Maps

241 maps found.

1921, Top Valley Ref. POP850133
1923, Swiss Valley Ref. POP844021
1947, Artists Valley Ref. NPO627205
1923, Elan Valley Ref. POP1190915
1899, The Valley Ref. RNE846556
1947, Elan Valley Ref. NPO1190915
1899, Artists Valley Ref. RNE627205
1896, Gleadless Valley Ref. RNE714717
1898, Rose Valley Ref. RNE819990
1895, Hughenden Valley Ref. RNE741841
1898, Esk Valley Ref. RNE701905
1922, Lledr Valley Ref. POP1190913
1947, Gleadless Valley Ref. NPO714717
1947, Golden Valley Ref. NPO717280
1947, Hughenden Valley Ref. NPO741841
1946, Knatts Valley Ref. NPO749631
1946, Lea Valley Ref. NPO753844
1947, Buckland Valley Ref. NPO654774
1919, Hughenden Valley Ref. POP741841
1947, Low Valley Ref. NPO768585

Books

7 books found. Showing results 25 to 7.

Memories

498 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

My Life!

Thé café chips were amazing - so was the smell! I used to pack spuds in plastic bags to sell to the campers in the shop. Tony and I used to do the milk round for the campers! I spent all my early summer holidays at the valley! Christmases were ...Read more

A memory of Filey by Gregory Powell

Eric Galley

My father, a post office engineer, was transferred from Stoke Newington to the Larkswood exchange in 1936. I was seven years old when we moved to 49, Malvern Avenue. I first attended Thorpe Hall school, then later Selwyn Avenue ...Read more

A memory of Highams Park by Frank Cann

The Hersham Flood – September 1968

During the 60s I lived in Surbiton and worked in Hersham. As I was getting ready to leave for work one morning in 1968, a radio broadcast warned of severe flooding along the Mole valley following heavy rains, and ...Read more

A memory of Hersham by Tony Newman

A Search For Ancestors

I’ve just visited Buttermere to look at the little church where my ancestors (Annetts and Cummins families) would have attended during the Victorian era. A quaint little church set in the valley down a bridle way. ...Read more

A memory of Buttermere by D Toovey

Riding My Horse

This was one of the routes I took in the early 70s when riding my beautiful horse out. We would go up West Balgrochan Road, turn in to Acre Valley Road and go up the hill where the woods are and down to the other side, sometimes going ...Read more

A memory of Torrance

Kangaroo Valley 1960's Earls Court Road

I love all the Francis Frith prints of Earls Court. I moved there as a young child in the mid 60's, so some of the old photos on here were taken during my life time. This colour tinted image of Earls Court ...Read more

A memory of Earl's Court by Pauline Newman

Day At Treherbert

My dad came from Treherbert. My grandad, who I never met, worked in the coal mines of the Rhondda Valley. My grandparents also owned a fish and chip shop there. If you are old enough you may even remember it. My grandad ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert in 1974 by Derek Oram

Postman Standing On The Corner Of Galgate West With John Street

The Postman is believed to be John Blenkinsop. Five of the entrances to ‘Barney’ have the word ‘gate’ (meaning ‘way’) in their street names.   Galgate is the northern way into ...Read more

A memory of Barnard Castle in 1890 by Dave Charlesworth

My Family

My father's family moved to Harwich in the early 1900's to cottages below Upper Dovercourt Church and lived there for many years. I was born in 1950 when my parents lived in Ramsey then we moved to Valley Road. I still have family in the ...Read more

A memory of Harwich by Robin Wenlock

East Horsley In The Sixties

I grew up in East Horsley, where I attended St Martin's C of E Primary School. We had no car and we lived nearby so we always walked to the primary school and my mother walked to the shops on Bishopsmeade Parade. When ...Read more

A memory of East Horsley by Diana Johnson

Captions

753 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Chalford, The Valley And Hill C1960

Lovely at all times of the year, the Golden Valley where Chalford clings on its hillside is indeed glorious when autumn touches its many wooded steeps and slopes, dips and dells with a golden

Caption For Aberdare, 1937

We are looking down on Aberdare, a town set amid beautiful scenery at the head of the Cynon Valley.

Caption For Dulverton, 1892

Turning north into the upper Exe valley, we enter the Exmoor National Park at Dulverton, on the Exford Road in the tributary valley of the River Barle.

Caption For Cross Hills, View From The Ravenstones C1965

The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.

Caption For Ulverston, Newlands 1895

The road running beside Newlands Bottom is to the left of the valley at this date, unlike the present road, and is now a bridleway.

Caption For Alfriston, Cuckmere Valley C1955

The Cuckmere Valley is a charming and as yet unspoilt river valley.

Caption For Troutbeck, The Valley C1880

The Troutbeck valley is one of the quietest in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district

Caption For Troutbeck, The Valley C1880

The Troutbeck valley is one of the most peaceful in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district

Caption For Devizes, On The Canal 1898

Devizes is perched on the top of a hill overlooking the Avon valley.

Caption For Heptonstall, The Two Parish Churches C1965

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

Caption For Bournemouth, The Pier 1897

From the ever-green valley of the Bourne (whence arose the nucleus of this resort) Bournemouth stretches for miles in either direction upon the sandy cliffs and pine-clad table-land of a gently curving

Caption For Hope Under Dinmore, The Village C1955

The word 'hope' was an old Welsh word meaning a valley and so here we have the settlement in the valley under the hill fort, 'mawr' being a reference to the ancient hill fort at one end of the hill

Caption For Bacup, St James Street 1961

The town stands on the young River Irwell, in the Rossendale Valley - the name Bacup means 'in the valley by the bridge'.

Caption For Bacup, St James Street 1961

down; Bacup, which was off the beaten track, was looking for residents to commute to work in Burnley, Manchester or other towns.The town stands on the young River Irwell, in the Rossendale Valley—the

Caption For Capel Curig, Bridge C1870

The lake of Dyffryn Mymbyr lies in a broad, windswept upland valley.

Caption For Alfriston, Cuckmere Valley From High And Over C1960

High and Over, or Hindover, is a vantage point on the South Downs, overlooking the Cuckmere river valley. A

Caption For Chesham Bois, The Common 1906

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

Caption For Rottingdean, Village Pond C1955

Rottingdean, the valley of Rota's people, is cut off from its vast neighbour, Brighton, by steep chalk downs and sea cliffs.

Caption For Betws Y Coed, The Llugwy Valley From Above Miners Bridge 1891

This famous resort on the Holyhead road, in the narrow, deeply-glaciated valley of the river Conwy, became popular when it was reached by the railway in Victorian times.

Caption For Flatford, The Manor House C1960

This Grade I building, now called Valley Farm, is the Warden's House of the Field Studies Council, who run environmental and arts courses at Flatford Mill, Willy Lott's House and Valley Farm.

Caption For Chesham, Stanley Avenue 1906

Chesham also developed north of the town centre along the valleys and ridges in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the northern part being named Newtown.

Caption For Bargoed, High Street 1951

Bargoed was once a village; it is situated in a long valley.

Caption For Hope Under Dinmore, The Village C1955

The word 'hope' was an old Welsh word meaning a valley and so here we have the settlement in the valley under the hill fort, 'mawr' being a reference to the ancient hill fort at one end of the hill

Caption For Waterrow, The Village C1955

Climbing westwards, the Taunton to Barnstaple road crosses the well-treed and young River Tone Valley at Waterrow.