Photos

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Maps

50 maps found.

1895, Hill Park Ref. RNE735901
1919, Hill Park Ref. POP735901
1946, Hill Park Ref. NPO735902
1895, Hill Park Ref. RNE735902
1897-1902, Hill Park Ref. RNC735902
1897-1899, Hill Park Ref. RNC735901
1946, Bush Hill Park Ref. NPO657422
1920, Bush Hill Park Ref. POP657422
1896, Bush Hill Park Ref. RNE657422
1897-1898, Bush Hill Park Ref. RNC657422
1895 - 1914, Bush Hill Park Ref. HOSM65627
1887 - 1888, Farringdon Ref. HOSM48533
1947, Parkmill Ref. NPO801545
1919, Larkhill Ref. POP753104
1898, Larkhill Ref. RNE753104
1899, Larkhill Ref. HOSM50804
1940, Larkhill Ref. NPO753104
1905, Parkhall Ref. RNC801444
1903, Lark Hill Ref. RNC753075
1902, Park Hall Ref. RNC800950

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Memories

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In The House Of The Laird

My parents were 'in service' to the local 'laird' who was Lord Doune, traditionally the eldest son of the Earl of Moray and owner of lands around Doune. Lord Doune owned the beautiful old mansion on the hill 1.5 miles north ...Read more

A memory of Doune in 1948 by Alastair Macdonald

Talke A Forgotten Village

As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more

A memory of Talke in 1959

The Ellor Twins

I was born in Mexborough in 1953 an identical twin with my sister Kathryn. Our mother is Mabel Ellor (nee Brewster) who was a teacher at Roman Terrace School which my sister & I attended. My father is Ron Ellor a pianist, ...Read more

A memory of Mexborough in 1953 by Sharon Ellor

Noddy's Shop

I moved to Elm Park in 1960 when I was 4 years old with my mum and dad, from Hackney, East London. My dad owned and ran the Newsagents in Station Parade and we lived in the flat above the shop. I remember it was next to the green ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park by Chrissy Robinson

Shopping Memories.

This photograph shows two ladies chatting together in the foreground.  On the right in the floral dress is my mother Mrs Beatrice Farnsworth.  My family have been farmers in the locality for three generations.  My mother's car is ...Read more

A memory of Worksop by Claire Allen

Pinner Mid 50's

I was fortunate enough to live in Pinner as a small child 8 & 9 years old. We lived on 9 Nower Hill, and I remember befriending the railway station ticket lady. She and I used to go out to the parking lot (which was gravel back ...Read more

A memory of Pinner by Joel Fisher

Gants Hill Smiths Bus Stop

I used to live in Montreal Road, off Perth Road, and remember the bus-stop outside Smiths stationers. There was also a real butchers, greengrocers, shoe shop, Woolworths, banks, a small dress shop and later a Jewish ...Read more

A memory of Gants Hill in 1961

Hamilton Secondary & Cole Street Infant School

It used to be in a nunnery in Birkenhead just off manor hill nr entrance to the park ..it was called Nazareth house ? I went to Hamilton middle school in the juniors ? I was 8/9 at the time ?? A few kids ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by Mark Farrow

Northolt Wonderland

I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Philip Yorke Edgell

Captions

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Caption For Birdlip, View From Birdlip Hill C1955

This view looks across to Crickley Hill, which is now designated a country park.

Caption For Salford, Peel Park, Peel Statue 1889

This is a wonderfully patriotic photograph of the monument to Lancashire lad Sir Robert Peel, standing in the park named after him.

Caption For Stapleford, New School C1955

Continuing eastwards along the A52 beyond The Sherwin Arms, we come to a complex of council schools, both primary and secondary, built in Bramcote Hill Park.

Caption For Dudley, The Zoo, The Lions C1965

The Lion Enclosure was one of those specifically accommodated into a natural feature of Castle Hill.

Caption For Lancaster, Market Street C1950

We are looking down from Castle Park to Castle Hill and the city beyond.

Caption For Lancaster, From The Castle C1950

We are looking down from Castle Park to Castle Hill and the city beyond.

Caption For Basildon, Town Centre C1965

Both the town centre and the High Street in general face increasing competition in the form of 'out of town' shopping, following the creation of the retail park.

Caption For Chideock, 1927

From the slopes of Quarry Hill, above Park Farm (centre), we look south-westwards to Golden Cap (left of centre) and Langdon Hill.

Caption For Connemara, Lough Ballynakill And Diamond Hill C1955

A view looking eastwards along the rocky Barnaderg Bay towards Letterfrack and Diamond Hill.

Caption For Haverfordwest, Hill Street 1906

Formerly named 'Hill of St Thomas' or 'Hilstret', it runs from St Thomas's Green to Market Street.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Cornhill C1950

Angel Hill was once the site of Bury Fair, but by 1955 it has been relegated to nothing more than a car park.

Caption For Amersham On The Hill, Sycamore Road C1950

The new town of Amersham on the Hill developed from the 1890s when, after 60 years of opposition, the Drakes and then the Tyrwhitt-Drakes finally allowed the railway to come to Amersham, but up the hill

Caption For North Harrow, Pinner Road C1965

This featureless wave of suburbia grew up in the 1930s to cover the fields between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Pinner.

Caption For Chideock, Village 1897

The houses in this view are (starting with the closest): Gate Cottage, Fernley, Hill View and the thatched Park Farmhouse.

Caption For Aylesbury, Canal And Hills And Partridges Lock 1897

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge.

Caption For Accrington, Composite C1960

The Rock Gardens at Oak Hill Park, Broadway, with its new Arndale Centre, the bus station and St James' Chruch are all proudly portrayed here, with the Market Hall in the centre.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Vale Park C1950

The High Street was laid out in 1826 as New Road, but development off the hill was slow.

Caption For Poole, Parkstone, Bank Corner 1904

The bank was built in 1894 as the Wilts & Dorset Bank on the main road to Bournemouth at the Church Road cross- roads at the bottom of Castle Hill.

Caption For Castle Cary, The Town Hall C1960

West of Bruton, Castle Cary is set on the side of the oolite hills of southern Somerset, with Castle Cary Park on Lodge Hill rising steeply behind the church.

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.

Caption For Shipley, The Glen 1921

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Caption For Box Hill, The Slopes 1906

The Lookout at the summit of Box Hill is due to the generosity of Mr Leopold Salomons of Norbury Park.

Caption For Accrington, Oak Hill Park 1899

Oak Hill Park was Accrington's second park, and the land was purchased bu the Corporation from Reginald Hargreaves for £12,000 in 1892.

Caption For Accrington, Oak Hill Park C1935

Four cannons from the War Office were purchased by Henry Parkinson (calling himself 'Accrington Friend and Well Wisher'); two were sited on The Coppice, and two in Oak Hill Park.