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Maps

2,499 maps found.

1904-1906, Annbank Ref. RNC625797
1899, Bromley Heath Ref. RNC651641
1904-1905, Burnbank Ref. RNC656230
1905, Burnhead Ref. RNC656398
1904-1905, Carmichael Ref. RNC661581
1904-1905, Carnwath Ref. RNC662688
1904-1905, Carstairs Junction Ref. RNC663274
1904-1906, Barbieston Ref. RNC632848
1904-1905, Blantyre Ref. RNC643825
1901-1904, Cleadon Ref. RNC670018
1901-1904, Cleadon Park Ref. RNC670021
1904-1905, Coalburn Ref. RNC672569
1899, Conham Ref. RNC676549
1904-1905, Causewayend Ref. RNC664876
1898-1899, Charfield Green Ref. RNC666736
1898-1899, Churchend Ref. RNC668621
1904-1905, Larkhall Ref. RNC753099
1904-1905, Limekilnburn Ref. RNC756024
1899, Longwell Green Ref. RNC767247
1904-1906, Low Coylton Ref. RNC767925

Books

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Memories

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Wonderful Days

We spent all our warm summer holidays at Westgate. We lived in South London. My Grandmother lived in Quex Road and we had a caravan on St Crispens caravan site. I loved getting fish heads from the fish monger to go ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by grahamleeper1

Looking Back

Spring Grove Central was one of the happiest times of my life. Sadly the school closed and we were all moved to Heathlands in Wellingron Road South. I have been long gone from the area, leaving to train as a nurse at Guys Hospital. But ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow

1960s & 70s

My grandparents (McNaught) lived in Henrietta Street, and my parents & I stayed with them for many holidays in the 60s and 70s. An uncle & aunt lived in George Street - they were retired teachers from Barrhill school. Another aunt ...Read more

A memory of Girvan by kennethcockburn

Tanktops And Bellbottoms

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

Cycling To Helston

At No 50 on this road is the Blue Anchor, which is my favourite pub in the entire world. The visit I remember best was in 2000. I was on a fortnights leave from work, & had used a bonus to buy my first brand new vehicle, a ...Read more

A memory of Helston by bru.enzer

A Million Miles From A Game Of Football.

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

Awliscombe Lower Mill On River Wolf

I'm an Awliscombe Loaring descended from at least 2 generations of Loarings who operated the mill c1700 on the River Wolf just down the lane to the southwest of the Honiton Inn in Awliscombe. I'm hoping someone ...Read more

A memory of Awliscombe by David Loaring

Northolt Wonderland

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell

Mother Stay At Hut Hotel

When my Mother died in 2000 we found a letter saying my mother nee Mary Kingston and her friend stayed at the hotel . The lake had frozen and they went skating on it at Christmas time . She would have been about 12 at the time ...Read more

A memory of Wisley by Barry Woodward

Good Times

I lived at 14 oak street Chapel of Ease. I can remember the two estates being built and the bridge in the photo is also the way I went to school at the west end primary school. The red phone box is still there I believe, in the photo the ...Read more

A memory of Abercarn by John Weeks

Captions

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Caption For Boston, Doughty Quay 1890

Further south, High Street opens up to the river, the buildings terminating in an elegant early 19th-century five-storey warehouse with a hipped roof: more like a very tall villa than a warehouse.

Caption For Grantham, Market Place C1955

This section is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

Caption For Ogmore By Sea, Stepping Stones And Ogmore Castle 1937

Ogmore lies two miles to the south-west of Bridgend.

Caption For Bodmin, Lanhydrock 1890

The rest of the house and the south wing were badly damaged in a fire in 1881, but they were rebuilt in the same style three years later.

Caption For Aylesbury, Walton Street 1901

Further south-east, the old village of Walton suffered greatly in the 1960s. The buildings on the left went to accommodate a dual-carriageway road widening.

Caption For Chudleigh, The Pixies' Cave 1907

These caves, in the south face of Chudleigh Rock, were used in prehistoric times.

Caption For Wilmington, The Long Man C1960

The Long Man of Wilmington stands on the northern slope of the South Downs, today marked out in white bricks. Who he is and when he was originally cut into the downland turf is not known.

Caption For Penton Hook, The Lock 1934

But river traffic at this point has now been greatly increased with the opening of the vast Penton Hook Marina in a flooded gravel pit on the south bank, which is accessed from just below this lock.

Caption For Aldbrough, The Church And Lychgate C1960

Eight miles south of Hornsea, Aldbrough is a more genteel resort about a mile inland - although coastal erosion shortens this distance each year.

Caption For Northleach, The Green 1952

The Green continues south from the market place. The half-timbered house on the right dates from Tudor times.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Abbey, South Door C1955

The parvise above the south porch contains a small museum with various artefacts associated with the history of the abbey.

Caption For Sheffield, Parish Church 1893

It is famed for its Shrewsbury Chapel, which is located on the south side of the 15th- century chancel; among the monuments is one to the 6th Earl who was burdened for so many years with the task

Caption For Edlesborough, The Ford And Mill C1965

South-east of the village, a lane crosses the county boundary with Bedfordshire along the upper reaches of the young River Ouzel.

Caption For Whitchurch, High Street C1955

The next photographs follow the High Street from north to south.

Caption For Avebury, The Stones C1955

This shows the south-east sector with the five restored stones completed by Keiller by 1939.

Caption For Luccombe, The Village 1901

South of the A39, we climb from lush pastures towards Exmoor and the well-wooded Holnicote Estate and Dunkery Hill, much of which are owned by the National Trust.

Caption For North Curry, The Square C1955

Continuing south-west, the route reaches North Curry, a village on the low ridge that separates West Sedge Moor from the Tone valley.

Caption For Leicester, St Mary De Castro Church C1955

Bradgate Road as it rises away from the City towards Ulverscroft Priory, the church with its recessed spire is comparatively unadorned, apart from a large 15th-cen- tury traceried window on its south

Caption For Madingley, Hall C1955

The photograph shows the alterations that were made to the hall by Colonel Harding: the north wing (right) was rebuilt with a stair turret, and the original stair turret on the south side was raised by

Caption For Richmond, Arthur's Oven 1913

Billy Banks Wood, prominent in views from Castle Walk, is ancient 'hanging' woodland clinging to limestone rock on the south bank of the River Swale just west of Richmond Castle.

Caption For Southport, London Square 1902

The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.

Caption For Conwy, The Castle 1890

The slope of the rock on the south side was such that it would have been impossible to mount an assault from that direction using battering rams or siege towers.

Caption For Chesham, Waterside, From Lord's Mill 1906

Lord's Mill was one of the main watermills along the Chess south-east of Chesham and is behind the photographer who is looking over the Moor Lane bridge parapet.

Caption For Little Missenden, The River Misbourne C1955

Our second tour starts three miles west of Amersham in the delightful village of Little Missenden which grew up along the south bank of the River Misbourne and separated from Amersham by the parkland