Maps

1,865 maps found.

1898, Tusmore Park Ref. HOSM62702
1886, Brocklesby Park Ref. HOSM39070
1896 - 1935, Brookmans Park Ref. HOSM39147
1895, Lambton Park Ref. HOSM70697
1882 - 1883, Rapsgate Park Ref. HOSM57456
1920, Upton Park Ref. POP858149
1920, Wallands Park Ref. POP859886
1920, Wandle Park Ref. POP860333
1923, Waterloo Park Ref. POP861811
1919, Rye Park Ref. POP823238
1919, Weston Park Ref. POP866361
1923, Wheatley Park Ref. POP867034
1919, The Park Ref. POP846485
1919, Thornhill Park Ref. POP847206
1945, Bedford Park Ref. NPO636244
1919, Woodloes Park Ref. POP873758
1920, Woodway Park Ref. POP874146
1947, Aldersey Park Ref. NPO621274
1947, Arden Park Ref. NPO626401
1940, Ashley Park Ref. NPO627784

Books

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Memories

4,361 memories found. Showing results 231 to 240.

Those Were The Days!

I was born in a house on the Eastern Avenue between Cantly gardens and Denham Drive in 1955. I moved to wales to go to uni in 1975. I worked as a Saturday girl in Barton’s the bakers in Gants Hill for a ridiculously low wage. ...Read more

A memory of Gants Hill by Gill Fitzgibbon

An Evacuee 1940 1945 David Bush

I am now 89 but I was only 7 when I was collected from the pavement at the end of Yeo Vale Rd in 1940. I was given shelter at number 41 Carrington Terrace the home of Mr. & Mrs. Gear and their daughter Mary. ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple by David Bush

Suttons 1955 1960

Lived at 387 Elm Park Avenue. Benhurst Primary, then Suttons. I too studied under Miss/Mrs Syrett, Mr Walsh (great guy) / Mr Crew/ and the formidable Mr Pike for the last two years! Was he a stern bully or just trying to toughen ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by Keith Kelly

Fond Holiday Memories

In the summer of 1963 my Dad took my sister (11), brother (4) and me (6) to stay with my Auntie Marie.  She lived in the house adjoining the pub.  I think it had a name like Penryn and appeared on the front cover of Country ...Read more

A memory of High Easter in 1963 by Christine Mabbett

The Black Bull Pub

The Black bull pub has sadly been changed into two houses and a house has been built in what was the Black bull car park.

A memory of Cliffe in 2006 by Jan Douch

Annunciation Infants And St Martins Junior School Burnt Oak 1977 1983

I was born in 1973 and lived in Burnt Oak for 6 lovely years from aged 4 to 10 when we relocated to South London. I attended the Annunciation Primary School and St Martins School ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by Shane O Neill

The Park

The "Park" - known to us as "The Rec". I walked across this daily to and from my prep school 1945-50 and our scout troup did it's woodcraft here!

A memory of Haywards Heath

Memories Of Clifton Park

            I lived near Clifton Park for a number of years. My memories take me back to WW2. During the Summer months my friends and I used to play football,we put our coats down for the goals, we had a good game and ...Read more

A memory of Rotherham in 1940 by Stanley Horton

Early School Days In Crouch End

I was born in 1946 and attended Rokesley Infants school from 1951 to 1953. We baby boomers were too many for the main school and in 1952 my class was in a private house just up the road from the school. We had to ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End by Helen Dickinson

Growing Up In Tyldesley

My name is Mary Jenkins. Kurtz, I was born in Tyldesley. In 1942.I spent many hours at the Tyldesley park and playing on the station field Oh how I Miss those Steam Engines.I came to the USA in 1960,My children grew up ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley by Mary Jenkins/. Kurtz

Captions

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Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1950

Perhaps they want the fresh bread that is just being delivered from the van parked outside.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Marsh Lock C1955

Field Marshal Conway's great 18th-century landscape improve- ments and garden buildings in the grounds of Park Place included the rustic boulder-bedecked bridge on the right, carrying the Wargrave

Caption For Cambridge, 1914

There may not be anything in the way of a garden, but the flower boxes and tubs certainly help to brighten up what otherwise appears to be a parking place for bicycles and hand carts.

Caption For Gloucester, Raikes's Sunday School 1923

St Catherine's Knapp, Park Street, is reportedly the site of the first girls' Sunday school, founded by Robert Raikes.

Caption For London, Home Office C1890

The entire building, completed in 1875, included the Foreign Office and the India Office on the St James's Park frontage.

Caption For London, Chelsea, Cheyne Walk C1890

Rowing on the river was a popular weekend activity; from here rowers could go across to the attractive Battersea Old Church, or downstream past the natural bank where Battersea Park has now been developed

Caption For Chawton, The Village C1955

It was in this house on the left that Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.

Caption For Cambridge, 1914

There may not be anything in the way of a garden, but the flower boxes and tubs certainly help to brighten up what otherwise appears to be a parking place for bicycles and hand carts.

Caption For Kendal, Grammar School 1891

Kendal has always been an important service centre for the southern Lake District, and today is the headquarters of both the South Lakeland District Council and the Lake District National Park Authority

Caption For Shrewsbury, The Castle C1960

Today it overlooks the railway station, whose car park we can see here.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1927

Daimler taxis are parked outside the Bull Hotel (left) and the Town Hall clock is at noon (centre0 which is borne out by the shadows from the south and shop blinds shading the windows.

Caption For Chesterfield, Church 1914

The iron railings probably went for wartime salvage, and a part of the gardens disappeared to make way for car parking.

Caption For Chesterfield, Holy Trinity Church 1914

When Holy Trinity became an ecclesiastical parish in its own right in 1841 it included the West Park area, though this was taken away when the boundaries were adjusted in 1908.

Caption For Harrogate, View From Prospect Hotel 1902

A room at the Prospect cost from 4s 6d, with dinner at 6s a head, which put it in the same price as the Grand in Cornwall Road, but more expensive than the West Park, where rooms were from 3s, and dinner

Caption For Wilton, The Square C1965

In this view of the Market Place, the vehicles in the car park are typical of the period, and the van in the centre probably came from RAF Chilmark nearby.

Caption For Reigate, Bell Street 1936

On the left is Reigate Park.

Caption For Aldershot, Bathing Pool 1931

As well as public parks and memorial gardens, Aldershot is famous for its enormous open-air swimming pool, which covers an acre and can hold a million gallons of water.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street C1965

Even at this time it was difficult to find a parking space here.

Caption For Aldershot, Bathing Pool 1931

As well as public parks and memorial gardens, Aldershot is famous for its enormous open-air swimming pool, which covers an acre and can hold a million gallons of water.

Caption For Helmsley, The Square C1955

The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel dominates this view of the Square at Helmsley, the attractive castle-crowned capital of the North York Moors National Park.

Caption For London, St Marylebone Parish Church C1965

This church in busy Marylebone Road is best seen as the climax of a vista from Regent's Park opposite.

Caption For Whitworth, The Memorial Park 1951

The cenotaph can be seen to the left of centre of the park, which is on Market Street.

Caption For Accrington, The Rock Gardens, Oak Hill Park 2004

Here we see one of the inscribed stones, restored for the centenary of the park in 1993.