Places
26 places found.
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- Town End, Derbyshire
- Town End, Buckinghamshire
- Town's End, Somerset
- Towns End, Dorset
- Town End, Merseyside
- Town End, Cambridgeshire
- Town's End, Buckinghamshire
- West End Town, Northumberland
- Bolton Town End, Lancashire
- Kearby Town End, Yorkshire
- Town End, Cumbria (near Grange-Over-Sands)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Bowness-On-Windermere)
- Town End, Yorkshire (near Huddersfield)
- Town End, Yorkshire (near Wilberfoss)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Appleby-in-Westmorland)
- Town's End, Dorset (near Melbury Osmond)
- Town's End, Dorset (near Swanage)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Ambleside)
- Town's End, Dorset (near Bere Regis)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Ambleside)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Lakeside)
- Town End, Cumbria (near Kirkby Lonsdale)
- West-end Town, South Glamorgan
- Townend, Derbyshire
- Townend, Strathclyde (near Dumbarton)
- Townend, Staffordshire (near Stone)
Photos
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Maps
195 maps found.
Books
158 books found. Showing results 625 to 648.
Memories
3,712 memories found. Showing results 261 to 270.
Air Raids
These memories are as fresh in my mind as if they happened last week. Boston had its share of air raids, the first one was on a rainy Monday, it was July, the first day of our summer school holidays. It would be about 7.15 am when we ...Read more
A memory of Boston in 1940 by
Best Days Of You Life?
I was lucky enough to attend Bede Hall. We had a terrific staff team in those days - Clive Bell, Peter Dixon, the late Annie Woodward et al. The whole experience was mind blowing, as the mix of administered and self ...Read more
A memory of Billingham in 1967 by
Keep Off The Grass
I remember sitting under these trees in the summer of 1976, with my mates and smoking some grass. Funny thing was, the only thing we got told off for was being on the grass, not smoking it. Obviously the New Towns Commission had their ideals in the right places...
A memory of Welwyn Garden City
From Woodland Road To Cheshire Via The Penllwyn
On June 11th 1952 in the front downstairs room, (or close by) of 14 Woodland Road I let out my first cry. My early days of Pont are blurred, because they were not happy days. But I do remember ...Read more
A memory of Pontllanfraith by
More Of Enfield
Swimming at the open air pool was so compulsory at George Spicer and then Kingsmead schools but then we grew a little and in the holidays worked at Pearsons and danced at the Court above Burtons in the market square. Those days it ...Read more
A memory of Enfield in 1970 by
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
How Good Barking Was In The 1950s
I was born in Shirley Gardens in 1935, right opposite Barking Park where I spent most of my childhood at Barking open air lido. What a magnificent place that was! My father was a policeman in Barking so we always ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
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
St Albans Summer Holidays In The 1950s
A child from Thanet taking annual last week of August holidays with an adored great aunt at Chiswell Green, travelling by train to Victoria Station, London, taking the Greenline to ...Read more
A memory of Frogmore in 1953 by
Before The Town Centre Was Built ...
My family came to Basildon in 1957 as part of the overspill from London. My late father was a toolmaker and was offered a job and a house. Money was tight and we made out own entertainment. Collecting wood from ...Read more
A memory of Basildon in 1957 by
Captions
5,112 captions found. Showing results 625 to 648.
The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.
In 1800, Aberaeron was little more than a farm and inn by the main coast road where a bridge crossed the Aeron.
We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.
East of the town and the Abbey, Glastonbury Tor rises abruptly to 525 feet above sea level from the 'island' above the Moors on which Glastonbury is built.
The town and its castle have therefore been fought over on numerous occasions.
The town and its castle have therefore been fought over on numerous occasions.
One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.
In 1925 the Square was beginning to show the degree of traffic problems that were to blight the town in future years.
On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.
Looking beyond the medieval parish church the building on the hill behind is the Georgian rectory built in the 1730s by the Rev Benjamin Robertshaw, overlooking the town and away from its bustle
Here we see an attractive group of sub-Arts and Crafts buildings with steeply-pitched roofs and tile-hung dormer windows over an open timber balcony.
Lewes, the medieval guardian of the gap through the South Downs cut by the River Ouse, occupies a fine hilltop site which produces a superb townscape.
Honiton's lace production was at its peak during and in the years after the reign of Elizabeth I.
The church stands on the site of an important regional Roman town known as Calleva Atrebatum.
Dated 1923, the neo-Georgian terrace of shops and flats was built to coincide with the arrival of the Northern Line in that same year.
Note the many shop awnings and the trams further down the street, a reminder of town centre public transport.
It grew to become a powerful organisation within the town, and there was intense rivalry between wealthy local families for membership.
Friars Fleet winds along the back of the town and joins the Ouse close by the quay.
Batchworth Lake is the easternmost of a chain of four lakes west of the town and sandwiched between the Grand Union Canal and the River Colne.
This fine church in Queen's Road was consecrated on 10 September 1879 and was named after Margaret Snowdon, the daughter of the vicar of All Saints' Church.
Like Eastbourne, there was an old town up the hill, and like Eastbourne, Bexhill as a seaside resort is Victorian, but even later in starting.
Apart from the ubiquitous Minis, Morris Minors and Ford 105E Anglias, we can see not one but two examples of the rare Austin Metropolitan, two Jaguar Mk IIs, a Vauxhall VX 4/90 and a Vauxhall PA Cresta
Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.
The success of Wisbech has always depended on its rivers and canals.
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