Maps

4,509 maps found.

1946, Peak Hill Ref. NPO802233
1947, Pepper Hill Ref. NPO805102
1897, Boustead Hill Ref. RNE646973
1898, Boys Hill Ref. RNE647539
1896, Bracken Hill Ref. RNE647631
1896, Bradwell Hills Ref. RNE648034
1899, Bramcote Hills Ref. RNE648544
1896, Brick Hill Ref. RNE649656
1896, Tabley Hill Ref. RNE844290
1896, Temple Hill Ref. RNE845888
1895, Slough Hill Ref. RNE832957
1898, Sparrow Hill Ref. RNE836093
1898, Spinney Hill Ref. RNE836332
1896, Stamford Hill Ref. RNE838006
1899, Stanford Hills Ref. RNE838244
1898, Stanley Hill Ref. RNE838376
1895, Timbold Hill Ref. RNE848591
1895, Tot Hill Ref. RNE850738
1895, Tote Hill Ref. RNE850750
1895, Tote Hill Ref. RNE850751

Books

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Memories

4,091 memories found. Showing results 221 to 230.

Growing Up In Seaton Sluice In The 1960s

I moved from Blyth to Seaton Sluice into a newly built house in Cresswell Avenue in 1957. Life as a child in the village was exciting; most days we would either play on the beach and harbour or the new ...Read more

A memory of Seaton Sluice by Stuart Mc Leod

Childhood

I lived in Mayfield Road, which is where the foreground bollards are situated, from 1961 -1979. The junction was a little bit treacherous when cycling in the wet as I found out to my cost. Although a Girls school, boys could attend in ...Read more

A memory of Sanderstead in 1965 by Paul Benton

Walk Down To The Bay

We used to walk down to Red Wharf Bay on the first night at my aunt's who had a house in the village at the bottom of the steep hill called Journeys End. It was wonderful to go to the paddly bridge as we called it and gaze ...Read more

A memory of Red Wharf Bay in 1950 by Jean Newbigin

All Uphill

Our Dad used to take us for a walk up to Mow Cop Castle on a sunny Sunday. We would set off from Talke with our bottle of pop and a jam butty and walk along the canal for a while then through the lanes in Scholar Green past the Three ...Read more

A memory of Kidsgrove in 1973 by Tina Stanyer

I Lived Here

This was the first home I ever knew and remains, to this day, the one I hold as the true definition of 'home'. Waterloo House was where I was brought as a newborn in June 1974, and where I lived so happily until 1980 when we were, ...Read more

A memory of Heptonstall in 1974 by Claire O'brien

Perfect Place

My name was Sandra Goodfellow when I was born at home in Erbistock in 1954. I lived on Twining hill. I had a very happy childhood there with my three siblings, Mum and Dad. I started Erbistock school in 1957. It was a cosy, two ...Read more

A memory of Erbistock by Sandra Bayley

Springfield Terrace

This view shows my house. It is the one at this end of Springfield Terrace - you can see a number of the terrace chimneys peeping out over the top of the hill to the left. We overlook the River Torridge. You can see the old ...Read more

A memory of Bideford in 1890 by Terence Sackett

My Most Memorable Corner

I lived at Corbieton Cottage for 22 years between 1939 & 1961 and this is the view I saw as I came down the hill to go to school, to Sunday school, to Scouts, to the Kirk, to the pub, the Hall, the bowling, the ...Read more

A memory of Haugh of Urr by Jim Cook

Those Were The Days!

I was born in a house on the Eastern Avenue between Cantly gardens and Denham Drive in 1955. I moved to wales to go to uni in 1975. I worked as a Saturday girl in Barton’s the bakers in Gants Hill for a ridiculously low wage. ...Read more

A memory of Gants Hill by Gill Fitzgibbon

Tracing My Father

Hi Bill tellford I'm trying to find out about my dad I am to believe he work at the bakery in 1963 when I was born I think his friend was Frank Smith he was called Laurence Carew a black man if you can help in any way to trace him thank you my email is sheilapresley63@hotmail.com or 07456406046

A memory of Roundthorn by Sheila Brook

Captions

1,924 captions found. Showing results 529 to 552.

Caption For Cropthorne, 1901

Its old cottages with their colourful gardens, its ancient church, and lovely scenery with Bredon Hill just in the background, make a visit a memorable experience.

Caption For Danbury, The Village, Looking West 1903

Danbury Hill is the second highest point in Essex, and the old village spreads downhill from this point.

Caption For Sudbury, Market 1904

Georgian buildings line Market Hill, with St Peter's Church at the top.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1905

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme.

Caption For Billingshurst, Mill Lane 1907

Its Anglo-Saxon name means 'wooded hill in the territory of Billa's people'.

Caption For Newby Bridge, General View 1914

Two lads enjoy the view from the hillside above Newby Bridge, the small village at the southern end of Windermere, with the low south Lakeland hills in the background.

Caption For Seatown, Village And Beach 1922

The view is westwards from East Cliff to Golden Cap, with Langdon Hill (top right) forming the inland horizon on what is now National Trust land.

Caption For Bere Regis, View From School Meadow C1950

Popular belief is that the rowdyism was encouraged by the presence of the nearby Woodbury Hill Fair.

Caption For Bradwell, From Bradwell Edge C1955

In the background is the Lose Hill-Back Tor ridge.

Caption For Holcombe, Post Office C1960

In medieval times Holcombe was built up a hill to escape the plague in the old village below.

Caption For Portishead, The Boating Lake C1960

The extensive dockland area lay out of sight behind the wooded hill and the power station.

Caption For Clee Hill, C1960

The high, windswept Clee Hills would have been an excellent place to light a beacon celebrating Victoria's jubilee, the occasion described in this poem.

Caption For Great Malvern, Malvern Hills And Wynds Point C1900

Great Malvern village is set against the stunning backdrop of the Malvern Hills, that great range of summits that rises above the surrounding plains of Worcestershire; they form one of the finest ridge

Caption For Osmington Mills, The Village 1894

On the downs above Osmington is this famous hill-figure of George III, 108 yards high and 93 yards long.

Caption For Sudbury, Market 1904

Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

Caption For Belfast, Castle And Lough 1897

The castle is superbly situated a few miles to the north of the city, on Cave Hill overlooking Belfast Lough.

Caption For Petersfield, From Tilmore 1906

The Spain may have been named after Spanish wool merchants who gathered here to trade for wool and cloth, and Music Hill is where 18th-century military bands played.

Caption For Upper Clatford, Fishing Cottage C1955

Near the village are the remains of a sizeable Iron Age hill-fort.

Caption For Whitby, East Cliff 1913

St Mary's church and the ruins of Whitby Abbey stand on the hill overlooking the harbour.

Caption For Hitchin, Hermitage Road 1901

Windmill Hill is just visible in the background.

Caption For Hitchin, Hermitage Road C1965

Windmill Hill is just visible in the background.

Caption For Cricklade, High Street C1955

These cottages stand at the top of Pack Hill, near its junction with Church Road and Mayfield, in Upper Wanborough.

Caption For Pewsey, General View 1929

Pewsey is a small town in the middle of the Vale that bears its name, noted for its white horse cut into the downland at Milk Hill.

Caption For Great Chart, The Village 1908

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along