Photos

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Maps

656 maps found.

1898, Tonyrefail Ref. HOSM62171
1898, Ynyshir Ref. HOSM65535
1898, Cwmpennar Ref. HOSM42741
1898, Penrhiwceiber Ref. HOSM56479
1898, Clydach Vale Ref. HOSM41323
1898, Williamstown Ref. HOSM64642
1899-1900, Taffs Well Ref. RNC844373
1922, Cilfynydd Ref. POP668845
1922, Coedely Ref. POP673439
1923, Bryn Ref. POP653593
1923, Cefn Rhigos Ref. POP665455
1923, Cefnpennar Ref. POP665703
1922, Cross Inn Ref. POP684338
1923, Cwmaman Ref. POP686885
1923, Cwmdare Ref. POP687006
1923, Cwm-Hwnt Ref. POP687099
1923, Cwmpennar Ref. POP687176
1947, Tylorstown Ref. NPO855591
1947, Upper Church Village Ref. NPO857153
1947, Ton Pentre Ref. NPO849877

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Memories

248 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.

Cannon Street

Does anyone have a photo of Cannon Street?

A memory of Ellesmere Port

St Mary School

At the top of the town towards the flats is St Mary's church.  I used to attend St Mary's school which was situated behind the church.  One day when everyone turned up for school it had been burned to the ground, I think I was ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill in 1965 by Jackie Thompson

The Fair Green

The Fair Green was one of the first places my sister Valerie Cooper (nee Hook) worked in her capacity as an apprentice horticulturist for the Mitcham Council. When she went for the job they told her that she would have to do the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1961 by Carole Baldwin

Ice Cream Cart

Can anyone remember the horse-drawn ice-cream cart, the guy had as I remember a green cart, a white coat and a whistle. His ice-cream was really good proper stuff, then soft ice-cream came along and that was it, he must have just ...Read more

A memory of Crook by Jeff Cass

Childhood Memories

I moved to Spencer Avenue, Hayes, when I was 5 and the war had just finished. My earliest recollections were of starting school at Yeading Lane and walking there through thick snow. Luckily we had school dinners so ...Read more

A memory of Hayes in 1947 by Doreen Walton

Butterflies

I believe my great uncle Edward Goodwin of Canon Court, Wateringbury, donated his Butterfly and Moth Collection to the Maidstone Museum on his death in 1934. Since that time I think the museum was burnt down, and of course, the butterfly collection too.

A memory of Maidstone in 1930 by Valerie Cornwell

1939 To I960

I moved to Little Brickhill in 1939 when I was 2 years old, my last address in Little Brickhill was 10 Wyness Avenue. We were the first to move to to Wyness Avenue. I also knew Colonel Wyness who Wyness Avenue was named ...Read more

A memory of Little Brickhill by Donald Scott

My Childhood

My parents were married at Stranton, and I was baptised there. We lived in a neighbouring street, Bower Street, in what would now be regarded as a slum property, with outside toilet and a single tap that was also outside. My ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool in 1955 by John Pladdys

Childhood Memories

My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by George Whittingham

My Childhood Days Brynna Boy

8 Southall Street /16 Tan-y-Bryn. We, the Brynna Boys, used to run to school, Mr & Mrs Davies Head Master and thei two daughters, strict and friendly, firm and kind. I can only describe those happy days, Coronation ...Read more

A memory of Brynna in 1953 by Gary Edwards

Captions

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Caption For Durham, The Cathedral Font And Nave 1921

The huge marble font used today also dates from the time of John Cosin, who was a canon at Durham during the reign of Charles I, and later bishop under Charles II.

Caption For Ripon, The Cathedral, The Library C1885

Lewis Carroll, son of the first canon of the cathedral, visited his father here in Ripon over a span of 20 years.

Caption For Ripon, The Cathedral From The South East 1901

Lewis Carroll, the son of the first canon of the cathedral, visited his father here in Ripon over a span of twenty years.

Caption For Wells, Cathedral West Front C1950

The statues are badly worn by the strong westerly winds (which give the name of 'kill canon corner' to the north-west corner); they were also damaged by the 17th-century iconoclasts, who

Caption For New Brighton, The Lighthouse 1887

We can see that the entrance is 40ft up the lighthouse, and can only be reached by climbing an iron ladder fixed to the outside of the 90ft structure.

Caption For Christchurch, The Bowling Green And Castle Ruins C1955

The married lay canons were evicted from the Priory and the celibate Austins took over.

Caption For Chelmsford, Roman Road 2005

From the word go, the Romans probably installed a small military post beside the Can, on the site of the Iron Age houses.

Caption For Milton Keynes, Caldecotte Lake 2005

Whatever caused his death can only be guessed at.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Elizabethan Houses

This introductory chapter can only skim the surface to set the scene for what could be termed the photographic portrait of the town contained in the next five chapters.

Caption For Dorchester, The Grove 1922

The cottages are outside the line of the old walls, and may not have been subjected to the ban on thatch which followed the fires of the 17th century.

Caption For Brandon, High Street C1955

Opposite is Cabon & Son, a hairdresser's.

Caption For Epsom, The Racecourse 1928

The Wootton Academy, as it was called, stressed 'confidence, obedience, cleanliness', as well as corporal punishment and a ban on girlfriends.

Caption For Llanymynech, Main Street C1960

When the quite recent Welsh ban on Sabbath day drinking was enforced, half the pub could serve alcohol and other was 'dry' on a Sunday.

Caption For Rothesay, The Pier 1897

It is 1897, and a golden age for the Clyde excursion steamer industry is dawning: operators sense that the ban on landings at some piers on the Sabbath will soon be broken.