Maps

1,651 maps found.

1919, West End Ref. POP864052
1919, West End Ref. POP864054
1919, West End Ref. POP864058
1919, West End Ref. POP864068
1924, West End Ref. POP864071
1922, West End Ref. POP864078
1921, West End Ref. POP864082
1903, West End Ref. RNC864034
1903, West End Ref. RNC864044
1899, West End Ref. RNC864055
1897, West End Ref. RNE864030
1896, West End Ref. RNE864037
1895, West End Ref. RNE864050
1897, West End Ref. RNE864052
1898, West End Ref. RNE864055
1898, West End Ref. RNE864061
1895, West End Ref. RNE864066
1895, West End Ref. RNE864067
1898, West End Ref. RNE864071
1898, West End Ref. RNE864079

Books

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Memories

2,049 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

Family History

I have recently found out that my Great Grandmother Emma Frost (nee Lake) had a baby girl in 1864 called Annie Frost and she was born in Buckhurst Hill. I suppose Emma must have known someone in the Town. It was legal, she was ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1860 by Mollie Elliott

Long Time Ago.

Born in Hardwick Hall Sedgefield During the war '42. Brought up in old West before Owton Manor est etc. Remember walking the streets during war with Mum after air raid sirens etc. and standing in queues with our ration coupons for ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool by kiwa170642

Oxton Memories

I lived in Oxton from the late 50s to the early 80s, and have many fond memories. Does any body remember Fred the barber in Rose Mount. He was quite a character, and nobody went there unless they wanted a short back and sides, ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by Stephen Williams

Entertaining The Tring Christmas Shoppers With Morris Dancing

Tring hosts a lovely Christmas shopping evening each year when the High Street is decorated, the shop windows have illuminated Christmas displays and stay open late and the place is ...Read more

A memory of Tring in 2004 by John Howard Norfolk

The Croxley Elm Trees

The 1947 council house development that was built on the north side of Baldwins Lane, west of Manor Way became my home area after moving from Rochester Way in 1948. I loved the beautiful tall Elm trees that lined ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1947 by Leon Moore

Thermopylae

I was brought up in Claughton Village (Wirral) and in the holidays as children we regularly walked through Bidston Hill to Thermopylae Pass.  We would spend all day on the Hill and at Thermopylae and walk home at the end of the day ...Read more

A memory of Upton in 1959 by Joan Grey

Riding My Horse

This was one of the routes I took in the early 70s when riding my beautiful horse out. We would go up West Balgrochan Road, turn in to Acre Valley Road and go up the hill where the woods are and down to the other side, sometimes going ...Read more

A memory of Torrance

Milk And Fish!

In the 1950s we spent several family holidays in the South Hams, staying at the Dairy in Stoke Fleming. We lived in south west London and travelled overnight on the A30 in my Dad's wet fish van, my brother and I sleepiing on a ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Fleming

Burgess Hill 1957 1968

My parents moved from Durham to Burgess Hill in the mid-fifties. I was born in 1957, at Cuckfield hospital, and at that time lived in West Park Crescent. Both my brother and sister were also born in Burgess Hill. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by David Storey

Windmill Road, Brentford 1945

My parents, Nora & Harold (Jock) Palmer, lived at 112 Windmill Road, Brentford where I was brought up, along with my twin brother David and older brother Michael. Later we were joined by sister Janis and brother ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Linda Nicholas

Captions

1,994 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Golders Green, The Bus Station And North End Road C1960

Rather than admire this tarmac desert, it is better to turn through 180º to see, and if possible visit, the Golders Green Hippodrome, designed by Bertie Crew in 1913.

Caption For Wrotham, The Village 1904

At the foot of the tower, a vaulted passageway extends right through it, enabling processions to take place around the west end of the church without leaving consecrated ground.

Caption For Wakefield, Kirkgate C1965

Kirkgate (its name comes from the Danish words for 'church way') is seen here from the west end of the cathedral.

Caption For Drayton, Gravel Lane C1955

A little north of the High Street Junction, off Abingdon Road, is Gravel Lane, which has a number of farm buildings on each side at its west end.

Caption For Shap, Abbey 1893

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540

Caption For Pwllheli, The Promenade 1898

Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli's busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End).

Caption For Potter Heigham, The Broads C1926

Here we see sailing boats and dinghies alongside the River Thurne, with G Applegate's boatbuilding sheds on the west bank.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, The Abbey Ruins 1898

Houses had been built into the central arches of the west front by at least the 1660s.

Caption For Corby, Coronation Park C1960

to the east, this building is now part of the Corby Health Complex, which includes the Lakeside Surgery and an occupational therapy/health centre, both out of view to the west.

Caption For Skegness, Lumley Road 1899

At the west end of Lumley Road there were a few shops in 1899, but the view is utterly transformed now from Roman Bank, a reference to the old Roman sea wall.

Caption For Uppingham, West End, High Street C1955

This view looks east as in U10017 (p37) from the area known as the West End.

Caption For Rhyl, The Parade 1900

The two-mile-long parade overlooks the sandy beach; at the west end an extensive area was laid out as winter gardens.

Caption For Sevenoaks, Upper St John's Hill 1959

St John's Church, built in 1858-9 by Morphew & Green and with its west gable-end facing out onto the road junction, dominates this cross-roads towards the top of the hill.

Caption For Yelverton, Green Bank 1910

The rails here are presumably a siding, for the Tavistock line ran across the picture a little way past the far end of the terrace, while the Princetown branch curved round to the south (left, well out

Caption For Malmesbury, Abbey South Side 1924

In 1903 the main south wall of the abbey was built up to the ruined west front, and repairs to the roof and buttresses on the north side and east end were undertaken.

Caption For Glasgow, The Necropolis 1890

These gates were known as ports and were called the Stable Green Port (north), the Gallowgate Port (east), Brig Port (south) and Trongate Port (west).

Caption For Broadwater, Village 1906

Here we see a peaceful open carriage ride on a hot Edwardian summer's day; the lady, protected by an umbrella, passes the 1850s east lodge to Offington House.

Caption For West Bay, 1907

These are the gaunt Victorian lines of the Coastguard Station at West Bay, looking eastwards towards East Cliff, with Rocket Houses seaward from it (right).

Caption For Manchester, Ship Canal 1895

The steamer to the right is the 'Alverton' from West Hartlepool.

Caption For Sheffield, Ecclesall Church C1965

Completed in 1789, All Saints' survived in its original form for less than sixty years before it was remodelled and the west tower added.

Caption For Skegness, Lumley Road 1899

Behind the pony trap on the right we can glimpse Hiley's Restaurant (now the Nat West Bank), noted for its shilling dinners.

Caption For Petworth, House 1898

Petworth House was re-built at the end of the 17th century; it incorporated a 13th-century chapel and undercroft that was already on the site.

Caption For Newmarket, Racehorses Crossing Main Road C1955

This crossing is at the east end of Bury Road, with No 58 visible through the trees, just west of the traffic lights and junction of the roads from Bury and Norwich.

Caption For Skeeby, Village 1913

Skeeby was once on the trade route from the Great North Road to Richmond, just two miles further west.