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Maps

4,509 maps found.

1896, Cheetham Hill Ref. RNE667236
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1895, Cross Hill Ref. RNE684305
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1898, Elvet Hill Ref. RNE701133
1896, Farley Hill Ref. RNE703429
1896, Fitton Hill Ref. RNE706285
1896, Forty Hill Ref. RNE708249
1898, Fox Hill Ref. RNE708756
1898, Frieze Hill Ref. RNE709459
1896, Frith Hill Ref. RNE709530
1895, Frith-Hill Ref. RNE709558
1898, Crouch Hill Ref. RNE684714
1896, Cupid's Hill Ref. RNE686304
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Memories

4,110 memories found. Showing results 781 to 790.

Brierley Hill Girls Memories

I was born in Chapel Street, in 1947. My uncle, Len Gray, had a newsagents in the town, near the bus stop by the Old Post Office, as was. My Grandad used to sell papers on the Five Ways and as a girl I would stand ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill

1953 To 1973 Harold Hill Was Home

I was 2½ when my parents Sam and Gwen Barrow moved from Greenwich with myself and my sister (6months) into No1 Tiverton Grove. It was on the coner with Bedale Road and had been my Nan's house. I used to ride my ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by eejayb

Elliott Street

I was born at the maternity home high field road 1939 Lived in Elliott Street As children we used to go up to Pex Hill anyone remember that I used to ride across the river with my Dad on the transporter and was scared it would drop ...Read more

A memory of Widnes by jomodown

Swinging 60s And 70s In Luton

I was born in Luton at the St Marys Grove Road Maternity home in 1959. My parents had moved to Luton in 1949 following my paternal grandmother who had been bombed out of the East End. We lived on Humberstone Road, me and my ...Read more

A memory of Luton

A Youth In Loughton

I went to Loughton School in the fifties and so most of my young life was spent in and around Loughton, Buckhurst Hill and Woodford. I had many friends at that time, but marriage and moving to Leighton Buzzard put paid to most of ...Read more

A memory of Loughton

Dycorts And Harrowfields

Some names have come flooding back after reading memories of Harold Hill and I wonder if they mean anything to anybody? Would love to hear from anybody. Alan Tremain Brenda Lovering Brenda Sellwood David ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by bobnobes

Colindale In The 1950's

I lived in Sunny View (off Wakemans Hill) from 1953 to 1958, when we moved away. Dad worked at Curr Bros Laundry and later at the Vanden Plas works in Kingsbury. It was a very different world in those days.

A memory of Colindale by mmcginger

Wroughton From 1954ish

My parents moved from East London to Swindon and then to Wroughton in 1954. My parents were Pat and Geoff Leach. I am Janet (Leach - now Ford) and my sister penny was born in the maternity hospital in Swindon in 1958. My ...Read more

A memory of Wroughton

Brief Memories Of My First School: Noak Hill

It was 1947, when my parents were told they would be able to move from their one room in a house to a Prefab in Harold Hill. My mother was pregnant. You didn't start school until you were 5. The closest ...Read more

A memory of Noak Hill by hilsidkay

Sharpenhoe Clappers & Sundon Hills Bedfordshire

In the post was years as families rebuilt their lives again Sundays really were special leisure days and those who were able bought a small car and enjoyed their afternoon going for rides on quiet country ...Read more

A memory of Tralee by ducatee

Captions

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Caption For Milton Keynes, Caldecotte Lake 2005

(Marion Hill) The Fish Lizard's remains were discovered when the lake was constructed in 1982.

Caption For Milton Keynes, Woughton On The Green 2005

(Marion Hill) Woughton is one of the area's eighteen villages existing in the 11th century which were mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086; thirteen of the villages became local centres for the new

Caption For High Wycombe, The Old Cane And Rush Works, Desborough Street 2005

A Roman Catholic church was built in Castle Street in 1900, but it was replaced by the present St Augustine's on Amersham Hill in 1955.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Marlowes 2005

It lies in the valleys of the Rivers Gade and Bulbourne, on the ridges of the Chiltern Hills only 25 miles from London.

Caption For Stafford, The Windmill, Broad Eye 2005

And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.

Caption For Stafford, Former Library, Grapes Corner 2005

And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.

Caption For Belfast, Castle And Lough 1897

Perhaps she have never known a parkland which soared up over 1000 feet to enclose the massive Cave Hill.

Caption For Tenby, The Harbour 1898

The 200-foot Royal Victoria Pier (left) was built out from Castle Hill at Butlers Horse, and was erected to coincide with Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897.

Caption For Dorking, Cottage Hospital 1906

Talbot built a substantial house, and created a hanging garden on the side of a hill. The mansion was demolished, and the land was sold by Thomas Hope in 1814.

Caption For Dorking, Deepdene House 1891

Talbot built a substantial house, and created a hanging garden on the side of a hill. The mansion was demolished, and the land was sold by Thomas Hope in 1814.

Caption For Dorking, Rose Hill 1906

Those still trading are the Surrey Yeoman (see 46016 overleaf), the Bull's Head (Rose Hill, which we can see in 54666, right, with its entrance on the corner of the High Street and just behind the

Caption For Laindon, Station 2005

Most of the land around Pitsea, Dunton and Langdon Hills had originally been farmland; the crops were mainly barley, oats, wheat, peas, beans, and clover.

Caption For Aldeburgh, Church Hill 1903

From the hill behind the town there is a splendid view of the German ocean.' This was how Morris & Co's Directory viewed Aldeburgh in 1868.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Box Moor 2005

The Meadow was eventually built on, and is now known as Fig Tree Hill. New flats and houses were erected there in the late 1950s.

Caption For Andover, George Hotel 1908

Mayhem ensued when it came to paying the bill, for each party believed itself the guest of the other.

Caption For Newark, Devon Bridge 1909

In 1742 the town sponsored a Bill to change the course of the Trent, which would have enhanced its position as an inland port.

Caption For Bourton On The Water, The River Windrush C1965

In various travel guides, Bourton is billed as either 'the Queen of the Cotswolds', 'the jewel in the Cotswolds' crown', or 'the Venice of the Cotswolds'.

Caption For Portland, The Pulpit Rock 1898

Portland Bill juts out into the English Channel at the southernmost point of the island. The Pulpit Rock is just one of the many unusual and dramatic rock formations in the vicinity.

Caption For Totnes, River Dart C1965

By the late 1960s the RDSC had replaced their paddlers with three motor ferries: the 'Conway Castle', the 'Seymour Castle', and the 'Cardiff Castle', the latter skippered by Bill Rehberg,

Caption For Nailsworth, Longfords Lake 1910

Longfords Lake was created in 1806 as a reservoir to feed the large nearby cloth mill run by the Playne family. Originally 15 acres in extent, it is now much silted up.

Caption For Chester, Bridge Street 1903

On the left outside Hodley's is a poster announcing the postponement of the Ruabon date for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Caption For Camberley, Frimley Road 1931

Before any building on the right, it was called Domans Meadow, and was the site of Bronco Bill's Circus in 1917. Camberley Football Club used to play there as well.

Caption For Cleveleys, The Arena C1955

The Arena, built below the sea-front promenade, was billed as the 'premier open-air theatre of the north'.

Caption For Tenbury Wells, The Butter Market C1960

There are a number of old posters sticking to the walls - these days there is a discreet sign which tells us that 'Bill Posting is now Prohibited'.