Photos

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Maps

90 maps found.

1907-1908, West Hills Ref. RNC864420
1897-1909, West Hill Ref. RNC864402
1888, West Hill Ref. HOSM63857
1885, West Hill Ref. HOSM64707
1899-1900, West Hill Ref. RNC864385
1898-1900, West Hill Ref. RNC864395
1883 - 1902, West Hill Ref. HOSM63858
1883, Birdcombe Court Ref. HOSM63859
1886 - 1903, Bradlow Ref. HOSM64095
1897-1900, Hill Top Ref. RNC736021
1945, Hill Top Ref. NPO736021
1940, Cinder Hill Ref. NPO668983
1919, Tote Hill Ref. POP850751
1897-1900, Beech Hill Ref. RNC636391
1898, Cinder Hill Ref. RNC668983
1895, Cinder Hill Ref. RNE668983
1895, Beech Hill Ref. RNE636391
1945, Tote Hill Ref. NPO850751
1909 - 1910, Beech Hill Ref. HOSM37366
1919, Beech Hill Ref. POP636391

Books

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Memories

408 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.

Looking Back To The Early Days

I was born in rented 'rooms' at Wordsworth Road in 1936 and came to move with my parents to five different addresses at Easington before I moved away from the area, when I married in 1963. But although my ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by Harold(Harry) Barnes

A Farm Workers Daughter In Dunsyre

Dunsyre was my first school, there were only 7 children in the whole school, myself and my two brothers all went there. I loved my teacher, she showed me great kindness, her name was Miss Low, I will never forget ...Read more

A memory of Dunsyre in 1954 by Jean Mcbride

Orange Hill Girls Grammar School

After passing the 11+ at St Johns School, Milton Road, West Hendon, I attended Orange Hill from 1947. I had quite a journey, having to take the trolleybus along the Edgware Road then a walk down the Watling ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by Ann Midson

Drayton Jottings

Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

Anyone Out There

I am looking for anyone who knows of any families living in the Westhill district of Dartford during the Second World War era. I lived on Morland Avenue when they got hit by the V2 bomb. I would love to hear from you. Yours, Clive Jeffrey, Cloverdale, Canada.

A memory of Dartford by Clive Jeffrey

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

Early 1950s

I was born in Dartord where I lived in Stanham Road until I moved at the age of 9 years. Childhood friends I remember are Anthony Artist, Janet Cork, Michael Burville (not sure of spelling of surname). My next door neighbour was the ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1953 by Roger Dadd

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

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

Relations Of John Wraite Mary Post

In 1841 John & Mary Wraight's son William married Sarah Curling Baker the daughter of Thomas Baker & Eleanor Hunt from St Margarets at Cliffe. Her stepsister, Eleanor Hunt's daughter by her first marriage ...Read more

A memory of Guston in 1860

Captions

198 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.

Caption For Montacute, House 1900

The name of the delightful Ham stone village of Montacute derives from St Michael's Hill to the west, in Latin 'mons acutus', or 'steep hill'.

Caption For Upper Dicker, The Dicker C1955

About two miles west of Hailsham is Upper Dicker, which has a Gothic-style church.

Caption For Haslemere, Haymaking, Longdene 1888

A superb haymaking scene which shows the manpower once required on the land at this hill-top farm, to the south west of Haslemere.

Caption For Port Erin, 1897

In the distance to the left are Bradda Hill, Bradda West and Bradda East.

Caption For Brighton, Devil's Dyke 1894

Here the photographer looks north-west from near the hillfort that occupies the crest of the ridge, towards Poynings village and the scarp of the South Downs beyond at North Hill and Newtimber Hill.

Caption For Shipley, The Glen 1921

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Caption For Postbridge, The Village 1931

Postbridge takes its name from the arched bridge that was built to carry the post road from Princetown in the south-west to Moretonhampstead in the north-east.

Caption For Broadwas, The Village C1955

Broadwas stands on a ridge, with wonderfully clear views across to the Malvern Hills.

Caption For Kendal, Looking North 1896

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.The town of Kendal was founded on the west bank of the River Kent, although the earliest settlement around

Caption For Shipley, The Glen 1921

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Caption For Coniston, The Village 1929

Ramblers (right) head for the hills, striding purposefully out past the Rayburne Hotel and Cafe in the centre of Coniston village.

Caption For Sevenoaks, Upper St John's Hill 1959

St John's Church, built in 1858-9 by Morphew & Green and with its west gable-end facing out onto the road junction, dominates this cross-roads towards the top of the hill.

Caption For Bakewell, The Bridge And River C1955

Here, the excellent footpath on the west bank of the river can be seen.

Caption For Ullswater, From Place Fell 1892

Ullswater snakes into the Lake District hills for seven and a half miles, from Pooley Bridge to Glenridding, and has three major and quite different stretches.

Caption For Coniston, The Village 1929

A pair of ramblers (right) heading for the hills stride out purposefully past the Rayburne Hotel and cafe in the centre of Coniston village.The lack of traffic in the main street is in sharp contrast

Caption For Ullswater, From Place Fell 1892

Ullswater snakes into the Lake District hills for seven and a half miles, from Pooley Bridge to Glenridding, and has three major and quite different stretches.

Caption For Coniston, The Village 1929

A pair of ramblers (right) heading for the hills stride out purposefully past the Rayburne Hotel and cafe in the centre of Coniston village.

Caption For Castle Cary, The Town Hall C1960

West of Bruton, Castle Cary is set on the side of the oolite hills of southern Somerset, with Castle Cary Park on Lodge Hill rising steeply behind the church.

Caption For Glastonbury, Wearyall Hill 1896

Now around to the south-west side of Glastonbury, where Wearyall Hill lies between the town and the river Brue.

Caption For Loughborough, C1955

Towards the north-west lies the mound of Beacon Hill.

Caption For Runcorn, Weston Road 1923

This photograph shows the view from Runcorn Hill over the industrial area to the west.

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 Broadwas, Butts Bank Farm C1955

Broadwas is a pleasant village in pastoral Teme Valley farmland, six miles west of Worcester.

Caption For West Hoathly, The Village 1895

Standing high on a hill with fine Sussex views, West Hoathly is probably best known for its historic church of St Margaret of Antioch.