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Maps

2,499 maps found.

1884 - 1899, South Clifton Ref. HOSM59638
1884 - 1898, South Leverton Ref. HOSM59701
1899 - 1900, South Newton Ref. HOSM59719
1865 - 1905, South Pill Ref. HOSM58426
1894 - 1895, South Woodford Ref. HOSM65654
1904-1907, South Alloa Ref. RNC834332
1897-1909, South Baddesley Ref. RNC834358
1901-1903, South Beach Ref. RNC834398
1897-1909, South Bockhampton Ref. RNC834427
1908-1909, South Brachmont Ref. RNC834435
1904-1907, South Broomage Ref. RNC834454
1901-1902, South Burlingham Ref. RNC834463
1902-1903, South Carlton Ref. RNC834485
1902-1903, South Clifton Ref. RNC834524
1908-1912, South Clunes Ref. RNC834526
1898-1899, South Common Ref. RNC834545
1905-1906, South Corriegills Ref. RNC834556
1897-1902, South Croydon Ref. RNC834579
1898-1900, South Down Ref. RNC834613
1897-1909, South End Ref. RNC834667

Books

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Memories

1,580 memories found. Showing results 461 to 470.

Relocation To Elm Park

It's very early 1947. My father has accepted a position as Mechanical Engineer with JRichard Costain. We purchased a new Costain home at number 90 Windermere Ave, Elm Park. It was a bitterly cold late winter period. Water in ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park in 1947 by Denman Lalonde

The Norfolk Family Settle In East Kilbride

Work brought me to Scotland in 1975 and I needed to live within commuting distance of the Bank of England branch in Glasgow. Elizabeth and I looked around the south side of the City and fell in love ...Read more

A memory of East Kilbride in 1975 by John Howard Norfolk

Saturday Nights

What memories this building holds.  It gave the opportunity for a lot of teenagers to have their first Saturday night outs.  It usually cost 1s 6d entrance fee unless there was a fairly well known group appearing that night then it ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1964 by Sue Hoyland

I Was In The Train Crash At Wembley Central In 1984

On 11 October, 1984, a freight train was crossing from one line to another just south of Wembley Central station when my commuter train from Euston to Bletchley ran into the side of it and was ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1984 by John Howard Norfolk

455 Northolt Road South Harrow

I was born at 455 Northolt Road during the 2nd World War where I lived with mum, grandad, granma and young uncle. My father was killed in Normandy Landings on June 6 1944 and was called Arthur Blerkom. My mum ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1946 by Doreen Walton

A Funny Year For Me

As a young man from the south of France, I got a job as French assistant at QVS. I was a bit hippyish and far from notions like order, authority etc. (and uniforms). To my deep surprise, I landed in QVS, with a bedroom at ...Read more

A memory of Queen's View in 1975 by Bob Gilles

Warnham Court School

My name is Steve Gill and I attended the Warnham Court School between 1962 and 1963 when I was 12 years old. I can remember the very long winter of 1963 and the amazing time everybody had sliding down the hill in ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1963 by Steve Gill

Everret's Corner (1)

This the South Est Corner of the junction on the A4 known as Everret's Corner. Just around to the right from this position are some lock-up shops that I remember from the early 1950s which included a Gents Barbers. Further ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1965 by Patrick Butterly

Childhood In South Molton

I was born in Gothic House, The Churchyard, South Molton in May 1941. My name was Patricia Elizabeth Abbott Huxtable. My father was Charles John Huxtable and my grandparents were Charles George Pearce Huxtable and ...Read more

A memory of South Molton in 1941 by sales

The Best Of Times

My Mum and Dad first brought me to Fairbourne when I was born in 1966. My father and his father before him had been coming to the same bungalow (Min-y-Don on the Coast Road - Penrhyn Drive South) all their lives. Mum Dad and my ...Read more

A memory of Fairbourne in 1975 by William Cock

Captions

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Caption For Lincoln, Stonebow 1890

We have now passed through Stonebow into the southern part of the High Street, which grew up along the old Roman road south of the walled city.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street C1950

Much further south along the High Street is St Mary’s Guildhall at the junction with Sibthorp Street.

Caption For Saxilby, High Street C1965

From the south you can see the Hall’s plan clearly, with the central Great Hall behind the three timber-framed gables of Hickman’s 1597 stair and corridor addition.

Caption For Brympton, The House And Lake 1900

The south façade of the house is built in the 17th-century English Renaissance style, with pedimented bays overlooking a terrace and lawn to a lake below.

Caption For Bath, Milsom Street C1965

This view looks south down Milsom Street to Old Bond Street.

Caption For Bath, York Street And Roman Baths C1955

The balustrade to the right belongs to buildings demolished to form a square south of the abbey, Abbey Churchyard.

Caption For Northfield, Parish Church, Greatstone Inn And Pound 1949

The south aisle was replaced in the late 13th century; the north aisle was only added in 1900, though it was built in a 14th-century style.

Caption For Delph, Rosehill C1955

Though within the parish of Rochdale, Saddleworth lay in the extreme south-west of the West Riding of Yorkshire and was long talked of as the part of Yorkshire where Lancastrians lived.

Caption For Lechlade, The Square C1955

The focus of the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented

Caption For Eastleigh, North Stoneham Church C1955

Market Street c1955 Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed

Caption For East Cowes, York Avenue C1955

It now gives its name to a district at the southwestern end of the Isle of Wight, from the village itself, a couple of miles inland, to the popular Freshwater Bay on the south coast.

Caption For Marazion, St Michael's Mount C1960

since the 17th century, but it has been settled for many centuries and has a claim to be the legendary Ictis which traded tin with the Phoenicians; this history is also claimed by other sites on the south

Caption For Beachley, The Severn Bridge C1965

The £8 million suspension bridge was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in September 1966 to carry the new M4 motorway from England across the Severn Estuary to South Wales.

Caption For Boston, Doughty Quay 1890

The paddle-tug 'Boston' was built at South Shields in 1875 for the Boston Steam Tug Co. She had a wooden clinker- built hull and was powered by a grasshopper engine.

Caption For Talaton, The Village 1906

The London and South West Railway passed near here in 1860; but Talaton would have remained some distance from a station, had not the Sidmouth branch been built in the 1870s.

Caption For Britford, St Peter's Church 1906

Britford is a tiny village just outside Salisbury to the south east.

Caption For Cholmondeley, Nantwich Lodge C1940

It sits by an entrance on the south of the estate.

Caption For Mapledurham, The Lock 1890

This view is from the south just downstream on the Berkshire bank.

Caption For Bewdley, Severnside North C1965

By the 1960s, only craft drawing less than 21 ins of water could attempt the river north of Stourport, and even then their passage into Bewdley was blocked by a shoal about one mile south of the town.

Caption For South Shields, Frederick Street C1906

During the first half of the 19th century, a number of churches were built to meet the needs of South Shields' growing population. The Presbyterian Church, Frederick Street, was built in 1847.

Caption For Stamford, The Ruins Of Wothorpe House 1922

The site today may be approached by public footpath, about a mile south-west of Stamford.

Caption For Romford, High Street 1910

South Street is to the left, with the Golden Lion and North Street to the right.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Abbey, The South Porch 1924

Malmesbury Abbey`s unique south porch, dating from the mid 12th century and built in the Romanesque style, is decorated with thirty-eight fine sculptures depicting detailed and elaborate images, some