Maps

2,499 maps found.

1898, Frampton Cotterell Ref. RNE709059
1898, Gaunt's Earthcott Ref. RNE712439
1898, Horsley Hill Ref. RNE740814
1898, Horton Ref. RNE740856
1898, Doynton Ref. RNE692874
1898, Jarrow Ref. RNE744920
1898, Woodhouse Down Ref. RNE873413
1898, Yate Rocks Ref. RNE875682
1946, Engine Common Ref. NPO701354
1946, Cribbs Causeway Ref. NPO683143
1947, Cleadon Park Ref. NPO670021
1946, Conham Ref. NPO676549
1946, Dunkirk Ref. NPO695530
1946, Elberton Ref. NPO700294
1946, Chipping Sodbury Ref. NPO668045
1919, Winterbourne Down Ref. POP871609
1897, Bagstone Ref. RNE630379
1897, Churchend Ref. RNE668621
1898, Cleadon Park Ref. RNE670021
1897, Bibstone Ref. RNE639561

Books

23 books found. Showing results 1,873 to 23.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 781 to 790.

Blissful Days On The Amusements!

This picture takes me back! It was around 1962 and I was 11 years old. We travelled down to Clacton from South Harrow on a Valiant Cronshaw coach which we caught outside a pub in Northolt - The Plough, I think ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea by Paul Starck

Kidderminster Year Of Being A Resident

Towards the end of 1968 my husband had to complete a year's site experience and his placement was at Kiddie.  We left our home in Kent and moved up. After searching for rented accommodation we were lucky ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1968 by Geraldine Todd

I Didn't Have Tb!

Just before Christmas in 1953 I was admitted to St Giles' Hospital in Camberwell, south London. It was thought that I had TB. I was allowed home for Christmas, although confined to bed. After Christmas I was taken by ambulance ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1954 by Ken Cook

Bursledon, The Hospital

I do not think this ever was a hospital in the usual sense.  I am pretty sure it was a house called Brixedene (Brixedone?) in Blundell Lane, owned and lived in by a family called Thistlethwaite. During the war it was a ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon by Belinda Heathcote

Brightwells Cottage

In 1979 my then boyfriend and I viewed Brightwells Cottage in The Square at Sutton Scotney. It was, to put it bluntly, a hovel ... mud floors, lead covered wiring, an Elsan Toilet and holes in the thatch, but we loved it. ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Scotney by Kim Burnett

The View From The Top Of Harrow Weald Common

Between Harrow Weald and Hatch End is "Old Redding" - a hilly rural lane with glorious ancient beech woods on both sides of the lane. It is notorious for its connection with The Grimsdyke Hotel ...Read more

A memory of Harrow Weald in 1963 by John Howard Norfolk

Douglas Hall

I was the vice captain of the Timothy Hackworth Junior School football team when we won the cup and league. I think we won every game of the season. I was in love with Pauline Baker when I was 5 and lived in South St.

A memory of Shildon in 1950 by dough13

St Marys Church South Tidworth

I lived in Tidworth Garrison as a child, (my name was Margaret Vincent then) and attended the Garrison Junior School and later Andover Grammar School.  I grew up there enjoying the wonderful freedom that ...Read more

A memory of South Tidworth in 1963 by Margaret English

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

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 1,873 to 1,896.

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Caption For Gatehouse Of Fleet, High Street C1955

Gatehouse of Fleet is situated near the mouth of the Water of Fleet, a few miles north-west of Kirkcudbright.

Caption For Newtown Linford, C1960

The church is comparatively plain apart from its large 15th-century traceried window on its south side.

Caption For Tring, Park 1897

Immediately south-east of the town is Tring Park, its park now bisected by the A41.

Caption For Tenby, On The Beach 1890

ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly laid out with walks which serve at once as pier and promenade, and from which are commanded fine views of the bays on either hand … Both on the north and south

Caption For Tenby, On The Beach 1890

ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly laid out with walks which serve at once as pier and promenade, and from which are commanded fine views of the bays on either hand … Both on the north and south

Caption For Castle Ashby, The House C1955

We now move away from boot and shoe country into the south of Northamptonshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire.

Caption For Chichester, Canon Lane Archway, South Street 1890

Here in South Street we see the late 15th-century Canon Gate which leads into the cathedral precincts.

Caption For Bramber, Church C1900

You can see Norman evidence here with the blocked arch into the long-demolished south transept from the tower, and also the doorway arch.

Caption For Tonbridge, Barden Park, The Avenue 1890

The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge. Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

Caption For Eamont Bridge, 1893

Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from a splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

Caption For Lancaster, Church Street 1886

The first time was in October 1745, when he was heading south, full of hope and ready to regain the throne of England; the second time was in December 1745, when he was in retreat and heading north

Caption For Camberley, High Street C1955

We are looking south down the High Street, which runs from London Road towards the railway station. Crawley Hill is in the distance, covered in more spacious suburbs.

Caption For Frimley Green, The Green C1965

About a mile south, along the B3411, is Frimley Green.

Caption For Stanwell, The Rising Sun C1965

This view is north of the village, looking south across the 16th-century Duke of Northumberland's River with the southern perimeter road to Heathrow Airport immediately behind the photographer.

Caption For Tilford, The River C1955

Tilford is situated where the south branch of the River Wey meets the main River Wey, each branch crossed by a medieval bridge.

Caption For Lowestoft, The South Pier From The Sands 1896

Deckchairs, donkey rides and, in the background, the South Pier with its gabled pavilion, make up the picture, while the holidaymakers are, as usual, well-wrapped-up against the biting North Sea breezes

Caption For Ford, Ford Castle C1950

The present castle dates mainly from the 1860s, though the north and south-west towers are original.

Caption For Andover, Norman Arch 1899

In the south-west corner of the Garden of Remembrance, the Norman Gate gives access from the High Street.

Caption For West Marden, Village C1955

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.

Caption For Pwllheli, The Promenade 1898

The old town was originally about a quarter of a mile from the sea, but since 1888, a contemporary guidebook tells us, 'the South Beach Land and Building Corporation Limited are building very extensively

Caption For Frome, The Blue House, Women's Almshouse 1949

The north and south wings housed poor women, whilst the central area was a charitable boarding school, later becoming fee-paying.

Caption For Hemsworth, Market Street 1965

The sinking of the Fitzwilliam and the South Kirkby pits in the 1870s led to a huge rise in the population; the town was rebuilt with hundreds of back-to-back terraced houses.

Caption For Wendover, Pound Street 1901

Pound Street continues south-west from Hiugh Street; it is more cottagey, apart from two grander houses on the left. The street is little altered, apart from more formal pavements and roadway.

Caption For Farnham, South Street 1904

South Street, extending over the River Wey Navigation to the station, did not exist until after the arrival of the railway in the town in 1848-1849.