. RNE804294
1897, Pentre Ref. RNE804295

Books

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Memories

1,250 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Lost Opportunity?

I was born in Drayton in 1943 and was at Solent Road School and the Northern Grammar School for Boys. I then went to London University and subsequently worked abroad while returning to Portsmouth regularly where I have my UK Home ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth by Sir Roger Fry

A Great Pub, Fit For An Emperor!

Ah the Forum! What a fine and individual pub! I often wondered why the brewers, Ind Coope, called their pub this! Anyone any ideas????? I was at Croydon college around the time this photo was taken and rather than going ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Keith Andrews

W.H.Smiths Richmond Road.

I worked in W.H.Smiths in 1955. So I could have been in the shop when this photo was taken. The shop opposite on the corner of Shute Road was called Crasters (haberdashery) where I used to buy many a pair of nylons etc. ...Read more

A memory of Catterick in 1956 by Marjorie Taylor

Bordon Infant School Station Road Now The Phoenix Centre

Teachers. - Mrs Boyle, Mrs Clover, Mrs Parrott. Head teacher - Mrs Bingham - she had the library books, stamp and cards in her office upstairs. Playground surrounded the building and ...Read more

A memory of Bordon by D Toovey

60 Years On And I Still Love It!

My Auntie May Howard and her husband Frank, from St. Helens, had a wooden holiday bungalow she called Homestead in Dee Avenue Talacre - it was definitely 1961 onwards and possibly just before that and the community ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by joan.bohan

Penton Camp Club

The Penton Camp Club started in about 1903. Its members included the Manager of Martin's Bank, London, the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre and many other rich men. They would come by train to Staines, the old station at the ...Read more

A memory of Penton Hook in 1900 by Su Knight

Best Childhood Ever

We moved to the prefabs in South Road, South Ockendon in 1949 From London, my sister and I started school in the village school the headmaster was Mr Impy after that we went to the new school which was called Mardyke School ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Jean Compton

First Visit Away From Home

I believe it was 1967 when I first visited .the trip was arranged between Appleby Magna juniors and local Packington juniors under the Leicester education board . My first sight was magical and although a few were ...Read more

A memory of Aberglaslyn Hall by Gordon Smith

Eastern Electricity Board Training Centre Harold Hill

I started at Harold hill in September 1966 as An apprentice electrical fitter. My lodgings were in Clock house Lane and I went to college at Hornchurch where I spent many a happy hour in the ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Ricyard Luxford

My Fenny Stratford Childhood

Having recently by chance spoken with someone who knew Fenny Stratford I was prompted to start looking on the internet and came across this site and for what it’s worth decided to record my memories. I was born ...Read more

A memory of Fenny Stratford by Dawn Cousins

Captions

3,594 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Parkmill, The Gower Hotel 1910

The attractive building in the centre is the former school, now the West Glamorgan Guides Activity Centre.

Caption For Rochdale, The Esplanade 1892

Looking towards the town centre from Manchester Road.

Caption For Storrington, West Street C1960

Storrington never appears to have been very large, and far from being a centre of wealth, was probably no more prosperous than its neighbouring downland villages.

Caption For Stanmore, Village 1906

All has gone now to make way for the less-than-sparkling commercial centre of today - it was once a centre of character, but now basically a characterless centre.

Caption For Eamont Bridge, Mayburgh Henge 1893

Just south of Penrith, Mayburgh Henge is a circular bank of earth and stones of about 1.5 acres, with one 10ft stone at the centre.

Caption For Baldock, White Horse Street C1955

The centre of Baldock, at the junction of the market place and the Icknield Way, is dominated by the imposing Town Hall and Old Fire Station, opened on 25 November 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's

Caption For Botley, High Street C1960

In the centre the church stands above the distant houses.

Caption For Basildon, The View From Freedom House C1965

Work on the town centre had begun in 1956.

Caption For Basildon, The View From Freedom House C1965

Work on the town centre had begun in 1956.

Caption For Swanage, From Coastguard Station 1897

This view is looking from Peveril Point to the Clock Tower (centre), showing its original spire, which was replaced by a cupola in 1904 after fundamentalist Christian protests that spires only

Caption For Paddock Wood, Hop Picking C1950

At the centre of the hop- picking area, it was once a great hop centre with many oast houses.

Caption For Charmouth, Village 1890

We look north-westwards up The Street to the Coach and Horses Hotel (left centre), where the Victorian landlord was James Ingram.

Caption For Swanage, From Ballard Downs 1899

New Swanage (centre right) is beginning to cluster around Ulwell Road and the 1898-built Grand Hotel (centre) at the northern end of the beach.

Caption For Basildon, Town Centre C1965

Both the town centre and the High Street in general face increasing competition in the form of 'out of town' shopping, following the creation of the retail park.

Caption For Billingham, Bowling Green C1965

Here we have a clear, open view across the John Whitehead Park to the Stockton and Billingham Technical College in the distance, with the community centre just visible on the extreme left.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, 1909

We are looking inland north-eastwards from what is now National Trust land above Burton Cliff, over the Dove Inn and Southover (foreground) to the meadows of the River Bride (centre).

Caption For Shillingstone, C1955

For more than a century, from 1863 till 1965, passenger trains of the Somerset and Dorset Railway (centre) passed through Shillingstone en route from Bournemouth to Bath.

Caption For Plymouth, Union Street 1889

The projecting building at centre left is the Clipper pub.

Caption For Cranleigh, Rowlands Corner 1904

It is now the British Legion building, and a new 'village' hall has been built in the centre of town.

Caption For Matlock, Bank Road From Crown Square C1949

By the mid-Fifties, Crown Square had taken on a much more urban appearance, with black and white kerb markings, a Belisha beacon on the right, and traffic signs in the centre of the

Caption For Bexhill On Sea, Old Town, Walnut Tree 1897

The walnut tree on the right once marked the old town's centre; it was cut down in 1921.

Caption For Redcar, High Street C1955

This is another section of the main shopping centre, with the Red Lion Hotel on the left, Goodswens the butcher's in the centre, close to the grocer's shop of Pybus Brothers, and Hancocks on the corner

Caption For Sheffield, Gleadless Valley 2005

While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

Caption For Finedon, The Independent Wesleyan Chapel C1955

In the centre of the village, on Affleck Bridge, is the Independent Wesleyan Chapel built in 1874 to serve the Nonconformist industrial workers of the boot and shoe factories.