Maps

91 maps found.

1920, Park Town Ref. POP801259
1898-1899, Bury Park Ref. RNC657328
1898-1899, Stopsley Ref. RNC840891
1898-1899, Biscot Ref. RNC641043
1920, Bury Park Ref. POP657328
1920, Limbury Ref. POP755955
1946, Sundon Park Ref. NPO842835
1896, Bury Park Ref. RNE657328
1896, Winsdon Hill Ref. RNE871502
1920, Woodside Ref. POP874010
1896, Woodside Ref. RNE874010
1899 - 1900, Woodside Ref. HOSM52705
1946, Woodside Ref. NPO874010
1899 - 1900, Woodside Ref. HOSM65093
1898-1899, Woodside Ref. RNC874010
1919, Lufton Ref. POP770417
1898, Lupton Ref. RNE770680
1945, Lufton Ref. NPO770417
1920, Lucton Ref. POP770333
1919, Duton Hill Ref. POP696069

Books

2 books found. Showing results 73 to 2.

Memories

455 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.

Kent Meters

I attended the Luton technical College during the years 1952/55 and elected to take the "engineering" route not really giving much thought as to where I might eventually apply my newly acquired skills. To assist with our journey we were ...Read more

A memory of Luton by ducatee

Colindale The Early Years

I was born in the house on the corner of Woodfield Avenue and New Way Road in 1944 and lived there until the end of the 1970s. My birth was in fact on Friday the 13th of October, which coincided with the dropping of a ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1958 by Jack Richardson

Warden Point

I used to live in Cherry Tree Cottage, Warden Point in 1930, my father was Jock Martin, a sergeant in the R.A.F. stationed in Eastchurch. My mother was Phylis Woollett, daughter of Frank Woollett, mine host of the Crooked Billet. ...Read more

A memory of Warden in 1930 by Frank Martin

Hollybush Lane

When I was a child in the early 1950s Hollybush Lane, from Woodhall Lane to Great Ley, was quite literally a lane. On one side the council had built houses, but on the other were the farm cottages that were built around ...Read more

A memory of Welwyn Garden City by Rod Sharp

P C Dunn

Hi Keith I remember you, your sister and your father well. After he retired he lived next door but one to my family.

A memory of Aveley by Peter Osborne

Caddington

I remember as a lad, when Elm Avennue was split in two,where the bungalows start there was a solid bar across the road,and the same in the Crescent. You could only get the bus at the Green, the 360, it was sixpence to Luton, and the ...Read more

A memory of Caddington in 1960 by Chris Anthony

Les Wilde Dancing Lessons

Yes Yes Yes!!! I remember Les Wilde. My mum and dad used to go there every Wednesday evening. and my brother and I were sent along there for the childrens dance classes, I think on a Thursday evening. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Gill Hewlett

Circa 1950s

I was born in 1939 and remember the war years vividily. However, I was draughted into the army in 1948 and because of my knowledge and interest in explosives, became an Ammunition Examiner. During this period, I knew I liked music ...Read more

A memory of Sheffield in 1948 by Peter Dewsnap

Happy Memories

I grew up in Eltham but one of my fondest memories was being a member of the backstage team at Eltham Little Theatre. We had a lot of fun backstage especially during the Pantomime season! I also spent a lot of my childhood at Eltham ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1963 by Pauline Preece

Captions

157 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.

Caption For Letchworth Garden City, Letchworth Hall Hotel 1922

This was a feature of the old village of Letchworth, but one which was brought into the master plan for the new garden city.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Market Street C1955

Pevsner describes the building as 'large, with an angle turret, Jacobean with shaped gables and mullioned and transomed windows, irregular and picturesque, but on a scale excessive for Bradford

Caption For Leverington, Roman Bank C1965

This is not actually a Roman bank, but one constructed in Saxon times to protect the villages in the fens from flooding.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Beach 1898

H Absalon offered bathing huts, but only for the use of ladies and children.This was where they could discreetly enter the water, hidden from prying eyes.There were other huts for men.

Caption For Needham Market, St John's Church 1922

Needham, on the main road, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.

Caption For Saffron Walden, King Street C1950

Next but one is Stead and Simpson's shoe shop and Dewhurst the butchers, then Cleale's garage with its Ford and AA signs.

Caption For London, Victoria Embankment And Cleopatra's Needle 1890

Moving east, this view looks along the Embankment from Charing Cross Bridge to Cleopatra's Needle, an Egyptian obelisk of 1500 BC, given to Britain in 1819 by the Viceroy of Egypt, but only erected here

Caption For Petersfield, High Street C1965

Next door is Woolworths, and next but one is Westminster Bank at No 4. These three businesses are still in Petersfield at the same addresses.

Caption For Alton, Crown Hill C1960

Next-door-but-one we can see the sign of the Castle public house. Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Beach 1898

H Absalon offered bathing huts, but only for the use of ladies and children. This was where they could discreetly enter the water, hidden from prying eyes. There were other huts for men.

Caption For Flitwick, The Mill C1960

The present building was constructed in the 18th century, but on the site of a mill listed in the Domesday survey of 1086.

Caption For Tiverton, The Weir C1955

The river rises high in these hills, but only a few miles from the Bristol Channel.

Caption For Stow On The Wold, The Green C1955

Stow is not only an attractive town, but one steeped in the riches of English history.

Caption For Yardley, Blakesley Hall C1965

Until incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, Yardley had been a rural Worcestershire manor for nearly 1,000 years, but only the church and a couple of timber-framed buildings survive from those days

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, Town And Bay 1927

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that he made his way here in order to hire boats in which to escape from England.

Caption For Ilminster, Market Square 1907

The Post Office c1960 Buckland St Mary Post Office is still a post office, but one wonders for how much longer.

Caption For Cheltenham, Devil's Chimney 1901

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

Caption For Bilston, St Leonard's Parish Church 1968

A church is known to have stood on this site in the 14th century, but only the base of its tower survives.

Caption For East Molesey, 'coming Over The Rollers' 1896

He tells of the bedlam at Molesey, where 'you could not see any water at all, but only a brilliant tangle of bright blazers, and gay caps, and saucy hats, and many-coloured parasols, … and streaming ribbons

Caption For Dunsop Bridge, The Bridge C1960

Sometimes salmon nets or baulks were fixed, but only by licence.

Caption For London, The Bank Of England 1890

The 1881 census revealed a steady rise in the size of the professional, commercial and managerial classes: in 1890 the city's fortunes were founded not on industrial might but on the realm of international

Caption For London, The Bank Of England 1890

The 1881 census revealed a steady rise in the size of the professional, commercial and managerial classes: in 1890 the city's fortunes were founded not on industrial might but on the realm of international

Caption For Sunninghill, Church 1901

These three similar shots of St Michael's span half a century, but only in 1955 do we notice the restricted area of the burial ground around the church by the appearance of a substantial brick wall.

Caption For Winsford, The Royal Oak Inn 1930

Over time a hostelry developed, but only a hundred years ago, a dairy stood where the back bar is today.