Maps

1,865 maps found.

1921, Wrottesley Park Ref. POP875004
1919, Wroughton Park Ref. POP875009
1947, Adlington Park Ref. NPO619887
1920, Woodside Park Ref. POP874072
1901-1902, Selly Park Ref. RNC827544
1898-1899, Welshwood Park Ref. RNC863234
1897-1899, Hook Park Ref. RNC739946
1897-1898, Hungershall Park Ref. RNC742207
1923, Abbeydale Park Ref. POP618434
1898, Rocks Park Ref. RNC819185
1902, Rowley Park Ref. RNC821229
1897-1909, Worcester Park Ref. RNC874507
1898-1901, Wroughton Park Ref. RNC875009
1903-1904, Tong Park Ref. RNC849911
1903, Trafford Park Ref. RNC851384
1897-1898, Wilton Park Ref. RNC870839
1902-1903, Abbeydale Park Ref. RNC618434
1903, Adlington Park Ref. RNC619887
1902-1903, Aldersey Park Ref. RNC621274
1898, Baddow Park Ref. RNC629965

Books

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Memories

4,360 memories found. Showing results 541 to 550.

The Fair Green

The Fair Green was one of the first places my sister Valerie Cooper (nee Hook) worked in her capacity as an apprentice horticulturist for the Mitcham Council. When she went for the job they told her that she would have to do the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1961 by Carole Baldwin

Childhood Days

I lived in Kingskerswell as a young child and emigrated to Australia in 1986. I was 10yrs. I missed it dearly and have fond memories although I forget the names of streets etc. I went to the local Primary school both old and ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell in 1880 by Kirstie Bond

Picture Postcards And Photos

Just wondering if there are any photo's with regards to a sweet shop on Bridge Road Blundellsands called "Confectioners" and photographs of Merrilocks Road.I also remember a great design house on Burbo Bank Road called ...Read more

A memory of Crosby by Angela Cameron

Turnford A Peaceful Place

I was born and grew up in a happy, peaceful village where everyone knew everyone else. My memories are of long walks in a beautiful countryside which could have been a million miles from London instead of an hour on a ...Read more

A memory of Turnford by Geraldine Atkinson

Our Honeymoon

These pictures bring back delightful memories! We spent a week of our honeymoon in the 16th century mill at Lydia Bridge.  Across the lawn was a view of the brook and early spring flowers.  We stepped outside to the sound of the ...Read more

A memory of South Brent in 1999 by Elizabeth Goehringer

Where I Grew Up Born 1944

My Mum and Dad moved into the village in the 1930's into a new house in Rogers Lane and lived there for 66 years.  My father was the village tailor working from a workshop in the back garden.  My mother was very ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Poges in 1950 by Vivien Halse

Salford In The War

As a child I lived in Earl St Hanky Park then moved to Cottrill St off Ellor St.   I attended John St school in the Ellor St area. I never really knew my dad.  He went in the army when I was 4 years old in 1939 and returned in ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1930 by Albert Morris

The Watford To Rickmansworth Railway In The Second World War

Croxley Green station is now - in the 21st century - merely a shadow of its former busy life. My Auntie Dorrie (Doris Lacey) worked at this station throughout the Second World War ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by John Howard Norfolk

Looking Back

I was born in St Peters St, Islington, 1935, bombed out late 1943, with nowhere to go, had a makeshift home in Aloysius College for a time until we were given a place in 4 Montague Road, Honsey, N8, that's where I knew what it was like ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1944 by George Burton

School Days

Before becoming the home of George Harrison of the Beatles, Friar Park was run as a school by sisters of the St. John Bosco order. This was my first school and I remember having to walk all the way to the main door along the ...Read more

A memory of Henley-on-Thames in 1960 by Mandy Lester

Captions

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Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

The space in front of the shops is now a car park, and the traffic island has shrunk.

Caption For Malton, Yorkersgate C1960

The offices of the local newspaper, The Malton Gazette, are on the left, and a newspaper van is parked opposite.

Caption For Stroud, From Above Butter Row 1890

Upper Stroud is in the distance, with Park Road below, still at this period containing only a few large private houses.

Caption For Walberswick, Village 1919

Just beyond the Inn is an area known as the 'fishermen's flats' (these days a car park), where the fishermen laid out their nets on trestles to dry.

Caption For Luton, Park Square 1897

roads leading to Hitchin, Wheathampstead and London was large enough to support the open-air market, which stretched the 100 yards through the middle of the picture from the Corn Exchange through to Park

Caption For Waddesdon, The Five Arrows Hotel 1901

Baron Rothschild transformed a bare hilltop near Aylesbury into a wooded park, crowned with a spectacular French-style chateau.

Caption For Ranworth, St Helen's Church 1934

The road has widened little since 1934, and there is now a small area where two or three cars can park.

Caption For Ingoldmells, Vickers Point And Beach C1955

Inland, Ingoldmells is very much kiss-me-quick hat country, with vast caravan parks, amusement arcades and a fun fair whose piece de resistance is the Volcano.

Caption For Hove, The Parade 1921

Behind the spacious promenade are the superb 1820s stucco compositions of Brunswick Square and Terrace and Adelaide Terrace beyond, all rather like Nash's Regents Park in London.

Caption For Dinnington, Lordens Hill C1965

There are few cars parked along the street, but in those days private car ownership amid working families was still something of a novelty.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The Regatta 1890

The Firs on the left, with its oriel window, is at the end of Riverside, now private parking for the hotel.

Caption For Bawtry, Buttercross, Market Place C1965

This view shows a virtually-deserted Market Place at Bawtry, with a 'half-timbered' Morris Minor prominently parked by the old Buttercross.

Caption For Buscot, The Village C1950

Close by is Buscot Park, famous for its walled gardens, extensive grounds and lake, and the Faringdon art collection.

Caption For Southampton, The Stag Gates 1908

A rather complex road junction now marks the spot where these gates once stood.The gates, signifying the entrance to the Bevois Mount Estate, date back to 1844, but were removed before World War Two

Caption For Eastleigh, The Town Hall C1960

The old Town Hall is a dignified building of mellow brick with a clock beneath an elegant cupola.The building looks just the same now as it did in about 1960; nowadays, part of it is a dance and

Caption For London, Marble Arch C1890

Marble Arch, in the corner of the picture, was placed in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in 1851.

Caption For Cardiff, City Hall And Law Courts 1906

Objectors to the audacious scheme suggested alternative sites in the Arms Park and Temperance Town.

Caption For Flookburgh, Market Street 1903

The only traffic is a cart parked by a barn on the right of the road, its shafts up in the air (right).

Caption For Clumber Park, C1955

Clumber Park, like Rufford, is heavily wooded; it was enclosed out of Sherwood Forest, that great forest that extends from Worksop southwards almost to Nottingham.

Caption For Ravenscar, The Camping Coaches C1955

This pair of old railway coaches parked on the cliff top at Ravenscar, the eastern terminus of the Lyke Wake Walk, served as basic accommodation for campers in the mid-Fifties, but they have long since

Caption For Belton, Belton House 1904

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

Caption For Petworth, House 1898

The west side, with its balanced Renaissance design, overlooks the lake, which with its meandering curves and seemingly natural islands forms part of the adjoining walled park, landscaped by Capability

Caption For Gravesend, New Road C1955

Behind the parked car on the left, the striped awning protects a tobacconist's display from the sun, while next door is the extensive frontage of the British Home Stores, with the offices of the Pearl

Caption For Odiham, High Street 1903

Go there today and you will find a delightful little town with handsome buildings, lines of busy shops and pubs and many cars parked at the roadside - all of it creating a colourful, bustling community