Maps

181,031 maps found.

1906, Jordanston Fm Ref. HOSM49573
1906, Scoveston Ref. HOSM58721
1903, Ackenthwaite Ref. HOSM35498
1897, Heversham Ref. HOSM48349
1924, Broughton Ref. HOSM39212
1898, Deanshanger Ref. HOSM42938
1924, Fishermead Ref. HOSM45457
1898, Grange Farm Ref. HOSM47941
1924, Middleton Ref. HOSM53659
1924, Monkston Ref. HOSM53989
1924, Northfield Ref. HOSM55354
1898, Passenham Ref. HOSM56158
1900, Potsgrove Ref. HOSM57021
1924, Tongwell Ref. HOSM62066
1896, Mindrum Ref. HOSM53839
1902, Minehead Ref. HOSM34921
1902, Allerford Ref. HOSM35931
1902, Dunster Ref. HOSM44146
1902, Ellicombe Ref. HOSM44734
1902, Holnicote Ref. HOSM48784

Books

442 books found. Showing results 7,537 to 7,560.

Memories

29,034 memories found. Showing results 3,141 to 3,150.

Selsdon Parade Residential Flat

My family and my father's before that (surname Kent) lived in Selsdon (84 and 32 Foxearth Road, 170 Littleheath Road, and 24 Benhurst Gardens) spanning c. 1930 - 1989. But at one point (after my father's death), my ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon in 1982 by T Kent

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

Flete House

The memories that Mary Impey has voiced bear a resemblance to my own. I have always had a memory from very young of being in some sort of establishment with the panelled walls Mary mentioned and rows of babies' cots and even the ...Read more

A memory of Pamflete Ho

Happy Days

My memories of the caravan site go back to the 1940s when my parents had a caravan there. It was situated at the edge of the site where there is an open field and a footpath. I went back last July for the first time in about 60 ...Read more

A memory of Swalecliffe in 1940 by Keri Green

Where I Was Born

I was born at my grandmother's house in Chavey Down Road. Her name was Mary-Ann Bye. I only knew her, as my grandfather had died many years before. My mum, Edith Ellen Bye was one of five children and we lived in ...Read more

A memory of Chavey Down in 1948 by Carol Evans

St John's Open Air School, Turpins Lane

I was a pupil at St John's Open Air School from April 1958 until December 1961. Most of the boys like myself were boarders from other parts of the country and we have all lost contact with each other ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1958 by Jeffery West

Village Road, Finchley

I was born at number 7, Village Road, Finchley in 1932 and lived there until October 1939 when my dad's businesses in London were requisitioned. Lots of memories. Milk was delivered by United Dairies and the horse ...Read more

A memory of North Finchley in 1930 by David Britton

The Derbyshire Family Park Villas

My cousin Eileen Vera Derbyshire was born in Blackburn in 1905 and was adopted by the Derbyshire family, when she went by the name of Nelly / Nellie Swales Derbyshire. She was apparently taken in by Nuns at a ...Read more

A memory of Whalley in 1900 by Clarissa Spot

Chivenor 1949

I was 19 years old, in the R.A.F. at Chivenor from October, 1948 to June, 1949 and was at the dance-hall in Barnstaple one of those nights in April, 1949. Across the room was the loveliest girl I had ever seen, brown wavy hair to ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1949 by Kenneth Hughes

Opera

A friend of mine (Len) said we should go to Hanslope one weekend to meet a girl he used to go out with when she lived in Kensington in London. We drove up to Hanslope one Saturday morning to see her. Her family lived in a massive white ...Read more

A memory of Hanslope in 1964 by Paul Overton

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 7,537 to 7,560.

Caption For Seaview, The Seafront 1918

Seaview shows off a huge variety of architecture, as this photograph demonstrates.

Caption For Winchcombe, High Street C1960

Winchcombe was the final home of Henry VIII's surviving Queen Catherine Parr, who lived just south of the town at Sudeley Castle.

Caption For Cheltenham, College Chapel 1906

There was early criticism of the architecture of some of the college buildings. To mark the establishment's jubilee, this new chapel designed by H A Prothero was built - to great critical acclaim.

Caption For Brixham, The Harbour 1925

All Saints' Church contains a memorial to the Reverend Lyte, author of 'Abide With Me' and 'Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven'.

Caption For Barrow Upon Soar, High Street C1965

The rather barren appearance of the High Street exemplified in this photograph sets the tenor of this large mainly red-brick village.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, Town And Bay 1927

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine; notice the steep flight of steps in the lower foreground dropping away down toward the sea.

Caption For Larne, Main Street C1890

A party of three carriages of sightseers await to depart from Larne Main Street.

Caption For Bindon Abbey, The Gateway 1894

Bindon Abbey was the location of an important Cistercian monastery and dates back to 1172. Little remains of the original building; this neo-gothic gatehouse dates back only to the 1790s.

Caption For Great Malvern, The Abbey Gateway 1893

Only the Priory Church and Gatehouse remain; the rest of the buildings were taken down in the aftermath of Henry VIII's Dissolution.

Caption For Great Witley, Hundred House C1965

This red-brick Georgian coaching inn stands at the centre of Great Witley. The village is situated in a pleasant spot just below the Abberley Hills, an outcrop of the Malverns.

Caption For Westbury, The White Horse And Bratton Camp 1900

The present horse on this site dates from 1778 and was the first of several figures cut in the chalk downs of Wiltshire during the next half-century.

Caption For Liskeard, Cheesewring 1908

The granite stone of Bodmin Moor supports a natural oddity, the impressive outcrop known as the Cheesewring.

Caption For Barry, Romilly Park Bowling Green C1960

A match is in progress on the green. Most of the trees we saw in photograph B27004 have now been felled and replaced by houses.

Caption For Ludham, The Mill 1934

On the west bank of the Ant stood Ludham Mill, a tower mill nearly 50ft high to the iron curb, with a base diameter of 12ft 4in, including 18in thick walls.

Caption For Newbury, The Wharf C1960

At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.

Caption For Romsey, Sadler's Mill C1955

Romsey's mills depended on the river Test and its branches for their power.

Caption For Lincoln, Cathedral 1895

In this late Victorian view from in front of numbers 12 to 14 Minster Yard, the quality of the mainly 13th-century Gothic cathedral comes over well.

Caption For Lincoln, Silver Street C1950

Lincoln suffered a lot of demolition in the 1950s and 1960s, including No 12 on the far left, now drab 1970s offices, and the buildings beyond which made way for the Stonebow Centre shopping mall of

Caption For Harlow, Market House C1955

There were to be three types of shopping: the open-air market, a variety of shops on three sides, and a first-floor row of shops that did not need a window display, such as hairdressers, opticians, photographers

Caption For Raunds, High Street C1955

Midway between Rushden and Thrapston lies the small town of Raunds. In this photograph you can just pick out the spire of the church, soaring 183 feet above the High Street.

Caption For Thrapston, De Vere Road C1955

By way of contrast, Frith's photographer looks along De Vere Road.

Caption For Langton Matravers, Kings Arms & High Street C1965

Once largely occupied by stoneworkers from the nearby stone quarries, this village stretches along the highway for a considerable distance, hence its name, a corruption of 'Longtown'.

Caption For Rochester, College Gate And Cathedral 1908

At the foot of Boley Hill stands the 15th-century College Gate, one of three surviving entrances to the precincts of the cathedral, whose modest spire (added when the tower was rebuilt in 1904) rises behind

Caption For Ormskirk, Market Place 1895

As well as being a market town, Ormskirk has a long association with the Earls of Derby who lived at Knowsley Hall.