Maps

2,499 maps found.

1895, South Baddesley Ref. RNE834358
1897, South Beach Ref. RNE834398
1898, South Bowood Ref. RNE834434
1898, South Cadbury Ref. RNE834474
1895, South Carne Ref. RNE834487
1896, South Cerney Ref. RNE834499
1897, South Charlton Ref. RNE834509
1899, South Clifton Ref. RNE834524
1898, South Common Ref. RNE834545
1896, South Crosland Ref. RNE834576
1899, South Croxton Ref. RNE834578
1896, South Earlswood Ref. RNE834648
1896, South Elmsall Ref. RNE834658
1896, South End Ref. RNE834665
1896, South End Ref. RNE834671
1897, South Goldstone Ref. RNE834779
1896, South Green Ref. RNE834800
1896, South Harrow Ref. RNE834831
1895, South Hayling Ref. RNE834845
1896, South Heath Ref. RNE834862

Books

23 books found. Showing results 745 to 23.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 311 to 320.

Post War Harlesden.

I was born in Tredegar, South Wales in April 1941. My mother had been evacuated to that small welsh town when she fell pregnant with me in 1940. We lived with her parents. My dad was away doing War things. We moved back to London ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by John Howley

Hubert Terrace

I often wondered who Hubert was. Other road names around were obvious. Bank Street was on a bank; School street had a school at the end of it. But Hubert Terrace? One side of my street was brick and the other was stone; something ...Read more

A memory of Bensham in 1964 by Susan Green

Born On The Graig

"It's only wind or powder on the stomach"my Mam had said as she walked home from the ammunition factory on a cold Autumn evening. The "wind" or "powder" was born on the 2nd December 1942. I, Colin Gronow, ...Read more

A memory of Graig in 1940 by Colin Gronow

Swans Row

I was born on Swans Row. The correct address was: BERRISTOW PLACE SOUTH NORMANTON ALFRETON DERBYSHIRE DE55 2HX 01773 580666 Frank Hughes.

A memory of Leabrooks in 1930

Glenrothes And Area

Moved to Glenrothes as part of the overspill from Glasgow where we had bought room and kitchen 3 up, in 1963 for 285 pounds, paid back at 5 pounds every 2 weeks. We moved to a HOUSE with a back and front garden, what a luxury, ...Read more

A memory of Dysart in 1968 by John Potter

Ida Brandon

After a trip to Gilfach Goch in July 1999 I started researching my family tree. I live in Cape Town South Africa and my mother was Ida Brandon, born 2nd February 1919. Her brother was Ernest Brandon and her sister Lilian. ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1999 by Frances Charles

Return Of The Native

I am now 63 but it wasn't till a couple of years ago that looking at my BC I actually took in that I was born at the Holbrook Maternity Home June 30th 1947. I'd always put down Belper as my place of birth as I'd only glanced ...Read more

A memory of Holbrook in 1947 by Roger Taylor

4 Years At The Castle School Stanhope

In 1945 I was placed in South Hetton Remand Home at the age of 10 by Sunderland Magistrates Court.(I had a difficult homelife with a very physically abusive stepfather, otherwise I would have been fined 5 ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1946

Parallel Parking In South Street In The 1960s

I had recently passed my driving test and drove a Morris Minor Saloon, to practice my parallel parking I used to drive down South Street after work or on a Sunday and park outside of Woolworths or ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1969

Film Shows And Waitresses

I was an apprentice at Sellafield in 1957 living in Seascale. In the winter months some of my pals and I would frequent the Scawfell Hotel, but go in the back entrance where we could mix with the young waitresses in ...Read more

A memory of Seascale in 1957 by Ian Whitford

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 745 to 768.

Caption For Caerphilly, The Castle 1893

If you look to the extreme left of it you can just make out the south water gate, which at this time was high and dry. The water defences extended to this side of the dam.

Caption For Chesterfield, Church Interior 1896

Both the tower and the south transept were added during the 14th century.

Caption For Redditch, Evesham Street C1955

This is the south end of Evesham Street, but none of this survives.

Caption For Bisley, The Hen And Chickens C1955

The ranges run south- east to north-west, with the targets below the number boards on the bund, or earthwork, behind them.

Caption For Cropthorne, 1901

At the south-eastern corner of Worcestershire stands Cropthorne, a pretty village just off the Evesham to Pershore road.

Caption For Harwich, Church Street 1954

A view looking south towards St Nicholas' church of 1821 and the adjoining Three Cups Hotel, part of which dates from the early 16th century.Admiral Nelson and Lady Hamilton stayed there.

Caption For Croxley Green, 1897

A magnificent oak tree dominates the common land and the pleasant nearby houses of this little hamlet on the southern outskirts of Rickmansworth, where, on land to the south-west, the famous Croxley

Caption For Paignton, Gerston Hotel 1907

The railway (then the South Devon, which was taken over by the great Western in 1878) came to Paignton in 1859, and eventually ran through to Kingswear.

Caption For Romsey, Broadlands 1898

Situated to the south of the town, overlooking the Test, Broadlands is an imposing porticoed house remodelled in classical style by 'Capability' Brown and John Holland in the mid 18th century.

Caption For Ludlow, The Broad Gate 1923

It is the south gate in the medieval town walls; it is now almost lost amongst the later buildings that have since been attached to it.

Caption For Ormskirk, Market Place 1895

Until the Dissolution members of the family were interred at Burscough Priory; then Edward, the 3rd Earl, had a vault built at the south-east end of Ormskirk church.

Caption For Chudleigh Knighton, The Clay Cutters Arms 1907

Clay has been mined commercially in South Devon since the 17th Century.

Caption For Bakewell, Dagnall Close Gardens C1955

This is a more modern part of town, off the A6 to the south. The stone-faced houses are well in keeping with the rest of Bakewell.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road And Catholic Church 1925

Continuing north-west towards Felbridge from the Moat Road junction we see the Italianate Church of Our Lady and St Peter, looking south east.

Caption For Torcross, The Sands 1896

During the Second World War villagers were evacuated from many villages around the South Hams so that the district could become a D-Day training ground for American troops, who would practise landings

Caption For Middlesbrough, Linthorpe Road 1913

Linthorpe Road was at one time the town's only road south.

Caption For Marhamchurch, The Church C1960

It has a low tower, nave and north aisle, with a south transept on the far side. Within, a curious niche in the west wall may be the entry to an anchorite's cell of c1400.

Caption For Cambridge, King's College C1955

This view looks south along King's Parade, with King's College Chapel and the beautifully pinnacled screen and gatehouse leading to Front Court on the right.

Caption For Fyfield, St Nicholas's Church C1955

The chancel is Early English, but it was restored in 1849; this restoration stretched to the 13th-century south nave windows and the north aisle.

Caption For Falmouth, Green Bank Hotel 1890

The Green Bank Hotel, on the south bank of the Penryn River, was built in 1785 to cash in on the trade brought to the town by the mail packets.

Caption For Cressing, The Street 1909

Cressing is an expanding village just to the south of Braintree. It has its own railway-station, formerly known as Bulford station.

Caption For Aldeburgh, River Alde 1901

Stretching away to the south is the Alde, passing the Martello Tower on its left; it runs adjacent to the shore for a further ten miles, a quite remarkable feat considering that the sometimes violent

Caption For Warrington, Manchester Ship Canal C1960

For example, one of the locks at Latchford (in the south of Warrington) is 600 feet long and 65 feet wide.

Caption For Reading, On The River Thames 1904

An interesting view from the south bank of the Thames looking east, before Christchurch Meadows on the left were made into a riverside park, and, more significantly, before Reading Bridge was built