Photos

279 photos found. Showing results 1,061 to 279.

Maps

1,651 maps found.

1947, Lower Peover Ref. NPO769646
1947, Milners Heath Ref. NPO781038
1947, Lache Ref. NPO750766
1947, Nova Scotia Ref. NPO794854
1947, Marton Ref. NPO775346
1947, Mickle Trafford Ref. NPO778652
1947, Little Budworth Ref. NPO756982
1947, Norley Ref. NPO792703
1896, Dones Green Ref. RNE691996
1897, Duddon Common Ref. RNE694611
1896, Crowton Ref. RNE685064
1896, Chester Ref. RNE667495
1897, Cotebrook Ref. RNE678359
1896, Elton Green Ref. RNE701107
1897, Farndon Ref. RNE703534
1897, Bickleywood Ref. HOSM52956
1897, Hebden Green Ref. HOSM65020
1879 - 1897, Lower Whitley Ref. HOSM52698
1897, Norcott Brook Ref. HOSM64455
1897, Little Budworth Ref. HOSM51495

Books

19 books found. Showing results 1,273 to 19.

Memories

2,049 memories found. Showing results 531 to 540.

Going To Work

When I was working for Nat West Bank in the 70s I used to travel on the train from Kenley Station every day to go up to Caterham and back. The up line terminates there while the downline goes via Purley to East Croydon and London, and ...Read more

A memory of Kenley in 1972 by David Marshall

Eckington Parish Church

I grew up in Eckington in the 1950s and 1960s. My father, Emerson, and his father, John Henry, were coal merchants in the village. My father was a member of many church activities in his youth as well as being a brass ...Read more

A memory of Eckington in 1958 by Peter Argyle

Tillingham When I Was A Lad

I remember helping my father Alan to herd the sheep from Marsh House Farm to West Hyde Farm. When we got to Tillingham Square we rested them and  the villagers used to come out to see us. I used to sing in the church ...Read more

A memory of Tillingham in 1954 by Thomas Lungley

War Memorial

This war memorial is in what we called Old Hartlepool, near the sea by the Hartlepool Docks/Headland. The war memorial for West Hartlepool was called the Cenotaph and was in Victoria Road, West Hartlepool.

A memory of Hartlepool by Frances Walker

Welwyn Garden City, Sweet Briar

This view is from the west side of Sweet Briar looking south down the hill towards Cole Green Lane (out of view). To the left is the entrance to Heronswood School (since closed, now a modern housing area). ...Read more

A memory of Welwyn Garden City by Alan Vacani

The Station The Cinemas

I was born in Manor Park in 1937 but spent a lot of time in East Ham as my mother was a keen cinema-goer.  The Granada in Barking Road used to have a four hour programme with two films and an hour long stage show.  I recall ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by David Bolton

Oh!!! What A Shame

Today, whilst visiting my mother who lives in the village I decided to park my car and walk through the village, a trip down memory lane. I was disappointed to see that many familar places no longer looked the same, there ...Read more

A memory of West Chiltington in 2008 by Carol Spicer

My Ancestors

My mother Alice Harpham & family lived here. She was born 1904 at Dunham, along with John Thomas, Rose, Herbert, Edith, Margaret, & Sydney John. When I searched my family tree, I had been told by my cousin Evelyn in ...Read more

A memory of Dunham on Trent in 1900 by Marion Wilkinson

School In Walsham

I atended primary school in Walsham from 1953 to 1955, my father was stationed at Shepards Grove. We lived in West House about a mile out of town toward Bury St Edmonds. I enjoyed my time in school there. My wife and I ...Read more

A memory of Walsham Le Willows in 1953 by Bernard Myer

Where Is This Cottage

Does anyone know whereabouts in West Overton this cottage was and whether it is still standing.

A memory of West Overton

Captions

1,994 captions found. Showing results 1,273 to 1,296.

Caption For Burnley, Towneley Hall 1930

The north-west wing, which can be seen in the background, contains the chapel, the kitchens and the two art galleries.

Caption For Horsham, The Carfax 1898

Also built during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year was Frederick Wheeler's proud bank, now the Nat West, in Queen Anne style in plum brick and with extensive Bath stone dressings.

Caption For Hadleigh, High Street C1960

This scene again shows The Castle Hotel, but from the west.

Caption For Keswick, Castlerigg, Druid Circle 1895

To the east there is an outlying stone, over which the sun rises at the spring and autumn equinoxes.

Caption For Edwinstowe, High Street C1955

This view looks north along the High Street past the now 'improved' junction with West Lane.

Caption For Hadleigh, High Street C1960

This scene again shows The Castle Hotel, but from the west.

Caption For Street, High Street 1896

This view looks south-west along the High Street.

Caption For Glenfield, The Square And Church C1960

Growth has seen Leicester all but engulf this large commuter village on the city's north-west outskirts.

Caption For Minehead, The Beach 1906

Cheddar Gorge is one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in south-west England.The gorge cuts its way out of the carboniferous limestone as if it was in the Peak District of Derbyshire; it is an

Caption For Bridport, South Street 1897

On the west side, between the figures and the church tower, is the establishment of draper and milliner Ernest Benjamin Hobbs.

Caption For Bedford, The River Ouse 1929

We have now moved upstream west of the bridge, with a view taken from St Mary's Embankment in St Mary's Gardens.

Caption For Southport, Cambridge Hall, Art Gallery, Library And Bank 1887

It was thanks to the generosity of cotton manufacturer William Atkinson that Southport got a Free Library and Art Gallery; he paid for both of them.

Caption For Bingley, Five Rise Locks, The Leeds & Liverpool Canal 1894

One of the wonders of the waterway system, the five rise locks at Bingley in West Yorkshire are part of the Leeds & Liverpool canal.

Caption For Northampton, Mercers Row C1955

Mercers Row leads west from the market place, with the parish church of All Saints to its left.

Caption For Rye, The River Rother 1901

In the 1190s Rye joined the Cinque Ports federation, a group of Kent and Sussex ports that provided ships for the King's navy in return for enormous privileges.

Caption For Beauchief, The Abbey C1950

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

Caption For Mickleton, Main Street C1960

A few miles to the north of Chipping Campden lies Mickleton, a small town that displays both the limestone buildings of the Cotswolds and the traditional half-timbered style of the Vale.

Caption For Ellesmere, Scotland Street C1955

Despite its name, this is the main road into Ellesmere from the west, in other words from Wales.

Caption For Laleham, Chertsey Lock C1960

West of Sunbury and on the former Middlesex bank of the Thames is Chertsey Lock, near Chertsey Bridge, an austere seven-arch stone bridge of the 1780s by James Paine.

Caption For Chepstow, Town Gate 1936

It was then that Roger Bigod III built the town wall, which was some 1200 yds in length and had a number of semi-circular towers.

Caption For Lower Penn, St Anne's Church, Springhill Lane C1965

The village of Lower Penn was once owned by Lady Godiva, and was formerly known as Nether Penn.

Caption For Sutton, Christchurch Park 1903

View 49180 looks west from the junction with Langley Park Road along Christchurch Park, with the well-known copper beech trees newly planted in the verges.

Caption For Maidenhead, High Street 1921

The west-bound traffic, overtaking a parked vehicle and cyclist, is rather hogging the middle of the road.

Caption For Forest Row, Hartfield Road 1907

Forest Row, recorded in the early 14th century, lies three miles south-west of East Grinstead on the verge of Ashdown Forest.