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Maps

45 maps found.

1898-1909, Southgate Ref. RNC835691
1946, Orton Southgate Ref. NPO798076
1945, New Southgate Ref. NPO790349
1904, Southgate Ref. HOSM44121
1920, New Southgate Ref. POP790349
1896, New Southgate Ref. RNE790349
1901-1903, Southgate Ref. RNC835687
1900-1901, Southgate Ref. RNC835688
1901-1902, Southgate Ref. RNC835689
1897-1898, Southgate Ref. RNC835692
1898, Orton Southgate Ref. RNE798076
1901-1902, Southgate Ref. RNC835690
1922, Orton Southgate Ref. POP798076
1887, Orton Southgate Ref. HOSM55809
1897-1898, New Southgate Ref. RNC790349
1901-1902, Orton Southgate Ref. RNC798076
1920, Southwater Ref. POP835828
1898, Southwater Ref. RNC835828
1940, Southwater Ref. NPO835828
1895, Southwater Ref. RNE835828

Books

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Memories

55 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Growing Up In Potters Bar

My name is Arhur Brown and I moved to Potters Bar from Tottenham when i was about eight years old along with Mum Doris Dad Arthur and sisters Sylvia and Jeanette and two years later my brother Stephen arrived on the ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar by Arthur David Brown

Aw Penmans 221 Ballards Lane N12

Hello All, New on here, my name is John Carpenter, born 1949 in Palmers Green N13. Moved out to Welwyn Garden City, as a lot of families were, to the "new towns" just after the war. I did all my schooling ...Read more

A memory of North Finchley by johncarpenterg1ydq

"Digger" Hunwick Growing Up At No 7, Hall Road.

Born under a table in the front room of No.7 Hall Road on 16/7/1944 while an air raid warning sounded to herald the German V1s presence above. I attended Aveley Infants and Primary schools between 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by ted.hunwick

Bits I Recall

Trolley buses ran along Green Lanes from Finsbury Square; turning right for Enfield at Mason's Corner. The 244 route went from Collegiate School, Winchmore Hill to Muswell Hill. Chalkleys the bakers was on the corner of The Green ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill by Malcolm Geary

The Co Op In Conway Street Corner Of Cathcart Street

My first job when I left school (St Hughes, Park Road South) at 15 was in this shop. I was there for 3 years, until I left for bigger money at Levers. The manager was Jack Francis, a decent ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1961 by Tony Duffy

Memories From An Evacuee

I was a World War II evacuee, and after a short "phony war" trip to Northampton, when the Blitz began I was sent to Llantrisant. I have nothing but warm memories of the town. I was thee years old and billeted with an ...Read more

A memory of Llantrisant in 1940 by Roy Barnacle

Air Raid

I was born in Laurel Avenue in 1936 and lived there until 1959. During the war we were bombed out of our house following an air raid during the night, when German bombers were trying to cut the main line between London and ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar in 1950 by Philip Field

Grand Parents

With my parents I used to visit my father's parents at Nowton every summer between 1946 to 1950. My grandparents were William and Rose Bradley. My grandfather was always in a 'bath chair', I do not know what his illness was. I ...Read more

A memory of Nowton in 1946 by Rosemary Coleman

Gardeners Blacksmiths

My grandfather was Stanley Gardener and lived with his wife Rose at the Blacksmiths House, 11 Worthing Road. My mother, Joyce was born here, as were her sisters Marjorie and Peggy. The forge gradually turned into a garage, ...Read more

A memory of Southwater in 1900 by Barbara Lucas

Winchmore Hill And Palmers Green Memories

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY BACKGROUND: My mother Milly and father Bert moved to Winchmore Hill from Camden/Kentish Town. I was born in 1944 at The North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton. I grew up ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill in 1944 by Richard Starling

Captions

46 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Reading, St Lawrence's Church 1896

This fine church at the top end of the Market Place was situated by the south gate of the Abbey.

Caption For Sleaford, Monument C1950

This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.

Caption For Cockfosters, The Underground Station, Cockfosters Road C1965

Simply elegant, this is the last of a superb series of 1930s underground stations extending along the northern section of the Piccadilly Line, including Arnos Grove, Southgate and Oakwood, all designed

Caption For Launceston, South Gate 1893

Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.

Caption For Launceston, South Gate And Castle 1893

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

Caption For Oakwood, The Underground Station, Bramley Road C1955

One stop short of the terminus at Cockfosters, Oakwood Station is one of the jewels along this northern stretch of the Piccadilly line, which also includes Southgate, Arnos Grove and Cockfosters.

Caption For Wakefield, Kirkgate C1965

This shopping complex with its sweeping lines still contains large national shops, and seems unthreatened by the new Ridings Centre, off to the left down Southgate.

Caption For Botesdale, The Village C1960

Set back before the gable of Southgate Farmhouse is the wheelwright's shop of Eric Burroughes in the former Congregational chapel.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Entrance C1955

This, the south gate to the castle keep, is today the main entrance, but it is thought that in the castle's heyday the north gate was the main access.

Caption For South Nutfield, The Village C1955

Now the pace of change has accelerated: the shopfronts in Station Parade have been renewed, and Southgate's is now Parade Stores and Post Office.

Caption For Kings Lynn, South Gates 1891

Southgate is a remnant of the old town walls.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Entrance C1955

This, the south gate to the castle keep, is today the main entrance, but it is thought that in the castle's heyday the north gate was the main access.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Entrance C1955

This, the south gate to the castle keep, is today the main entrance, but it is thought that in the castle's heyday the north gate was the main access.

Caption For Gloucester, Lower Northgate 1923

It is possible, though, that the actual Ravern Tavern was located in Southgate Street.

Caption For Kings Lynn, South Gates 1891

Southgate is a remnant of the old town walls.

Caption For Palmers Green, Broomfield Park, Broomfield Lane C1965

In the early 1800s it passed to the Powys family, and was finally bought by Southgate Council in 1903.

Caption For Gloucester, Eastgate Street 1949

Others included The Bell Hotel and The New County in Southgate Street and The Fleece in Westgate Street.

Caption For Southgate, High Street And The Bourne C1965

Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne

Caption For Gloucester, Baker's Clock 1952

One of Gloucester's best-known features is the ingenious clock that stands at first floor level above G A Baker & Sons in Southgate Street.

Caption For Enfield, Our Lady Of Mount Carmel And St George Roman Catholic Church 2005

St Paul's, New Southgate was repaired, and Ponders End Congregational Church was rebuilt on a new site. Another new church built in 1956-57 was Suffolks Baptist Church.

Caption For Chesham, The Waterside 1897

South-eat of Chesham town centre the road runs alongside the River Chess in its flat-bottomed valley.

Caption For Caerphilly, Castle C1955

In the centre of the curtain of the outer ward is the south water gate; there might also have been one on the north side, but alas no trace remains.