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Photos

279 photos found. Showing results 1,341 to 279.

Maps

1,651 maps found.

1896, Tarvin Sands Ref. RNE845398
1896, Shotwick Ref. RNE830770
1897, Way's Green Ref. RNE862402
1896, Weetwood Common Ref. RNE862749
1896, Wervin Ref. RNE863596
1896, Whatcroft Ref. RNE866920
1897, Utkinton Ref. RNE858281
1947, Kidnal Ref. NPO746826
1947, Sutton Weaver Ref. NPO843285
1947, Stamford Bridge Ref. NPO838002
1947, Stanthorne Ref. NPO838479
1947, Wharton Ref. NPO866889
1897, Cuddington Heath Ref. RNE685695
1897, Darnhall Ref. RNE688745
1896, Gorstage Ref. RNE717934
1896, Great Barrow Ref. RNE719605
1896, Greenbank Ref. RNE721230
1897, Hebden Green Ref. RNE730405
1896, Higher Wincham Ref. RNE734281
1896, Frodsham Ref. RNE709616

Books

19 books found. Showing results 1,609 to 19.

Memories

2,057 memories found. Showing results 671 to 680.

West Sands Caravan Park

I spent many happy holidays at West Sands. The Embassy club - I can still smell the polished floor. I remember two of the singers. One was JIm (Murphy, I think) and another one the following year called Peter. Somewhere I ...Read more

A memory of Selsey in 1975 by Dallas Hopkins

Growing Up In Dumfries

I was born in 1950 at Cresswell Hospital and brought up in Greenbrae Loaning till I left to move up to West Lothian when I was eighteen. Went to Noblehill School then Marchmount in 1961/62. My maiden name was Wilson and ...Read more

A memory of Dumfries by Judith Dunlop

Formidable Mrs Hill And Mr Threpleton

I attended Lower Wortley P.S and was terrified of the above 2 teachers. Threpleton hit the upper thigh with a navy blue plymsol and always had an obvious favourite girl student . VERY ...Read more

A memory of Lower Town in 1954

Fareham Around 1955

I remember Fareham very well. I remember my father who was in them days a window cleaner, and everyone seem to know him. He used to start at 5am in the mornings doing the shop fronts, then the houses on until 5pm with an hour ...Read more

A memory of Fareham in 1956 by Walter Spanner

This Photo

SORRY FOLKS BUT THE PICTURE IS OF THE WEST END OF THE VILLAGE NOT THE EAST.

A memory of Carperby by Graham Hodge

The Dell

My childhood memories of Edmundbyers have been with me all my life really. My mum & dad, aunty, uncle and cousin used to holiday in a tiny caravan on farmer Edon Sanderson's field. This was before the Derwent Reservoir was built. ...Read more

A memory of Edmundbyers in 1952 by Carol Bennett

Village Shop!

I can remember going to the shop almost everyday (I was born in 1967) with my mother, Gillian Boyland (nee Channon). I used to sit on the steps opposite where a lady by the name of Mrs Gill used to live. Mrs Marsh was the ...Read more

A memory of West Monkton in 1967 by Kate Reed (Nee;Boyland)

West Side

I have many fond memories of Clapham. I lived in West Side and walked the common every day. I went to St Marys, Clapham as an infant and then the Holy Family Convent, Tooting. We had lots of friends in Clapham and would love to hear from them.

A memory of Clapham in 1969

Ellinghams Lake Fishing

Does anyone remember fishing in that dirty old lake? I have lived in Canada for the last 50 years on the West Coast and when I am out fishing for salmon I often think of that old lake, all the best to you folks, Clive.

A memory of Dartford in 1940 by Clive Jeffrey

Temple Of Memories

After a series of amazing coincidences, I was to trace my step brother Roy Dixon, and arranged to meet him while I stayed at the Garforth Holiday Inn hotel for four days in February 2008. We were the sons of our late father ...Read more

A memory of Kippax in 2008 by Geoffrey Dixon Hamilton

Captions

1,993 captions found. Showing results 1,609 to 1,632.

Caption For Cheam, Baptist Church C1955

Whitehall is on the extreme left of this photograph, taken at this junction of Park Lane and The Broadway; the widening of the Malden Road has yet to take place.

Caption For Horbury, Queen Street C1960

Horbury lies at the heart of the West Yorkshire heavy woollen district. It was the birthplace of the architect John Carr, who started his training in his father's quarry.

Caption For Houghton Conquest, Houghton House 1897

This view of the ruinous west front of John Bunyan's 'Palace Beautiful' atop the 'Hill of Difficulty' shows why historians are excited by the building.

Caption For Pontefract, The Castle Keep 1964

The ruined shell keep in the south-west corner of Pontefract Castle dates from the mid-13th century, when it was rebuilt in a polygonal form similar to those at Knaresborough, Southampton, Roxburgh and

Caption For Haslemere, West Street Post Office C1906

The massed ranks of the staff pose outside the post office, which opened in West Street after occupying several addresses in the High Street and Petworth Road.

Caption For Newhaven, Fishermen's Cottages 1897

On the west coat of England, the old fishing communities tended to be housed in cottages with thatched roofs.

Caption For Nottingham, University C1955

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

Caption For Castle Ashby, The Church C1955

The mansion and the church sit amid a park of over 200 acres, in an estate of more than 10,000 acres.

Caption For Kettering, The Bridge, Wicksteed Park C1955

South-east of the town, along the valley of the River Ise and west of Barton Seagrave village, is The Wicksteed Park with the river dammed to form a large lake as the centrepiece.

Caption For Eype, Village 1930

This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter's Church (centre).

Caption For Radcliffe On Trent, Post Office And Main Road C1955

From suburban West Bridgford we move east along the A52 to Radcliffe, its village centre some 300 yards south of the River Trent.

Caption For Devizes, St Mary's Church 1898

The external Norman features (the flat buttresses, the corbel-table and the square stone blocks) hide the fact that the church was rebuilt by William Smith, who died in 1436.

Caption For Tenby, Fishwives 1890

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

Caption For Tenby, Fishwives 1890

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

Caption For Eype, Village 1930

This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter`s Church (centre).

Caption For East Harting, The Village 1906

Moving south-west, the tour reaches East Harting, a hamlet east of South Harting, the main village with the parish church.

Caption For Godstone, The Village Green C1955

Until the M25 and M23 by-passed Godstone, it had become seriously blighted by traffic on the Eastbourne road, the A22 and east-west traffic on the A25, which peaked in the 1960s and 1970s

Caption For Abingdon, St Helen's Church C1955

Just beyond the west tip of Nag's Head Island is the Malthouse (creeper-clad) and Fairlawn Wharf to the right, now housing and formerly warehouses and barns.

Caption For Castle Cary, The Town Hall C1960

West of Bruton, Castle Cary is set on the side of the oolite hills of southern Somerset, with Castle Cary Park on Lodge Hill rising steeply behind the church.

Caption For Amersham On The Hill, Sycamore Road C1955

This view is at the junction of Woodside and Rickmansworth Roads and looks south-west towards Oakfield Corner.

Caption For Haywards Heath, South Road 2005

South Road became so dominant that it altered the character and subsequent development of other areas within the town such as Commercial Square, Boltro Road, and the Broadway.

Caption For Nottingham, Wollaton Hall C1950

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

Caption For Corfe Castle, 1890

The ruins are seen from the village, above the Wicken Stream and Oliver Vye's Lane (bottom left).

Caption For Hunstanton, High Street 1907

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east. It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.