Maps

2,499 maps found.

1946, Sundayshill Ref. NPO842796
1946, Ram Hill Ref. NPO813098
1946, Rangeworthy Ref. NPO813359
1946, Northwick Ref. NPO794501
1946, Nupdown Ref. NPO795009
1946, Over Ref. NPO798586
1898, Marsden Ref. RNE774947
1898, Little Sodbury End Ref. RNE757977
1897, Hawkesbury Ref. RNE728820
1897, High Shields Ref. RNE733486
1898, Latteridge Ref. RNE753249
1898, Holbrook Common Ref. RNE737618
1898, Iron Acton Ref. RNE744308
1898, Harton Ref. RNE727939
1898, Monkton Ref. RNE782689
1897, Upper Hill Ref. RNE857456
1897, Upper Morton Ref. RNE857662
1898, Warmley Ref. RNE860826
1898, Yate Ref. RNE875679
1897, The Hacket Ref. RNE846394

Books

23 books found. Showing results 2,209 to 23.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 921 to 930.

When We Played In The Road

Gipsy Road in Welling where I lived as a child in the 1950's was a long one. It stretched from Okehampton Crescent near Bostall heath and woods at its north end, down to the Welling/Bexleyheath mainline railway and a ...Read more

A memory of Wellings, The

Milk And Fish!

In the 1950s we spent several family holidays in the South Hams, staying at the Dairy in Stoke Fleming. We lived in south west London and travelled overnight on the A30 in my Dad's wet fish van, my brother and I sleepiing on a ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Fleming

School Journey

As a sickly child, I missed much of my early schooling and eventually attended schools for the physically handicapped. My senior school was the Venetian School for boys in Camberwell, south London. We went on School Journeys during ...Read more

A memory of Rustington by Peter Nunn

After The War In Burnt Oak

Being conceived at the end of the war I don't have memories of it of course, but my late brother, my mum and sister had lots. The only street party I remember was the Queen's one in Mostyn Road where we all got a cup ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1953 by Fred East

National Sea Training College At Gravesend

I spent the academic year 1987/88 in Kent training to become a Careers Adviser on a post-graduate course run by Kent College for the Careers Service. During my course I had to visit businesses, ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1987 by John Howard Norfolk

Memories Of Stockland, Bristol

My mother's father and mother Mr & Mrs Tom Dibble lived in the Cooperage, Stockland. Thomas's parents Thomas snr and Jane (nee) Palmer had children Sam, George from the Old Oak pub on the Cornhill, Mary + Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Woolavington in 1930 by Audrey Spearing

Watson House

What a delight to find this site and the photographs of Sutton Coldfield. I too have memories of a children's home but mine were of Watson House. From what I remember it was a big beautiful Tudor-built house, with the biggest ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield in 1965 by Maria Carey

Childhood In Waterloo

Lived at 4 Walmer Road, Waterloo and 21 Cambridge Road Waterloo in the 1950's. Both houses were divided into flats. I have fond memories of the Beach, Potters Bar Park, the Five Lamps, South Road and St John's Road. ...Read more

A memory of Waterloo in 1952 by Sheila Shanley

Swan Pool Park

I remember Swan Pool Park from the 1950s-60s. It is in South Road, Stourbridge. There used to be paddle-boats available to hire in the early 1960s, and there were lovely weeping-willow trees - even, perhaps, swans. The pool was ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge by Alison Wright

St Mary Church, Devonport

This picture shows St Mary Church which extended from west to east between Edinburgh Road (previously named Dock Wall Street), and James Street. It might have been taken from the top of The Column in Ker Street. The long ...Read more

A memory of Devonport by Terence Hawton

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 2,209 to 2,232.

Caption For Painswick, New Street C1950

This is another exceptional little town, set in its own south-facing timbered valley just east of the escarpment between Stroud and Gloucester. It is a place that makes grey look very good.

Caption For Tal Y Llyn, Lake 1937

It sits at the south-western end of the lake, where the River Dysynni comes tumbling out in a series of little cascades. The lake has always been famous for trout fishing.

Caption For Kettering, The Market 1922

Until the 1930s the south side of the market, facing the camera, was bordered by a row of buildings which would be later demolished.

Caption For Braintree, Bocking End C1955

The first shop was in a house in South Street, and then new premises were found in Swan Street, to the left of the island site. As business grew, it moved in 1875 to this site in Bocking End.

Caption For Cranbrook, Stone Street 1902

From the George's entrance, on the right, she walked on a mile of local broadcloth to Coursehorn, a Tudor farmhouse owned by a wealthy weaver, which is south-east of the town.

Caption For Whitworth, St Anslem Roman Catholic Church C1950

We are looking south-west from the Memorial Park; John Street and St Anselm`s Church and school are behind Market Street. Three air raid shelters are in the field in front of the church.

Caption For Morecambe, The Sands 1899

The just-paddling brigade stayed south of the Stone Pier, which was still a busy working port. It would continue to be so until Heysham opened in around 1904.

Caption For Virginia Water, The Waterfall C1955

Its style owes something to the Wentworth Estate to the south-west, where there are many houses in a similar style, but mostly better than this.

Caption For Alnwick, The Lion Monument C1955

The first thing that greets travellers arriving from the south is the Percy Tenantry Column, known locally as the Farmers' Folly.

Caption For Dudley, From The Castle Keep C1955

This final view from the castle keep looks due south across the bus station in Porter's Field.

Caption For Painswick, New Street C1950

This is another exceptional little town, set in its own south-facing timbered valley just east of the escarpment between Stroud and Gloucester. It is a place that makes grey look very good.

Caption For Warrington, Academy And Cromwell Statue 1901

Today there are numerous road, rail and foot bridges crossing both the river and the Ship Canal further south.

Caption For Accrington, Accrington Pals Memorial 2004

The East Lancashire Regiment, together with the South Lancashire Regiment and the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), is the forebear of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.

Caption For Crystal Palace, 1890

After the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace was moved to Sydenham in south-east London, where it was filled with lavish displays.

Caption For Newport Pagnell, Tickford Abbey C1965

It overlooks the River Ouzel to the north, but there are housing estates to its south.

Caption For Bottesford, Market Street C1955

This view looks south, away from the church.

Caption For Worcester, The Cross 1899

This view looks along Foregate Street; the bridge carrying the Great Western Railway lines to Hereford and South Wales can be seen in the background.

Caption For Bushey, High Street C1955

This was built around 1905 on the site of the London and South West Bank, which in turn had replaced a Tudor farm house.

Caption For Friern Barnet, Halliwick Hospital, Friern Barnet Road C1965

functional machine for healing people, quite new when the photograph was taken, contrasts dramatically in its simple, almost domestic design with its very close neighbour, the Colney Hatch Asylum to its south-east

Caption For Twycross, The Village C1955

The short battlemented tower adorns an attractive group of 18th- and 19th-century houses at the south-eastern end of the village.

Caption For Crawley, East Park 1907

The houses on the north side, on the right of the photograph, are of 1881; with their ornate cast iron railings they are a little grander than those on the south side, which are slightly later

Caption For Bothenhampton, The Village 1904

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing

Caption For Albury, The Village C1960

The main village was moved west and south of the Tilling Bourne and out of the park in the early 19th century, but the best buildings date from the 1850s.

Caption For Bagshot, High Street C1961

Frith's photographer has chosen the best bit of Bagshot to photograph: he is looking south-west along the High Street from its junction with Bridge Road towards the Square.