Maps

9,439 maps found.

1923, Kelfield Ref. POP745776
1925, Marden Ref. POP774483
1919, Middletown Ref. POP779591
1946, Milton Ref. NPO781141
1947, Mickley Ref. NPO778691
1903-1904, Barnoldswick Ref. RNC633697
1903, Beal Ref. RNC635439
1947, Roxby Ref. NPO821318
1947, Ryton Ref. NPO823364
1947, Staveley Ref. NPO838904
1895, Walcot Ref. RNE859613
1895, Westgate Ref. RNE866031
1898, Weston Ref. RNE866255
1895, Whitton Ref. RNE869581
1897, Willington Ref. RNE870495
1903-1904, Roxby Ref. RNC821317
1905-1906, Saltcoats Ref. RNC824568
1903-1904, Oatlands Ref. RNC795753
1903, Oxton Ref. RNC799269
1903, Newthorpe Ref. RNC791573

Books

39 books found. Showing results 2,185 to 2,208.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 911 to 920.

Memories Of Low Westwood 1955 1966

I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1960 by Kathy Aveyard

Summers In Porch Cottage Luccombe...The Happy House.

Porch Cottage must be called the happy house because as three little girls from a chemical town in the North West we also spent our summers there......of course we are now aged 58, 61 and 63 years ...Read more

A memory of Luccombe in 1958 by Maggie Fowler

Tom Maysh Bike Shop

I lived at 9 Morton Crescent just after the war. Robert Winston, the well known 'fertiliser' lived across the other side of the roundabout. I went to school at Bowes Road Infants and I remember walking there on my own in ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1951 by Ivor Blight

The Braunston Tunnel

A short distance north-west of Daventry is Braunston. The village lies on a hill overlooking the Grand Union Canal, one of Britain’s most famous inland waterways, and is a hub of the canal network. This photograph (D83014) ...Read more

A memory of Daventry in 1955 by Julia Skinner

1959 1971

Whilst looking on the West Hoathly hub site, I found a picture of myself standing in a camp at Blacklands Farm W64093 and W64091 in 1965. I would have been 9 years of age. My name was Julie Beavis and lived in the village from 1959 ...Read more

A memory of West Hoathly in 1965 by Julie Davis

Park Huts

I lived in the huts from the age of four to the age of eleven. The huts were on Wistaton Road, where the huts were was called Park Place. Looking at Park Place from Queens Park to the left was a small field and going further left was Webb ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1954 by Crawford Cuthbertson

Roy Mozley

Hi Roy, remember you well, remember seeing you first at Williams Garment Club, Salford, singing and playing guitar. Then Talk of the North. Did you have the Swinging Bridge at Trafford? My brother and I was only talking about you last ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by Kenneth Walker

Polmeur Road

I think this was the year my dear Uncle Jim Crawford died and left my Auntie Isa and my two cousins Helen and Isobel.....all very dear to us in memory. We used to visit them in Polmeur Road, cannot remember the number but it was an ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm in 1962 by Sarah Butt

North End Road

My father owned a couple of menswear shops in north end road in the 1960s and 1970s called Lewis Kaye. I was brought up above the shop at 234 North End Road. I have very fond memories of the shop and the market in those days. Does ...Read more

A memory of Fulham in 1965 by Martin Kaye

Gillingham Cinema

The Embassy in Green Street was formerly called the Odeon. Other cinemas in Gillingham at that time were the Plaza in Duncan Road (on the site of what is now Aldi's) and the Grand on the corner of Skinner Street and Jeffery ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1950 by John Addiscott

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 2,185 to 2,208.

Caption For Abingdon, Albert Park, The Albert Memorial 1890

At the north end of the park the focus is a statue of Albert, Queen Victoria's Prince Consort, who had died in 1861 and in whose honour the estate had been named.

Caption For Harlow, Mulberry Green C1955

With the forge next door (left), it was an important staging post for coaches travelling from London to East Anglia or the North.

Caption For Oban, The Railway Station And The New Pier C1900

The railway station is in the foreground, with the north pier and esplanade on the far side of the bay beyond the yachts and steamers.

Caption For Abergynolwyn, The Dysynni Valley 1895

It was served by the narrow gauge Tal-y-Llyn railway, the first of the slate railways of North Wales to be preserved.

Caption For Upper Boddington, Frog Lane C1965

Leading north off Warwick Road, Frog Lane is one of most attractive lanes in the village, albeit now interspersed with modern houses of the 1960s onwards.

Caption For Scalford, St Egelwine's Church, The Nave C1955

The elegant five-bay north and south arcades are witness to this date.

Caption For Waddesdon, The Manor, West Front 1897

At the summit of Lodge Hill to the north of the Upper Winchendon ridge is a French chateau.

Caption For Crowborough, All Saints Church 1900

On the north side of the village green, the church dates from 1744, including the tower and spire, with additions for Lord Abergavenny made in the 1880s.

Caption For Wakefield, Nostell Priory C1965

This new house, built to the north of the old priory, was built in 1735.

Caption For Netley, The Royal Victoria Hospital C1955

It was Queen Victoria who originally argued the need for such a hospital; its objective was to care for the gravely-afflicted casualties of war.The building attracted criticism, and a mix-up with

Caption For Sutton, Public Baths 1903

These baths are around the corner from where Throwley Road once turned to the north (it is now Throwley Way and acts as an inner relief road or High Street by-pass).

Caption For Sutton, St Barnabas Road 1903

As we look north down St Barnabas Road, we see that the trees and houses look very new.

Caption For Chalfont St Peter, Market Place C1955

Up the hill towards one of Chalfont St Peter's commons, Gold Hill, Tudor-style shops and flats were built on the north side of the road in 1922, called Market Place and decked out with fake

Caption For Stevenage, High Street 1952

This view gives a clear example of the impact commercial motor traffic had on the Great North Road, prior to the building of the M1 motorway.

Caption For Wells, Market Place 1890

1793 fountain remains, while the Georgian bay windows to the range beyond conceal Bishop Bekynton's mid 15th-century Nova Opera, a range of houses over workshops and shops built along the north

Caption For Somerton, Market Cross 1904

Heading back north, we cross the River Yeo and reach Somerton, another medieval market town, this time on a ridge in the Polden Hills and on the south bank of the River Cary, which weaves through the

Caption For Glastonbury, High Street 1909

The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.

Caption For Wedmore, Church Street 1950

We head away from Cheddar to Wedmore, a small town in the fork of a valley on the north side of the ridge that stretches west from Wells.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour 1925

Ozone Terrace is still partly visible (left),and so are weather- boarded Wings and Cobb Gate (centre right) behind the North Wall of the harbour.

Caption For Abingdon, Bridge Street C1955

This view was taken looking north along Bridge Street towards the Market Place – indeed, in the left centre of the view we can see the cupola and stair tower of the Town Hall.

Caption For Bridport, Happy Island 1897

Looking north-eastwards towards Bradpole, the spire of Holy Trinity can be seen on the skyline (centre).

Caption For Walditch, Village 1899

Looking north-east, from Hyde Hill, we can see Hyde in the foreground (left) and Berry Farm and Walditch hamlet in the middle distance (centre).

Caption For Sutton, The South Metropolitan District Schools 1896

It was replaced by a housing estate, Belmont Heights, with access across the railway line from the Brighton Road, north of Belmont Station.

Caption For Ealing, The Museum, Gunnersbury Park C1960

The mansion at the east end near the North Circular Road survived, although there were uncertain years in the 1970s.