Maps

9,439 maps found.

1900, North Buckland Ref. RNC792992
1901, North Common Ref. RNC793078
1900, North Country Ref. RNC793110
1903, North Elkington Ref. RNC793210
1898, North End Ref. RNC793222
1899, North End Ref. RNC793228
1898, North End Ref. RNC793250
1898, North Lee Ref. RNC793621
1898, North Marston Ref. RNC793699
1898, North Moulsecoomb Ref. RNC793748
1900, North Tamerton Ref. RNC793971
1899, North Whilborough Ref. RNC794074
1899, North Widcombe Ref. RNC794083
1924, Athersley North Ref. POP628308
1946, North Somercotes Ref. NPO793925
1946, North Star Ref. NPO793939
1946, North Stoke Ref. NPO793943
1947, North Stoke Ref. NPO793944
1945, North Street Ref. NPO793953
1946, North Street Ref. NPO793956

Books

39 books found. Showing results 673 to 696.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 281 to 290.

Dancing On The Forest For The Queens Visit To Nottingham

I think it was 1953 and I was 10yrs. I was at the Bentink Road Scool and as I remember, the schools in Nottingham entered a dancing team and we practiced for weeks. Our practice was in ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1953 by Margaret Wilson Nee Rigley

Plympton Station Holiday Memories

My grandparents, my mother's parents, lived in Vicarage Road, Plympton until 1962 when they moved to Moorland Avenue. As children we always spent our holidays with them and I have early memories of accompanying ...Read more

A memory of Plympton in 1958 by Edward Godfrey

Football Matches Between Port&High Clarence

I happened upon this site purely by accident, but it brought back some great memories. I am Pete Boland, young brother of Owen, a keen & very good footballer. I remember as a kid the matches ...Read more

A memory of Port Clarence by Peter Boland

Peeping Around The Curtain

Every year we set off from York for a two week holiday at Thornwick Bay. We used to travel by bus, and I well remember the bus always used to breakdown at the top of Garrowby Hill. Everyone had to get off the bus ...Read more

A memory of Thornwick Bay in 1956 by R Clive Ankers

Name Of

This picture is of St Peter-ad-Vincula (St Peter in chains) at Bottesford, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. One of only a few in the country with this dedication another being in The Tower of London. 13th century Early English style and ...Read more

A memory of Scunthorpe by Christine Bell

Granny

My grandmother lived in Clayton West and my four cousins and I often slept over. Her surname was Sleaford but I have no memory of the actual address. I have just very clear memories of the worn stone steps into the cellar and the ...Read more

A memory of Clayton West in 1950 by Jean Martens

Living Above The Shops Thornton St North

We moved to Collyhurst (60 Thornton St North) in 1966/67 and I have always considered myself a Collyhurst girl. I absolutely loved it there and used to play on the railway line at the back of the flats. ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1967 by Lesley Mottley

Barrow Hill School

I went to Barrow Hill School in the early fifties, Mr. Rees was the Headmaster. On a Friday evening we would go into his home and watch the Cisco Kid on television, the first television I ever watched. I also remember ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1951 by Daniel Wright

North Ormesby

I was born in Queen St in 1954. I have very good memories of my childhood. People looked after each other because everyone was in the same boat, nobody had nowt. As kids, we used to play down shortie bank on the handcarts. ...Read more

A memory of North Ormesby by Wendy Sharkey

Ackworth

My grandparents (Mr and Mrs Scorah) used to live in Town End Avenue, Low Ackworth. I remember visiting them with my mother, while my dad was at war. We used to catch the bus from Scunthorpe to Waterdale, Doncaster. Then we would ...Read more

A memory of Ackworth in 1940 by Tony Crawshaw

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 673 to 696.

Caption For Wargrave, The Village 1890

In the earlier one, looking north up High Street, The Greyhound Inn is still an 18th-century colourwashed building, while Burgis' shop on the left corner and the dor- mered cottages beyond are

Caption For Runcorn, Higher Runcorn, Highlands Road C1955

Many of these houses were originally built in the 1800s as housing for immigrants coming to the area from Cumbria and North Wales to work in the local quarries.

Caption For Thaxted, Church From The North West 1906

The elaborate north porch incorporates a chapel to the 14th-century peasant leader John Ball.

Caption For Dunsop Bridge, Brennand Valley 1921

This lovely view was taken just a few miles north of Dunsop Bridge.We can see the tiny River Brennand running down to join the Whitendale River to make the River Dunsop, which gives the town its

Caption For Buckland, Pond And School 1906

The village sits below the North Downs on the main road between Dorking and Reigate.

Caption For Ellesmere, The Canal C1960

It was also intended that there should be a canal going from Ellesmere directly to the north to reach the sea at Ellesmere Port.

Caption For Bisley, High Street 1910

Running north to south with closely built houses of all ages, the High Street of this quaintly composed village is set in a large parish rich in vernacular architecture, ancient burial

Caption For Clarach, 1921

Clarach consists of dispersed settlements in a fertile valley to the north of Aberystwyth, from which it is accessible by foot over Constitution Hill.

Caption For Parkgate, Loading Mussels 1939

Though shellfish are still gathered by some locals from the brackish sands to the north of Parkgate, the commercial trade ceased when the estuary finally silted up in the 1950s.

Caption For Buckden, The Lion Hotel C1950

The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.

Caption For Sompting, West Street C1955

West Street was originally part of the main route through Sompting, linking it to Broadwater and North Lancing.

Caption For Bibury, The Saxon Stone In The North Side Of The Church Wall C1960

Set into the north, or 'Devil's side' of the building, is this Saxon motif of interlocking rings, a reminder that the town was once part of the ancient kingdom of Mercia.

Caption For Chesterfield, St Mary & All Saints' Parish Church 1902

This view from the north shows a group of Edwardian children gazing quizzically at the camera.

Caption For Fordingbridge, Bridge Street C1955

Situated on the north-western edge of the New Forest, Fordingbridge was once famous for the manufacture of canvas and sail cloth.

Caption For Winchelsea, Strand Gate And Ellen Terry's Cottage 1906

This was Winchelsea's north east gate and lay by the banks of the River Brede (hence the name).

Caption For Sleaford, Northgate C1950

Here, where South Gate meets North Gate, are the town's finest commercial buildings, such as the HSBC bank of 1903 on the left and the Sessions House of 1830 in Gothick style with a pointed arched ground

Caption For Monkton Combe, The Viaduct C1955

Three hundred yards further north is Rennie's 1805 Dundas Aqueduct carrying the canal across the River Avon.

Caption For Netherbury, The Village C1955

Looking north-westwards from Lower Yonderover Farm, with hay-bales in Mill House paddock (foreground) and the sign for the Star Inn (centre), the River Brit skirts the edge of the

Caption For Bransgore, The Post Office C1960

Bransgore, north of Christchurch, grew over the years as a sprawling residential village.

Caption For Blackdown Camp, 2nd Brigade Office 1906

Blackdown Camp - now Blackdown Barracks - is at Deepcut on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke Canal.

Caption For Woodchester, C1955

Lying between Stroud and Nailsworth, the parish includes the villages of North and South Woodchester.

Caption For Manchester, Cathedral From Grosvenor Hotel 1889

We can see a part of the white North Porch at the side of the tower.

Caption For Helston, The Lake 1913

We are looking north-east up the valley to the town.

Caption For Wareham, The River And Bridge C1965

This view looks north-westwards from the south bank to the 1927-built South Bridge (left) which replaced a graceful five- arch Norman bridge.