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Photos

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Maps

1,651 maps found.

1902-1903, Kingswood Ref. RNC1190842
1923, Antrobus Ref. POP625934
1902-1903, Tilstone Fearnall Ref. RNC848550
1902-1903, Tattenhall Ref. RNC845445
1902-1903, Whitbyheath Ref. RNC867528
1902-1903, Whitley Reed Ref. RNC869388
1902-1903, Way's Green Ref. RNC862402
1902-1903, Weetwood Common Ref. RNC862749
1902-1903, Wervin Ref. RNC863596
1902-1903, Weston Point Ref. RNC866366
1902-1903, Wharton Ref. RNC866889
1902-1903, Upton Heath Ref. RNC858126
1947, Aldersey Green Ref. NPO621273
1947, Aldersey Park Ref. NPO621274
1947, Alvanley Ref. NPO624705
1947, Burton Ref. NPO657087
1947, Burton Ref. NPO657089
1947, Broxton Ref. NPO653256
1947, Backford Ref. NPO629694
1902-1903, Barrowmore Estate Ref. RNC634181

Books

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Memories

2,057 memories found. Showing results 651 to 660.

A Country Drive Around Somerset

Having retired and moved to the West Country my wife Elizabeth and I set out to explore the area. Our new home is in Tiverton, Devon, but gradually we explored further and further afield and we remember ...Read more

A memory of Chewton Keynsham in 2007 by John Howard Norfolk

Gordon Family

Hello there, I was born at 53 THOMAS STREET,1943, my family go back to at least 1800 and were mostly butchers, lastly around 1900/1914 at 127 High Street. Joseph Gordon was head of family and was a Druid in the Earl Dartmouth ...Read more

A memory of West Bromwich in 1943 by Malcolm Gordon

Dandilion & Burdock Ice Lollies!

My grandparents Mr Harry Thomas Gander & Mrs Louisa Jane Gander, retired as missionaries in India in 1954, having been in India from 1906 in the Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu and came to live in one of the ...Read more

A memory of Bebington by Patricia Jones

Woodger. Austin,Stanley.

I have just found that my family on my grandmother's side came from Wisley. Some lived Ripley, Byfleet, and Ockham, but most Wisley. 1841 1851 records onwards. Their name Woodger worked Park Farm.Pond Farm. The Hut. Wisley ...Read more

A memory of Wisley in 1860 by Ronald Stanley

Mitcham Junction

Having heard about the demise of the trains that run from Wimbledon to West Croydon I hurried to see the last train to Croydon. It must have been the late 70s (?). The two coach train has seen better days as it pulled out for the last journey across Mitcham Common...and into local history

A memory of Mitcham by Mike Snow

More Memories Of Waterrow

Dear reader, I have received some lovely messages since writing a few memories I thought I would add a few more. The Rock Inn I use to stay with my great uncle/aunty's public house, namely the Rock Inn, in 1958- 1965. ...Read more

A memory of Waterrow in 1960 by Julian Bishop

Hounslow As It Was

I am a bit younger than the other contributers being 2 when I moved to Hounslow in 1950. I wasn't born there but regard Hounslow as my home town and well remember the Odeon (Saturday morning pictures) and later learning ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1955 by Susan Coleman

My Childhood

I was born in the town,and spent my first ten years in what would now be regarded as the slums of Stranton, Bower Street, going to school at Oxford Street juniors. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Bower Street and neighouring ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool in 1960 by John Pladdys

My Home Town 1947 1969

I was born in Liebenrood Road Maternity Hospital Reading in 1947 and for my first 5 years I lived in Salisbury Road, moving to Whitley until I left in 1969. I remember as a young child having many photographs taken at ...Read more

A memory of Reading by Wendy Fegan

Captions

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Caption For Parham, The House 1894

Examples from west to east include Burton Park, Parham itself, Wiston Park, Firle Place and Folkington Manor. Some, including Parham, can be seen from the South Downs Way.

Caption For Sutton, Manor Park 1932

This view is taken further west in the park. This curiously old-fashioned Victorian style fountain was installed in June 1931 on land acquired that year.

Caption For Maidenhead, View Across The River 1899

This is taken six years later from the same view (see above), looking due west. The bridge is visible on the left; opposite are the gardens to the river in front of Bridge House.

Caption For Liphook, The Village 1906

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree and originally a posting and coaching house, The Royal Anchor Hotel (centre) dates from the time of Samuel Pepys, who found 'good, honest people' here.

Caption For Liphook, Royal Anchor Hotel 1911

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree and originally a posting and coaching house, The Royal Anchor Hotel (centre) dates from the time of Samuel Pepys, who found 'good, honest people' here.

Caption For Aylesbury, Canal And Hills And Partridges Lock 1897

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

Caption For Horsham, East Street 1891

Here the photographer looks west towards East Street between rows of bay-windowed and gabled 1880s Victorian lower-middle- class terraces.

Caption For Bletchingley, The Morning Of The Hunt C1945

Here the photographer looks west along the High Street from the junction with Outwood Lane on the morning of a fox hunt - this type of scene was much favoured for Frith postcards.

Caption For Exmoor, Webber's Post 1923

The Village 1923 Once back to the A39, continue east, and about a mile west of Minehead, turn left to descend into Bratton, a tucked- away village with an excellent 15th- century manor house,

Caption For Romaldkirk, Village 1898

Situated six miles north-west of Barnard Castle, Romaldkirk in 1898 was not in fact in County Durham but in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, Nave C1955

This view shows the prospect as revealed through the west door, seen in the previous photograph.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, Nave C1955

This view shows the prospect as revealed through the west door, seen in the previous photograph.

Caption For Bedford, St Paul's Square C1955

St Paul's Square, also known as Market Place, is bounded on the west by the churchyard of St Paul.

Caption For Alfold, The Village C1965

This view looks south-west down Loxwood Road towards the parish church, whose spire can just be seen amid the trees behind the last chimney-stack.

Caption For Stonehenge, 1887

The smaller standing stones in the middle of the circle are the famous Blue Stones and come from the Preseli Mountains in west Wales.

Caption For St Albans, The Cathedral And Abbey Church 1921

The imposing west front of the Abbey is seen here, following the completion of its restoration 30 years before.

Caption For Rochester, The Bridge C1955

The River Medway traditionally separates the Men of Kent on its east side from the Kentish Men on the west, but bridges such as this one unite the two 'tribes'.

Caption For Gwbert, Poppit Sands 1956

The Teifi begins its journey to the sea 70 miles away; it provided an inland route for the Normans to service the castles of Cardigan and Cilgerran.

Caption For Storrington, The Monastery 1894

The Village 1894 Frith's photographer paused a mile or so west of Storrington in the hamlet of Cootham.

Caption For Fulham, Pryors Bank Gardens C1960

This view looks west from the same viewpoint as F69010, past the half-timbered lodge built in 1900, towards Bishop's Park proper in the distance.

Caption For Beare Green, The Duke's Head 1924

A double-decker open-topped bus travels north along the A24 on its way to Dorking and its terminus at West Croydon.

Caption For Newhaven, Harbour 1897

A little more than one mile to the west of Leith is the small fishing village of Newhaven. It was here that James IV founded a royal dockyard where he could build his navy.

Caption For Cromer, High Street C1955

This is the main route from Runton and west Norfolk into the centre of town.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Secondary School 1925

Its cabins were in keeping with the basic military hut- like look of so many institutions built during the First World War and afterwards.