Maps

92 maps found.

1947, Croft Ref. NPO683522
1923, Croft Ref. POP683522
1946, Croft Ref. NPO683527
1920, Croft Ref. POP683525
1923, Croft Ref. POP683532
1898, Croft Ref. RNE683532
1946, Croft Ref. NPO683532
1903, Croft Ref. RNC683522
1899, Croft Ref. RNE683525
1899, Croft Ref. RNE683527
1906, Croft Ref. HOSM42330
1921, Croft Ref. POP683527
1947, Croft Ref. NPO683525
1896, Croft Ref. RNE683522
1895, Hendra Croft Ref. RNE731142
1946, Tresevern Croft Ref. NPO852831
1896, Croft Mitchell Ref. RNE683575
1921, Mesty Croft Ref. POP778498
1919, Croft Mitchell Ref. POP683575
1924, Crofts, The Ref. POP683713

Books

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Memories

272 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

My Early Years In Salford

I was born in Salford, at 15 School Street in 1951. My first school was Stowells Memorial, I think the headmistress was a Miss Dent. There was a butchers shop one the corner with the same name as our family, but I don't ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1951 by Jacqueline Timperley

My Early School Years In Mill Hill 1943 1950

I have few memories of my primary school which was in a private house in Croft Close a turning off of Marsh Lane, but I do remember being very happy there. This was during the latter war years. ...Read more

A memory of Mill Hill by Ron Sargeant

Wood House

Early C20 formal gardens and parkland designed and landscaped by Thomas Mawson and implemented by Robert Mawson of the Lakeland Nurseries, Windermere, surrounding a house designed by Dan Gibson with a ground plan by Thomas ...Read more

A memory of Taw Green by Tonnie Keith

Farley Croft Wwii

I am 86 but still remember the time at Farley Croft during WWII. My siblings and I were evacuated to Westerham in 1939. Around 1942/46 my sisters Rose, Sylvia and I were taken from the billet we were in and put in Farley Croft ...Read more

A memory of Westerham by rbbrett2004

Life In Cannich And Fasnakyle

My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction ...Read more

A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by Denman Lalonde

Fleetwood Ferry

My great-grandfather, Thomas Newton Croft, a member of the family that founded the Fleetwood to Knott End ferry, managed it for the local council from c.1896 to his death in 1915. I am told that my grandmother, Alice, used to do ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood in 1890 by John Dearing

Boyhood Memories Of Lymington

My parents, Edward (Jack) and Mavis Byard and myself and German Shepherd Dog Julie, moved from Poole, in Dorset, to live in a de-commissioned British Power Boat Motor Torpedo Boat, 451, in November 1947. My father ...Read more

A memory of Lymington by Michael Byard

Barn Croft.

The house in the middle is where I lived from 1972. The address is 62 Main Street and the house was called Barn Croft. The house on the right was a farm and the house that the middle house was built on was part of the ...Read more

A memory of Cossington

Bracebridge

I was born at number 2 Bracebridge in 1941. From childhood memories I think it was a canal side cottage. My mother was evacuated there from Coventry to avoid the bombing for a short stay. I think I must have arrived early as I don't ...Read more

A memory of Worksop by mjrcroft

Royal Masonic Schools Bushey (J Ston And Ston)

I am not sure if this kind of opportunity attracts those who feel anger at a perceived or real unfairness, during their childhood years, and/or those who have a tendency to dwell on the negative but I'd ...Read more

A memory of Bushey by Laurence Blight

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Captions

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Caption For Staverton, Croft Lane C1955

The small semi-circular extension on the cottage at the end of Croft Lane is a bread oven.

Caption For Sudbury, The Croft And Roman Catholic Church 1900

On the west side of the green area called the Croft, backing on to the river, are the workhouse and St Gregory's off to the left.

Caption For Sherington, Crofts End C1960

We are looking south-west down Crofts End, the lane which leads from Crofts End itself at the top of the hill behind the photographer to the main through road.

Caption For Kirkby In Furness, Chapels C1955

The Kirkby slate quarries are only a few hundred metres behind Anna's Croft, the field where this picture was taken.

Caption For Harlow, Orchard Croft C1955

The name Orchard Croft was taken from an old tithe map of the area.

Caption For Croft On Tees, View Over The River C1955

A line of mainly 18th- and 19th-century cottages line the banks of the mighty River Tees at Croft-on-Tees, a small settlement to the south of Darlington and very close to the borders of County Durham.

Caption For Rotherham, The Hospital 1895

As the town became more industrialised, the old Dispensary (in College Street since 1828) was replaced by this fine hospital in 1872, built in Babb's Croft along the Doncaster Road.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach From Fortuneswell 2003

This view is from the balcony of Knight's Croft, the home of Peter Morgan, who enjoys one of Dorset's classic views.

Caption For Staverton, Manor Road C1955

Needless to say, Manor Road leads to Staverton Manor and on up to The Croft, one of the oldest houses left in the village.

Caption For Tetbury, Chipping Steps C1965

Nearby, Chipping Croft is a 17th-century house to which an elegant balcony was added in Regency times.

Caption For Silecroft, The Village C1955

Silecroft takes its name from the Old Norse and means 'the croft where the sallows grew'.

Caption For Porthgwarra, Cove And Caves 1908

This is a rugged and treeless landscape, where the settlement consists of a few fishermen's houses and a small thatched croft.

Caption For Sudbury, The River 1895

On the right is a jetty in the garden of Croft Lodge.

Caption For Sudbury, The Croft Bridge 1900

This bridge over the Stour leads from The Croft (adjacent to St Gregory's Church on the right) to Fullingpit Meadows, part of Sudbury freemen's land, on the left.

Caption For Blackheath, 1921

In 1929, the Dublin-born crime writer Freeman Wills Crofts came to live in Blackheath.

Caption For Sudbury, Floodgate Pool 1932

On the skyline above the sluice are the tower of the Roman Catholic church, buildings along the Croft, the tower of St Gregory's Church, and the workhouse complex.

Caption For South Shields, King Street 1906

The horse-drawn trams are but a memory, and Isaac Black's famous clothing hall has replaced Greaves & Co, though Liptons and Crofts would be around for some years to come.

Caption For Godalming, Wesleyan Church And School 1903

From 1899 mass was celebrated in a corrugated iron building in Croft Road, but in 1904 the Godalming Catholic Parish was created and a new priest, Father Hyland, was appointed.

Caption For Colby, Village 1897

The village at this time is an unspoilt mix of traditional single-storey thatched crofts and solid-looking two-storey stone houses.

Caption For South Holmwood, Post Office 1906

South Holmwood's fire station was once just to the left of this picture, and the post office (extreme left), doubled up as Crofts', bakers and confectioners.

Caption For Hitchin, Bancroft C1955

Next to Blindell's is the Croft.

Caption For Wrea Green, The School C1965

Miss Croft and Mrs Cardwell taught at the school in the 1920s.

Caption For Goxhill, Church Street C1960

All Saints' Church dominates the scene, and the only change is the removal of the smaller second cottage of Long Croft, left.

Caption For Seale, Village From Hogs Back 1906

The remainder of the building, with its central tower and pyramidal spire, was rebuilt by J Croft between 1861 and 1873.