Maps

4,509 maps found.

1947, Snape Hill Ref. NPO833566
1947, Snape Hill Ref. NPO833567
1947, Snow Hill Ref. NPO833776
1940, South Hill Ref. NPO834893
1946, Sparrow Hill Ref. NPO836093
1947, Spital Hill Ref. NPO836383
1947, Stanton Hill Ref. NPO838510
1946, Stone Hill Ref. NPO840328
1940, Stone Hill Ref. NPO840333
1946, Strugg's Hill Ref. NPO842018
1898, Middle Hill Ref. RNE779107
1896, Mill Hill Ref. RNE780230
1898, Mill Hill Ref. RNE780257
1895, Money Hill Ref. RNE782464
1896, Mossley Hill Ref. RNE784479
1896, Turf Hill Ref. RNE854403
1896, Wall Hill Ref. RNE859826
1898, Wheatley Hill Ref. RNE867029
1895, Wick Hill Ref. RNE869772
1895, Wick Hill Ref. RNE869774

Books

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Memories

4,091 memories found. Showing results 421 to 430.

Raf Dishforth

My brother was stationed here during his National Service. I was 9 years old in 1953 and I remember very vividly writing letters to him and receiving the same from him. He thoroughly enjoyed his time there. He was also able, ...Read more

A memory of Skelton on Ure in 1953

My Mum Ran Comerfords Corner Shop

We moved south from Chadderton near Oldham in 1965. My mum had taken over running the corner shop that had been bought by Comerford's in their quest to own the entire block. All but one house has ...Read more

A memory of Thames Ditton in 1965 by Paul Devall

1950s

I was born in the war years in the area where the Workmen’s Club was later built and later moved to Hall Lane Est ( 28) as the first intake. I remember well the coal loader at the end of Railway Terrace and the great times out and about around ...Read more

A memory of Crook by Alan Davison

Hopton Hill

My family were from this area and my grandfather Edward Gough Jones and grandmother Rosa Jones brought up 7 children Joan, Nora, twins Eileen and Beryl, Ron (who still lived in a bungalow at the Crescent Nesscliffe until this year ...Read more

A memory of Nesscliffe in 1910 by Yvonne Dixon

Happy Days

Oh the memories stored away!! Charlie's opposite Cove Green, going there for sweeties on a Sunday, Cove Green (not as good as Tower Hill swings though!), Mundays closing at 1pm on Sundays, Thorntons with its yellow facade, and wool etc, I ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1965 by Ann Mozdzer

The Pre Fab Years

I was born in Recreation Close - a tiny 1 bedroom maisonette at the bottom of Wide Way. My Grandparents lived in Greenwood Road just around the corner. In June 1944, during the Second World War, a doodle bug exploded on the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Patricia Sullivan

Gladstone Park

Our family moved from Churchill Road, Willesden to the country right out to Dudden Hill, in Normanby Road. The entrance to the park was just down the end of the road near the old iron bridge. There was a rather short ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1961 by Jim Rabbitts

My Memories

Oh my goody god, I lived in Erie Camp and I remember the view in this photo so well, those were the good days without a doubt. We left there in 1959 to live in Birmingham, but I have the best memories of Bordon, the primrose ...Read more

A memory of Headley Down in 1957 by Viviane Holding

Durinawar

My first memory was of being taken to the air raid shelter on Tower Hill from Keith Lucas Road. I was held up as a babe in arms to see the "wee aeroplanes" that were bombing the R.A.E. I saw three "Flying Pencils" [it appears there were ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by John Mc Vey

Happy Days In Latimer

It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish ...Read more

A memory of Latimer in 1959 by John Sayer

Captions

1,924 captions found. Showing results 1,009 to 1,032.

Caption For Ullswater, From Place Fell 1892

Ullswater snakes into the Lake District hills for seven and a half miles, from Pooley Bridge to Glenridding, and has three major and quite different stretches.

Caption For Warnham, Corner House 1921

After the horses had been changed at Kingsfold, the stagecoaches ran through Warnham down Little London Hill, past Warnham Corner at the junction of Station Road.

Caption For Wass, The Village C1960

Today the hill is covered by a flourishing forest.

Caption For Pendleton, The Village 1921

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

Caption For Gerrans, Gerrans Church 1895

Perched on a windy hill a mile or two north of Portscatho, Gerrans has been called a 'plain-looking village'.

Caption For Launceston, Southgate Street 1906

This illustrious town, often called the gateway to Cornwall, crowns the dark hill that rises from the valley of the tiny River Kensey.

Caption For Launceston, Fore Street 1893

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

Caption For Merrivale, Bridge 1910

Just up the hill is the Dartmoor Inn, and on the skyline is the rocky mass of Great Staple Tor, one of the southernmost outliers of the plateau of the north moor.

Caption For Colchester, Crouch Street C1955

Where the bus mean- ders westward, the dual carriageway of Balkerne Hill removed a number of buildings on each side of the road on its noisy way to the Southway roundabout, cutting Crouch

Caption For Cheltenham, The Devil's Chimney 1901

Leckhampton Hill, and the surrounding four hundred acres of grassland, were purchased by Cheltenham Town Council in 1929, and the area is now designated as a Site of Special Scientific

Caption For Sherborne, Greenhill 1900

Until mid-Victorian times, this part of the road, known now as Greenhill, had been called New Well Hill.

Caption For Keswick, Castlerigg, Druids' Circle 1895

Erroneously known at the time when this photograph was taken as the Druids' Circle, the Castlerigg Stone Circle just outside Keswick is dramatically set in an amphitheatre of hills, including Skiddaw,

Caption For Cheltenham, Devil's Chimney 1901

This tall limestone pillar stands above the quarries on Leckhampton Hill, not far from Cheltenham.

Caption For Frodsham, From The Hill C1950

Taken from Overton Hill, this view shows the town with the Mersey estuary in the distance beyond the sand dunes.

Caption For Sheet, Post Office 1898

This interesting picture shows the bridge over the Rother at the bottom of Adhurst Hill.

Caption For Scaynes Hill, The Post Office C1960

The post office and general stores are still at the same site today at the summit of the hill and near the crossroads (though the proprietors have changed).

Caption For Oakham, The Castle C1955

Beyond the cows, the hill is the site of the original castle motte.

Caption For Wellingore, The Church C1960

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

Caption For Cross Hills, View From The Ravenstones C1965

The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.

Caption For Watchet, The Harbour Entrance 1957

In the 19th century, a railway brought Brendon Hills iron ore here for shipment to Wales.

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Caption For Brigham, C1960

The flatness of the Wolds is interrupted by the hill on which the tiny hamlet of Brigham sits.

Caption For Wokingham, Nine Mile Ride Post Office 1909

Close to the junction of Nine Mile Ride, New Wokingham Road and Honey Hill, we can see Chappell's Store, clearly the local retailer for Salmon's Teas but also providing the facility of

Caption For Goudhurst, Village 1901

This scene was snapped from the church and faces down the hill.

Caption For Prestbury, High Street C1955

Until the 1930s, trams ran along Prestbury High Street en route to the top of Cleeve Hill. A