Photos

279 photos found. Showing results 1,141 to 279.

Maps

1,651 maps found.

1924, Eaton Hall Ref. POP698883
1924, Elton Green Ref. POP701107
1921, Cross O' Th' Hill Ref. POP684381
1921, Chorlton Lane Ref. POP668234
1924, Great Barrow Ref. POP719605
1924, Dodleston Ref. POP691493
1923, Fullers Moor Ref. POP710096
1924, Gorstella Ref. POP717939
1923, Comberbach Ref. POP676022
1924, Bruera Ref. POP653337
1923, Occlestone Green Ref. POP795839
1924, Tarvin Ref. POP845397
1923, Tarvin Sands Ref. POP845398
1923, Sandiway Ref. POP825100
1924, Roughhill Ref. POP820608
1924, Stamford Bridge Ref. POP838002
1923, New Pale Ref. POP790236
1923, Newton Ref. POP791681
1923, Newtown Ref. POP792063
1921, No Mans Heath Ref. POP792411

Books

19 books found. Showing results 1,369 to 19.

Memories

2,053 memories found. Showing results 571 to 580.

Hardham

Hardham was a place to bicycle to from Pulborough, and visit St. Botolph's Church. One of the many very very old churches in West Sussex. The drawings on the walls go back hundreds of years depicting the tortures of the early Christians, ...Read more

A memory of Hardham in 1964 by Sheelagh Mac Donald

My Beautiful Kentish Birthplace

I was born in East House, Tenterden Road, Rolvenden on 2nd November 1938.  My dad was about to join the RAF and I was born in my grandparents' home. There were large cellars below the house - very scarey.  East ...Read more

A memory of Rolvenden in 1940 by Jill Howell

Manor Park

I was born in Cedar Road maternity annexe in Sutton in 1956 and lived in Eaton Road for my first 10 years of life. One of my biggest joys was visiting the library that was situated in Manor Park in a house that I think may still be there, ...Read more

A memory of Sutton by Ann Price

Fair Oak Infants 1953

55 years on I still remember the infant school in the village. The toilets were outside at the end of the playground with very cold seats in the winter - pre the flushing variety!! (or does my memory serve ...Read more

A memory of Fair Oak in 1953 by Susan Sandy

The Fox And Hounds

I remember when my first racing bike was bought for me. I bought a survey map of north west Kent and decided that I would go to Eynsford as I had been there many times by bus and now I had independant means and no limit as ...Read more

A memory of Romney Street in 1956 by Peter Collihole

Childhood

My name is Gail Godden, formally Morris, my father was Tony (Anthony Morris), my mother Eugene (Jean Morris). My father and I were both born at No. 6 Church Row, West Peckham, we moved to No. 2 Church Row. West Peckham has a strong ...Read more

A memory of West Peckham by Gail Godden

Farming At Hessenford

I moved to Hessenford in about 1958 when my father took on the tenancy of St Anne's Farm. The farm was situated up past the church on the lane that led from Hessenford to Bake. Previously we had lived at West Trenean Farm, ...Read more

A memory of Hessenford in 1958 by Nick Serpell

Watercress Beds Washling

I well remember the watercress beds at West Ashling as I started work there the day after I left school. Mr Pusey and his wife (he married Miss Florry Hair) were my bosses. I remember a Charlie Hotson and Harry Earl ...Read more

A memory of East Ashling in 1953 by John Young

Grandfather

My paternal grandfather was born in West Hougham in 1864. His name was Harry Brigham Barton. His father was a wheelwright and lived it West Hougham. His name was Thomas Skinner Barton.

A memory of West Hougham in 1860 by John Barton

From The 1950s On

I moved to Hundleton in the 1950s and spent all my childhood in and around, living at Belmont then Quiot's Hill before living for a while in Gilead, then back to River View. As the years passed my love for Freshwater West grew ...Read more

A memory of Hundleton in 1957 by Charles Stanley

Captions

1,994 captions found. Showing results 1,369 to 1,392.

Caption For Liverpool, Garston, Holmefield Road From Booker Avenue C1955

Located in the suburb of Allerton, this junction provides access to West Allerton train station and to the B5180 and A562 arterial roads.

Caption For Castle Acre, The Old Gate 1891

This narrow gateway, constructed of cobbled flint and brickwork, was built in the 13th century to defend the northern entrance of this well-preserved town, which was also fortified by earthworks connected

Caption For Cootham, Village 1894

Monk's Buildings 1894 From Angmering we head north across the Downs to Storrington, now a large village that started its expansion in late Victorian and Edwardian times.

Caption For Charmouth, The Beach C1960

Note the Beach Cafe (left) and the groynes on Charmouth beach; we are looking eastwards to Cain's Folly (centre) and Golden Cap (right). Offshore are the Mouth Rocks.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Batchworth Lake 1921

Batchworth Lake is the easternmost of a chain of four lakes west of the town and sandwiched between the Grand Union Canal and the River Colne.

Caption For Whitby, Abbey Arches 1913

This photograph shows a very different picture from today's carefully mown and tended lawns.

Caption For London, Mansion House And Cheapside C1890

This photograph, probably taken from the top of St Mary Woolnoth Church, shows the view west down Poultry which leads directly into Cheapside.

Caption For Ilfracombe, The Cairn From The West 1911

In the mid 19th century the council rented the west side of the Cairn from E W Veale, a local solicitor, before buying the whole area for £910 in 1899.

Caption For Barry, Castle 1899

There is no known record of the history or appearance of this castle, which is situated eight miles south-west of Cardiff.

Caption For Retford, Chesterfield Canal C1955

This view looks towards the bridge from below West Retford Lock, and beyond is Bettison Wharf, the pantile-roofed late 18th-century canal warehouse.

Caption For Moulton, Implement Gate C1955

These gates, with agricultural implements incorporated, are situated at the Holly Lodge on the Boughton Road west of the village.

Caption For Michelham Priory, The Gatehouse C1965

Half a mile south-east of Dicker we reach Michelham Priory, the buildings set within a large rectangular wet moat fed by the Cuckmere River, which forms the moat's north-west arm.

Caption For Midhurst, North Street 1921

Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.

Caption For Doddington, Church 1906

Mostly rebuilt by Thomas Lumby in the 1770s in a fairly correct Gothic, the church has a more cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick west tower and spire.

Caption For Aylesbury, Victoria Hall 1897

The Victoria Club for Working Men in the west corner of Kingsbury is another benefaction from the Rothschilds, in this case Baron Ferdinand of Waddesdon.

Caption For Ramsgate, Royal Pavilion And Harbour 1906

The Royal Victoria Pavilion, which stands close to the sands below the East Cliff, opened in 1904, and is pictured here when it was nearly new.

Caption For Piercebridge, West View C1955

Situated six miles west of Darlington, Piercebridge is unusual in that the village was built within the ramparts of a Roman fort that once guarded the bridge over the Tees carrying the road between York

Caption For Doddington, Church 1906

Mostly rebuilt by Thomas Lumby in the 1770s in a fairly correct Gothic, the church has a more cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick west tower and spire.

Caption For Hill Head, C1955

The road leads all the way round the shore here, and today there is a car park behind the third building.

Caption For Whitchurch, White Hart Hotel 1939

The black and white marks on the kerbstones indicate the junction. This is a small handsome town on the River Test with Georgian buildings that are rendered or red brick.

Caption For Burrowbridge, King Alfred's Monument C1960

A mile south-west we come to Athelney, a name redolent of Anglo-Saxon history.

Caption For Chesham Bois, Anne's Corner C1955

Back at Chesham Bois Common, the common acts partly as a buffer between the village and Amersham, although it merges to the east and west.

Caption For Sunderland, Fawcett Street 1890

This part of Sunderland developed into the commercial and civic heart of the town following the opening of Fawcett Street Station by the North Eastern Railway.

Caption For Peel, The Bay 1895

In the centre foreground of the picture stands St Peter's church, intact at this time, built out of locally quarried Triassic red sandstone and identified by its unusual helm-roof tower.