Places
36 places found.
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- Sutton, Greater London
- Carshalton, Greater London
- Wallington, Greater London
- Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
- Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
- Sutton, Republic of Ireland
- Beddington, Greater London
- Worcester Park, Greater London
- North Cheam, Greater London
- Belmont, Greater London (near Sutton)
- Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire
- Long Sutton, Lincolnshire
- Little Sutton, Cheshire
- Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire
- Sutton Valence, Kent
- Sutton on Trent, Nottinghamshire
- Bishop Sutton, Avon
- Sutton, Bedfordshire
- Sutton, Cambridgeshire (near Chatteris)
- Hackbridge, Greater London
- Sutton, Cambridgeshire (near Castor)
- Benhilton, Greater London
- Sutton Bank, Yorkshire
- Sutton, Norfolk
- Sutton Bingham, Somerset
- Sutton-on-Hull, Humberside
- Sutton, Kent
- Sutton, Yorkshire (near Knottingley)
- Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire
- Sutton Scotney, Hampshire
- Sutton, Nottinghamshire
- Sutton at Hone, Kent
- Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire
- Long Sutton, Somerset
- Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire
- Bishop's Sutton, Hampshire
Photos
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Maps
666 maps found.
Books
4 books found. Showing results 121 to 4.
Memories
448 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.
Walton Colliery
My name is Roland Mitchell. I worked at Walton colliery as a haulage hand. I worked alongside Percy Heckles, Alan Jennings, Phillip Casgoin and Phillip Redmond and a young lad by the name of George Bernard Shaw. ...Read more
A memory of Walton in 1971 by
Petworth Mill
My grandparents Hylands live in the millhouse at Petworth. When I was a child, after moving from a farm at Sutton my grandad Bill worked for the mill driving a flour lorry and nan Olive used to sell tickets to men wnting to fish ...Read more
A memory of Petworth in 1970 by
Grandfathers Memories
My grandfather was born in Cobham on Painshill. My memory is that it was on a slight hill with a slight bend, the Greenline bus used to stop near the old home, it was a cottage with a porch and had a very thick door with big ...Read more
A memory of Cobham in 1946 by
Wwii Billet
My mother, Maude Doyle was billeted at a farm in Outwell while stationed at searchlight battery at Sutton Bridge that served as RAF base. Fighter aircraft used the gun butts there to adjust their cone of fire I understand. The farmer's ...Read more
A memory of Outwell in 1940 by
My First School
The Anson family arrived at Strensall in 1957. My father was at the camp as a 'skill at arms' instructor until 1959 attached to the K.O.Y.L.I. I can remember the first day at school in Strensall village.I caught the bus which ...Read more
A memory of Strensall in 1957 by
Born On Sutton Flats
I was born on Sutton Flats (now demolished) Pendleton in 1941. My first vague memory was sitting under a table with a blanket draped over it and a lit candle (must have been an air-raid on at the time). My first real memory ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
What A Scare
It was a cold and wet evening when I had arrived in Peterborough, and having little money on me certainly not enough to pay for some hotel. I had been thumbing lifts from various towns, but as it was teeming it down with rain, I did not ...Read more
A memory of Eye in 1971 by
My Mother Was Evacuated To Buckinghamshire Twice!
Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, and this country's involvement in the Second World War began. German air-raids and gas attacks were expected imminently, and many ...Read more
A memory of Princes Risborough in 1940 by
My Childhood.
I was born in 1954 and my parents June and Fred Arnold moved into railway cottages shortly after. They renamed the cottage Kadivi Cottage after myself, sister and brother were born (Diane, Karen and Vincent). It still has the name ...Read more
A memory of Dutton in 1954 by
King Sweet Shop Market Hill Maria Stannard Nee Creasey
My aunt and uncle were Gladys and Ted King who had a little sweet shop on Market Hill in the 1950's & early 1960's. I spent many happy hours helping in the shop and remember the large ...Read more
A memory of Framlingham by
Captions
140 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.
When Henry VIII was hunting in Sutton Park with Bishop Vesey he was charged by a wild boar, but before the animal could harm the king it dropped dead with an arrow through its heart.
In 1651, Sir Richard Weston of nearby Sutton Place embarked on his great enterprise to create the Wey Navigation and make the river commercially navigable from Guildford to the Thames, by straightening
When Henry VIII was hunting in Sutton Park with Bishop Vesey he was charged by a wild boar, but before the animal could harm the king it dropped dead with an arrow through its heart.
In 1651, Sir Richard Weston of nearby Sutton Place embarked on his great enterprise to create the Wey Navigation and make the river commercially navigable from Guildford to the Thames, by straightening
In 1300 Guy de Bello Campo, Earl of Warwick, obtained a charter so that a market could be held on each Tuesday and for an annual fair to be held on the eve of Holy Trinity (5 June, according to
Lower Chapel, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, was built in 1889-92.
Until the railway came in 1842 it was an isolated rural community, best known for its fustian and for its cottage industry making silk buttons for the Macclesfield silk industry.
There is some activity around the base of the statue - are the two ladies selling flowers and button-holes?
The Borough Hotel is on the right of our photograph; this was a Dutton House.Woolworth's is a little further up the street.
The Borough Hotel is on the right of our picture; this was a Dutton House. Woolworth's is a little further up the street.
The view looking north from the King's Head shows the National Provincial Bank on the left (now NatWest) and, opposite, the Button Shop (now the Wimborne Pottery).
Crossing below the road at this point there is, in fact, a tunnel for the Trent and Mersey Canal. Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.
Street furniture is on the increase, and Luton's planners show innovation for the period with the first example of a mini-roundabout, just visible behind the vehicle in the middle of the photograph.
The attractive building on the left was erected in 1874 as the Union Club. Beyond lie Woolworth's and the distinctively-styled Burton's building.
The lad outside the shop is wearing a sleeveless jumper, very characteristic of the period, and a more informal version of the buttoned waistcoat worn by the elderly man on the left.
line one side, and telegraph poles the other side of this section of the A2 from Rainham to Gillingham, where Mrs Hall had her hairdresser's shop, E H Chatfield was the confectioner and Len Button
On the left, next to the only brick façade in town, is J F Goodall, linen draper and outfitter. Stockings, corsets and buttons from the old shop are on display in the museum.
Keiller and Pigott excavated the site in the 1930s and indicated individual stones that were missing by inserting little concrete pillars in their place.
The National Westminster Bank (extreme right) is next door to a seed merchant, still an important trader in a country town before seeds were brightly packaged and sold by garden centres.
In 1897 the commissioners were landlords to a yard employing nearly 9,000 on the County Down side.
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