Places
23 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Harrow, Greater London
- Pinner, Greater London
- Stanmore, Greater London
- Harrow on the Hill, Greater London
- Hatch End, Greater London
- South Harrow, Greater London
- North Harrow, Greater London
- Wealdstone, Greater London
- Harrow Weald, Greater London
- Harrow Green, Suffolk
- Rayners Lane, Greater London
- Headstone, Greater London
- Roxeth, Greater London
- Eastbury, Greater London
- Pinnerwood Park, Greater London
- Little Stanmore, Greater London
- Queensbury, Greater London
- West Harrow, Greater London
- Harrow Hill, Gloucestershire
- Greenhill, Greater London
- Belmont, Greater London (near Stanmore)
- Canons Park, Greater London
- Pinner Green, Greater London
Photos
180 photos found. Showing results 81 to 100.
Maps
265 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 97 to 2.
Memories
293 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.
Spivack Jewellers
I was born in Welldon Crescent in 1946 and lived there for over 20 years. My uncle worked as a french polisher for J. Sainsbury and was often working at the Harrow shop. I'm now living in Cyprus and have become friends with a ...Read more
A memory of Harrow by
Growing Up In A Community
my parents moved to Sussex Crescent in 1954 with three young children, having been re homed from temporary housing - a prefab. The Northolt estate was a great place with a genuine community spirit, families all rallied ...Read more
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American Family
I lived with my parents and older brother and sister at 68 Cambridge Road from 1964-1968--some of the best years of my life. My best friends were Ann and Alan Massey.who lived down the street and right across the street were my ...Read more
A memory of North Harrow by
1953 To 1973 Harold Hill Was Home
I was 2½ when my parents Sam and Gwen Barrow moved from Greenwich with myself and my sister (6months) into No1 Tiverton Grove. It was on the coner with Bedale Road and had been my Nan's house. I used to ride my ...Read more
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Battersea Girl
I lived in Birley street with my parents and brother Colin. I have very happy memories of shaftesbury park school and later on Clapham county grammar school. Many days were spent on Clapham Common and at battersea park, where the ...Read more
A memory of Battersea
102 Station Road, Harrow.
My husband lived at the above address from about 1938 until 1955. I would dearly love to find a photo of his house. He lived opposite the Dominion Cinema and remembers that during the war the lights went out and how excited he ...Read more
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Anstey Born And Bred
I was born in Hollow Road in 1944. I then lived in Forest Gate and Cropston Road where I lived until I got married in 1966. I have one brother Bill and two half brothers Charles and Keith and two half sisters Susan and Jane. I ...Read more
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Wood End
I lived in Wood End Lane until rather late in life really. Moved out of the family home when I was 29 and moved to Ruislip. I went to Wood End Nursery, infants and Junior Boys school, then moved to Horsenden Secondary Boys School. Both ...Read more
A memory of Northolt by
It’s Been A Long Time Away
I remember South Harrow very well my mum and I would go there every Saturday to do the shopping and we would both carry it back walking to Reading Road. I used to go to Saturday morning pictures at the Cinema in ...Read more
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Filmdirector Frederick Zelnik In Harrow
Unfortunately, I have never stayed at the beautiful Harrow. But I'm very interested in Harrow because I'm looking for a house where the German filmdirector and producer Frederick (Friedrich) Zelnik and his wife, ...Read more
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Captions
108 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.
This is the approach road from the Barrow in Furness direction to Newby Bridge, now the A590, with the Swan Hotel on the far side of the bridge.
Other street names were taken from ships that had been built at Vickers shipyard in Barrow.
For many years the river at Barrow has possessed a watery magnetism which has drawn people from the city to its banks on warm summer days, either to enjoy a picnic, or to venture onto the
This was once a magnificent chambered long barrow that was covered with a brilliant white chalk mound. It sits snugly in the Downs near to the Ridgeway and Avebury stone circle.
In pre-world war two days, most travellers toured their patch by train and tram, hiring a barrow-boy if necessary to trundle their wares between calls.
Lynn had forgotten to do so, and Barrow Council had to publicise for the architect 'Ira' to unveil himself to them. The design was Victorian Gothic with an imposing tower dominating the structure.
The Great Western Railway ordered two fast triple-expansion steamers, costing £55,000 each, from the Naval Construction & Armaments Co, Barrow-in-Furness, for the Weymouth-Jersey summer service.
It is possible that bodies were left here on funerary platforms to decompose, before a skeletal burial was carried out later in one of the many long barrows that surround the area.
The landscape of hills, bar- rows and earthworks remind us of the beginnings of civilisation with the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements and hill forts.
To the left are round barrows breaking the now contracted sky line, the wandering bunches of sheep, the wheeling plovers, the friendly white-tailed wheatears, and the skylarks innumerable filling
It was built to help ships navigating the River Lune and to guide ships to Glasson docks - it was not built for the benefit of Barrow-in-Furness, as the town was only a small fishing hamlet at the time
A major Bronze Age barrow was excavated in 1854 where Sandy Lane comes close to the railway.
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Memories (293)
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