Maps

181,031 maps found.

1888, Walmsgate Ref. HOSM63305
1904, Blundeston Ref. HOSM38151
1904, Camps Heath Ref. HOSM45542
1903, Kessingland Ref. HOSM49874
1883, Coreley Ref. HOSM41780
1883, Lawton Ref. HOSM50895
1902, Ludford Ref. HOSM52847
1881, Chalton Ref. HOSM40523
1885, Gilmorton Ref. HOSM46227
1902, Wibtoft Ref. HOSM64514
1883, Kempton Ref. HOSM49702
1883, Walcot Ref. HOSM63242
1903, Rousdon Ref. HOSM58268
1892, Carlton Ref. HOSM40096
1891, Foulby Ref. HOSM45713
1890, Horbury Ref. HOSM49023
1891, Ryhill Ref. HOSM58352
1909, Wallasey Ref. HOSM35365
1910, Benson Ref. HOSM37580
1910, Winterbrook Ref. HOSM53954

Books

442 books found. Showing results 8,305 to 8,328.

Memories

29,034 memories found. Showing results 3,461 to 3,470.

Inholmes

My aunt and uncle became the caretakers at Inholmes after it was converted to offices. I remember the magnificent staircase which had a huge eagle as a newel post. The range in the kitchen was the biggest I have ever seen, and the ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1952

Aged 0 Almost 8 Years

Spent wonderful times in this pool prior to June 1955. Dad, Lewis Nutton, who was engineer at Firbeck Main Colliery, engineered the diving stage in the lake. We lived at The Villas, Costhorpe, (Roselea) Randalls lived next ...Read more

A memory of Langold by Alison Jones (Nutton)

Schools And Air Cadets

I remember Grays as if it was yesterday. After the war, going to the Open Air School up by the Oaks public house, then attending Quarry Hill School with Miss Hill and Mr Gray before the 11 plus. Passing the exam and going to ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1950 by David Squires

Morning Coffee At Rapparee

Wonderful little beach. As a lad in the late 1940's and early 50's, I was a deckchair boy here, and hundreds of people would walk from town to have a coffee at the cafe at the bottom of Rapparee steps, or spend half ...Read more

A memory of Ilfracombe in 1950 by David Griffiths

Old Pond

My hubby and I remember the shop that was on the corner near the old pond where you could get 1 penny packets of broken crisps and weren't they delicious? They used to sell out very quickly. Sometimes, when I was off school poorly and ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt by Ann Bluemel Nee Dawson

Keir Hardie Way

I grew up in Keir Hardie Way, near Barnhill School & The Greenway from 1953 - 1966 (we then moved to Surrey). I went To Hayes Park School then Mellow Lane School. Keir Hardie Way, Atlee Road, Bondfield, Kingshil Avenue etc.. ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Beverley Thouless

Record Shop

The record shop in Welling High Street was called Eric Spencers. My brother used to buy a lot of records there. We lived in Northdown Road from about 1957. I moved away in 1998

A memory of Welling in 1966 by David Turner

Blyth Then And Now

I was born in Newsham in 1952 and then moved to Malvins Close shortly after my sister Joyce was born at the end of 1953. I t was a great place to live and Ken Dawson and I roamed all over the place: the beach, ...Read more

A memory of Blyth by Alan Henderson

Craigmiller Building, King Street, Ayr

Can anyone help? I am looking for a photo of the above place where my Granny and the family lived in 1911, their address was 13 Craigmiller Building, Lymonds Wynd Ayr. I always thought this address was King Street, Ayr could be that King Street is where Spion Kop was?

A memory of Ayr in 1910

Quicks Of Plymtree

Just wondering if anyone reading this would know anything of the Quicks of Plymtree, just before 1900. Mary Ann Quick married Frank Prigg in the Parish Church. Would love to hear from anyone knowing information re the above. Valerie Bradey

A memory of Plymtree by Valerie Bradey

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 8,305 to 8,328.

Caption For Newport, On The Canal 1898

Canals totally changed the transportation of goods around the country - in fact, once a string of boats started to move, it was possible for a single horse to pull up to 20 boats, each laden with up to

Caption For Stafford, Izaac Walton Walk C1950

In the 19th century this area of the town was prone to flooding, and the mill dam was blamed. In 1879 the Corporation bought the mill from Lord Stafford and built a new weir and floodgates.

Caption For Weybridge, Prince's House C1960

Situated at the junction of Prince's Road and Hanger Hill, this was formerly called The Birches. By the 1960s it was divided into flats and bedsits.

Caption For Langdon Hills, The High Road C1950

Famously the second-highest point in Essex (the highest being a patch of undistinguished woodland in the parish of Langley), Langdon Hills certainly impressed the traveller Arthur Young.

Caption For Swansea, Oxford Street 1910

Built in 1877, it was badly damaged in the three-night 'Blitz' of 1941 which claimed so many of Swansea's buildings (and not a few of its more unfortunate inhabitants).

Caption For Swaffham Bulbeck, The Old Abbey C1955

The clunch and Barnack limestone vaulted undercroft, or basement, of the present house is all that remains of an upper hall of the Benedictine nunnery founded in the 12th century by Isabel the Bolebec.

Caption For Wilburton, The Church C1955

The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.

Caption For Wantage, Newbury Street C1955

The large building on the right housed the premises of Cripps & Son, shoe retailers. Both the first and second floors were used as storage areas.

Caption For Plymouth, The Hoe Bandstand 1902

In the middle distance on the left are the masts of ships in the lee of Drake's Island.

Caption For Maidstone, Allington Castle 1898

Allington is a hamlet on the Medway just to the north of Maidstone. It is best known for its castle, situated hard by the River Medway. This view shows the excellent defensive site of the castle.

Caption For Walsden, Rough Stones Farm C1960

A typical Pennine farmstead, sheltered by a sycamore and standing on the edge of the moors, lies on the outskirts of Walsden.

Caption For Piddletrenthide, The Village C1955

A number of Dorset villages take their name from the River Piddle, or Puddle, as it is sometimes known.

Caption For Batheaston, High Street C1960

Heading north-east out of Bath on the A4, cross the A46 junction onto the old A4, which soon becomes Batheaston High Street.

Caption For Bath, The Royal Crescent C1965

Walk along Brock Street, and you reach the quite extraordinary Royal Crescent of John Wood the Younger.

Caption For Cambridge, King's Parade 1921

Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

Caption For Bewdley, Wribbenhall C1965

Wribbenhall is situated on the opposite bank of the river to Bewdley, and architecturally its streets are far more interesting than Severnside.

Caption For Swanmore, Village Centre 1969

There are plenty of people about on this warm sunny day. To the left, children cycle in the road; others sit on benches or the pavement.

Caption For Totton, By Pass C1965

North of the bypass are Rumbridge Street and the High Street, offering quieter shopping streets.

Caption For Flixton, Flixton Road C1965

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.

Caption For Doncaster, Frenchgate 1903

On the left we have Porter & Sons, wholesale glass and china merchants, and the imposing bulk of the Guildhall with its porticoed entrance supported on Corinthian columns.

Caption For Rotherham, The Grammar School 1957

Rotherham Grammar School grew out of a free school that had been endowed through royal patronage.

Caption For Derwent Water, Lodore Hotel 1893

The Lodore Hotel, at the southern end of Derwent Water, is a fine Victorian Gothic structure, built at the foot of the twin cascades known as the Lodore Falls, which were very popular in the Victorian

Caption For London, Tower Bridge Under Construction 1890

This murky view looks west from the Pool of London towards what was to become one of the mechanical wonders of the late 19th century.

Caption For East Harting, The Village 1906

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.