Maps

2,499 maps found.

1897, Thornbury Ref. RNE847006
1879 - 1880, Alveston Ref. HOSM36038
1901 - 1902, Beach Ref. HOSM37270
1901 - 1902, Bitton Ref. HOSM37978
1881, Coalpit Heath Ref. HOSM41354
1881 - 1901, Doynton Ref. HOSM43478
1880 - 1900, Elberton Ref. HOSM44692
1880 - 1901, Filton Ref. HOSM45501
1879 - 1881, Frampton Cotterell Ref. HOSM45883
1879 - 1880, Grovesend Ref. HOSM47194
1879 - 1880, Itchington Ref. HOSM49522
1880, Kington Ref. HOSM50236
1880, Little Stoke Ref. HOSM51620
1879 - 1880, Lower Hazel Ref. HOSM52581
1880 - 1901, Filton Ref. HOSM55375
1881, Old Sodbury Ref. HOSM55770
1880, Oldbury-on-Severn Ref. HOSM55722
1880 - 1901, Patchway Ref. HOSM56161
1881, Pucklechurch Ref. HOSM57203
1879 - 1881, Rangeworthy Ref. HOSM57447

Books

23 books found. Showing results 2,233 to 23.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 931 to 940.

Sunday Gardener

In 1961 I got my first job after leaving school at S & R Smiths Garage on the Great South West Road. The owners were brothers Sydney and Raymond Smith. We called them Mr Ray and Mr Sid. I started in the stores department. It ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1961 by Barry Hawgood

Our Honeymoon

Pat (nee Gilbert) and I were married at St. Stephen's church Sneinton in Nottingham July 1960. We arrived in Gloucester the same afternoon to be met at the train station by our hosts for a 3day honeymoon, they were the owners of the ...Read more

A memory of Cranham in 1960 by John Lacey

Memory Of When I Was About 5 Years Old

My parents -- Glyndwr and Georgina Jones -- both grew up in South Wales. After marrying they moved to Manchester and I was born soon after in 1950. In 1955 my mother became pregnant with my brother Glynne, ...Read more

A memory of Llansamlet in 1956 by csuschnigg

Frimley, The Grove

My father was born in Frimley and lived at No 8 The Grove till he married and moved to Dartford, then Wastwater and finally emigrated to South Africa after the Second World War. I visited my late grandparents, Mr H H Finch and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Frimley in 1970 by First Name Last Name

Glenthope South Street

34 South Street was my home from 1963 to December 2007! My grandparents Ellen and Lewis Edwards lived here along with my mother Anne and myself. It is the second house on the left with the single window upstairs. (This was my ...Read more

A memory of Corsham in 1962 by Karen Mc Intyre

Lord Wandsworth College John Edgar Smith Born 27 March 1922

I wonder if you may have known John Edgar Smith (School No. 293) in the 'thirties'? My beloved John always spoke very fondly of his years at Lord Wandsworth College, Long ...Read more

A memory of Long Sutton in 1930 by Barbara Tester

The Lido The Best Place On Earth!

Two of my aunts had guest houses in Cliftonville and every year we ventured from Berkshire by train or by coach via Victoria coach station for our annual holiday in Margate. My memories are simple and ...Read more

A memory of Margate in 1962 by Tony Wimbush

Shale Heaps

Hi, I lived at Lingdale at 27 North Terrace which was the last row of terraced houses near the shale heaps which were deposited from the iron ore mine which was situated in Stanghow Lane. The distance between the houses and the shale ...Read more

A memory of Lingdale in 1940 by George Searle

Canada Bound

While working in the Lake District as an hotel assistant manager I reached such a point of frustration that I up and quit my job and applied to emigrate to Canada. Five minutes later, after hearing of my decision, the head accountant ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1966 by Dylan Rivis

Mabledon & Nightingale Farms

Saw your Memory with interest. I have done two others on the site - people will think "He's vain", but hardly anyone else seems to have bothered. I can remember the smell of hops drying here in the 1950/60s. I was born ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1956 by Rodney Warrener

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 2,233 to 2,256.

Caption For Hascombe, The Village C1965

There is a large Iron Age hillfort at the end of Hascombe Hill's ridge a little south-east of the village.

Caption For Little Bookham, Little Bookham Street C1955

Little Bookham's tiny 12th- century church and manor house lie south of the Guildford Road.

Caption For Culham, College 1900

This view of the south front shows well the plain cusped tracery windows and the use Clarke made of chimney stacks to augment the design.

Caption For Congleton, The Roundabout C1960

This view of the roundabout - a novelty in Congleton - shows where the south end of the bypass joins the existing main road.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The Promenade C1965

These views take us downstream towards the bridge from the south. We

Caption For Tenbury Wells, Teme Street 1898

Around Ludlow South Along The River Teme Tenbury Wells, Teme Street 1898 Known in the past only as Tenbury, the Wells in its name was added in the late 19th century as a deliberate marketing

Caption For Bottesford, St Mary's Church, The Earl Of Rutland's Monument 1890

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Holy Trinity Church C1955

The stained glass in the south window has several Netherlands roundels of the 16th century and later. Brasses commemorate the great clothier Thomas Horton and his wife.

Caption For Bamburgh, The Village And Castle 1954

Unable to take the fortress from Robert de Mowbray, third Earl of Northumberland, William headed south, leaving the prosecution of the siege to others. Mowbray attempted to escape, but was captured.

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 St Neots, The Bridge And Bridge Hotel C1955

The white building is the Bridge Hotel, whilst on the south side are the Public Rooms, opened in 1855 to provide a place for public meetings and concerts.

Caption For Wolverton, Church Street C1955

Parallel to Stratford Road and to the south of it is one of the grid of streets that were laid out for the town from the 1840s, starting at the east and then expanding westward as land was released

Caption For Fontmell Magna, View From Church Tower C1955

We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.

Caption For Bottesford, St Mary's Church, The Earl Of Rutland's Monument 1890

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour 1892

Lyme Regis is situated towards the northern end of Lyme Bay and six miles south of the mouth of the Axe, a river once navigable for some distance upstream.

Caption For Shefford, The Church And War Memorial C1955

This is because it was originally a daughter church to Campion, a mile or so to the south-west, and Shefford would have buried its dead there.

Caption For Whitby, The Harbour 1885

His two ships that sailed to the South Seas, the 'Resolution' and 'Endeavour', were built here.

Caption For Billesdon, Market Place C1955

church at its southern end and the A47 to the north, the village is entered by long-abandoned medieval roads from Cold Newton to the north, itself a shrunken village, and from Gaulby and Frisby to the south-west

Caption For Nottingham, University, Hugh Stewart Hall C1955

Nottingham University started in the city in 1881 on South Sherwood Street.

Caption For Charlestown, Harbour 1904

The principal export from the tiny south Cornish port of Charlestown was china clay, much of it bound for Runcorn; from there it would be forwarded on to the Potteries.

Caption For Leeds Castle, 1892

The south front was recast in 1822.

Caption For Bitteswell, White Cottage And St Mary's Church C1960

On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

Caption For Kingsbury, Church Of St Andrew C1965

In contrast to the picturesque qualities of St Andrews Old Church to its south, the late arrival has a not surprisingly metropolitan arrogance, as it was moved stone by stone from Well Street, close to

Caption For Pennard, The Castle 1893

Pennard stands high above a tidal creek some eight miles west-south-west of Swansea.