Photos

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Maps

4,410 maps found.

1898, Kirby Hill Ref. RNE748683
1895, Kite Hill Ref. RNE749423
1896, Langdon Hills Ref. RNE752378
1895, Lidham Hill Ref. RNE755742
1902, Coton Hill Ref. RNC678467
1898, Crays Hill Ref. RNC681629
1903, Crockey Hill Ref. RNC683441
1903, Dudley Hill Ref. RNC694634
1902, Dunstall Hill Ref. RNC695776
1903, Dawker Hill Ref. RNC688967
1903, Derbyshire Hill Ref. RNC690231
1903, Gorse Hill Ref. RNC717867
1902, Gravelly Hill Ref. RNC719431
1900, Hagginton Hill Ref. RNC724654
1902, Harmer Hill Ref. RNC727437
1902, Balance Hill Ref. RNC630642
1898, Brock Hill Ref. RNC651298
1903, Camp Hill Ref. RNC660330
1903, Cat Hill Ref. RNC664402
1899, Barton Hill Ref. RNC634363

Books

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Memories

3,572 memories found. Showing results 251 to 260.

My Memories Of Selly Oak And Bournbrook

I was born Anne Shirley Crofts back of 622 Bristol Road (opposite where Aldi is now) in July 1944, brother Ronnie was born 1940, sister Vivienne was born 1942, and Alan was born 1947, between Riverton Road ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1954 by Anne Crofts

Evacuation During The Second World War

During the early years of the Second World War my father was posted to the Royal Artillery camp in Almondbury and when we were bombed in our home in Hull he found a small house for my mother, sisiter and I ...Read more

A memory of Kirkheaton in 1940 by Raymond Taylor

Gants Hill

I moved to Gants Hill in 1968, from Bethnal Green, at the age of 8. I later moved to Wanstead aged 32. I have great memories of the place, I lived on the Eastern Avenue between Ethelbert Gardens and Beehive lane. Ray Powell was the ...Read more

A memory of Gants Hill in 1973 by Martin Redif

Greenford 1969

My grandparents from both sides all lived in Ravenor Park Road from the 1940s onwards, Ernest and Phyllis Warren, my mum's parents lived about 5 doors away from Aubrey and Muriel Thurston, my dad's parent's, and that's how my ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1969 by Lisa Thurston

Pig Sty Peache Road

I'm not sure of the year, but a pig sty used to stand where there are now flats on the left hand side of Peache Road on the corner going towards Downend. I used to hear the pigs squealing when I was quite ...Read more

A memory of Downend by Julie Mainstone Smith

A Child In Kinghorn

I lived at 54 High Street, Kinghorn, Fife, Scoland, and went to school in Kinghorn and Burntisland. I remember the fish trains at night going to Burtisland and beyond and clanking up the hill as they came out of Kinghorn station. I also remember that it was double summer time.

A memory of Kinghorn in 1953 by Geoffrey Shenton

Wyke Regis

My wife Christina Armstrong's (nee Brown) mum Phylis was born and raised in Wyke Regis, both of Phylis's parents along with many of her relatives are buried at this church. Chris's mum was raised at Park Mead Road, her name was ...Read more

A memory of Wyke Regis by Robert Armstrong

James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990

Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by James Irvine

My Paper Round

I worked as a paper boy at Newby's in Taunton Lane. I got up at 5 am and went to the shed behind the shop to sort and mark-up the papers. I then did 2 rounds before school for 6/- a week per round and 5/- for the marking up; a ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1959 by Richard Everest

Living On Pool Bank New Road

We moved to Pool in 1943 as my father had a job as an aircraft inspector at the factory at what is now Leeds & Bradford Airport. We lived in a house one corner up from the notorious Furze Hill Corner which was a ...Read more

A memory of Pool in 1945 by Ian Scott

Captions

1,749 captions found. Showing results 601 to 624.

Caption For Crays Hill, All Saint's Church C1955

Crays Hill is a thoroughfare settlement in the parish of Ramsden Crays—the name ultimately coming from the 12th-century de Crei family.

Caption For Dursley, Long Street C1947

This view looks down the hill towards The Priory and Lister's factory. The 18th-century shopfronts of Long Street have been largely retained.

Caption For The Wrekin, The Needle's Eye 1895

The same two giants later had an argument, and one of them threw his spade at the other. The spade missed, but struck the hill instead, causing the gash now known as the Needle's Eye.

Caption For Grassington, The Square C1960

Parked cars fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

Caption For Beaminster, The Square C1955

Beaminster (pronounced Bemmister) is situated in a deep valley, surrounded by a ring of picturesque hills, with a gap broken by the singing waters of the River Brit.

Caption For St Albans, Holywell Hill 1921

This peaceful view looks up Holywell Hill towards the city centre, as it dips towards the river and the curative spring from which it takes its name, with, on the right, one of the fine Georgian houses

Caption For Burford, High Street C1955

Here in the right foreground we see the Tolsey building raised on columns, with its broad clock projecting from the gable.

Caption For Bilsborrow, The Roebuck Hotel C1955

Roebucks are the males of the roe deer, whose herds once roamed this attractive landscape along the western fringe of the Lancashire hills.

Caption For Geddington, Church Hill C1955

We are now standing in a position to the east of the Cross and are looking towards West Street, with Church Hill on the immediate right of the pantiled lean-to building and the Star Inn

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1953

Here we see the High Street from the foot of Bank Street, showing clearly the overhead cables for the trolley-buses, one of which is in the foreground.

Caption For Launceston, Windmill Hill C1960

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

Caption For Winchester, St Giles Hill 1899

This photograph was taken 2 years before the famous statue of King Alfred was erected in the middle of the road, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of his death - albeit belatedly, as he died in

Caption For Winchester, St Giles Hill 1899

This photograph was taken 2 years before the famous statue of King Alfred was erected in the middle of the road, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of his death - albeit belatedly, as he died in AD 899

Caption For Prittlewell, The Church 1891

The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.

Caption For Bromley, Shortlands Church 1899

The view looks from Martin`s Hill across the valley of the Ravensbourne River. Ahead we can see the pumping station chimney.

Caption For Accrington, Technical School 1899

Henry Hills was the first headmaster of Accrington's co-educational technical school, which opened on 28 August 1895.

Caption For Lostwithiel, North Street 1906

The absence of traffic allows the children to loiter safely in the street.

Caption For Pitsea, St Michael's Church C1955

St Michael's Church, Pitsea Built in a prominent position on the top of a small hill, St Michael's Church overlooks the peninsula formed by creeks running into the river and the parish of Pitsea, formerly

Caption For Brynmawr, Clydach From The Hafod Road C1955

This photograph shows Llanelly Hill and the old lime kilns. The road on the right had an extremely steep gradient and was the old roadway before the Heads of the Valleys Road.

Caption For Ulverston, Hoad Hill And Monument 1912

The Hoad Hill Monument at Ulverston is a replica of the Eddystone Lighthouse, and was built as a memorial to Sir John Barrow, founder of the Royal Geographical Society and for 40 years Secretary to the

Caption For Monkton Combe, C1955

In the centre of this picture are the buildings of Monkton Combe School. Beyond can be seen the Limpley Stoke viaduct, built for the Black Dog Turnpike Trust in 1834.

Caption For Lewes, School Hill 1903

At the Market Street junction, the High Street starts dropping steeply to School Hill. The ornate lamp standard was replaced a few years later by an equally elaborate War Memorial.

Caption For Charmouth, Village 1900

Once on the high road between Axminster and Bridport, Charmouth has now been bypassed, but even so the traffic up the steep hill out of the village will never be as quiet as on the peaceful day

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour Beach C1965

Pebbles and sand extend below the Royal Standard; we look eastwards from deck-chairs, boats and canvas shelters to the North Wall of the harbour and the coast from Charmouth and Stonebarrow Hill to Golden