Photos

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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

2,053 memories found. Showing results 531 to 540.

Burnt Oak In The Second World War And After

I moved to Burnt Oak in May 1940, to 84 Fortescue Road. I was 4. My memories are like a batch of video clips, as follows: Moving in. Removal men trying to get a wardrobe into the front bedroom by ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1940 by David Brusselen

My Great Grandfather And Mother Isaacs

In 1939-40 I was evacuated to Lockeridge to live with my great-aunt Mrs Haynes, who I think lived in one of the thatched cottages in the photo of the Dene. She was, I think, housekeeper at the big house in ...Read more

A memory of Lockeridge in 1940 by Arthur Jones

The Local Dances And Playing Pool

In the mid 1950s to early 1960s there were local dance halls, one at Newburn which was down Station Road, take a left towards the bridge and it was just there on the left side opposite the level crossings near ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1955 by Jimmy Burrows

The Village

I moved to Borehamwood from Acton, North West London, when I was three years old. I spent my childhood there, scrumping in neighbours gardens, getting the greenline bus into London for trips to Selfridges at Christmas, to London Zoo ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1961 by Debbie Hardy

Stone Street, Boxford

William Balaam born in Stone Street, Boxford in 1870 or thereabouts. He was my Grandfather's stepfather. Grandad often talked of Boxford. It is believed that later in William Balaam's life he became a Mayor or Lord Mayor - ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1870 by anne

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

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. Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

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. The small Co-op has given way to a superstore nearby.

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. It was largely rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1675 which destroyed most of the town centre.

Caption For Tarbert, From The South 1890

West Loch Tarbert is just a couple of miles distant; it is said that in 1093 Magnus Barefoot dragged his longship overland between the two lochs, claiming Kintyre as a Norse possession.

Caption For Northampton, The Drapery 1949

On the right is the splendid facade of the old Northamptonshire Union Bank, which became the National Provincial Bank and today is Nat West.

Caption For Tring, Zebra Room, Tring Museum C1955

In buildings immediately west of Tring Park is housed the Sir Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, based on his enormous collectoin of stuffed and mounted animals from every corner of the world.

Caption For London, Westminster Hospital C1915

The Sanctuary had a more enclosed feel than today owing to the hospital opposite the abbey's west door.

Caption For Heptonstall, The Two Parish Churches C1965

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

Caption For Hampstead, Viaduct And Pond 1898

The five-arch later 19th-century red-brick bridge still rather pompously carries a narrow roadway across the pond in the south west angle of the Heath.

Caption For Bridport, From Allington Hill 1897

As long ago as the reign of Edward the Confessor, Bridport was a town of considerable importance, boasting over a hundred dwellings, a priory of monks and its own mint.As its name implies, it was

Caption For Carew, From North West 1893

The west range of the castle to the right dates back to the 13th century, whereas the heavily fenestrated north range to the left is Elizabethan, the work of Sir John Perrot, half-brother

Caption For Gayton, The Devon Doorway C1955

Situated on the junction of Telegraph Road, Brimstage Road, Barnston Road and Chester Road, one of the busiest in West Wirral, this atmospheric pub has changed little in appearance since

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.