Maps

1,622 maps found.

1921, Bird Street Ref. POP640620
1920, Birts Street Ref. POP641033
1919, Tacker Street Ref. POP844313
1921, Street Lydan Ref. POP841655
1919, Wickridge Street Ref. POP869892
1920, Snow Street Ref. POP833780
1922, Ridlington Street Ref. POP816676
1919, Vernham Street Ref. POP858862
1920, Well Street Ref. POP862950
1920, Saxon Street Ref. POP825845
1920, Shalmsford Street Ref. POP828769
1921, Sherbourne Street Ref. POP829814
1920, Crockhurst Street Ref. POP683449
1921, Cross Street Ref. POP684410
1922, Crowgate Street Ref. POP684898
1921, Deerton Street Ref. POP689684
1921, Fenn Street Ref. POP704398
1919, Ford Street Ref. POP707657
1919, Foster Street Ref. POP708353
1920, French Street Ref. POP709278

Books

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Memories

6,666 memories found. Showing results 321 to 330.

Growing Up In Wandsworth

As a young schoolboy I lived in Wandle House off Garrett Lane which was owned by Peabody estates at that time. So, taking a walk from there, I can remember the rag and bone carts passing on their way home to the other ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1960 by Brian Parkinson

Playing In Salford

I was born in Salford in 1954, except for a brief spell of 4 years in Newton Heath in the late fifties, I have lived there ever since. When I was 11 years old my friend and I were playing digging on the old nursery croft on ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1964 by Tommy Loomes

31 King Street

Worked at J P Jacksons Butchers as a messenger boy. Good old days, great town and still is.

A memory of Ulverston in 1961 by Patrick Malone

51 Hempstead Street

I was born in Dover, but my mum was Welsh and we moved back to her home town when I was small. However, every year we would visit my dad's relatives in Kent (mainly Ashford). My Auntie Nell ran a flower shop here and I remember ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1955

Hulme Schools And Green Grocers

My girlfriend's mum went to Mulberry Street School in the 1950s and went on to Jackson Street School in Hulme, Manchester, and my grandparents on my mum's side had a green grocers in Moss Side. My ...Read more

A memory of Hulme in 1940

Guildford Area

I remember the castle well, as my family lived in Castle Street, and just after the war, for about two weeks (I'm not sure, but I think it could have been for National savings bonds), the castle was lit at night with a ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1940 by Peter Arthur

37 Fore Street

My dad's family lived at No 37, Fore Street, Westbury. My grandfathe'rs name was Fredrick Collier.

A memory of Westbury by Debra Collier Bayford

Gloria Cassons' Memories Of Collyhurst

Hi, I'm Gloria Casson, born in Crumsull Hospital. I went to St James School and St James Church. My mother's name was Mary Casson, I lived in Collyhurst Flats, Southern Drive - the eldest of 10 children. I ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1949 by Gloria Casson

Lower Broughton Road

I was born in Elton Street, Lower Broughton Rd. I remember my dad was always working and my mum was a loving mum. I had two sisters and four brothers. I remember the tin bath, the outside toilet, we didn't have much but we ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1957 by Georgina Seddon

The Halcyon 1950's

I lived with my family in Connaught Gardens from being born in 1949 to late 1960 when we moved to Shiremoor. At the end of our street was an overgrown, rubble strewn wasteland which we called 'The Croft'. A natural childrens ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall in 1950 by Malcolm Wild

Captions

5,381 captions found. Showing results 769 to 792.

Caption For Kimbolton, High Street C1960

Mainly Georgian houses front Kimbolton's wide High Street, laid out in medieval times to accommodate a market.

Caption For Gidea Park, Hare Street C1950

The word `street` is an ancient term meaning a row of buildings often sharing a common pavement and does not refer to the roadway passing by them. Hare Street is the name of a village.

Caption For Marlborough, High Street C1950

It probably had a jetty like that at Dormy House in Kingsbury Street. The building beyond, 2-4 High Street, is dated 1739, and was at that time a milk bar.

Caption For Gidea Park, Hare Street C1950

The word 'street' is an ancient term meaning a row of buildings often sharing a common pavement and does not refer to the roadway passing by them. Hare Street is the name of a village.

Caption For Ulverston, King Street 1950

This view along the main street towards the Market Square displays an air of rural pragmatism, with several of the shops displaying their wares for inspection outside.

Caption For London, Cannon Row, Westminster C1856

The name Cannon Row lives on in the narrow street off Bridge Street.

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1927

The High Street, with many cars, and a tarmacadam road, is much changed from earlier pictures. Simonds Bank is now Barclays, and Armstrongs has become Eighteens.

Caption For Sudbury, Mill Common 1932

From Stour Street we head north along the river. This photograph was taken from the railway line looking east across the Stour.

Caption For Reading, Oxford Street 1913

As we return to Broad Street we see the huge building on the right, the former McIlroys, opened in 1903 and known locally as Reading's Crystal Palace for its huge shop windows.

Caption For Canterbury, The Cathedral 1888

St Peter's Street and the High Street wind into the distance on the right, with the smaller towers of St Peter's church and St George's church visible just off to the left of the

Caption For Worcester, Laslett's Almshouses 1910

The almshouses stand at the junction of Friar Street and Union Street on a site previously occupied by the city gaol.

Caption For Cirencester, Market Place 1898

In Roman times Cirencester, Corinium Dubunnorum, was the second most important town in Britain after London, standing near the Roman roads of Akeman Street, the Fosse Way, Ermine Street and the older Icknield

Caption For Stamford, High Street 1922

Our photographer now proceeds east along the High Street, a relatively narrow street with a mix of 17th-century and later fronts, now pedestrianised.

Caption For London, The Strand 1915

It replaced an older theatre of the same name set between Wellington Street and Catherine Street.

Caption For Erith, High Street 1953

The climax of the High Street is the 1892 Cross Keys pub building in the centre of the photograph. To the right is the tall White Hart, completed in 1902.

Caption For Swinton, The Church 1896

St Peter's is the only church in the Manchester area to have been commissioned from George Edmund Street.

Caption For Salisbury, Bridge Street C1955

Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

Caption For Swindon, Commercial Road C1965

The street at this time was largely occupied by small businesses such as (on the right) Harold the jeweller's, with next door Hiscock's the builder and decorator's.

Caption For Ulverston, King Street 1950

Stead & Simpson is no longer on the left, but at the top of the street on the right.

Caption For Great Budworth, School Lane C1965

Great Budworth ia one of the prettiest of villages, and this must be one of the prettiest streets in it.

Caption For Reading, The Arcade 1896

Reading's covered market was built in a landlocked site entered via the Corn Exchange from Market Place and the great archway from Broad Street.

Caption For Chester, Foregate Street C1950

Foregate Street was one of the city locations painted by artist Louise Rayner (1832-1924) in a work entitled 'A Busy Street'. It certainly looks busy enough in this picture.

Caption For Tonbridge, High Street 1951

The crowded and busy pavements on both sides of the street, and the pedestrian crossing marked with belisha beacons in the middle of the photograph, show little indication of the enormous weight of motor

Caption For Rothwell, High Street C1955

Here the photographer looks north along the High Street, towards its junction with Bridge Street to the right, and Desborough Road curving left.