Photos

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Maps

1,651 maps found.

1897, Tilstone Fearnall Ref. HOSM61891
1897, Utkinton Ref. HOSM63133
1897, Willington Corner Ref. HOSM64653
1897, Alvanley Ref. HOSM35900
1897, Dunham-on-The-Hill Ref. HOSM43992
1897, Helsby Ref. HOSM48199
1897, Kingsley Ref. HOSM50175
1897, Great Sutton Ref. HOSM46961
1897, Hooton Ref. HOSM48985
1897, Broxton Ref. HOSM39248
1908 - 1909, Chester Business Park Ref. HOSM40721
1898, Lea By Backford Ref. HOSM40882
1897 - 1898, Christleton Ref. HOSM40890
1897 - 1909, Bruera Ref. HOSM40948
1898 - 1909, Dodleston Ref. HOSM43310
1897, Great Barrow Ref. HOSM46823
1897 - 1898, Guilden Sutton Ref. HOSM47222
1897 - 1898, Hoole Bank Ref. HOSM48880
1898, Newton Ref. HOSM54944
1897 - 1908, Rowton Ref. HOSM58302

Books

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Memories

2,049 memories found. Showing results 541 to 550.

Watercress Beds

I have no memories of West Ashling but somewhen before 1860 my G/G/Grandfather James Hare started the watercress beds there. It was not untill quite recently we found out what we know about this family. My G/Grandfather ...Read more

A memory of West Ashling in 1860 by George Larbey

Limberlost

my dad was born in amport his mother was eliza izzard and married his dad albert john smith , i believe she was from lower bullington andover and her mother from west stratton winchester, i have a few family letters that iv looked up, ...Read more

A memory of Amport by Roger Walker

Pitlake Bridge

I was born in Cuthbert Road, West Croydon, next to Pitlake Bridge, and have a vivid memory of when the manholes on the bridge exploded. Wandle Park was our playground, and a fairground or circus had its winter storage next to the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1959 by hallyally

Diamond Anniversary

My parents, June Delicia Hancock and V. Neville Wright, now living in London, were married at St. Giles Church, West Bridgford, on 3rd April 1948 and are celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversary this week.

A memory of West Bridgford in 1948 by Helen Gordon Smith

My Family

My father's family lived in Charlton from the late 1880s to the mid 1900s. My grandfather was a shepherd & after farm foreman for a Mr Charles Reid whose brother Bertie also had a large farm in the Charlton area. The ...Read more

A memory of Charlton All Saints in 1930 by Roy Goodridge

Going To School

I have lived in Australia now for over 40 years. I still have very fond memories of my walk from Grenville Close to West Cowes High school as a 13yr old. The floating bridge was where I had my first smoke and my first kiss!!!! ...Read more

A memory of East Cowes in 1961 by Steve Clements

World War Ii

This picture looks as if it is looking down the street with the church on the right hand side. The Post Office in 1940 was opposite the entrance to the churchyard. Every Saturday morning I would run to the Post Office through ...Read more

A memory of Milton Lilbourne in 1941 by James Kemble

Silver Jubilee Parade 1935

I remember well the parade through the village on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee. My mother and several other mothers dressed six of us young boys as toy soldiers and we had to march in the parade.  However, the ...Read more

A memory of West Lulworth in 1930 by Albert Spavins

I Used To Live Here

I grew up living in a cottage on West Street (just out of shot on the left) Next door to Mr and Mrs Vincent. Mr Vincent had the garage over the road... I remember that he had a penny farthing bike in the window. The ...Read more

A memory of Somerton by Denise Lazenby

The Station

Our cottage in West Street used to almost back on to the railway line. We lived next door to Mr and Mrs Dummet (Aunty Mable and Uncle Ern) next door again was the telephone exchange (I think a boy called Michael Elliot lived there) ...Read more

A memory of Somerton by Denise Lazenby

Captions

1,994 captions found. Showing results 1,297 to 1,320.

Caption For Leicester, The Tudor Gatehouse, Castle Street C1955

Sited on the north west angle of the Church of St Mary de Castro, and opposite the Norman Great Hall, the whole ambience stirs feelings of regret that just a little more of early Leicester

Caption For Conisbrough, The Castle C1965

A new visitor centre now marks the entrance to Conisbrough Castle, one of the best-preserved Norman castles in the country.

Caption For Poole, The Harbour C1950

This is a typical Fifties scene with the then familiar railway trucks and a car.

Caption For Woolacombe, 1906

On the right is that ubiquitous feature of west country beaches, the lime kiln.

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.

Caption For Sheffield, The Goodwin Fountain C1965

This view looks towards Barker's Pool, where Sheffield's first reservoir was built in 1434 to collect water from several springs on the hillside above West Bar.

Caption For Stowmarket, The River 1922

We are looking west from the canal towpath towards the town, with the church spire in the centre distance.

Caption For Colsterworth, The Village C1960

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

Caption For West Rasen, The Church C1955

Apart from All Saints church, West Rasen is noted for its 15th-century pack horse bridge which crosses the River Rase, from which the Rasens are named, and which descends from The Wolds to merge with the

Caption For Salfords, The General Napier 1911

South of Redhill, east of the A23 Brighton Road and west of the M23 motorway, Salfords has avoided much of the development that has affected less isolated parts of this area.

Caption For Canterbury, The Cathedral 1888

The cathedral was rebuilt in the 12th century, when it began to assume the form in which we see it today.

Caption For Iona, The Beach And The Village 1903

Iona lies just off the extreme south-west shores of Mull.

Caption For West Rasen, The Church C1955

Apart from All Saints' Church, West Rasen is noted for its 15th-century pack horse bridge which crosses the River Rase, from which the Rasens are named, and which descends from The Wolds to merge with

Caption For Iona, The Beach And The Village 1903

Iona lies just off the extreme south-west of Mull.

Caption For St Ives, The Harbour 1895

Many of the buildings can be recognised today, but they are now separated from the water in the harbour by walls supporting a road and a walkway.