Maps

181,006 maps found.

1896, Rothbury Ref. HOSM58212
1896, Stannington Ref. HOSM60284
1896, Throphill Ref. HOSM61760
1896, Tritlington Ref. HOSM62521
1896, Whitton Ref. HOSM64491
1882, Farley Ref. HOSM45154
1882, Homer Ref. HOSM48834
1882, Wyke Ref. HOSM65309
1897, Nantwich Ref. HOSM34945
1879, Aston Ref. HOSM36448
1897, Hack Green Ref. HOSM36587
1897, Stapeley Ref. HOSM37205
1897, Stoneley Green Ref. HOSM44620
1887, Narberth Bridge Ref. HOSM42087
1897, Abergarwed Ref. HOSM35262
1897, Bryn Côch Ref. HOSM57760
1897, Tonna Ref. HOSM62071
1891, Nelson Ref. HOSM34948
1910, Blacko Ref. HOSM38051
1884, Bevercotes Ref. HOSM37626

Books

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Memories

29,019 memories found. Showing results 3,151 to 3,160.

Evacuee From London

Dear Sir/Madam. I am at present researching my childhood days at 86,Easton Street Boys Hostel, High Wycombe. I do remember walking to school with other boys alongside the Wye River. The name of that school escapes my ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1949 by Robert Hyward Courteney

The Passing Of Trixie Olding.

Mabel (Trixie) Olding passed away on the 14th January 2012 at Two Beeches Nursing Home Wallis Road, Waterlooville at nearly 96 years of age. Prior to her being admitted to Two Beeches NH, Trixie lived for many ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville by Melvyn Griffiths

Monson Road Laundry

From 1964 to 1968 I worked many of my school holidays at the laundry in Monson Road. I earned 2 shillings an hour at first, but by 1968 was making four bob. It was hard work. We dealt with those endless roller towels that they ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1964 by Alan Wilkinson

Carshalton Park

My family moved to Park Avenue, near Carshalton Park in about 1955. I was about six or so at the time. I used to roller skate in the park and climb the big chestnut trees when the park keeper was not looking. There were old ...Read more

A memory of Carshalton in 1955 by Janet Ready

Manfred Mann/Merseybeats Gig In West Wickham

Re Malcolm's question 'does anyone remember the gig?'. I do. I was 10 and had no interest in music at that time and my parents hated pop music. Our house backed onto the tennis courts in Blakes ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1964 by David Hayhoe

Sileby My Early Life

I was born in Mountsorrel 1938 and soon moved to Sileby 10, Mountsorrel Lane with my mother Mabel Foukes [nee Burton]. My father Thomas was in the army and my mum worked at Newbold Burton and Lawson Ward. I remember convoys of ...Read more

A memory of Sileby in 1940 by David Foukes

The Pike

Many years ago in the late 1960s there was a stretch of canal down by old Royston. The local fishing club would spend hundreds of pounds on replenishing the fishing stocks with rainbow trout - the only problem with this idea was ...Read more

A memory of Royston by Roland Mitchell

Wonderful Feelings

My mother was born in Leeds and most years we would spend some time there. I came to love Leeds; such a vibrant place compared to Lincoln where we lived. This picture evokes a lot of feeling. From the V J celebrations in 1945 ...Read more

A memory of Leeds in 1945 by Terence Scarborough

The Trackless Buses

As a child in the late 1950s, I remember catching the trackless trolley bus in St. Sepulchre Gate, we lived on Beckett Road at the time, and caught the bus for home outside Hodgeson and Hepworths (Grocers), which was later ...Read more

A memory of Doncaster in 1959 by Eileen Robinson

June 2011

Well, I did visit Clements Hall last spring/summer 2011, after not seeing C.H in about fifty years ago. We parked at the keep fit-gym club and as soon as I got out of the car I turned around and saw the the playing field, known then as ...Read more

A memory of Hockley in 1960 by Christine Breedon

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Captions

29,158 captions found. Showing results 7,561 to 7,584.

Caption For Ightham, The Village C1960

The half-timbered frontage of the George and Dragon inn (on the left of the photograph) dates from 1515.

Caption For St Ives, Bridge Street 1914

The building with the jettied gables to the left dates back to the 17th century, on the face of it one of the oldest buildings in St Ives, although earlier buildings survive behind more modern facades.

Caption For Roseberry Topping, And The Kings Head C1960

This view from The King's Head at Newton-under-Roseberry shows the quarried face of Roseberry Topping, known affectionately as 'the Matterhorn of Cleveland', which stands at just over 1,000 feet above

Caption For Lydney, The Harbour C1960

Lydney is situated upon the northern side of the Severn almost opposite Sharpness.

Caption For Cropton, The Green C1955

A deserted seat stands invitingly under the spreading chestnut tree on the village green at Cropton, four miles from Pickering on the southern edge of the North York Moors.

Caption For Groudle Glen, The Rustic Path 1894

Only a year earlier Mr R M Broadbent had opened the Groudle Glen Hotel as part of a continuing series of improvements to attract visitors.

Caption For Stokes Bay, The Beach 1898

Just a handful of people and two bathing machines can be seen in this late-Victorian photograph of Stokes Bay.

Caption For Barnstaple, Parish Church 1919

The pleasing interior of the church is the result of Sir George Gilbert Scott's work. He had the choir stalls re-arranged to allow more space.

Caption For Romsey, Sadler's Mill C1955

Romsey's mills depended on the river Test and its branches for their power.

Caption For Horsforth, Hall Park 1901

This picturesque park was presented to the townspeople by William Mathieson of Wilson and Mathieson of Armley.

Caption For Horsforth, Hall Park 1901

This picturesque park was presented to the townspeople by William Mathieson of Wilson and Mathieson of Armley.

Caption For Castletown, From The Pier 1903

Little has changed since picture No 33024 was taken, save for the building of a lifeboat station. St Mary's was rebuilt in the 1830s, replacing the church built by Bishop Thomas Wilson in 1701.

Caption For Bursledon, The Village C1960

The older part is naturally more interesting, with its quaint old buildings clinging to the banks of the Hamble.

Caption For Skegness, Pier 1899

The long promenade to the pierhead - about a third of a mile - had continuous seating each side; the tube forming the top rail of the backrest on the south side doubled up as a gas pipe to provide lighting

Caption For Ilkley, The Moors 1914

Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.

Caption For Launceston, Fore Street 1893

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

Caption For Mullion, Gunwalloe Church Cove C1955

The church of St Winwalloe is hidden below the cliffs in the foreground.

Caption For Dublin, St Stephen's Green, The Lake And The College 1897

Looking across the lake in St Stephen's Green to the portico of the Royal College of Surgeons. It was designed by Edward Parke in 1806 and completed in 1829.

Caption For Hunsdon, The Green C1965

With its colourful display of carefully tended flowers, spreading chestnut tree and white picket fences, this scene makes for an archetypal illustration of what most people visualise when thinking of

Caption For Slapton, Church And Chantry Tower 1890

In the background is the ruined tower of the chantry church founded in 1327 by Sir Guy de Bryan, one of the first Knights of the Garter.

Caption For Coventry, Greyfriars Green C1955

Greyfriars Green is dominated by the spire of Christchurch (c1350), all that remains of a monastery established in 1234 and demolished in 1539.

Caption For Dartmouth, New Quay 1890

Before that, ships tied up at the churchyard wall of St Saviour's, the tower of which, built in 1631, can be seen in the centre.

Caption For Newton Abbot, Globe Hotel And St Leonard's Tower 1906

A party of guests has boarded a coach outside The Globe Hotel, probably to enjoy a day's excursion to Torquay or the wilds of Dartmoor. The hotel is now reduced in status to a furniture warehouse.

Caption For York, Heslington Hall, University Of York C1960

This elegant Elizabethan mansion was originally built for the Secretary of the Council of the North in 1568.