Maps

2,499 maps found.

1919, Kingswood Ref. POP748289
1919, Kington Ref. POP748327
1919, Nibley Ref. POP792168
1919, North Corner Ref. POP793094
1919, Nupdown Ref. POP795009
1919, Hill Ref. POP734822
1919, Latteridge Ref. POP753249
1919, Alveston Ref. POP624726
1919, Wapley Ref. POP860418
1919, Warmley Tower Ref. POP860828
1925, West Boldon Ref. POP863743
1919, Willsbridge Ref. POP870694
1919, Woodhouse Down Ref. POP873413
1925, West Park Ref. POP864822
1919, Whiteshill Ref. POP869118
1919, Upper Hill Ref. POP857456
1946, Bradley Stoke Ref. NPO647960
1946, Dyer's Common Ref. NPO696118
1946, Dyrham Ref. NPO696352
1946, East End Ref. NPO697168

Books

1 books found. Showing results 2,113 to 1.

Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 881 to 890.

Tattenham Corner In The 1950,S

I use to live along Epsom Lane North Known as the switchback to locals because of the dips up and down in the road, my father bought South Tadworth along there , where I grew up from 1940 to 1957 when I got married. I ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by junesaunders

Portwood Memories

I have vivid memories of the slippery rock in Vernon Park. Other memories from the park were, the bench in the shelter at the lower entrance, I used to run around on top of the bench. The rhodedendron bushes, they were great for ...Read more

A memory of Stockport by lcwood

Swindon 1957 To 1966

We moved to Swindon in 1957 from London (Wimbledon, actually) when my dad, a skilled engineer, got a job at Vickers Armstrongs at South Marston, with a brand new council house thrown in. In those post-war austerity days there was ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by besafisher

The "Brackston" Family

Good morning. I'm researching my family history and have census records of unknown date (possibly1880's) in which Rosina (Rosenna??????) Brackston (38) wife of Uriah, a gardener (41) have a daughter Rosina (16) who was a silk ...Read more

A memory of Croscombe by bracky

Watching Brentford Playing Football 60years Ago.

I have only just found this site for sharing your memories of days long gone by, I used to live at No 30 Coningsby Rd South Ealing W5, we lived in 3 rooms upstairs in this house until my dad was given ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by wrgbuck69

My Early Days In Hackney

Hi , My name is Vic Ballard , I was brought up by my Grandparents from 1942 and lived next door to Cassland Rd school which later became my secondary school , my first school was Orchard Rd at the end of Cassland Rd and ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

Sidcup In The 1960s

I lived in Sidcup asa child up to the age of 11, moving away from the area in 1970. I went to Days Lane Primary School. I don’t remember there being a high street as such but a row of shops I do remember which included a ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup by lizjeffries

The 11 Plus And Ramsey Abbey Grammar School

I wrote the 11 plus exam in Woodhurst in about 1949 and passed! Miracles will never cease! The school bus didn't come into Woodhurst so we rode our bicycles to Oldhurst, parked them in the garage there ...Read more

A memory of Ramsey by hamishg

Captions

2,444 captions found. Showing results 2,113 to 2,136.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Moor Park 1897

Moor Park was built in the 1720s for the banker and South Sea Bubble profiteer Benjamin Styles.

Caption For Amersham On The Hill, Sycamore Road C1955

This view is at the junction of Woodside and Rickmansworth Roads and looks south-west towards Oakfield Corner.

Caption For Chiddingly, The Village C1955

South-east of East Hoathly lies the large scattered parish of Chiddingly, a typical rolling Wealden-edge village composed of scattered hamlets, farmsteads and woodland.

Caption For Wilmington, The Long Man C1965

A familiar sight for those heading to or from Eastbourne along the A27 as it passes north of the South Downs escarpment is the Long Man of Wilmington, a gigantic chalk figure of a man holding 250ft-long

Caption For Ewell, High Street C1955

This view, though, is of the south end, which has fared less well: typical suburban mock-Tudor shopping parades proliferate both on the left and out of view to the right and behind the camera

Caption For Studland, On The Beach C1950

Old Harry Rocks (far left) are to the south-east.

Caption For Long Melford, Church Interior 1900

The stone reredos dates from 1879; its design is based on the description of the pre-Reformation reredos by Roger Martin of Melford Place, whose brass is in the south chapel.

Caption For Northleach, Market Square C1950

The half-timbered Kings Head inn in the background recalls the coaching age: Northleach was on the main London, Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales road (the main A40 road now by-passes the

Caption For Adel, The Church 1891

It was built around 1150 on the site of a Saxon church, and the south porch was added a decade later. Ancient animal symbols festoon the porch - they represent the four evangelists.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Cobb C1955

This, at 617 feet above sea level, is the highest point on the south coast.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The End Of The Cobb C1910

That Meryl Streep moment, as it became after 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' had been filmed here in 1980, with the Outer Breakwater of the Cobb awash in a bursting south-westerly wave.

Caption For Bicknoller, The Village 1940

The Cross and the Carew Arms 1929 Further south, Crowcombe is the largest village on the western flanks of the Quantocks, and once was a small market town.

Caption For Barmouth, Railway Bridge 1896

A train is heading south. The railway was built as part of the Cambrian railway, with two stations, Barmouth and Barmouth Junction.

Caption For Boreham Street, White Friars Hotel C1955

Wartling is another parish like Herstmonceux, with its parish church and part of the village over a mile south of the main road and on the edge of the Pevensey Levels.

Caption For Wilmington, The Old Yew Tree C1960

This very pretty village with its flint and brick houses and cottages runs south from the main road to its parish church of St Mary and St Peter, which is set high above the lane with the ruins of Wilmington

Caption For Guildford, High Street 1953

The town has a superb situation on the chalk ridge, with a castle south of the High Street; the ridge is cut through by the River Wey.

Caption For Langton Matravers, Dancing Ledge C1960

Romantically named for the sea breaking across its rocks, Dancing Ledge is a mile south of Langton Matravers village.

Caption For Highworth, Swindon Street C1950

Looking South The Co-op store on the left was previously a double-fronted residential property (today the windows are gone, and the shop has been taken into a new Co-op store which replaced

Caption For Brierley Hill, Delph Locks C1965

The Main Line of the Stourbridge Canal swung south and then east around Brierley Hill to meet up with the Dudley Canal at Black Delph Locks.The Dudley Canal passed through Round Oak Steel Works and

Caption For Seatown, 1912

This is the classic view of Golden Cap (centre), literally gold when its sandy top catches the sun; at 618ft above sea level it is the highest cliff on the south coast.

Caption For Crystal Palace, 1890

After the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace was moved to Sydenham in south-east London, where it was filled with lavish displays.

Caption For Leeds Castle, 1892

The south front was recast in 1822.

Caption For Caergwrle, The Castle C1955

Situated six miles south-east of Mold, Caergwrle is a small castle comprising the ruins of three round towers and a polygonal turret; it was captured and destroyed in 1282.

Caption For Smeeton Westerby, Christ Church, Saddington Road C1955

The village, which in parochial terms was originally bracketed together with Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt, which share the mother church of St Wilfred, lies some eight miles to the south