Photos

75 photos found. Showing results 81 to 75.

Maps

658 maps found.

1897-1902, Mill Meads Ref. RNC780371
1900-1901, Port Mead Ref. RNC809369
1897-1909, Bushey Mead Ref. RNC657468
1898-1909, Coles Meads Ref. RNC675314
1898, White Ox Mead Ref. RNE868269
1897 - 1913, Port Mead Ref. HOSM56978
1897 - 1913, Port Mead Ref. HOSM38029
1897 - 1913, Port Mead Ref. HOSM57500
1897-1909, Abbey Mead Ref. RNC618401
1902-1903, Abbot's Meads Ref. RNC618497
1897-1909, Mead End Ref. RNC775952
1897-1909, Mead End Ref. RNC775954
1897-1909, Chertsey Meads Ref. RNC667444
1919, White Ox Mead Ref. POP868269
1946, White Ox Mead Ref. NPO868269
1898-1899, White Ox Mead Ref. RNC868269
1902, Windmill Hill Ref. HOSM61396
1904-1905, Heads Ref. RNC729841
1898 - 1910, Tilehurst Ref. HOSM61969
1897-1900, Caversham Heights Ref. RNC664947

Books

3 books found. Showing results 97 to 3.

Memories

579 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

Dukeshouse Wood Camp School (Part Two)

My recollection of  a dance that was arranged in the sports hall made me and another lad George Bishop decide to abstain from the proceedings as I think at the time, in fact I am sure about myself that I was ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1940 by Les May

Hove Town Hall Fire

I think it was 1964 that the Town Hall burnt down. I remember it well. I was about 11 at the time. I do remember that at the back of the TH, was the Police Station. My brother and I got in some "trouble" and the two of us ...Read more

A memory of Hove in 1964 by Alan Ogilvie

My Scurlock Family

I was born opposite the clinic in, I think, High Street, My dad's name was Melbourne Haig Scurlock, my mum's Ann Cleverly before marriage. My dad had TB whilst he was young so he worked in the Remploy which didn't pay very ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1962 by Fiona Scurlock

Small Boystoys And Other Pastimes 1930s

bill.haylor@btinternet.com  Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs A large number of our toys were made from wood, dependant on what tools were available in fathers shed, if it was unlocked! The ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Bill Haylor

Reedham Orphanage

My father died just before I was born and my mother had to put my brother and I into Reedham orphanage.  I was still on a potty as I remember complaining that I was now old enough to go on the toilet and have some privacy.  I ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1956 by Kathryn Jackson

Holidays

We spent many a happy holiday in the Bridgwater area, sometimes staying on a farm just outside Bridgwater and in later years in a flat in the holiday village in nearby Burnham on Sea. Many wonderful memories of my dead parents and dogs!

A memory of Bridgwater by Sue Bowles

Goldthorpe In The Fifties

I was born in 1946 and lived in Manor Avenue. Cricket with dustbin lids propped up with a house brick in the "backins" were our stumps and we played from dawn to dusk during the summer holidays...except during Wimbledon ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe by swamidhyan

First Love

1995 was the best year of my life, I was aged 13 and I was totally besotted with a lad in the village called James Power, he was working with a local builder from Penmachno called Jeremy McWilliam. I loved the way he was of being the ...Read more

A memory of Cwm in 1993 by Sarah Collins

Button Oak

I lived in Button Oak during 1942/43 and worked in the Wyre Forest for 'Bob' Harris who was the Forester. Along with two of my mates, Denis Mills and Hubert Till, I made frequent trips into Bewdley to go to the pictures or get my hair ...Read more

A memory of Bewdley in 1940 by Robert Aldridge

Opening Of The 'new' Woolstore

Now living in Australia but have also lived in NZL and the Pacific Islands, Fiji Tonga etc. Used to be a member of the Horndon Scouts and played in the band. We were asked to lead a march to mark the opening ...Read more

A memory of Horndon on the Hill in 1971 by Chris Kneller

Captions

156 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Colby, Village 1897

It was only after 1902 that a message could also be added.

Caption For Amersham, Garden Of Remembrance C1958

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.

Caption For Fernworthy, The Sacred Circle 1907

It is probable, given the number of stone circles found on Dartmoor, that a family or a group of families erected them for ritual worship, either to venerate the dead or for an astronomical purpose.

Caption For Horndon On The Hill, The High Street C1960

The bell on the sign bears the motto 'I call for the living, I toll for the dead, I scatter the lightning'.

Caption For Cardiff, The War Memorial C1950

Even before the end of the First World War calls had been made to erect a monument to honour Wales' dead.

Caption For Sidmouth, Milford Road 1918

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

Caption For Horndon On The Hill, The High Street C1960

The bell on the sign bears the motto 'I call for the living, I toll for the dead, I scatter the lightning'.

Caption For Plymouth, Charles Church 1889

Once one of the finest post-Reformation Gothic churches in the country, Charles Church was gutted in the blitz and the ruins retained as a memorial to Plymouth's war dead.

Caption For Hitchin, The Market C1965

urban clearance started in 1923 may have been prompted by comments like that of John Thompson, who spoke one hundred years previously of the 'very depressed and profligate inhabitants of Hollow Lane and Dead

Caption For Biggleswade, The Memorial C1955

The memorial, with its scrolls commemorating the dead of two world wars, has now been cleaned and moved to a site of even greater prominence in the newly refurbished town centre.

Caption For Shefford, The Church And War Memorial C1955

This is because it was originally a daughter church to Campion, a mile or so to the south-west, and Shefford would have buried its dead there.

Caption For Holme, St Giles' Church 1909

All were dead except for just one man.

Caption For Roslin, The Chapel, The Interior 1897

On his return, the mason was so jealous of his apprentice's work that he struck the boy dead.

Caption For Staplehurst, The Village 1903

This long and irregular village stands on either side of a switchback rise in the otherwise dead-straight Roman road that comprises this section of the A229.

Caption For Thornton Cleveleys, The Little Church Within The Trees C1955

Whereas Marton and South Fylde worshippers had to bring their dead to St Chad's, the parish church of Poulton, people from the new town of Fleetwood had to come to Meadows Avenue, which used to be called

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Place C1955

Further names of Aylesbury men who died for their country had to be added after World War II.

Caption For Barlborough, The Church C1955

In the 1890s rebuilding involved the demolition of the south side of the nave so that a south aisle could be added.

Caption For Stopsley, The Memorial C1965

The photograph is of the War Memorial to the dead of both World Wars sited on the original Stopsley village green.

Caption For Thatcham, The Church C1955

He discovered 'Baily's beads' – gaseous particles in the sun's corona. He also carried out experiments to determine the weight and density of the earth.

Caption For Somerton, Broad Street 1904

On the left, the mullioned windows behind the dead tree belong to Craigmore House, built in about 1700.

Caption For Avebury, The Avenue C1955

Along this sacred avenue dead bodies were probably carried to the temple of Avebury.

Caption For Hartlepool, Memorial Gardens C1965

This impressive memorial commemorates the local dead in two World Wars, and stands in Victory Square. The Grand Hotel behind it still dominates this area.

Caption For Edinburgh, Holyroodhouse, King Charles's Bedroom 1897

By 1560 Francois too was dead, and Mary had returned to Scotland.

Caption For Elstow, Village 1897

The High Street is a dead end now, cut off by modern roads.