Maps

161 maps found.

1946, Milton Combe Ref. NPO781167
1899, Combe Moor Ref. RNE675991
1898, Combe Pafford Ref. RNE675992
1919, Abbas Combe Ref. POP618278
1919, Castle Combe Ref. POP663726
1920, Combe Common Ref. POP675953
1919, Combe Down Ref. POP675958
1946, Combe Martin Ref. NPO675989
1946, Combe Pafford Ref. NPO675992
1946, Combe Raleigh Ref. NPO675996
1897-1900, Combe Ref. RNC675931
1899-1900, Combe Ref. RNC675933
1899, Combe Fishacre Ref. RNC675960
1900, Combe Martin Ref. RNC675989
1909, Combe Ref. HOSM41579
1898, Combe Ref. HOSM41580
1919, Combe St Nicholas Ref. POP676000
1909-1910, St Combs Ref. RNC823743
1898-1899, Castle Combe Ref. RNC663726
1897-1909, Combe Almer Ref. RNC675942

Books

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Memories

1,236 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.

My Mothers Story

My mother Irene was born in 1927 in London. In the 1930’s she and her parents, Charles and Ada Moore, lived in Chingford. On the evening of 30 Sept 1940 a bomb was dropped on their home on Normandshire Dr. My grandfather, a member of ...Read more

A memory of Chingford by Lesley Worthington

I Was Born In Chippinghurst Manor. On The 15th July 1942..

Due to the fact that my mother was in Oxford, to escape the bombing in London while she was pregnant, during the second world war, she gave birth to me in Chippinghurst Manor on 15th July 1942. ROBERT NEIL CRAWFORD.

A memory of Chippinghurst Manor by Robert Crawford

A Privilege To Grow Up Here!

I was born in 1961 in Thorpe Combe hospital in Walthamstow and brought up by my parents in Forest Edge Buckhurst Hill. I consider myself very privileged to have lived there for the first 26 years of my life and have ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Andrew Evans

Northolt Wonderland

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell

Purveyor Of Sweetshops

I knew all the best sweet shops on Lavendar Hill Rd. Easily the best was Browns Sweet shop where Stormont Rd met Lavendar Hill. It had every sweet you could think of and seemed to be open 7 days a week until 9pm. I think the ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by tedpettit

1942 1968

Brought up > 66 Grantham Gardens 42 to 48; 319 High St 48 to 55, 32 Chadwell.Heath Lane 55 to 68. My sister was born in 48 @ 319. My father was C. M. Liley & Co, Builders @ 313 High Road [Grantham Gardens before that] + Had job ...Read more

A memory of Chadwell Heath by Pat Bellay

Hop Picking. Telephone Exchange Tunbridge Wells

 DOES ANYONE EVER ANSWER TO OUR MEMORIES?. THERE MUST BE SOMEONE OUT THERE  COME ON JOIN IN   I joined Tunbridge Wells telephone exchange September 1948.  I remember so well the evening the man would ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1940 by Daphne Hooker Married Name Russell

Happy Hours Of Reading But Also Destruction.

So many hours of reading here in this library. The children's section was in the main door and to the right served by the 2 windows shown on the ground floor. I recall taking out every Arthur Ransome ...Read more

A memory of Wallington by Chris Scott

My Story

My name is Peter Mills. I was born in 1939 and I lived in Barest Road, Nunhead. I lived through the war years, evacuation, hiding in the Anderson shelter, having to use the bungalow bath, outside toilet, coal fire, ascot water heater, ...Read more

A memory of Peckham in 1950 by Peter Mills

Baglan A Wartime Paradise

My Dad did his army training adjacent to Baglan during WW2. The hastily built barracks did not have enough bathroom facilities and asked local residents for permission for soldiers to have a bath in their houses. A super-kind ...Read more

A memory of Baglan

Captions

232 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.

Caption For Norwich, St Michael At Thorne Church, Ber Street 1891

St Michael's at Thorn was destroyed by bombs, so this is very much an archive photograph.

Caption For Godalming, Charterhouse, Saunderites And Gownboys C1955

In 1940 a German bomb fell in the open area, Founder's Court, blowing out all the windows but doing no seri- ous structural damage.

Caption For Thorpe St Andrew, 1929

The parish church lost its spire from bomb damage in the Second World War.

Caption For Teignmouth, From The Pier 1903

The early Saxon town was attacked several times by Danish raiders, was destroyed by the French in 1340 and 1690, and badly bombed during the Second World War.

Caption For Fawley, All Saints Church C1955

The church was bombed in 1940, but has now been carefully restored.

Caption For London, Fore Street 2003

St Giles Cripplegate Church survived severe Second World War bombing to stand in the centre of development which was completed in the early 1980s.

Caption For Norwich, St Michael At Thorne Church, Ber Street 1891

St Michael's at Thorn was destroyed by bombs, so this is very much an archive photograph.

Caption For Pentewan, 1904

The Bible Christian Chapel (centre) with the schoolroom beneath it was built in 1889 and bombed in August 1942.

Caption For Acomb, The Village C1955

Acomb was once a centre for the lead-mining industry.

Caption For Norwich, Old Palace At Heigham 1891

The Bishop's Palace was bomb-damaged in the Second World War; this view shows the 1615 front long before it had to be rebuilt.

Caption For Norwich, Ber Street 1891

Only St John the Baptist's church and a couple of houses nearby escaped from the bombs intended for the port and the railway station.

Caption For Norwich, Westlegate 1890

All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.

Caption For Norwich, Westlegate 1890

All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.

Caption For Dublin, St Stephen's Green, The George Ii Statue 1897

Regarded as symbolic of British oppression, the statue was bombed away in 1937.

Caption For Norwich, Diocesan Training College 1901

Originally founded for the training of school mistresses, the college was bombed and destroyed in the Second World War.

Caption For Sturry, Village 1899

Now on the main road to the North Sea seaside resorts from Canterbury, Sturry was, along with Canterbury itself, bombed heavily during the Second World War.

Caption For Bromley, Parish Church And Lychgate 1899

Following bombing during the Second World War, the familiar tower is today attached to a new church.

Caption For Cowes, A Flying Boat C1955

A decade earlier the Isle of Wight had known the hostile use of air-power, being one of the first areas to be bombed during the Battle of Britain.

Caption For Norwich, Old Palace At Heigham 1891

The Bishop's Palace was bomb-damaged in the Second World War; this view shows the 1615 front long before it had to be rebuilt.

Caption For Happisburgh, Church Farm C1960

The tower is 110 feet high and, because of its prominent position, it was bombed in the Second World War.

Caption For Plymouth, Old Town Street 1889

Altogether, around twenty thousand Plymouth buildings were destroyed as a result of enemy bombing.

Caption For Plymouth, Old Town Street 1889

Altogether, around twenty thousand Plymouth buildings were destroyed as a result of enemy bombing.

Caption For London, Old Church Cheyne Walk 1890

In the background is Chelsea Old Church, which suffered extensive bomb damage in the War.

Caption For Teignmouth, From The Pier 1903

It is surprising to learn that the town was bombed repeatedly during the last war and an amazing 3% of the population were casualties.