Maps

1,153 maps found.

1947, Kerne Bridge Ref. NPO746436
1946, Fenny Bridges Ref. NPO704418
1947, Duddon Bridge Ref. NPO694609
1947, Guide Bridge Ref. NPO723384
1947, Hooley Bridge Ref. NPO740021
1947, Howe Bridge Ref. NPO741402
1947, Five Bridges Ref. NPO706320
1919, Kerne Bridge Ref. POP746436
1921, Kilby Bridge Ref. POP746945
1921, Horse Bridge Ref. POP740564
1946, Bridge Reeve Ref. NPO649998
1947, Bridge Sollers Ref. NPO649999
1947, Bridge Town Ref. NPO650003
1946, Cavendish Bridge Ref. NPO664927
1919, Low Bridge Ref. POP767851
1920, Sapey Bridge Ref. POP825492
1925, Plantation Bridge Ref. POP807107
1925, Sowerby Bridge Ref. POP835932
1921, Standford Bridge Ref. POP838122
1920, Newnham Bridge Ref. POP791397

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Memories

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Sun, Sea & Sandhills At Gronant

I remember going on our holiday in dad's car to Nan & Grandad's holiday bungalows, driving over the railway bridge and on to what I always knew as Gronant (The Warren). The first thing we would see would be the ...Read more

A memory of Gronant in 1966 by M Stubbings

Island Cottage

My nanna and grandad Noden lived at Island Cottage. Grandad was a bridgekeeper along with Jack Powell and Syd Bebbington at Acton swing bridge from 1945-1960. There was an enormous flood in 1946 when my grandparents were the ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge in 1955 by Christine Ruskin

Doon The Brae In 1950

When my family moved here I was only 7 and there was only a cottage on the left at bottom of Brae and a row of four terraced houses on the left, they were holiday homes for my grandmother and her sisters. We lived there with ...Read more

A memory of Mid Calder by Doreen Knox

Fair And Lake Wandle Park, Croydon

A travelling fair each summer here was both a delight and a way to earn a few shillings when the fair ended. I would help dismantle the rides and stalls, working hard from morning to evening for about five ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1947 by Philip Harfleet

My Memories Teresa Shackell/ Torrington.

I'm Teresa Shackell/Torrington I remember very well my nana used to work washing the dishes and I used to go regularly over to the three salmons hotel and help her she was in her 90s then she never gave up her ...Read more

A memory of Usk by teresashackell

Hornchurch, Wingletye Lane, Photograph C.1950

I lived in Glanville Drive, a residential road off Upminster Road about 100 yards to the west of Wingletye Lane, for the first part of my life from 1947 so I knew the area well. The building on the ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

Hornchurch, Wingletye Lane Circa 1950

For the first part of my life from 1947 I lived in Glanville Drive which ran parallel to Wingletye Lane about 100 yards to the West of where the photograph was taken. The railings to the right of the photograph ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

Woodhall Parade, Wingletye Lane, Hornchurch

I lived in Glanville Drive for the first part of my life from 1947. Out nearest post office was in Woodhall Parade, just over the railway bridge in Wingletye Lane, One thing that sticks in my mind is that ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

Bailey Bridge Pontoon Canal Cruisers.

I built the boat shown on the right hand side of the photograph.   Bailey Bridge pontoon MKVI N0.19053 was manufactured by Gee Walker & Slater Ltd, Uttoxeter Road, Derby and sent to Engineers Stores, US ...Read more

A memory of Great Haywood in 0 by Claire Allen

Captions

2,231 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Northwich, Town Bridge C1960

This unusual bridge was both the first road swing bridge on floating pontoons in Britain (it was built in 1899) and then the first electrically operated swing bridge (in 1989).

Caption For Wroxham, The Bridge C1940

The bridge joining Wroxham to the west and Hoveton to the east was declared unsafe in the 1960s.

Caption For Pulborough, Swan Bridge 1921

The Arun, described as the second fastest-flowing river in the country, had strong tides; by the 1930s, they reached Pulborough, where two old stone bridges crossed the river.

Caption For Chain Bridge, The Bridge And Inn C1955

The village of Chain Bridge is on the River Usk.

Caption For Rochester, The Bridge C1955

The iron bridge, raised in 1914, carries the London road over the River Medway into Rochester; it replaced the old stone bridge, which had stood a little further upstream by the Bridge Chapel.

Caption For Bath, View From Pulteney Bridge 1914

Looking south from the bridge, the towering mass of the former Empire Hotel is on the right with its terrace. Beyond is the spire of St John the Baptist Church and the Parade Gardens.

Caption For Wimborne, Canford Bridge 1904

Construction work on Canford Bridge began in 1793 and was completed 20 years later.

Caption For York, Ouse Bridge 1885

Built in the 12th century, the original bridge was of wood and was probably sited nearer the Guildhall. Shops and houses, perhaps as many as fifty, were built on it. In 1565 the bridge collapsed.

Caption For Kersey, The Ford And Church C1955

The name Kersey means 'cress island', a fact to contemplate when crossing the Brett by bridge or ford. At the top of the hill is one of the best-known views in Suffolk.

Caption For Axmouth, The Bridge And Haven Cliff 1895

Despite the masonry facings, this bridge across the Axe is made of concrete, built to the design of Philip Brannon in 1877.

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For London, Victoria Embankment C1955

The photographer is standing on Westminster Bridge above Westminster Pier. Ahead is Hungerford Bridge, which carries the railway into Charing Cross on the left.

Caption For Canford Magna, Canford Bridge 1899

When Henry VIII's topographer John Leland travelled from Poole to Wimborne in 1542, he noted passing over a bridge with '12 good arches'.

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For Market Harborough, Wooden Bridge 1922

Just a plain wooden bridge, but it was a bridge such as this upon which Edward Thomas stood in 1915 when for a few moments he imagined himself to linger between the past and the future, or between life

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge further down the valley).

Caption For Stopham, Bridge 1914

Stopham Bridge has long been considered one of the finest and most striking of medieval bridges in the country. Dating back to 1309 and rebuilt in 1403, the bridge is now preserved.

Caption For Ironbridge, The Bridge 1904

The bridge was a toll bridge; it opened to the public on 1 January 1781.

Caption For Preston, Dock, North Side C1960

Having Avenham Park in the background does enhance the pleasure of a walk over the bridge. Avenham Tower can be seen in the trees to the right, and the paths lead away to Frenchwood.

Caption For Conwy, Castle C1865

This early photograph shows Conway Castle and Telford's graceful suspension bridge of 1826, with Stephenson's tubular railway bridge of 1848 just behind it.

Caption For Richmond, Station Bridge 1892

The bridge was constructed to give road access to the railway station built on the St Martin's side of the river in 1846; it was designed in the same Gothic Revival architectural style, and the parapet

Caption For Widnes, The Transporter Bridge C1955

The towers of the bridge were 150ft high and at the top of each there was a lantern with a copper roof.

Caption For London, London Bridge C1900

To the left of London Bridge is Fishmongers' Hall, which opened in 1834.

Caption For Baslow, Bridge C1870

Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.