Maps

1,865 maps found.

1897-1902, Clapham Park Ref. RNC669413
1897-1902, Clapton Park Ref. RNC669450
1901-1903, Clarendon Park Ref. RNC669511
1902, Codnor Park Ref. RNC673227
1901-1902, Borough Park Ref. RNC646285
1897-1898, Bowes Park Ref. RNC647253
1902-1903, Bowring Park Ref. RNC647393
1901, Brampton Park Ref. RNC648622
1902, Cheadle Park Ref. RNC667142
1898, Glenleigh Park Ref. RNC716263
1902, Goldthorn Park Ref. RNC717354
1904-1905, Connel Park Ref. RNC676629
1898, Hampden Park Ref. RNC726182
1901-1902, Foley Park Ref. RNC707305
1902, Friar Park Ref. RNC709358
1897-1898, Dene Park Ref. RNC689955
1898-1899, Digswell Park Ref. RNC690755
1898-1901, Downhead Park Ref. RNC692715
1901-1903, Eslington Park Ref. RNC701954
1899, Filwood Park Ref. RNC705624

Books

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Memories

4,360 memories found. Showing results 551 to 560.

Happy Times

As children we were very priviliged to be part of the village community. We spent many carefree hours playing and making camps in the woods and fields, sometimes we would venture further but had to keep a watchful eye for the ...Read more

A memory of Turners Hill in 1965 by Tim Fieldwick

Stanley Road, South Harrow

I lived with my foster family in Stanley Road South Harrow, during the war. Our house backed on to the gas works and I always wanted to climb the gasometer which I did eventually with a friend from across the road. At ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1940 by Paul Howard

Grandparents

My nanny & granddad lived in Orrell Park, Westfield Road. I remember very well growing up because I lived in Aintree at that time, visiting them with mum & dad.  We would get the number 60 bus up to the corner of their ...Read more

A memory of Orrell in 1953 by Brenda Vanderwert

The Abbey Moor Park The Ghost Of Jonathan Swift

I went to Farnham art school in 1968-1971, and at that time, Moor Park was used as a conference centre, available for hire, and inclusive of staff and an elderly chaplain called Dr Bird.  As ...Read more

A memory of Waverley Abbey Ho in 1969 by sbushell

Growing Up With All My Relatives Living In Stramshall Parish

I was born in 1928, to John James and Olive Mellor, my grandfather was Percival Jackson Mellor, my grandmother Mary Ellen Mellor. They built with help Park Hill Farm, New Road, ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall by John Mellor

Runcorn Hill On A Summer's Day

Runcorn Hill was a wild place when I knew it back in the early 1960s. I remember even now the smell of the trees and the shade they brought on hot summer days. Yes, we had them back then, when spring came after winter ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1960 by Rosemary Probert

Happy Memories

I was born in Foregate Street, the home of my grandparents, in 1951. I left Stafford in 1953 and returned in 1960 to live in the north end of the town. I well remember playing on the 'Witches hat' with my friends, paddling in the ...Read more

A memory of Stafford in 1960 by Elizabeth Harrison

Playground Apparatuses

How wonderful to have my memory jogged by the lovely pictures of Clapham Common. After school, most days we (my brother Lance) and my mother would have such fun. We would play spot the park keeper, (always nicely ...Read more

A memory of Clapham in 1962 by Margaret Beil

Madeley As It Was

I was born in 1949 in Victoria Road, Madeley and have many memories of life as it was in the 1950's onwards. I remember Jones' buses, Pooles the cobblers, Carters, Stodd's the Drapers, Shums the chemist, and most ...Read more

A memory of Madeley in 1949 by First Name Last Name

O To Be A Boy Again

I remember Pickmere Lake (pond) where I and my buddies use to bike to with home made fishing rods tied to the crossbar, you could hire a row boat and get the real feel of lake fishing LOL!!  Our Mums packed us off  with ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1958 by Chris Walker

Captions

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Caption For Warrington, The Bowling Green, Bank Park C1955

Bank Park was fashioned out of the private gardens of Bank Hall.

Caption For Uttoxeter, Market Place C1955

Notice the old Whieldon's green bus parked outside.

Caption For Morden, Looking North East C1965

In preparation behind Morden Court is a car parking area, and beyond that are the carriage sheds for the Northern Line underground.

Caption For Camberley, High Street C1955

Notice the Police Officer on his bicycle to the left, examining a parked vehicle.

Caption For Kings Lynn, The Walks, Archway C1955

This archway and wall date back over two hundred years; it is known as Gannock Gate, and forms part of a huge park known as The Walks, where it was the perfect place for fashionable folk

Caption For Luton, Secondary Technical School C1955

Luton's dependence on a good supply of fully trained technicians and tradesmen meant that the old Technical School was transferred from Park Square (now the site of Luton University) to this site on the

Caption For Peterborough, The Park 1919

They are here in the park, and a fitting reminder of all the men lost during the First World War, which ended less than a year before this picture was taken.

Caption For Croyde, The Bay 1894

With two huge caravan parks, this area fills up dramatically in the short summer season.

Caption For Caversham, The Lock 1890

To the right across a stream, fine plane trees planted in King's Meadow park now overhang the towpath.

Caption For Sedbergh, Market Place 1901

The bold black-and-white half-timbering of G Sedgwick's draper and outfitters shop in the centre of the picture (the owners are proudly standing outside) is in marked contrast to the same shop which can

Caption For St Annes, The Pier C1955

An increasing use of motor vehicles means that a car park is needed.

Caption For Eastleigh, The Putting Green, Fleming Park C1955

Here we have another view of the pavilion and miniature golf course at Fleming Park, where there were also football, rugby and hockey pitches and tennis courts.

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 Cardiff, Sophia Gardens 1896

Sophia Gardens can be regarded as the city's first public park.

Caption For Cardiff, Fidlas Road C1965

Just out of picture at right is the tiny kiosk renowned locally for its Sunday opening - a rarity at this time and a perfect place for ice cream on route to Roath Park.

Caption For Nether Alderley, Potts' Shop C1955

In the 1930s, they also sold day licences for fishing in Radnor Mere in Alderley Park.

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1936

At the top is the junction of Heatcote Road and Park Road.

Caption For Normanton, Hawhill Park C1965

Hawhill Park is still a well- maintained recreation facility for the town; it reflects well on the foresight of the town's elders, who purchased the land in spite of much opposition from

Caption For Ebbw Vale, Gorsedd Stones C1960

They were later removed to their present site when the park was altered to make room for an extension to the steel works.

Caption For Harlech, High Street C1960

There are quite a number of cars parked in the narrow street in front of Harry and Alfred Kilminsters automobile engineering works (right), which specialized in car electrical repairs.

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park, The Lake And Bridge C1950

Another interesting memorial in the park is the dedication on the island in the middle of the lake.

Caption For Old Hunstanton, The Church 1896

This church is located close to the entrance of the park surrounding Hunstanton Hall, which was built by Sir Roger L'Estrange in the 16th century; he was a writer who favoured the Royalist cause, and he

Caption For Great Barton, The Round House C1960

It dates from the 1840s, when Sir Henry Bunbury created the park around the Hall.

Caption For Holmwood, Buckingham Road 1908

But Buckingham Road is now lined on both sides by parked cars, while overhead a positive cat's cradle of telephone wires and cables stretches across the intervening space.