Maps

2,499 maps found.

1880, Newton Ref. HOSM55021
1880 - 1900, Olveston Ref. HOSM55826
1900 - 1901, Pilning Ref. HOSM56639
1901 - 1902, Swineford Ref. HOSM61087
1880 - 1901, Tockington Ref. HOSM61988
1881 - 1902, Warmley Ref. HOSM63437
1904-1905, Barncluith Ref. RNC633555
1905, Barr Ref. RNC633855
1899, Abson Ref. RNC619218
1899, Almondsbury Ref. RNC624457
1899, Alveston Ref. RNC624726
1904-1905, Ashgill Ref. RNC627674
1904-1905, Auchenheath Ref. RNC628558
1904-1906, Ayr Ref. RNC629391
1881, Hinton Ref. HOSM48609
1881 - 1902, Pennsylvania Ref. HOSM56371
1904-1905, Gilmourton Ref. RNC713840
1904-1905, Fairhill Ref. RNC702797
1905-1906, Fisherton Ref. RNC706181
1904-1905, Flemington Ref. RNC706701

Books

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Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 811 to 820.

South Chingford Parks And Lakes.

I was born in March 1939 and lived in South Chingford 1939-66.  Frances Road 1940-47 and Underwood Road (Ropers Farm Estate) 1947-66. I loved Chingford and still do.  I regularly visit Chingford and was there ...Read more

A memory of South Chingford in 1940 by Robert Randall

Mrs Cladd

Anyone remember Mrs Cladd who lived in a converted railway carriage - at least I think thats what it was - just up from Fairfax Hall, opposite the house called Farthings? She was an old lady who grew what we now call cherry tomatoes, but ...Read more

A memory of Menston in 1961 by Alison Thomas

My Childhood

I was born in 1944 in my grandmother's house named 'Bloemfontein' at Higher Fraddon. She named the house after the capital of the Orange Free State of South Africa where she was born. Her father, my great-grandfather Parkyn, ...Read more

A memory of Higher Tolcarne in 1948 by Peter Crago Goodman

Good Old Days

I was stationed at RAF South Cerney from approx. early 1956 until late 1958. I was just a lowly SAC working in the pay accounting department, but everyone on base thought that a special job! When we could afford to go out on our ...Read more

A memory of South Cerney in 1957 by Geoffrey Biggs

Hessenford

I was so pleased to come across a site talking about 'my' family village of Hessenford. I was also evacauated to Hessenford with my mum and spent my 1st birthday there. This was the first of many August holidays with my Great Aunt ...Read more

A memory of Hessenford in 1944 by Judy Sharp

My Godfather

My Godfather, Peter Jones's parents owned the Scotch Piper. I remember being told about the oak tree which actually grew up through the bar area. I went to primary school just along the way at Lydiate CE where I had the most fantastic ...Read more

A memory of Lydiate by Jan Foster

The Church

Lots of my relatives and friends are buried in the churchyard here. I was christened here by Rev Woodcock who had married my parents. I believe that he may have also christened me in 1955. I sang in the choir with Mr Foot as choirmaster ...Read more

A memory of Lydiate by Jan Foster

Springhead Terrace

I was born at number 11, and was told I did not open my eyes, so Mrs Tyreman baptized me. She had changed from Methodist to Catholic when she married her husband who was a tailor. When the priest came the next morning and blessed ...Read more

A memory of Loftus in 1930 by Joseph Lavelle

Churchill Gardens And The Sherbooms

My father lived in Tunbridge Road and was employed as a landscape gardener by Ian G Walker Ltd of South Godstone, Surrey from May 1946 until July 1959. Churchill Gardens was one of the Gardens he was ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea

Hatchford Church

My father, Capt. F.C. Dyer used to play the organ at Hatchford Church until his death in 1950. It was a pump organ and Bubbles was the name of the hunchback who pumped the organ. We lived in the Semaphore Tower up on Chatley Heath ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1940 by Ron Clibborn Dyer

Captions

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Caption For Ab Kettleby, St James' Church C1955

On the exposed Wolds, the ironstone church is situated on the south side of the village street, away from the main A606 Nottingham to Stamford road.

Caption For Bridport, South Street 1897

This looks Southwards along South Street to St Mary`s parish church (centre).

Caption For Coleshill, The Church C1955

Moving east we reach Coleshill, a mile south of Amersham.

Caption For Hadlow, The King's Head C1950

This was constructed in the early 19th century by Walter May so that he could enjoy a prospect of the sea, however the South Downs prevented his dream from being realised.

Caption For Aberdovey, The Front 1895

It is sheltered from the north wind by hills rising to the sombre Welsh mountains south of Cadair Idris. Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port.

Caption For Bridport, South Street C1965

In contrast to the bustle of East Street, the southern length of South Street was very much a secondary shopping area. There are fewer people and fewer cars.

Caption For Glastonbury, Wearyall Hill 1896

Now around to the south-west side of Glastonbury, where Wearyall Hill lies between the town and the river Brue. The name is a corruption of 'Wirral Hill', a deer-park established by the Abbots.

Caption For Syston, High Street C1955

Adjacent to the thatched house is an excellent early 19th-century three-storey red brick residence which overlooks The Green on its south side.

Caption For Paddock Wood, Unloading The Pokes C1950

Up until the Second World War, this work was undertaken by entire families who came from South London and the East End to stay on the farms and supplement their income with this casual labour

Caption For Whitchurch, High Street C1955

A little further south, the photographer looks past The Old Cottage, on the west or left side of the High Street, towards the rendered and jettied mid 16th-century Tudor House with the carved bargeboards

Caption For Newark, Ye Olde White Hart C1955

In the south-east corner of the Market Square is its only surviving timber-framed building, Ye Olde White Hart, a superb and rich example of late 15th-century building.

Caption For Newark, Castle C1955

In the south-east corner of the Market Square is its only surviving timber-framed building, Ye Olde White Hart, a superb and rich example of late 15th-century building.

Caption For Worksop, College C1965

South of the town, beyond the modern A57 by-pass, accessed via a long avenue from the Netherton Road, is Worksop College.

Caption For Redbourn, The Aubreys C1955

On the level ground to the south-west of the town stands the almost ploughed-out remains of an ancient double-ditched camp called The Aubreys.

Caption For Chippenham, The Market Place C1955

This view was taken looking south to the Bear Hotel at the top end of the car park. The new Bear Hotel was built some time after 1750 by John Provis, a painter, and leased out.

Caption For Cottesmore, The Village C1955

The great Victorian architect William Butterfield (1814-1900) rebuilt the south porch in 1851, and minor works were carried out here by the equally eminent John Loughborough Pearson (1817-97

Caption For Bedford, St Peter's Church 1897

The round-arched doorway to be seen on the left was re-erected here in the 1560s; it was salvaged from the demolished church of St Peter Dunstable on Cauldwell Street south of the river.

Caption For Bedford, High Street 1929

At the top of the High Street, the photographer looks south. The Lime Street/Lurke Street junction is beyond the Swan Hotel's handcart.

Caption For Lechlade, The Old Market Place C1950

Lechlade, situated on the river Thames, is the gateway to the Cotswolds from the south-east.

Caption For Sutton, High Street C1955

This village stands on the south-west edge of the Isle of Ely. In the 17th century the fens around Sutton were drained by farmers with the help of wind pumps.

Caption For Towcester, Town Hall C1965

Further south, Watling Street widens to form a market place complete with town hall and a corn exchange.

Caption For Chapel St Leonards, Merryfield Camping Ground C1955

South Road is to the left, and the sea is only one field away to the right. The White House is now the White House pub and Restaurant.

Caption For St Neots, Market Square C1965

The photographer has turned his camera a little to the south and included an additional couple of interesting cars - a Rover 90 and behind it a rare and expensive Bristol saloon.

Caption For Caterham, Godstone Road 1948

Here we look south along Godstone Road, with the church tower on the right.