Maps

1,865 maps found.

1897, High Park Ref. RNE733343
1898, Grange Park Ref. RNE719034
1895, Park Corner Ref. RNE800488
1895, Park Corner Ref. RNE800489
1898, Park End Ref. RNE800508
1896, Park Gate Ref. RNE800918
1897, Park Head Ref. RNE800966
1899, Park Village Ref. RNE801264
1896, Manor Park Ref. RNE773969
1896, Manor Park Ref. RNE773971
1895, Leigh Park Ref. RNE754826
1896, Queen's Park Ref. RNE812309
1897, Queen's Park Ref. RNE812312
1947, West Park Ref. NPO864824
1920, Manor Park Ref. POP773973
1919, Park Town Ref. POP801258
1921, Park Wood Ref. POP801330
1919, Park Gate Ref. POP800923
1900, Old Park Ref. RNC796990
1940, Manor Park Ref. NPO773973

Books

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Memories

4,360 memories found. Showing results 611 to 620.

Manor Road Sidcup

I was born in Farnborough hospital in June 1956. My mother is Austrailian and my father grew up in and around Bridgwater in Somerset. From the period of 1956 -1960 we lived in the top flat at 12 Manor Road (now sadly gone), the ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1956 by Julian Bishop

Family Picnics In 1950s

In the 1950s my family made regular summer trips to a scenic and elevated spot somewhere in the general area of Aylesbury for family picnics.  I have a few b&w snaps - one of which shows a road wide enough for two ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1955 by Susan Coleman

Further Afield

Osterley Park became within striking distance of my Hounslow home once I had a bike and from about the age of 12 (1960) would cycle there with a school friend with our bottles of pop and jam sandwiches, to roam the grounds and ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1960 by Susan Coleman

My Memories Of Cromer

Born in 1947 in Suffield Park, as was, Cottage Hospital on Overstrand Road. Lived in Links Avenue until 1959. My memories are vast. I went to school in the centre of Cromer which is now converted to senior citizens ...Read more

A memory of Cromer in 1952 by Lindsay Williams

War Years In Earley

I lived in Clarendon Road until 1954. Does anyone remember the V1 doodlebug that crashed in Whitenights Park, causing a huge crater? In those days we would spend a lot of time in Earley Woods at the back of the allotments at the ...Read more

A memory of Earley in 1940 by Lewis Shaw

Simms Cross

I was born at 9 Frederick Street, in 1941, and my earliest memory is of flags, streamers and buntings strung across the street every time a soldier came home 'from the war'. I don't know why, but the Union Jack flag absolutely ...Read more

A memory of Widnes in 1941 by Jackie Worrall

Bushy Park

Yes Thomas, we lived in the Magnolia Rest. We used to get a lot of the Bushy Park crowd in my parents' place, thought I would share the memory.

A memory of Hampton Wick in 1959 by Christopher Baggott

Happy Days

Ferniegair is very dear to my heart. Being fortunate to have two sets of relatives who lived there we spent many happy times visiting them. As soon as we arrived at one Aunt's house it was off with the coats and across the road to ...Read more

A memory of Ferniegair

The Good Old Days

I lived in Streethouse but when I was 4 we moved to the newish estate at the top of the 'Knob' (North Featherstone). We lived at 49 Manor Drive, next door to the Simkins. My dad was a miner at Sharlston and Snydale ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone by Cyril Woodhead

Does Any One Remeber

Does anyone remember Park Road North in the 1960s? Well, I think it was the 60s as that was the year my mother was born. There was a shop along there, I'm not too sure of the name, but it was attached to a house, the ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1960

Captions

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Caption For Bishop's Stortford, South Street C1955

Our photograph shows one bus and one bicycle: today it is a nose-to-tail stream of traffic, and strictly no parking.

Caption For Hunmanby, The Church 1895

The archway, dating from 1870, is in memory of Admiral Robert Mitford, who lived in Hunmanby Hall with its 56-acre park.

Caption For Hartlepool, Park Road And Gardens C1965

This pretty garden lies on the corner of Park Road and York Road.

Caption For Middlesbrough, Albert Park C1955

Just inside the ornamental gates we can see the original house of the Park Curator, which today serves as a small café.

Caption For Buriton, High Street C1960

Not far away is Queen Elizabeth Country Park.

Caption For Netley, The Royal Victoria Hospital C1955

The hospital is now demolished, and today this is the site of Royal Victoria Country Park.

Caption For Sarisbury Green, The Parade C1965

Parked is a Hillman Imp with L-plates that in 1967 cost £665 at Alec Bennett in Portswood.

Caption For Stokes Bay, C1955

Stanley Park is next to the beach.

Caption For Skegness, North Shore C1955

What it does not have now is a helter-skelter and the North Shore Café - all that has gone, and there is now a huge car park here.

Caption For Frensham, Troops At Frensham 1917

Frensham is known for its ponds and its common – now Frensham Country Park.

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Caption For Windermere, From Calgarth 1887

The site is now a caravan park.

Caption For Bakewell, The Square 1956

Hulley's, a local coach firm, have one of their vehicles parked on the bus stand.

Caption For Bosham, The Village 1902

The road now swings round into a car park, passing along the side of the Old Bakery.

Caption For Lechlade, Riverside Tea Gardens C1955

Nowadays the fields to the far left are a leisure yacht park - yachts are the river's modern traffic - and the tea garden in the middle distance has long gone.

Caption For Wimborne, The Square C1965

In this picture, The Square is beginning to acquire its modern layout with marked parking bays in the centre, one-way arrows and white lines to define the bus-stop outside the Midland Bank

Caption For Cranleigh, The Village Hall C1960

Village Way now passes to its left to the Leisure Centre and its car parks.

Caption For Littleborough, The Harbour, Hollingworth Lake C1955

In 1980 the lake became one of the top ten country parks in the country.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park Lake 1925

Note the open vista through the trees at the top left of photograph - the park not yet fully encircled by housing.

Caption For Woolpit, Main Street C1955

This group includes the Bull (centre left) and the late 15th-century Weaver's House beyond the parked car.

Caption For Port Talbot, The M4 Motorway C1966

Beulah Methodist chapel had to be removed to make way for the motorway, and was rebuilt in the country park in the Afan Valley.

Caption For Richmond, The Channel 1929

The coffee merchant E W Coleman's van is parked outside his shop (centre); beside its window is an LNER train timetable - Station Road is off to the left.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Hazelgrove Caravan Site C1955

The Hazelgrove Glen was given to Saltburn by the Marquis of Zetland in 1899; it became the town's first free park in 1904, after some initial reluctance by the Town Council to adopt and develop it.

Caption For Aldershot, Union Street C1965

Parked outside Timothy Whites (left) is a 1954 Austin A40 Cambridge saloon.