Maps

398 maps found.

1946, Weston Ref. NPO866278
1946, Weston Ref. NPO866279
1919, Weston Ref. POP866268
1919, Weston Ref. POP866271
1922, Weston Ref. POP866277
1899, Weston Ref. RNC866275
1899, Weston Ref. RNC866276
1947, Weston Ref. NPO866257
1946, Weston Ref. NPO866262
1947, Weston Ref. NPO866264
1946, Weston Ref. NPO866267
1946, Weston Ref. NPO866268
1946, Weston Ref. NPO866270
1946, Weston Ref. NPO866275
1946, Weston Ref. NPO866276
1897, Weston Ref. RNE866257
1899, Weston Ref. RNE866264
1899, Weston Ref. RNE866265
1898, Weston Ref. RNE866268
1898, Weston Ref. RNE866269

Books

2 books found. Showing results 49 to 2.

Memories

198 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.

Pound Street

My first main job on leaving school (Shaw House) was as a tea boy-dogsbody at H C James timber and builders merchants in Pound Street. For quite a while I cycled daily from Highclere Castle, approx 4 miles, it took me just over half ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1956 by Percival Mills

Military Parachuting At Watchfield

I was in the RAF at Abingdon on two different postings during 1963/4 and 1967/69 and very often did detachments to the Parachute training school drop zone at Weston on the Green as the aircraft controller. In ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield by Doug Hulbert

Going To Junior School In Radcliff On Trent In 1960

My dad was in the Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stationed in Langar (born in England though) but my family lived at 16 Douglas Close just outside Radcliffe. I remember walking daily to ...Read more

A memory of Radcliffe on Trent in 1960 by John Reid Wilkinson

Delivering Our Daily Bread

The picture shown is of Russell Road which runs left to right centre of the picture. Every day except Sunday during the early 1960s I used to deliver bread all around Weston Point and remember well reversing my Co-op van ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1961 by Brian Balfe

Return Of A Native

Camberley, where it all began. Where I lived half of my life so far. In your head you never leave the place you were born and raised. On a wet un-comforting day I found myself revisiting the town of my past. I was cast into ...Read more

A memory of Camberley in 1988 by André Goddard

The Berth

Hi, I was born in 10 Horner Street, in 1941, parents were Idris and Olive, one sister Pat, lived in England for a while. Came back to Wales in 1953, worked in Hestons rubber factory for about a year then the nylon spinners at ...Read more

A memory of Tir-y-berth in 1941 by Alan Davies

I Remember Southall

I moved to Southall when I was 5 with my family, went to live at Cornwall Avenue and then went to Lady Margaret School, left there when I was 11 went to Dormers Wells, at 12 we moved to Trinity Road, I still went to Dormers ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1940 by Josiephine Reavell

Camberley 1945 53

To Andre Goddard. I read with interest your literary piece about Camberley. I also share many of the memories that you evoked. I lived in Obelisk Street for a year or so with my grandfather before moving to Crabtree Road. I was ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by David Brown

Heston In My Youth 1954 Onwards...

My parents moved to Heston in 1954, I was one. My uncle owned Heston Garage, his name was Bill Biggs, he lived above the garage for a while before building and living in the Bungalow next door. My sister and I went ...Read more

A memory of Heston in 1954 by Paul Biggs

Ward End Adult School

The Ward End Adult School was held on Sunday mornings in 'The Barn', St.Margaret's Road, Ward End before the 2nd World War. It was run on a sort of religious basis, like a church (non-denominational, I think, but similar to ...Read more

A memory of Ward End in 1930 by Roy Shakespeare

Captions

66 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.

Caption For Aylesbury, Aylesbury Ducks C1955

They were bred in Aylesbury and the surrounding villages, including Walton and Haddenham, whose ponds were of great use, and at Weston Turville, which alone sent 25,000 ducklings a year to London in the

Caption For Merthyr Tydfil, High Street C1965

The two clothing shops, Masters & Co and Weston's (left), have been replaced by other businesses.

Caption For Spalding, Market Place C1955

This view looks west on market day. The White Hart Hotel's stuccoed front dates from about 1714. It is currently closed.

Caption For Yardley Gobion, Village Green C1965

Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.

Caption For Stafford, County War Memorial, Victoria Park 2005

In the 1980s and 1990s Bingley Hall, part of the County Showground on Weston Road, hosted several groups such as Black Sabbath and the Electric Light Orchestra.

Caption For Runcorn, The Docks C1900

A real mixture of shipping make up this photograph of Weston Point Docks.

Caption For Weston Super Mare, The Sands 1887

Weston-super-Mare sits at the edge of the Bristol Channel, opposite the nature reserve island of Steepholm.

Caption For Weston Super Mare, The Sands 1887

Weston-super-Mare sits at the edge of the Bristol Channel, opposite the nature reserve island of Steepholm.

Caption For Crayke, Village Street C1960

Here we see (from right to left) Weston Cottage, Old Timbers, the Little Homestead and at the top, the Durham Ox pub.

Caption For Send, The Canal Lock 1909

In 1651, Sir Richard Weston of nearby Sutton Place embarked on his great enterprise to create the Wey Navigation and make the river commercially navigable from Guildford to the Thames, by straightening

Caption For Stafford, Church Lane C1960

The cooling towers of the new District Hospital in Weston Road became the source of the worst outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease ever to occur in this country, possibly in the world.

Caption For Send, The Canal Lock 1909

In 1651, Sir Richard Weston of nearby Sutton Place embarked on his great enterprise to create the Wey Navigation and make the river commercially navigable from Guildford to the Thames, by straightening

Caption For Glasgow, Atlantic Quay 2005

Farther west on the south bank the great Princes Dock was filled in and became the site for the Glasgow Garden Festival of 1988, exactly a century after Glasgow had hosted the first of its four

Caption For Heston, The Parish Church C1955

Heston, too, had early links with air travel; it was at one time the nearest airfield to central London. The parish church of St.

Caption For Berwick, Drusilla's Park, The Miniature Railway C1955

The miniature railway was one of the major attractions of Drusilla's and still is, though the engines are somehow less utilitarian and more convincingly based on steam locomotives - the best one

Caption For St Blazey, Fore Street 1956

The Palace Cinema is showing three films: Charlton Heston stars in The Private War of Major Benson, Jane Wyman in Lucy Gallant and Tony Curtis in Rawhide Years, which date this photograph to 1956 at the

Caption For Skillington, Village C1965

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Caption For Skillington, Village C1965

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.