Maps

1,865 maps found.

1921, Black Park Ref. POP641988
1925, Bracken Park Ref. POP647644
1919, Brampton Park Ref. POP648622
1920, Bedford Park Ref. POP636244
1901-1903, Prior Park Ref. RNC811037
1897-1902, Streatham Park Ref. RNC841586
1903, The Parks Ref. RNC846487
1905-1906, Thornly Park Ref. RNC847242
1901-1903, Western Park Ref. RNC865802
1903, Wheatley Park Ref. RNC867034
1902-1903, Wilmslow Park Ref. RNC870738
1902-1903, Wallbridge Park Ref. RNC859901
1902, Wingfield Park Ref. RNC871392
1901-1902, Woodloes Park Ref. RNC873758
1897-1898, Wembley Park Ref. RNC863279
1945, Maitland Park Ref. NPO772542
1946, Monkston Park Ref. NPO782678
1945, Motspur Park Ref. NPO784608
1946, Newbury Park Ref. NPO790736
1947, Lansbury Park Ref. NPO752875

Books

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Memories

4,361 memories found. Showing results 91 to 100.

Heston Middlesex 1950s

It was good to see people's memories of Heston, as I spent much of my childhood there. My father was manager of a branch of grocers called Platts Stores Ltd, Norwood Green, although we were on the corner of Fern Lane Heston and ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Rita Burgess

St.Matthias Youth Club 1950s

I was born in December 1939 in Redhill Hospital which then changed to Edgware General. My parents Bill and Gladys Wyness lived in Marlow Court, Colindeep Lane and my maternal grandparents lived in Chalfont Court also in ...Read more

A memory of Colindale by sandymills03

Lady Neville Recreation Ground

I played here from 1970 onwards. Behind the building were the public loos. To the left of the building, and to the left of the entrance off Avenue Road was a hump, about 4 feet high with a double skin brick wall ...Read more

A memory of Banstead by Tim Watts

The Plantations

Well not just for the 1930's but for twenty years after as well.  Memories come flooding back - not just for this picture but for Wigan itself.  I was born there in 1931 - in my grandparents home 38, Dicconson Street - a section no ...Read more

A memory of Wigan in 1930 by Thelma Hurly

Growing Up In Hendon 1945 1970

Being born in the front room of 7 First Avenue (which runs between Finchley Lane and Victoria Road) in September 1945 and living at that address until 1970 approximately, but my mother (Mary) and Father (Len) lived there ...Read more

A memory of Hendon by Anthony Edgar

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

The 1950s In Park Road

Combined Police Station and Library on the right behind the hedges - and at the bend on the right lived, in the early 50s, one of the first great computer experts with Manchester University, who died young, I later discovered. ...Read more

A memory of Timperley by jsbrennan.125

The Tithe Barn And Harrow Museum

Moat Farm Park? I find this surprising as its claim to fame is surely the preserved buildings of the Tithe Barn and surroundings. The Barn itself is the site of Harrow Museum and hosts various fund raising ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow in 1985 by John Howard Norfolk

The Village Pond

When I was a child I often visited my Aunts who lived in Buckrells, the large house opposite the Volunteer Pub; one of the joys of these visits was escaping from the adults and exploring the village pond which was ...Read more

A memory of Seavington St Michael by Janet Kiddle

The Fair

Christmas and birthdays were an under-whelming time of year in our household. However, Eastertime, coincided with the arrival of Stanley Thurston's fair (and a big dollop of rain). l lived opposite Manor Rd Park (or reck) from 1956-64, and ...Read more

A memory of Luton

Captions

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Caption For North Harrow, Pinner Road C1965

At the divide, under the clock tower, the left-hand fork heads for Pinner village, while the right-hand one will cut through the mediaeval deer park at Pinner Park to Hatch End.

Caption For Kidderminster, The Ring Road C1970

This view of the main road (known here simply as 'The Ringway') shows St George's Park just to the left of the dual carriageway.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, The Marlowes C1960

The parked vehicles on the near side of the road are taxis awaiting hire at the rank, whilst those opposite, including a motorbike and sidecar, are clearly untroubled by any form of contemporary parking

Caption For Sutton, Christchurch Park 1903

Christchurch Park was laid out as a road in 1888, converting a track through fields into a prosperous residential area.

Caption For Melbury Osmond, Post Office C1955

The Victorian commercial heart of this cul-de-sac village, strung out along the back lane into Melbury Park, was represented by the Melbury Osmond shop.

Caption For Swindon, The Garden Of Remembrance C1955

The creator of the Queens Park concept was Maurice Williams, in his role as General Superintendent of Parks in Swindon.

Caption For Belfast, Alexandra Park 1897

This park was the third in Belfast.

Caption For Wales, Church Street C1955

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

Caption For Newtown Linford, The Village C1965

The village is the gateway to Bradgate Park, a very large medieval deer park, which was donated to the people of Leicester for recreation in 1928.

Caption For Cardiff, Sophia Gardens C1950

The park would not officially belong to the people until September 1947.

Caption For Brimfield, C1955

Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.

Caption For Orchard Portman, The Church 1888

To the north of Pitminster is Poundisford Park, once a hunting ground for the Bishops of Winchester.

Caption For Stourbridge, Market Street C1965

Notice the sign for the car park for the Bell Hotel (left) - the car park sits on what was once advertised as 'the finest and best kept bowling green in the Midlands'.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

HRH Princess Marie Louise opened the park in April 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V - the plaque stating this information is on the side of the cafeteria.

Caption For Shipley, Crowghyll Park 1903

Crowghyll Park was opened to the residents on 31 May 1890 following a civic ceremony led by Mrs Titus Salt.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park Lake 1902

Roath Park was laid out in 1894 at a cost of £62,000 - a considerable sum in those days.

Caption For Preston, Fishergate C1960

It is nostalgic to see the cars parked in the street - the Morris Minor and mini- vans for example - and no yellow lines and no parking meters.

Caption For Belfast, Ormeau Park Lake 1897

This park was the first open space secured for public recreation in Belfast.

Caption For Abergavenny, The Deri From Bailey Park C1960

The park is the home of Abergavenny Rugby Football Club, and their grandstand can be seen in the middle distance.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park 1902

This view, looking along the Roath Brook, does not give much idea of the park's scale.

Caption For Fylingdales, Flask Café C1955

The gigantic white 'golf balls' of the Fylingdales Early Warning System were a landmark on the eastern side of the North York Moors National Park for many years, before being replaced in the 1990s with

Caption For Egremont, Vale Park 1912

Vale Park was created in 1898 from the grounds of two previous estates, Liscard Vale Hall and The Woodlands.

Caption For Leicester, The Pavilion, Victoria Park, London Road C1965

In direct contrast to the Pavilion by James Tate in Abbey Park, here is a brick and render symmetrical watered-down vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the Council of the early 1960s in

Caption For Bishop Auckland, Castle Gateway 1898

The town of Bishop Auckland grew around the castle and the extensive bishops' deer park with its 18th-century deer house.