Maps

4,509 maps found.

1940, Cowbeech Hill Ref. NPO679337
1946, Cox Hill Ref. NPO679667
1947, Cragg Hill Ref. NPO680013
1945, Crays Hill Ref. NPO681629
1946, Crockham Hill Ref. NPO683446
1947, Crosland Hill Ref. NPO684202
1946, Cross Hill Ref. NPO684305
1947, Cross Hills Ref. NPO684313
1947, Cruise Hill Ref. NPO685453
1947, Cuddy Hill Ref. NPO685697
1947, Daisy Hill Ref. NPO687628
1940, Dale Hill Ref. NPO687805
1945, Dollis Hill Ref. NPO691865
1945, Child's Hill Ref. NPO667832
1945, Chitts Hills Ref. NPO668141
1947, Cinder Hill Ref. NPO668978
1946, Cinder Hill Ref. NPO668980
1940, Cinder Hill Ref. NPO668983
1940, Clap Hill Ref. NPO669384
1946, Clapham Hill Ref. NPO669407

Books

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Memories

4,092 memories found. Showing results 711 to 720.

Pound Street

My first main job on leaving school (Shaw House) was as a tea boy-dogsbody at H C James timber and builders merchants in Pound Street. For quite a while I cycled daily from Highclere Castle, approx 4 miles, it took me just over half ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1956 by Percival Mills

Dalelands

The car in this picture is parked outside my old home. I wonder, was it my Dad's car? Not many of us had cars then. I spent many hours under the lamp-post as it got dark, before I got called in. We were pretty safe to play out ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1960 by Dianne Lam

A Happy Time

I was born in 1965 at Cliveden and lived in Grubwood Lane near the entrance to Quarry Woods with my parents for 16 years. I remember walking to Cookham Dean Primary School where the headmaster Mr Turner made my life a misery! I ...Read more

A memory of Cookham Dean in 1965

Kitkburton Primary School

I attended Kirkburton First School (School Hill), prior to this I was sent to a Catholic school in Huddersfield, although living in Burton at the time, there was no comparison, Kirkburton School was like heaven ...Read more

A memory of Kirkburton in 1958 by Mary Ryan

Earith Was In Huntingdonshire And Still Is

I was born in St Ives in 1939 but lived in Earith at what is now number 43. Next door was my Grandad's grocer's shop - Bert Russell. I moved to Peterborough in 1958 where I still live in Werrington ...Read more

A memory of Earith in 1940 by Lawrence Wright

Toft Hill

My nana and grandad lived at Toft Hill and although we were Forces children, the trip back home to Toft Hill was always brilliant. Sat in front of the open fire with my Nana's home-cut chips (my nana was called Jean Alderson ...Read more

A memory of Toft Hill in 1980 by Sarah Louisse Tucker

May To December Filming

Does anyone remember the name of the greengrocer's shop in Northwood Hills that was used as a location in the TV series 'May to December'? Also, whereabouts the shop was?

A memory of Northwood by Joan Street

Birtle Street

It would be great to hear from anybody who was around Dalton Street , Worth Street, Danzic Street, or who went to the Rex picture house, played on Barnies, Bobs Hill, went in Jock Stobbers, lads that had ther hair cut at Harry's ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by Teddy Peacock

An Evacuee During Ww11

Packed off to Lostwithiel in the train from Paddington and found myself living in the Black Prince's Castle - Restormal. Well not quite, the farm on the Estate. I was baptised in St Winnow C.of E Church as part of our ...Read more

A memory of Lostwithiel in 1930 by John L Tooze

Terrified By White Masses

Hi I was taken to the upper Rhondda valley (Tynewydd) by my mother in 1940 , I was some 9 yrs old. I went to school both primary and secondary (Treherbert boys school). I had lots of cousins. Myself and my cousin ...Read more

A memory of Blaengwynfi in 1940 by Ray Paget

Captions

1,924 captions found. Showing results 1,705 to 1,728.

Caption For Leicester, Police Station, Charles Street C1955

With its rusticated ground storey and ashlar-faced upper storeys, designed by Noel Hill in 1933, it fails to match in design quality other police stations such as Hammersmith by Donald McMorran, 1938

Caption For Corfe Castle, From The West 1890

Tucked under East Hill are the towers of the outer bailey around to the outer gatehouse (right).

Caption For Quorn, High Street C1965

Quorn ('Querendon' in 1209) means 'the hill from where millstones were obtained'.

Caption For Debenham, High Street C1955

At the top of the hill is Bleak House, a former inn of c1540.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Cotswolds C1960

It is said that the name Cotswold originated because of the cotes (sheep pens) that were found across the wolds (rolling hills).

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1965

The words 'Old Bank' inscribed over the entrance of the building in the centre refer to Waldron and Hill, the first bank to open on this site in 1780.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Old School House 1906

Harrow Park winds away to the east of the High Street, past one or two rather grand houses, to arrive at Deynecourt at the foot of the hill.

Caption For Crakehall, The Village 1900

Crakehall, 1 mile north of Bedale, is two villages in one - this is Little Crakehall, with its race (left) for three corn and flax mills.

Caption For Preston, Timber Quay, North Side C1955

Even before the docks opened, timber-carrying ships from all over Europe would come into these sheltered waters near Penwortham Hill and unload.

Caption For Windmill Hill, Posey Green C1955

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

Caption For Ansdell, Entrance To Fairhaven Golf Links 1927

Fortunately Richard Ansdell RA, the world-renowned Victorian painter, chose to build a house, Starr Hills, amongst the sandhills; although his hope was for solitude, he brought fame and expansion to the

Caption For Reigate, The Pageant 1913

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

Caption For Sutton, High Street C1965

On the left, next to the Lloyd's Bank branch, is the fashion shop of Renee Shaw, with Fuller's tea shop, Dewhurst's the butcher's, and John's menswear shop further down the hill.

Caption For Swansea, General View From Hill 1893

This panoramic view is very evocative of two major factors in the city's history: the rolling hills which surround it, and the rows of terraced worker's cottages, which testify to the city's once significant

Caption For Brierley Hill, Delph Locks C1965

The Main Line of the Stourbridge Canal swung south and then east around Brierley Hill to meet up with the Dudley Canal at Black Delph Locks.The Dudley Canal passed through Round Oak Steel Works and

Caption For Launceston, The Square 2003

This ancient town crowns the steep hill above the valley of the River Kensey.

Caption For Fenstanton, Chequer Street C1955

We are looking along Chequer Street towards Honey Hill; the shape of the community has changed little.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

The fact that is was possible to park on the side of the hill without a problem makes this photograph one to be treasured.

Caption For Avebury, Silbury Hill 1902

Silbury Hill, near Marlborough, is the largest man-made mound in Europe.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Entrance C1955

The fountain was removed during road improvements in the 1980s; it was rescued from the council dump by the Old Cornwall Society, and was re-erected near the reservoir on Windmill Hill.

Caption For Sheffield, Gleadless Valley 2005

tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and bungalows filled

Caption For Morcombelake, Old Cottages 1904

This discreet little settlement in the parish of Stanton St Gabriel occupies a web of small lanes on the south-facing slopes of Hardown Hill and derives its name from three Old English words: 'mor' (

Caption For Sutton, Benhilton Bridge 1894

The main road from London originally climbed Angel Hill's ridge, but in the early 19th century a cutting was made.

Caption For Chesham, General View 1897

Looking west from the chalk hills east of the town, undeveloped to this day, Chesham nestles in the deep-cut valley of the River Chess.