Maps

2,499 maps found.

1880 - 1881, Stoke Gifford Ref. HOSM60556
1880 - 1881, Winterbourne Ref. HOSM64810
1881 - 1902, Cold Ashton Ref. HOSM41452
1881 - 1919, Badminton Ref. HOSM34081
1881 - 1919, Dunkirk Ref. HOSM44004
1881, Inglestone Common Ref. HOSM49347
1881 - 1919, Little Badminton Ref. HOSM51391
1881 - 1919, Petty France Ref. HOSM56584
1913 - 1920, Boldon Colliery Ref. HOSM38239
1901 - 1902, Lower Hamswell Ref. HOSM47531
1879, Upper Hill Ref. HOSM41015
1914 - 1920, Jarrow Ref. HOSM34705
1913 - 1914, East Boldon Ref. HOSM34468
1895 - 1920, Monkton Ref. HOSM54083
1880 - 1881, Cromhall Ref. HOSM42355
1879 - 1880, Buckover Ref. HOSM42686
1880 - 1881, Falfield Ref. HOSM71281
1881, Hall End Ref. HOSM47395
1898-1899, Colt's Green Ref. RNC675831
1904-1905, Chapelton Ref. RNC666657

Books

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Memories

1,577 memories found. Showing results 941 to 950.

Oughtrington Hall

I was in the first group of Lymm Grammar School students to move to Oughtrington Hall in 1945/46. Later, perhaps 1952/53, we established cricket at the school and played matches against other Cheshire Grammar Schools there - ...Read more

A memory of Oughtrington in 1946 by Brian Deverall

Cafe On Northolt Road And Robert Shipley

Hello my name is Lee Shipley. I'm looking for any info on my grandad Robert Shipley who worked in a cafe on Northolt Road in South Harrow in the 1950s. If you have any info on him please could you email me at: leeshipley@ymail.com Thankyou.

A memory of South Harrow by Lee Shipley

1960s

I grew up in Dundee Street in Darlington. I remember the shops on each end of Dundee Street and Montrose Street, and the alleys between, the alleys were made of blue tiles that always sparkled in rain and frost. I remember the rag and ...Read more

A memory of Darlington in 1967 by Donna Harland

Northolt Wood End

Our family moved to Northolt (Mildred Avenue) around 1956 from Harlesden and I left in 1978. I have great memories of Wood End infants/junior school. Playing near Northolt Park Station and anoying the station master who we ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Brian Holder

276 Shirley Road

During WW2, my twin brother and I were born at this house on 2 Nov 1943 to Evelyn and Tom Williams. Dad built an Anderson bomb shelter in the back garden during the early years of the war, and was used by mother and children ...Read more

A memory of Acock's Green in 1943 by Edward Williams

Annbank Hotel

I remember my dad asking me to go to the hotel in Annbank for his fags (funny how it was always at night), if it wasn't for the promise of getting a bag of crisps for going, I'd surely never go. This was the most scariest hotel, in ...Read more

A memory of Annbank in 1963 by Alex Steele

East Coast Floods

Does anyone have any memories about the 1953 floods? My aunt Phyliss Papworth and her daughters Suzanne, Jennifer and Patricia who lived in South Beach Road all drowned, but her other daughter Janet was at a birthday party at ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1953 by Marlene Hyland

Where I Used To Get The Bus To School

This picture (e199012) must be mid-afternoon judging by the shadows but there is surprisingly little traffic. The bus stop on the right, with a shelter, is where the 17 and 104 would stop on their way ...Read more

A memory of East Finchley in 1965

Bob A Job Milton Scouts

I remember choosing Farm Lane South, Barton on Sea to doing my Bob-a-Jobbing for the Milton Scouts Group. It was a very cold April day in 1970 and my 11 year old fingers were feeling a bit numb. I was rewarded with a ...Read more

A memory of Barton on Sea in 1970 by Colin Burnell

St Peters About 1958

I went to St Peters in about 1958, my brother must have been there 2 years before me. I joined Mrs Fox's class in the old school and remember the chalk and slates. Mrs Rogerson was the head teacher and I moved on via ...Read more

A memory of South Weald by Peter Appleby

Captions

2,444 captions found. Showing results 2,257 to 2,280.

Caption For Burton Lazars, St James's Church C1955

Extensive earthworks on the south-west side of the village mark its site.

Caption For Langham, Cold Overton Road C1950

Prominent on the south side of the village in 1955, Ruddles Brewery, founded in 1858, was producing fine real ales, but in 1986 it was sold to Watneys, eventually to be absorbed into the Grand Metropolitan

Caption For Thorpe Arnold, St Mary's Church, The Nave C1955

The font (right, through the south arcade arch) is 12th-century, and decorated with rather naive yet animated carvings of dragons, and a sword-wielding St George.

Caption For Kettering, The Market 1922

Until the 1930s the south side of the market, facing the camera, was bordered by a row of buildings which would be later demolished.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, St Mary's Church, Interior 1922

At the end of the south aisle is the cadaver tomb of John Baret (d1467) under a unique roof with reflective mirrors.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1897

Shops on the south side include that of grocer and jam manufacturer William G Cornick. The Greyhound Hotel forms the penultimate frontage.

Caption For Weybridge, The Parish Church C1955

The build- ing on the right is the Midland Bank; between it and the church- yard is a narrow passage, now called Church Lane, leading to the south door of the church.

Caption For Preston, The Bridge Over The Ribble 1903

Here we see the river bank of the Ribble just west of the main railway bridge at the end of South Meadows.

Caption For Cranbrook, Stone Street 1902

From the George's entrance, on the right, she walked on a mile of local broadcloth to Coursehorn, a Tudor farmhouse owned by a wealthy weaver, which is south-east of the town.

Caption For Ware, High Street C1965

The south-west side of Ware High Street changed drastically when it was decided to build a new Tesco Store in 1960.

Caption For Stanmore, Ruins Of Old Church, Uxbridge Road 1906

At the foot of the hill the Old Church and St John the Evangelist share a single churchyard, while remnants of the original mediaeval parish church can be found to the south.

Caption For Mill Hill, The Village Pond, The Ridgeway C1965

This lovely village extends from Highwood Hill to the north to Mill Hill East underground station in the south.

Caption For Scarisbrick, The Hall From The Lake 1896

Three miles south-east of Southport, Scarisbrick Hall was remodelled by John Foster in 1814 and by Augustus Welby Pugin between 1836 and 1845.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

The photographic angle is south- eastwards, down to Bell Street Stores (centre left), run by the grocer E J Coombes.

Caption For Ardingly, The Gardeners Arms C1955

Its name is rather apt, as the village is just a couple of miles south of Wakehurst, an extensive estate under the care of the National Trust, and also the outpost of the Royal Botanical Gardens

Caption For Asfordby, All Saints' Church And The Rectory C1955

Inside the church, remnants of a carved Saxon cross depicting a dragon and a priest are built into the south aisle.

Caption For Hungerford, The Church And Canal C1955

In 1325, Sir Robert de Hungerford repaired and refitted the south aisle as a chantry chapel, and another chantry was added in 1451.

Caption For Whitby, The Harbour 1885

His two ships that sailed to the South Seas, the 'Resolution' and 'Endeavour', were built here.

Caption For Boston, The Docks 1893

Built south of the town, the new docks were 825 feet long by 450 feet wide and are still busy.

Caption For Cowfold, St Peter's Church 1958

To the south, St Hugh's Carthusian monastery, consecrated in 1880, has a very visible tall spire. The monastery is still in use.

Caption For Tal Y Llyn, Lake 1937

It sits at the south-western end of the lake, where the River Dysynni comes tumbling out in a series of little cascades. The lake has always been famous for trout fishing.

Caption For Wetherby, The Bridge 1909

Famous travellers over the Wharfe include Mary, Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell; the bridge was also used over many years by drovers, who took thousands of cattle south.

Caption For Newlands Corner, 1922

This is one of the county's most famous beauty spots on the crest of the North Downs, providing breathtaking views across the Weald to the South Downs and Littlehampton, and into Sussex from its height

Caption For Guisborough, Priory Gardens 1899

Here we see the priory ruins viewed from the south as in the view of 1885; but by the time of this photograph, Margaret, later first Lady Gisborough, along with her head gardener, Kew-trained