Maps

181,031 maps found.

1898, Tackley Ref. HOSM61250
1887, Llansaint Ref. HOSM51968
1906, Begelly Ref. HOSM37399
1906, Reynalton Ref. HOSM57667
1905, Bickerton Ref. HOSM37656
1905, Outer Hope Ref. HOSM48889
1905, Malborough Ref. HOSM53113
1905, Moyson Ref. HOSM54263
1905, Stokenham Ref. HOSM64544
1905, Widewell Ref. HOSM64550
1883, Beeston Ref. HOSM37384
1904, Brancaster Ref. HOSM70052
1885, Houghton Ref. HOSM70483
1881, Marham Ref. HOSM53153
1883, Mileham Ref. HOSM53725
1884, Stradsett Ref. HOSM60717
1885, Syderstone Ref. HOSM61126
1884, Wormegay Ref. HOSM65182
1884, Wretton Ref. HOSM65258
1902, Floodgates Ref. HOSM45548

Books

442 books found. Showing results 9,361 to 9,384.

Memories

29,034 memories found. Showing results 3,901 to 3,910.

East Stonehouse 1800

My great great great great grandfather Charles Penery, was born at East Stonehouse in 1800/01. He was buried at Ford Park Cemetry in 1874. He married Mary Ann Penery (nee Baskerville) born in 1801. She was burried at Ford ...Read more

A memory of Billacombe by Warren Penery

My Childhood Memories...

My name is Dawn Thompson, I grew up in one of the Cottages next to the Pub (no 3). My father Peter Thompson, worked there for many years. I remember the Hunt meetings and I remember Tom Hatton, who ran it many years ago. ...Read more

A memory of Pirbright in 1970 by Dawn Thompson

Downshall Secondary School

I have very fond memories of Downshall Secondary where I was between 1958 and 1962. I used to live in Downshall Avenue, and we used to walk everywhere, to school, to Seven Kings Park and the park up Meads Lane. We ...Read more

A memory of Seven Kings in 1960 by Pauline Garlick

Raf

I was stationed at Watton when doing my national service in 1948/49. I was on fire piquet when one of the Mosquto's caught fire. Our CO was Air Commodore Daltom-Morris.

A memory of Watton by Richard M Howard

A Wartime Evacuee

During the war I was evacuated with my family to Dunsmore and we lived in Appletree Cottage, opposite The Fox. I attended Wendover School and returned to London in 1946. At the time Robert Donat lived in ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore in 1940 by Ken Norris

Trevelyan Road Tooting

I was born on 8th May 1945 (the day the war ended) at 61 Trevelyan Road Tooting. My mum told me that there was a heatwave on the 8th May and whilst she was trying to get some rest there was a street party going n which she ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1945 by Victoria Mason

Henry And Sarah Jane Christelow Eddy

Henry and Sarah Jane were my husband's grandparents. I'm not sure where they were born but they were married at the Chester-le-Street Registry Office and were living at Pelton Fell when my father-in-law, ...Read more

A memory of Pelton Fell by Elle Eddy

Collyhurst

Loved being brought up there, moved into the Collyhurst scene from Langley Middleton, soon got to know Ralph Spencer, the Heaneys and Youngs, also Mcewans. I went to Albert Memorial School. I lived on Thornton Street. What a place ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey by Lawrence Sellstrom

Parrin Lane

Me & my brother both worked at Annie & Terry Smith's bakery as children, in the back making pies and bread from about five/six every Sat morning for years. It was a very busy place to work and Terry was a great bloke to work ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1959 by Roy Mozley

Albion Place

I was born in 1939 and grew up in Kenfg Hill, living at 65 Pisgah Street, Foster Buildings, and 7 Albion Place during the war years. Albion Place was then in an area of Kenfig Hill known as The Huts, because the dwellings were all ...Read more

A memory of Kenfig Hill in 1945 by Brian Harman

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Captions

29,395 captions found. Showing results 9,361 to 9,384.

Caption For Cirencester, Market Place 1898

In Roman times Cirencester, Corinium Dubunnorum, was the second most important town in Britain after London, standing near the Roman roads of Akeman Street, the Fosse Way, Ermine Street and the older Icknield

Caption For Blackpool, From Central Pier 1896

The tide is in, the sea is calm and the bathing machines have nowhere to go except on the Promenade.

Caption For Finedon, Bell Inn (Oldest In England) C1955

The older part of the village is full of houses and cottages built by the Victorian lord of the manor, William Mackworth-Dolben. None are more fanciful than The Bell Inn on Bell Hill.

Caption For Boston, The Windmill C1965

Most of the buildings shown here have either gone or been adapted. An exception is the superb five sailed mill, which takes its name from the Maud Foster drain flowing alongside.

Caption For Kettering, War Memorial 1922

The names of the fallen are on plaques built into the gallery wall to the right of the obelisk, which simply states: 'Their name liveth for evermore'.

Caption For Whitby, The Pier C1955

Many of the people seen here would be day trippers rather than resident visitors, having come for a breath of fresh sea air on one of the many excursion trains from inland.

Caption For Camelford, Rough Tor 1894

The second highest part of Bodmin Moor is Rough Tor, at 1311 feet.

Caption For Abergavenny, From Near The Station 1893

Today there are many more large villas here, including those of Fosterville Crescent. Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

Caption For London, The National Gallery 1897

The paintings that formed the basis of Britain’s national collection were purchased for £57,000 in 1824 from J Angerstein.The exhibition halls created on the north side of Trafalgar Square to display

Caption For Wales, Church Street C1955

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

Caption For Port Erin, Cliffs From Bradda Head 1895

This view looks towards Bay Fine, Aldrick and the Calf of Man.

Caption For Douglas, Rough Sea 1903

The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.

Caption For Cranborne, Wimborne Street 1954

Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious 'Flower-de-Luce'.

Caption For Wasdale Head, St Olaf's Church 1889

The tiny church of St Olaf at Wasdale Head is said to be among the smallest in England; but surrounded as it is by the dramatic mountains of Wasdale, it is also one of the most visited.

Caption For Maidenhead, Boulters Lock 1913

A little later, the year before the First World War started, the great boating craze of the later Victorian and Edwardian years is still in full swing.

Caption For Grays, The Thames C1955

This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.

Caption For Felton, The Old Bridge C1955

Felton stands on the north bank of the Coquet, and it was here that the Great North Road once crossed the river by way of the old bridge featured in the picture.

Caption For Bishopsbourne, Church 1903

It is of 14th-century origin, and has some 16th-century and Victorian restoration work.

Caption For St Margarets At Cliffe, The Droveway 1908

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

Caption For Barnstaple, St. Peters Church 1929

St Peter's is the parish church of Barnstaple. This present building was erected in the 13th century on the site of a previous church.

Caption For Kinver, High Street 1931

In the 1660s Kinver was the scene of an unsuccessful attempt by Andrew Yarranton to make the Warwickshire Stour navigable from Stourbridge to Stourport-on-Severn.

Caption For Taunton, Batts Park 1902

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

Caption For Chepstow, The Castle From The Bridge 1893

This picturesque and romantic prospect of the castle from the river, reveals why the young J M W Turner was so inspired to paint it in 1793.

Caption For Brynmawr, The Market Square C1955

The war memorial (centre left) commemorates the Royal Welsh Fusiliers of two World Wars so that 'their names will live for evermore'.