Maps

9,439 maps found.

1921, North Green Ref. POP793413
1920, North Holmwood Ref. POP793542
1923, North Hykeham Ref. POP793555
1919, North Kingston Ref. POP793591
1919, North Littleton Ref. POP793643
1920, North Lopham Ref. POP793664
1919, North Mundham Ref. POP793753
1924, North Newbald Ref. POP793770
1923, North Ormsby Ref. POP793790
1919, North Petherton Ref. POP793809
1919, North Petherwin Ref. POP793810
1923, North Reston Ref. POP793855
1925, North Side Ref. POP793906
1919, North Street Ref. POP793952
1919, North Street Ref. POP793954
1926, North Sunderland Ref. POP793959
1923, North Thoresby Ref. POP793985
1924, North Walney Ref. POP794035
1919, North Waterhayne Ref. POP794053
1920, North Woolwich Ref. POP794121

Books

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Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 351 to 360.

Picture Ref W132016

I was a pupil at Woodford Green Prep form 1945 to 1951. During that time I remember watching the demolition of the north wall of the the bombed building which was pulled down, and I suggest took place in '48/9? For ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green by Anthony White

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

Happy Childhood Late 50s Early 60s

I live in Watford but I was born at 55 South Crescent in 1953, my mother's maiden name was Christlow, they moved to 16 Reginald Street. I remember visiting one time and my cousin Joe Lee used to play the ...Read more

A memory of Boldon Colliery by Brian Rees

Doddlebugs And V2s Plus!

I moved to Lymington Road, Dagenham, in 1939, across the road from the school. At first I attended Green Lane School - same as Dudley Moor. I even had the same piano teacher. Miss Hoggard. But she gave up on me. In the ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Joan Fitzgerald

Change In Quay Working In The Last 10 Years

Since moving to North Devon 10 years ago from London, have seen the quay area rebuilt as a flood defence system. The equipment on the quay, with the replacement of the old crane with a new modern crane, ...Read more

A memory of Bideford in 2012 by Norman Hardaker

The Hope Family

My Gran, Alice Hope was born in Oakengates in 1878. I have her and her family living in The Furnace Houses during the 1880's through to the end of the 1920's when her Dad died. Her Dad was James and her Mom Jane Ellen. ...Read more

A memory of Oakengates in 1890

Hounslow Welsh Society

Does anyone remember the Hounslow Welsh Society which used to meet in a room in the grounds of Hounslow Hospital? My surname was Richards then & my Dad was a producer of the amateur dramatics & we also had a ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1952 by Peggy Roberts

My Move To Cranford From Croydon 1948

My father was a Aircraft Engineer for K.L.M. He started as an apprentice at Croydon Airport in 1934. After the second world war, Croydon was getting too small for the larger aircraft coming along, so K.L.M. ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1948 by John Howard

Gate Burton Hall

I was born at Gate Burton Hall in April 1941. My mother was evacuated from North London. Went back a few years ago and took some photos, but has now been turned into flats and was unable to go inside. My mother had memories of a grand chandelier that was covered in sacking in the main hall.

A memory of Gate Burton in 1941 by Vernon Simmons

High Cross House And Dorothy Elmhirsts Steinway Grand Piano

On the beautiful Dartington Hall Estate there is a unique “International Modernist House”, now used as a gallery, just to the north-east of Dartington Hall School. High Cross ...Read more

A memory of Dartington Hall in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 841 to 864.

Caption For Lough Cloon, The Lakes C1955

A marvellously peaceful view of Lough Cloon, about eight miles north of Ballinrobe, one of the many lakes in this part of Mayo, of which the largest is Lough Mask.

Caption For Teignmouth, The Terrace Walk 1911

The Walk continues north towards Dawlish for nearly two miles, the sea on one side, the railway on the other.

Caption For Dublin, Trinity College And The Bank Of Ireland 1897

Looking north round College Green into Westmoreland Street, which is busy with pedestrians and horse drawn vehicles.

Caption For Garrigill, The Green C1955

Garrigill is a typical North Pennine village, clustered defensively around its central green in which stock would be gathered in time of attack.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Airport C1966

Continuing north, away from the sea, we reach Southend Airport.This was used during both World Wars.

Caption For Shaftesbury, High Street C1950

It has achieved popularity with visitors who wish to explore the far north of Dorset and the neighbouring county of Wiltshire.

Caption For Upper Beeding, The Downs C1955

North of the village lies the site of Sele Priory, established by William de Braose and now occupied by the vicarage.

Caption For Cranage, The Old Vicarage Hotel C1955

This hotel sits just to the north of Holmes Chapel on the main road to Knutsford.

Caption For Osmotherley, High Street C1955

Osmotherley on the eastern edge of the North York Moors is perhaps best known to walkers as the usual starting point of the marathon 40-mile Lyke Wake Walk, which crosses the moors by their highest points

Caption For Waterbeach, High Street C1955

The first village settlement was around a huge green beside the Car Dyke, a Roman ditch that connected Cambridge with Peterborough and the north.

Caption For West Boldon, Gateshead Terrace C1955

The area between the south bank of the Tyne and the north bank of the Wear was transformed during the 19th century as coal mines opened and communities grew around them.

Caption For Ingoldisthorpe, The Village C1965

Ingoldisthorpe is an open village on the sandy soils of north-west Norfolk.

Caption For Cawsand, And Kingsands 1904

At one time the county boundary, now defined by the River Tamar two miles to the north, ran between the two villages, and the old boundary stone can still be seen beside the road.

Caption For Rock, The Ferry C1960

The Camel rises north of Camelford on the edge of Bodmin Moor, and is one of Cornwall's best salmon rivers - a 34lb specimen was caught in the twenties.

Caption For Castor, The Church C1955

Our journey up the Great North Road ends here.

Caption For Salisbury, High Street Gate 1894

The High Street Gate (sometimes called the North Gate) is still closed every evening, a practice that has continued since about 1340AD when the wall surrounding the cathedral was completed, thus

Caption For Hoddesdon, Burford Street And Clock Tower C1950

Looking north into the distance, one can see the oncoming, creeping tide of housing development which now links Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne together.

Caption For North Bovey, Cross At Hele Farm 1907

The Rev W H Thornton, vicar of North Bovey in the latter half of the 19th century, was initially less than impressed with his flock: 'My new parishioners were very turbulent people ... the women were awful

Caption For London, Cheapside C1905

At the junction with Paternoster Row, Cheapside swings from the north in an arc and heads east towards the Bank.

Caption For Saffron Walden, The Common 1937

This view was taken looking north-east.

Caption For Malton, Market Place 1959

Malton stands at the junction of several roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1904

Further north-west the photographer looks back towards the town centre past the Moat Road junction to Moat Church, the Congregational Church opened in 1870, now the United Reformed Church and its unusual

Caption For Winchcombe, The Village 1907

Winchcombe lies on the high ground to the north-east of Cheltenham; its street pattern suggests its origins as an important Saxon town, once the capital of the kingdom of Mercia.

Caption For Bisley, High Street 1910

Bisley stands high on a hillside to the north of the River Frome; it has a wonderful assortment of winding streets and rooftops at different levels, as though the village has grown out of the landscape