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Maps

4,509 maps found.

1947, Snow Hill Ref. NPO833776
1947, Nettleton Hill Ref. NPO789188
1947, Ridge Hill Ref. NPO816534
1947, Romsley Hill Ref. NPO819589
1947, Rose Hill Ref. NPO819968
1946, Rose Hill Ref. NPO819969
1945, Rose Hill Ref. NPO819973
1940, Rose Hill Ref. NPO819976
1947, Rowley Hill Ref. NPO821221
1947, Ruardean Hill Ref. NPO821491
1946, Plough Hill Ref. NPO807628
1947, Poll Hill Ref. NPO808162
1946, Primrose Hill Ref. NPO810939
1946, Prince Hill Ref. NPO810985
1947, Rainbow Hill Ref. NPO812930
1947, Netheroyd Hill Ref. NPO788963
1898, Somerton Hill Ref. RNE834063
1898, South Hill Ref. RNE834877
1898, South Hill Ref. RNE834886
1898, Staple Hill Ref. RNE838619

Books

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Memories

4,110 memories found. Showing results 431 to 440.

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 Richard Ralph

Reigate Hill

This is the exact location in which my family has placed a memorial bench for my mother Ann Gout (nee Edwards). She spend many happy hours on Reigate Hill when she was a Girl Guide and loved this view. A few years ago the trees and ...Read more

A memory of Reigate by Alison Earl

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 John Evans

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 Trevor Page

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 Mike Archdeacon

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 Stephen Mckinley

Stocks Hill

Hi, we have bought a property 75 yards from Ali Dent's the butcher, a little red-brick house in 'The Yard' belonging to a Mr Howlett. I wonder if you remember the cottage? If you're interested I can send you some pictures of the cottage ...Read more

A memory of Hilgay in 2007

Captions

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Caption For Branscombe, General View 1931

Branscombe lies amid what a previous vicar described as 'a perfect jumble of hills'.

Caption For Adlington, Chorley Road C1955

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Bank And Pier C1960

The Bank Café lies on the right, and it is clearly a warm summer day in view of the number of parked cars at the bottom of the hill.

Caption For Clarach, 1921

Clarach consists of dispersed settlements in a fertile valley to the north of Aberystwyth, from which it is accessible by foot over Constitution Hill.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Canal 1897

Just beyond the bridge is the delightfully named Hills and Partridges Lock.

Caption For Kington, Church Street 1956

There have been relatively few changes here, one of the best being that the Imperial Café is now a second hand bookshop called Castle Hill Books.

Caption For Exmouth, The Seafront 1918

The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

Caption For Botley, Mill Hill C1955

We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square. The ornamental railings on the right are those of Botley Mill.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Miniature Race Track 1947

Pier Hill can be seen rising behind the foreshore buildings with the High Street stretching north from The Royal Hotel.

Caption For Horndon On The Hill, The High Street C1960

This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

Caption For Minehead, Quay Street 1906

Many of the cottages lining Quay Street, which leads below North Hill to the harbour, belonged to fishermen who once sailed after herring.

Caption For Amersham, From Parsonage Woods 1958

These fields and the woods were carefully safeguarded from the post-railway Amersham on the Hill development to protect the setting of the old town.

Caption For Crouch End, View From Shepherds Hill C1890

It was taken literally weeks before the start of the building of a series of individual, sometimes rather grand villas, which were to extend from the heights of Highgate Hill to Crouch End.

Caption For Malmesbury, The River And Bridge C1960

In the 17th century an earlier fulling mill, called Cannop's Mill, stood on the site.

Caption For Saffron Walden, The Common 1937

Large 19th-century houses line the road on the far side of the Common on Chaters Hill. In the grass on this side of the house on the right lies the mediaeval maze.

Caption For Launceston, Windmill Hill C1960

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

Caption For Newport, Belmont Hill 1932

Here, at Belmont Hill, we are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.

Caption For Howth, From East Pier 1897

The Tower is on the hill to the left. In this glorious summer scene, boats are moored along the jetty.

Caption For Colchester, St Mary At The Walls 1921

Today it peers over the western Roman wall exposed by the demolition of all these cot- tages and into the roaring gulch cut by Balkerne Hill, a dual carriageway stretch of the western bypass

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 Poole, Rockley Sands, The Palladium C1965

Just behind the roof is wooded Beacon Hill.

Caption For Gorleston, The White Lion Hotel 1922

This is still one of Gorleston's most popular hotels, and nicely situated at the top of Cliff Hill.

Caption For Witham, St Nicolas' Church 1900

The original hub of Witham was here, at Chipping Hill. As the town grew, its businesses drifted off to the main London-Colchester road. St Nicholas' was built c1330.

Caption For Coulsdon, Brighton Road 1906

A young girl with a pram stands outside the gates and vanished lodge house of Cane Hill Hospital, built in 1883.