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Maps

2,499 maps found.

1912, South-Haa Ref. RNC835698
1920, South Chingford Ref. POP1188995
1903, Athersley South Ref. RNC628309
1947, South Anston Ref. NPO834336
1947, South Bank Ref. NPO834372
1945, South Beddington Ref. NPO834403
1946, South Brewham Ref. NPO834448
1947, South Broomhill Ref. NPO834457
1947, South Carlton Ref. NPO834486
1947, South Corrielaw Ref. NPO834557
1946, South Croydon Ref. NPO834579
1947, South Duffield Ref. NPO834641
1947, South End Ref. NPO834661
1947, South Goldstone Ref. NPO834779
1940, South Gorley Ref. NPO834781
1947, South Gosforth Ref. NPO834783
1946, South Hackney Ref. NPO834812
1898, South Acre Ref. RNE834320
1896, South Acton Ref. RNE834323
1899, South Anston Ref. RNE834336

Books

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Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 301 to 310.

Lost Opportunity?

I was born in Drayton in 1943 and was at Solent Road School and the Northern Grammar School for Boys. I then went to London University and subsequently worked abroad while returning to Portsmouth regularly where I have my UK Home ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth by Sir Roger Fry

Lancing In The Fifties And Sixties

My family moved to Lancing when I was six months old, living first in Orchard Avenue and then Tower Road, which had a bad reputation - totally undeserved! I liked the fact that there were always children to play ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by Avril Boyd

Best Holiday Ever

When I saw this photo, and read the memory by Jill Graham, I have to admit that tears filled my eyes. I stayed at Ashleigh with my parents and sister in the 60s. It was the first time that my parents had ever booked a holiday ...Read more

A memory of Allendale Town

The Oriel, Racecourse And The Later 60 S

The racecourse was pretty much my home all my life, Kempton Avenue. Sorry, a bit of a personal ramble here mixed with my remeniscing about me to put into context; I was born in Ealing in 53 of Welsh family (5 older ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Nick Parr,

Mining My Archive

At the age of ten, my father moved me and the rest of the family from Low Fell to Esh Winning, without consulting any of us, including my mother. He had bought a tumble-down holiday cottage, situated between the pit-heap and the ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by David Woodhead

Best Childhood Ever

We moved to the prefabs in South Road, South Ockendon in 1949 From London, my sister and I started school in the village school the headmaster was Mr Impy after that we went to the new school which was called Mardyke School ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Jean Compton

My Grandmother Had A Boarding House

My grandmother had a boarding house on Grand Parade on Hayling Island through the fifties into the sixties. Our summer holidays every year were to visit her in Hayling Island with all our extended large ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island

Newbury Way And Rayners Gardens

I'm Steve and the earliest memories are of Newbury Way, a lower half of a 2 bedroom maisonette with an open coal fire and larder including a concrete slab to keep stuff cold. I recall riding my three wheeled bike ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Steve White

Abseiling

My mother raised money abseiling down the flat. She also abseiled down Table Top mountain in South Africa....and built a Well. This also has a darker memory.... It was from the 8th floor. I bore witness. SQR

A memory of Jarrow

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

Captions

2,444 captions found. Showing results 721 to 744.

Caption For Bisley, The Hen And Chickens C1955

The ranges run south- east to north-west, with the targets below the number boards on the bund, or earthwork, behind them.

Caption For Cropthorne, 1901

At the south-eastern corner of Worcestershire stands Cropthorne, a pretty village just off the Evesham to Pershore road.

Caption For Harwich, Church Street 1954

A view looking south towards St Nicholas' church of 1821 and the adjoining Three Cups Hotel, part of which dates from the early 16th century.Admiral Nelson and Lady Hamilton stayed there.

Caption For Croxley Green, 1897

A magnificent oak tree dominates the common land and the pleasant nearby houses of this little hamlet on the southern outskirts of Rickmansworth, where, on land to the south-west, the famous Croxley

Caption For Paignton, Gerston Hotel 1907

The railway (then the South Devon, which was taken over by the great Western in 1878) came to Paignton in 1859, and eventually ran through to Kingswear.

Caption For Romsey, Broadlands 1898

Situated to the south of the town, overlooking the Test, Broadlands is an imposing porticoed house remodelled in classical style by 'Capability' Brown and John Holland in the mid 18th century.

Caption For Ludlow, The Broad Gate 1923

It is the south gate in the medieval town walls; it is now almost lost amongst the later buildings that have since been attached to it.

Caption For Didsbury, Parish Church C1955

St James's, Skinner Lane was remodelled no less than three times during the 19th century, in 1855, 1871 (chancel) and 1895 (south aisle).

Caption For Hope Cove, Cottages 1890

Hope is one of the more remote corners of Devon, located on the west side of the South Hams, six miles from Kingsbridge.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park 1896

additional areas added, the park totalled a grand 102 acres, which follows the Roath Brook between fashionable Cyncoed and Penylan to the east and Heath, Cathays and Roath to the west and south

Caption For Bussage, Church 1910

The porch and the three-bay south aisle were added in 1854 by G F Bodley.

Caption For Dover, Admiralty Pier 1906

In 1906, plans for Admiralty Pier were amended to allow the building of a station for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway. Two years earlier, transatlantic liners had begun to use the port.

Caption For Stretton, Church C1960

Stretton - the name comes from the Old English, and refers to a settlement on a Roman road - is a small hamlet south of Clay Cross.

Caption For Nutfield, Kings Mill 1906

There were two flourishing mills north and south of Nutfield, with this southern one still operating until recently, when it was featured in a film documentary.

Caption For Burton Fleming, The Church C1960

There was once a south aisle, but this was removed, as was the chancel arch. A small turret clock, with two dials, was erected in the tower in commemoration of Queen Victoria's jubilee.

Caption For Brynmawr, Heads Of The Valleys Road C1960

The A465 road on its way westwards from Abergavenny links several South Wales valleys. The stretch from Abergavenny to Ebbw Vale rises at its highest point to 1350ft.

Caption For Great Cornard, The Church 1900

The south aisle with its square-headed windows was rebuilt in 1887 by a bequest of William King.

Caption For Northleach, The Stocks C1955

Northleach stands on the road from South Wales to London; it became an important coaching town, where inns such as the half-timbered Kings Head we see here provided shelter and accommodation to travellers

Caption For Seatown, Anchor Inn 1930

We are looking south-westwards from the River Winniford.

Caption For Sambourne, The Green Dragon C1965

The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.

Caption For Upton, The Arrowe Park Hotel C1955

Strictly speaking, Arrowe Park Hotel is in Woodchurch to the south of Upton. Possibly the only change since the 1950s is its clientele - visually it is much the same.

Caption For Freston, The Church C1955

This was restored in 1875 and faced with beach pebbles, and a curious vestry was added to the south side. Internally the beams that supported the rood screen can still be seen.

Caption For Eastbourne, Promenade 1912

The Wish Tower, in the distance on the left, was built as a Martello Tower, one of over one hundred round-tow- ered fortlets built along the south coast during the Napoleonic Wars.

Caption For Bere Alston, Street 1898

Although only a few miles from Plymouth to the south and Tavistock to the north, Bere Alston feels quite remote, situated on the peninsula between the Tamar and Tavy.