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Photos

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Maps

1,651 maps found.

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1902-1903, Newton Ref. RNC791680
1902, No Mans Heath Ref. RNC792411
1902-1903, Piper's Ash Ref. RNC806485
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1902-1903, Hoole Ref. RNC740014
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1923, Clive Green Ref. POP670824
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1924, Eccleston Ref. POP699024
1924, Ellesmere Port Ref. POP700628
1923, Crowton Ref. POP685064
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1921, Brown Knowl Ref. POP652978
1902-1903, Upton Ref. RNC858061
1902-1903, Utkinton Ref. RNC858281
1902-1903, Wharton Green Ref. RNC866895

Books

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Memories

2,057 memories found. Showing results 761 to 770.

My Time At Studwell Lodge And In The Village Of Droxford

My family first came to live in Studwell Lodge, which they bought from the Bruce family,  when my father retired from farming in Berkshire at the age of fifty five. It was then 1959 and I, ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1960 by Charles Skipwith

The New Inn Crowd

My parents, Ron and Mary Grant took over the New Inn at Drayton in 1957. Prior to that they had the Royal Pier Hotel at Sandown, on IOW. My sister Suzanne came over with them. I joined them the following year, as ...Read more

A memory of Drayton in 1957 by Roland Grant

Granada Lavender Hill

I remember going to the Saturday morning pictures at the Granada, my family lived in Wickersley Road off Lavender Hill and I remember walking from the Granada home. I went to Wix's Lane School and later Lavender Hill School, ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1950 by Richard Edgeworth

My Birth

I was born in Gileston Manor Cottage. My father was chauffeur to the manor residents, Mr and Mrs Clay. I had grandparents living in West Aberthaw and Sea View Farm, Batsleys. We then moved to Glyndwrtthan where I lived until I was married ...Read more

A memory of Gileston in 1930 by Primrose Goldsworthy

The Good Old Days

I was an only child and I lived in various addresses in Woodford Green and Woodford Bridge. My first address was in a flat above a Doctors surgery in High Rd, Woodford Bridge and my last address was in Crownhill Road, ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1970 by Sharon Rainbird

Trips To Wrotham

I was born in London in 1940. Our flat was demolished by the first flying bomb so my parents moved to West Kingsdown when I was three months old. From an early age I remember being taken quite regularly by my mother along the A20 ...Read more

A memory of Wrotham by John Osborne

Not Always Good To Be Taller.

I attended this school, on and off during the war years as my father Bill Morgan, was frequently posted around the country, and I would end up with my grandparents, the Eldridges who lived at West House. My ...Read more

A memory of Great Somerford in 1943 by Keith Morgan

I. Some Rain Must Fall

STEPHEN BAWDEN - oldest child of Stephen and Elizabeth Jelbert (neé Gilbert) Bawden was born in Redruth, 6 April 1812 at the end of the long and troubled reign of George III and just 7 years before Queen Victoria was born. ...Read more

A memory of Redruth by Carol Bawden

Sparsholt College

I had never even heard of - much less visited - Sparsholt before receiving an invitation to join a group of teachers and advisers who were inspecting this splendid college. My work as a careers adviser meant that I ...Read more

A memory of Sparsholt in 1992 by John Howard Norfolk

My Holidays

I am from Ellesmere Port, in the 1950s we always took our summer holidays at my Aunty Annie's in Manton. Hardwick Road West. Her full name was Mrs A Gornall and she was headmistress at Lincoln Street School, Worksop. We also used to ...Read more

A memory of Gateford in 1950 by Tom Owen

Captions

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Caption For Okehampton, The Castle 1890

It was from here that FitzGerald ruthlessly put down a rebellion in the south-west.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Summer Hill 1909

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Caption For Gloucester, Eastgate Street C1960

Before by-passes and motorways, Gloucester's location as a route centre meant that virtually all traffic from the south-west heading north, and all traffic from South Wales heading east (

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate 1913

The wide sweep of cobbles and double avenue of trees defines this characteristic view on entering the town from the west.

Caption For York, The Cavalry Barracks 1886

Around the parade ground there were a bakery, a tailor, a shoemaker, a racket court, a gymnasium and a cricket ground, a hospital and a 20-cell prison.

Caption For Tonbridge, High Street 1890

The late 15th-century half-timbered Chequers Inn, with its gabled frontage and a swinging sign said to have been put up in the reign of Elizabeth I, stands on the west side of this busy street.

Caption For Tonbridge, High Street 1890

The late 15th-century half-timbered Chequers Inn, with its gabled frontage and a swinging sign said to have been put up in the reign of Elizabeth I, stands on the west side of this busy street.

Caption For Manchester, King Street C1885

Next to it towards the camera is the District Bank, later the site of Nat West House, and now up for sale.

Caption For Walsingham, Old Houses 1929

A large number of religious houses exist, and there was an Augustinian priory here as far back as 1061. The half-timbered jettied building has a steep roof of cascading pantiles.

Caption For Avebury, The High Street C1950

This view looks from within the circle, west to the High Street which continues outside the henge. The post office (left) is now a Celtic gift shop.

Caption For Sheffield, Nether Edge Hospital C1955

These included the workhouses for Ecclesall Union (in Nether Edge) and for Sheffield Union (at Fir Vale), eventually to become Nether Edge Hospital and the Northern General Hospital respectively

Caption For Stourbridge, King Edward Vi School C1950

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

Caption For Twickenham, The Fox Inn 2005

In the early 19th century London's growing population was generating increased demand for fruit and vegetables, and west Middlesex farmers and agriculturalists turned to market gardening on a

Caption For Halton, Castle 1900

Here we have a general view of Halton and its castle from the west. The castle was built by the new Norman lord of the manor of Halton, Nigel Fitzwilliam, in around 1071.

Caption For Stourbridge, King Edward Vi School C1950

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

Caption For Dorking, The Reigate Road 1927

after by every mason and bricklayer in London.

Caption For Heswall, Telegraph Road C1960

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

Caption For Malmesbury, View From Daniel's Well C1955

In the distance, high on the hill, stands the abbey, and to the west is the Old Bell Hotel.

Caption For Kirkheaton, Beaumont Arms C1950

The village grew up around the fancy goods and woollen fabric trades, so widespread in West Yorkshire.

Caption For Bridport, From Allington Hill 1897

Beyond, stretching from right to left, is the line of West Street through to the Town Hall and Market Place, with the chimneys of net-makers Joseph Gundry and Company (centre left), Ewens and Turner in

Caption For Dorking, Rose Hill 1906

here were many public houses and inns in the town.

Caption For Hellifield, Main Street 1950

In 1844, railway surveyors came to this agricultural village with the aim of linking two main lines to provide a route from West Yorkshire to Lancashire and Cumbria.

Caption For Bransgore, The Crown Inn C1960

Perhaps the bicycle belongs to a customer who has nipped into this New Forest pub for a quick pint of Strong's best bitter. It must be a hot summer's day, because all of the windows are open.

Caption For Seatown, Village And Beach 1922

A classic west Dorset view, showing Seatown and Golden Cap which, at 618 feet above sea level, is the highest cliff on the South Coast of England.