Maps

9,439 maps found.

1903-1904, North Middleton Ref. RNC793708
1898-1900, North Nibley Ref. RNC793780
1897-1900, North Oakley Ref. RNC793784
1898-1899, North Perrott Ref. RNC793808
1902-1903, North Reston Ref. RNC793855
1902-1903, North Rode Ref. RNC793864
1901-1902, North Runcton Ref. RNC793874
1902-1903, North Scarle Ref. RNC793888
1901-1904, North Side Ref. RNC793906
1897-1898, North Stoke Ref. RNC793944
1901-1903, North Togston Ref. RNC793999
1911-1912, North Town Ref. RNC794003
1898-1909, North Town Ref. RNC794007
1903-1904, North Walney Ref. RNC794035
1898-1900, North Waterhayne Ref. RNC794053
1897-1898, North Watford Ref. RNC794054
1902-1903, North Wheatley Ref. RNC794073
1901-1903, North Witham Ref. RNC794088
1897-1902, North Woolwich Ref. RNC794121
1901-1902, North Wootton Ref. RNC794124

Books

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Memories

1,548 memories found. Showing results 551 to 560.

First Job

After leaving North End Secondary School my first job was with Hans Dairy in 1949 as a rounds boy, with a horse and cart. At 16 1/2 I had my own round with over 300 customers. We had to clean all our own horse tack and clean the cart. ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1949

I Might Have Been An Undertaker

Throughout the first half of the 1950's I would spend every school holiday at Linton, with my maternal grandparents. Initially my mum would accompany me from our home in Trumpington to Drummer Street bus station, ...Read more

A memory of Linton in 1952 by Brian Goodliffe

Wells Lifeboat Wwii Years

The coxswain of the lifeboat is the tall, erect Dane, Theodore Neilsen (stood at the stern of the boat). My father, Alf Powditch, was the engineer and is sat on the tractor.Theodore (Ted for short) fished for ...Read more

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea by Philip Powditch

A Memory Of Westbury Village 2

After Townsend's chemist shop was Hudderstone's which was a family business and Mrs Hudderstone pleasantly sold sweets, lemonades, ice cream and newspapers in the front of the shop and Mr Hudderstone ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

Memories Of The Queen Vic.

I lived in Worcester Park from 1942-1970. I went to school at Sparrow Farm Infants and Junior School from 1947-1953, so went passed the Queen Vic every day. Sometimes my mother and I would go to North Cheam to do some ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam in 1947 by Margaret Bond

My Second Home, Somerton

My name is Ken Pickles, I have been in the Western Gazette may times over the years. Stories on my life that I had in Kingsdon and Somerton in 1963 to 1966. Visited Somerton every year since I left in 1966. I want to move ...Read more

A memory of Somerton in 1964 by Ken Pickles

Shrubbery Off High St, Uxbridge Road Off North Rd.

Anybody know of Dr Steward? The big house, The Shrubbery, 1850's to 1900's. Today seen old wall parts, arches, shapes....may have been left after demolition. It was his home, but a few asylum ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Yvonne Butler

Clowes Street West Gorton In The 1950's

I was born in December 1947 at 124 Clowes Street, West Gorton in a terraced house between William Street and Elizabeth Street, directly opposite Bert Hall's butcher's shop and next door to the Beswick ...Read more

A memory of West Gorton by clowesstreet

The Bungalow, Widmer End

I am writing in the hope that someone can shed some light on my maternal grandmother, Ethel Mary Wright. Ethel was admitted to St Peter's Home, Kilburn in January 1926. The admissions register when being admitted to St ...Read more

A memory of Widmer End by malcp

Memory Of Southall

I was born in St George's Avenue and went to North Road Infants and Juniors. Both my parents were from Southall. My aunt still lives by western Market. I remember playing by the gas works and railway and summer carnivals in the park.

A memory of Southall

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 1,321 to 1,344.

Caption For Morecambe, West End Promenade 1899

Looking north towards the pier, the photograph shows the promenade before the Winter Gardens were built. The tide is well in and horses have been taken down to soak their legs in the salt-water.

Caption For Alfold, The Crown Hotel C1950

The tile-hung Crown Inn on the Loxwood Road was on the smuggler's route from Sussex to the north.

Caption For Bransgore, C1960

Bransgore, north of Christchurch, grew over the years as a sprawling residential village. The Three Tuns is still trading, and looks much the same today as it did when this picture was taken.

Caption For Lyme Regis, 1925

The North Wall (right centre) has since been joined to the mainland (in 1979) by a random wall of rough boulders.

Caption For Great Harwood, The Roman Catholic Church 1898

Great Harwood lies to the north of Accrington, and commands a lovely part of the Hyndburn Valley.

Caption For Shere, Village 1903

This gem of a village is situated between the North Downs and the Greensand Ridge.

Caption For Calne, Wessington Avenue C1960

Known by locals as 'The Cages', the three rows of lime trees were planted on the north east side of the road in the early 1840s.

Caption For Crewe, Market Hall C1955

It should come as no surprise in Crewe that he was a railway contractor for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). Intended as a cheese market, it had a capacity for 2,000 tons of cheese.

Caption For Clent, Early Morning Over Clent Hills C1955

Lickey Hills, the Clent Hills (which rise to 1,000 ft above sea level) form a clear boundary between rural countryside to the south and west and the man- made industrial landscape to the north-east

Caption For Whitby, The Harbour C1960

Flat-capped fishermen enjoy a chat and a view of the Lower Harbour by the swing bridge (right) in the ancient port of Whitby, situated where the River Esk runs into the North Sea.

Caption For Bengeo, St Leonard's Church 1922

There is an anchorite's cell behind the panelling in the north wall, and a fine replacement tiled roof over the semicircular apsidal east end.

Caption For Feckenham, High Street C1967

From Saxon times Feckenham was the administrative centre for the Forest of Feckenham, which once covered most of north Worcestershire.

Caption For Hereford, Commercial Road C1950

The old city of Hereford was contained by the River Wye to the south and the town walls to the north.

Caption For London, Buckingham Palace And The Mall C1955

until 1850, when it was removed to its present position at the top of Park Lane.The Mall, an expansive and formal approach to the Palace, is fringed with limes, planes and elms, and skirts the north

Caption For Edinburgh, Heriot's Hospital 1897

Designed on the courtyard plan with a turreted tower house at each corner, this building echoes Wallace's work at Pinkie (1613), the King's Lodging, Edinburgh Castle (1615), and the north range at Linlithgow

Caption For Leicester, The War Memorial, Victoria Park C1950

It was the architectural genius Edwin Lutyens who faced that task and created a monument of great dignity and subtle beauty, whose presence ensures that neither the horrors nor the heroism of that

Caption For Stamford, The Stamford Hotel 1922

This brief tour of Stamford has now climbed up to St Mary's Street to look east past the north nave aisle of St Mary's Church to the Stamford Hotel, somewhat over-large for the narrow street and towering

Caption For Caverswall, The Castle C1955

Situated one and a half miles north of Blythe Bridge railway station in Staffordshire, Caverswall's history certainly goes back to at least 1275 when Walter de Caverswell was granted a licence to crenellate

Caption For Hailsham, High Street 1900

Hailsham, an old market town, lies about seven miles north of Eastbourne. For about 200 years its main industry was rope making, which was started by Thomas Burfield; his shop was in the High Street.

Caption For Knott End On Sea, The Ferry C1960

Behind is Fleetwood's North Euston Hotel, which opened in 1841.

Caption For Lowestoft, Wellington Gardens 1921

These gardens lay north of Claremont Pier and in front of Wellington Esplanade, on the left.

Caption For East Bergholt, St Mary's Church C1955

The western tower was started later in 1525 with a stone base and, as at nearby Dedham, a vaulted ground floor with processional arches in the north and south sides.

Caption For Whitwell, The Square C1965

Whitwell stands at the entrance to the Duke of Portland's Welbeck Abbey, and it is in the heart of north-east Derbyshire's former coal mining country.

Caption For Denmead, The Green C1960

The original village, to the north-east, was known as Barn Green.