Maps

1,651 maps found.

1940, West End Ref. NPO864070
1947, West End Ref. NPO864071
1946, West End Ref. NPO864079
1946, West End Ref. NPO864082
1896, West End Ref. RNE864034
1898, West End Ref. RNE864036
1898, West End Ref. RNE864042
1897, West End Ref. RNE864057
1897, West End Ref. RNE864058
1895, West End Ref. RNE864060
1895, West End Ref. HOSM63913
1947, West End Ref. NPO864038
1947, West End Ref. NPO864040
1947, West End Ref. NPO864045
1947, West End Ref. NPO864052
1946, West End Ref. NPO864053
1945, West End Ref. NPO864064
1947, West End Ref. NPO864068
1946, West End Ref. NPO864075
1940, West End Ref. NPO864084

Books

19 books found. Showing results 25 to 19.

Memories

2,049 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Memories Of Market Drayton

This once sleepy hamlet was first home to me, a better place for childhood there could not be. Little Drayton church and it`s `olde` Sunday school. fishing excursions with Uncle to Buntingsdale pool, Dalelands ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

The Leeds And Sunderland Cup Final

I watched so many cup finals on black and white television when I was a boy never dreaming of the day that I might actually be there. But it happened in 1973! Would you believe my neighbour was a long retired ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1973 by John Howard Norfolk

Snapshots

As a very little boy we moved from Birkenhead in the North West, Merseyside to Luton. It was the 1950s and my Dad had a job in Vauxhall's. His brother Tom was already a General Foreman there and his younger brother John (that's what we all ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Gerard Fitzpatrick Howkins

Wentworth County Primary School

As far as I can see, no-one has left a memory of my old primary school. So, let me start this off (if I may?): Living in nearby North Road, I attended this school from 1962-68. When I started at the Infants' School, ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by Stuart Hall

Such Memories

I lived in 14 west street from birth 1962. to 3 years , My great Aunt Jane Penny (Davies) lived there for years looking after a lady. When she died, the house was left to My aunt Jane. My mum and brother and me, moved just up the ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook by Carina Smith

Manchester Road

Born in Ryan Street. I remember walking all the way down Manchester Road to St Joseph's Infant School, which at that time was on Grafton Street and part of the Girls School, it seemed to take ages, we walked past all the pubs and ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1955

The Gardeners Arms

My name is Peter McGuire and i lived at the Gardeners Arms Pub in 1971-1972. I worked at Selo's Film factory on shift work. Reg who owned the pub back then let me arrive at odd hours which made live easier. I shared a house in ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood by Peter Mcguire

Chisholm Cottage

My great-great-great grandparents lived opposite Wesley Chapel in the late 1800s, behind the trees on the right-hand-side of the 1901 Wesley Chapel photo. During the 1830s, Richard JACK (b1813) and some of his brothers moved to ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool in 1880 by Vivienne Hooper

The Only Television Set In The Street.

I don't suppose that many of my friends will have watched the last Coronation on TV, partly because it was 70 years ago, but mainly because very few people had a television. My father, Frank, had a Radio and ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow by Howard Hill Lines

Talke A Forgotten Village

As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more

A memory of Talke in 1959

Captions

1,994 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Morecambe, The West End Pier 1899

At the turn of the 20th century, late Victorians enjoy a walk above the water on West End Pier.

Caption For London, Boardman 1877

For a few pence this old man walked the fashionable shopping streets of the West End proferring his handbills.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1965

We are looking towards the west end of the Market Place.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1965

We are looking towards the west end of the Market Place.

Caption For Marlborough, High Street 1901

The west end of the High Street is bounded by St Peter and St Paul's Church, dating from the mid to late 15th century.

Caption For Blandford Forum, The Crown Hotel C1955

The Crown Hotel, situated at the west end of Blandford's market place, was refaced in its original Georgian style in 1938.

Caption For Newnham, Romer Arms C1955

At the west end of the village there is a small green along the Badby Road.

Caption For Newton Poppleford, The Village C1965

At the west end of the village, the antiques business is no more, but the building survives intact.

Caption For London, Westminster Abbey C1955

The abbey's cleaning and restoration programme began in the 1950s.

Caption For Pembridge, C1955

The building on the left is the appropriately named Westend Cottage which was built in the 17th century.

Caption For Morecambe, The Central Pier 1906

The pavilion seen in our photograph was built in 1897 to dwarf the West End Pier dome that had just been completed.

Caption For Glasgow, The Grand Hotel, Charing Cross 1897

The Grand Hotel at the west end of Charing Cross had rooms from 3s 6d a night, with dinner costing 5s.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, St James' Cathedral Church 1922

Here we see the west end of the cathedral; Robert Lofts, decorators and plumbers, beyond, is now the cathedral shop.

Caption For Ramsbury, The Ancient Cross In The Church Of The Holy Cross C1955

Two coped stones with round ends, and fragments of crosses from the 9th century, can be found at the west end of the north aisle.

Caption For Upper Langwith, The Church C1955

The simple little 13th-century parish church of the Holy Cross at Upper Langwith, east of Bolsover and close to the border of Nottinghamshire, may not have a tower, but it is nevertheless a gem of Perpendicular

Caption For Redditch, Benefit Building Society C1950

It is now Birmingham Midshires, and has been much modernised, though it is just about recognisable.

Caption For Misterton, Pump Houses On The River Idle, Soss Lane 1958

At the end of Soss Lane, beyond the railway line, are two former pump houses with tall chimneys; their steam-powered beam engines are situated on the Mother Drain which runs parallel to the River Idle

Caption For Penruddock, The Village C1955

Penruddock is a small village on the edge of the Lake District National Park, about five miles west of Penrith.

Caption For London, Regent Street C1890

Some said that his glorious creation was compromised by poor building work, but all agreed that Nash conjured for this region of the West End a genteel and polished atmosphere that has considerably

Caption For Chedgrave, Church C1955

A meeting room has been added on to the west end of the tiny church.

Caption For Ely, The Cathedral C1878

The west end of Ely Cathedral was once symmetrical until the northern part collapsed in the 15th century.

Caption For Glasgow, George Square 1897

Whereas Glasgow Green had been a part of the common grazing land of the burgh since the earliest times, the greening of Glasgow really began in 1852 when the city acquired the estates of Woodlands and

Caption For St Austell, Fore Street 1920

Towards the west end of Fore Street, a gilded glass sign advertises Hepworths the tailors beyond Reuben Rogers` grocery stores (right).

Caption For Blue Anchor, The Beach 1935

After the historic riches of Dunster we descend, physically as in other ways, to Blue Anchor Bay, a seaside resort with a long beach and little character.