Places
19 places found.
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- Hill of Mountblairy, Grampian
- Hill of Banchory, Grampian
- Hill of Fearn, Highlands
- Rocky Hill, Isles of Scilly
- Hill of Beath, Fife (near Dunfermline)
- Hill of Drip, Central Scotland
- Hunny Hill, Isle of Wight
- Quarr Hill, Isle of Wight
- Quine's Hill, Isle of Man
- Kite Hill, Isle of Wight
- Broom Hill, Avon
- Merry Hill, West Midlands
- Rose Hill, Derbyshire
- Cinder Hill, West Midlands
- Barton Hill, Avon
- Spring Hill, West Midlands
- Golden Hill, Avon
- West Hill, Yorkshire
- Oak Hill, Staffordshire
Photos
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Maps
4,410 maps found.
Books
3 books found. Showing results 937 to 3.
Memories
3,572 memories found. Showing results 391 to 400.
Coffee And Doughnuts
A friend from work, and I took courses at the Neath Technical Institute. I left Swansea about 7:30am, and had to run down Mount Pleasant to the bus station in order to get to the Institute. For lunch we walked up town to a little ...Read more
A memory of Neath in 1947
Sledging Down Fobbing Hill
I lived in Corringham Hill Terrace 1942 -1950. As an 8 year old I remember sliding down the hill in the snow from the White Lion. I think there was a small pond at the bottom, which used to freeze over in winter. I have a ...Read more
A memory of Fobbing in 1948 by
My Holidays In Llandanwg
I was visiting Llandanwg from 1958 until 1965. We used to stay in Dorwyn, which then was a green shed bungalow owned by Mrs Pearce, she used to work with my father and we used to go down sometimes twice a year. We used to ...Read more
A memory of Llandanwg
Childhood Days
I too have happy and sad memories of Thurnscoe. I started school in 1952 at Hill Infants. Mrs Cartlidge was our teacher. I still remember where I sat behind the door and being given a small blackboard and chalk on my first day ...Read more
A memory of Thurnscoe in 1952
Farm At White Hill
My father Jenkin Evans and mother Valerie Evans lived at Potters Cross Farm, White Hill, Kinver from just before the Second World War. This is the farmhouse which you can see which still exists to this day. They raised four ...Read more
A memory of Kinver by
The Dreaded Climb Up The Hill
When I was a lad, my mum would take me shopping in Folkestone's town centre. Probably to Sainsbury's in Sandgate Road, Timothy Whites, etc. Being that we lived Wood Avenue area, we would walk down Dover Road & ...Read more
A memory of Folkestone in 1953 by
Elmsleigh School St Polycarp School
Born in Aldershot in 1939 my father worked for a builder in Farnborough, Chuter, and eventually moved to a rented house on Folly Hill. I initially went to St Polycarp but moved to Elmsleigh where both myself and ...Read more
A memory of Farnham in 1945 by
My Fading Memories
I was but a lad of 8 when my folks bundled us all off to a wide land downunder. Since 1968, Australia has been my home. I often speak of my fading memories of Queensbury, my walks through the village, living on 'The ...Read more
A memory of Queensbury in 1968 by
In The House Of The Laird
My parents were 'in service' to the local 'laird' who was Lord Doune, traditionally the eldest son of the Earl of Moray and owner of lands around Doune. Lord Doune owned the beautiful old mansion on the hill 1.5 miles north ...Read more
A memory of Doune in 1948 by
Paper Boy
As a 12-year-old I sold newspapers every morning outside the cookhouse where hundreds of National Servicemen were going through the horrors of their initial training in the Guards regiments. I believe they earnt 28/6 per week, much of ...Read more
A memory of Caterham in 1950 by
Captions
1,749 captions found. Showing results 937 to 960.
This photograph successfully shows the long incline of Perrymount Road. The bus coming up the hill would have already passed the recreation ground.
Those people who could afford it were, already in the 1800s, establishing their homes beyond the old town of Runcorn on the higher ground around Runcorn Hill.
Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.
The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.
Great Harwood lies to the north of Accrington, and commands a lovely part of the Hyndburn Valley.
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.
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.
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.
This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill
The village of Ticehurst is situated on a gentle slope surrounded by fertile valleys and hills, where hops were once extensively grown.
This country town is close to one of the noblest houses in Kent - the Jacobean home of the Sackvilles, Knole. St Nicholas's Church (left) has a 90ft-high tower and turret with a cupola.
St Lawrence's stands on Meriden Hill, aloof from most of the community it serves, but close to a small cluster of old houses and with views towards Coventry.
Great Harwood lies to the north of Accrington, and commands a lovely part of the Hyndburn Valley.
A weekend or holiday for the many children making good use of the slide and swings in this view.
Set on a hill above the valley of the Nene, Stanwick lies on the A605. The road sign can be seen pointing to Higham Ferrers.
With its spectacular beech hangers, green hills and downland, it is not surprising to learn that this corner of east Hampshire is known as 'Little Switzerland.'
This view looks north up Portobello market in Notting Hill's Portobello Road. To the left is Elgin Crescent, and on the right is Colville Terrace.
Many of the old buildings seen at the entrance to the pier in earlier pictures had disappeared by this time.
Running from the Market Place to the station and level crossing at the bottom of the hill, Berry Lane leads to today's town centre.
Clovelly hangs on the side of the hill, fringed by luxuriant woodland. Donkeys ply up and down the steep-stepped street, carrying goods on panniers.
Helston is pleasantly sited on a hill, above a picturesque valley. It was once a walled settlement with a castle.
One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.
On the hill above the town stand the ruins of Knaresborough Castle, which was destroyed by Parliament in 1648.
On the hill above the town stand the ruins of Knaresborough Castle, which was destroyed by Parliament in 1648.
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