Places
36 places found.
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- Burgess Hill, Sussex
- Brierley Hill, West Midlands
- Cotswold Hills, Gloucestershire
- Kelton Hill, Dumfries and Galloway
- Box Hill, Surrey
- Turners Hill, Sussex
- Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire
- Biggin Hill, Greater London
- Beacon Hill, Surrey
- Mill Hill, Greater London
- Leith Hill, Surrey
- Scayne's Hill, Sussex
- Cross Hills, Yorkshire (near Silsden)
- Harrow on the Hill, Greater London
- Winchmore Hill, Greater London
- Northwood Hills, Greater London
- Walton on the Hill, Surrey
- Muswell Hill, Greater London
- Clee Hill, Shropshire (near Doddington)
- Berry Hill, Gloucestershire
- Forest Hill, Greater London
- Ide Hill, Kent
- Quantock Hills, Somerset
- Crays Hill, Essex
- Longfield Hill, Kent
- Crockham Hill, Kent
- Napton on the Hill, Warwickshire
- Herne Hill, Greater London
- Amersham on the Hill, Buckinghamshire
- Hill Ridware, Staffordshire
- Tan Hill, Yorkshire
- Forty Hill, Greater London
- Windmill Hill, Sussex
- Boyn Hill, Berkshire
- Wheatley Hill, Durham (near Peterlee)
- Horndon on the Hill, Essex
Photos
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Maps
4,509 maps found.
Books
3 books found. Showing results 1,873 to 3.
Memories
4,101 memories found. Showing results 781 to 790.
An Idyllic Childhood In New Haw
I wanted to add my own memories of growing up in New Haw from 1965 until moving again in 1973. The family moved from Richmond (then in Middlesex) to 187 New Haw Road, a detached 3-bedroom house with 1/3 acre of ...Read more
A memory of New Haw in 1966 by
Wonderful Childhood Memories
I lived in Cannock from 1963 to 1970. We lived on the Longford Estate in Leamington Close, we were the first family to live in that house after it was built. I went to Bridgetown Primary School and started year 1 in ...Read more
A memory of Cannock in 1860 by
From The 2nd World War
My grandparents lived at The Cottage in South View, Uppingham for 40 years from 1908 where he was a well known Director of Music at the public school. From a very early age during the second world war I made my first ...Read more
A memory of Uppingham in 1943 by
Happy Days
I lived in Venterdon in the house opposite Dingles yard from 1951 til 1960, and six mornings a week steam rollers would start trundling out from 8am. At that time Venterdon consisted of a single file of houses right up through the ...Read more
A memory of Venterdon in 1951 by
Police Station
I have only just found this site. I was born in 1944 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, my Mom was sent there as bombs were falling still in the London area and Woodford was still getting there fair share. We lived in an alleyway ...Read more
A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1947 by
My Birthplace
I was born at Orchard Bakery Cottages which is beyond the trees to the right of this photo. Many generations of my family attended the school. My great Aunt May (Skilton) in the early 1900s; various of my Uncles (Pat & ...Read more
A memory of Holmwood Corner in 1958 by
Memories Of Council Estate And Football
My family moved to the council estate in Elstree in the mid sixties. I used to play football on the pitch opposite Hill House, now sadly a new housing estate. Robert Stores for groceries, the aptly named ...Read more
A memory of Elstree in 1967 by
Oak Way, Acton Vale
My memories of Acton Vale estate are endless, you would play out all day and the days were long. I can remember taking back the empty lemonade bottles and then buying a jublie. Going swimming at Acton swimming baths then on the ...Read more
A memory of Acton by
Memories Of Covenham As A Child
I was born in Covenham in Zeplin Row in 1950. I remember going to bed with candles as that was the only form of lighting we had. If it was cold in the winter I can remember my mum wraping up the warm oven ...Read more
A memory of Covenham St Mary in 1950 by
Feltham Hill School
I started at Feltham Hill School in 1950 at the age of five. I was the youngest of four children Jackie, Betty and Bobby - Mr Shattock was the Headmaster. We moved from Feltham to Ashford, Middlesex and I attended Echelford ...Read more
A memory of Feltham in 1950 by
Captions
1,924 captions found. Showing results 1,873 to 1,896.
This has been used in some of the older buildings around North Hill, including the tower of St Michael's church.
Boots the Chemists were still next door to the hotel, but not for long: they were soon to move further along the High Street as Grantham's shopping centre gravitated towards St Peter's Hill, following
In 1956 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone opened a Methodist church in Langdon Hills, and in the following year the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visited Kingswood Junior School, officially opened
Up to 20 stables ran their horses on the gallops at Six Mile Hill.
At the top of Shooters Hill there is a sign-post. To the left of the sign-post between the buildings can be seen a lovely view of the harbour and the boats of the Yacht Haven.
The victims of the Kynochs tragedy in 1913 (three employees of the explosives factory were killed in an accident) are buried in this now disused churchyard.
Meanwhile down in the town, away from the lush gardens and villas of Amersham Hill, the furniture industry was modernising into the factory system.
Another fine artist buried here is William (Bill) Brunel, a photographer who was noted for his fine pictures of motor car racing.
Each day at dawn, strings of racehorses would pass gracefully up the hill, as they had 100 years earlier.
Seven were killed in there, along with another 37 elsewhere at the plant. I'd spoken to Dennis Orchard ten minutes before he died. They were working on the early jet engines in V block.
Other notable changes in town before the Second World War were the straightening of Marlow Hill in 1936, which involved demolishing buildings on the left side of the road south of St Mary's Street
old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north, in Walkley and Crookes to the west, in Sharrow and Heeley to the south and Park Hill
Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road.
Bruce organised dances in the Congregational Chapel Sunday School, now the Community Rooms, and Polish soldiers from Edge Hill Hospital were invited to join in the events.
Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road.
Its social centres were the old Bull public house, situated on Bull Road (now Clay Hill Road), Holy Cross Church, and Fairview Hall in Timberlog Lane.
History is like digging in ancient sand hills—the more you dig, the more you find.
(Marion Hill) The Fish Lizard's remains were discovered when the lake was constructed in 1982.
(Marion Hill) Woughton is one of the area's eighteen villages existing in the 11th century which were mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086; thirteen of the villages became local centres for the new
King Street was widened in 1928 when the old Town Hall was demolished.
A Roman Catholic church was built in Castle Street in 1900, but it was replaced by the present St Augustine's on Amersham Hill in 1955.
Perhaps she have never known a parkland which soared up over 1000 feet to enclose the massive Cave Hill.
And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.
And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.
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