Maps

3,664 maps found.

1946, Wingfield Ref. NPO871382
1895, Farley Ref. RNE703419
1898, Dunkirk Ref. RNE695531
1898, Durrington Ref. RNE696013
1897-1898, Quidhampton Ref. RNC812406
1897-1899, Ridge Ref. RNC816498
1919, Highway Ref. POP734724
1919, Halfway Ref. POP724984
1919, Holloway Ref. POP738268
1919, Hudswell Ref. POP741816
1919, Huish Ref. POP741871
1919, Kilmington Ref. POP747312
1919, Knighton Ref. POP749716
1946, Heywood Ref. NPO732228
1945, Holloway Ref. NPO738268
1940, Horton Ref. NPO740858
1940, Dunkirk Ref. NPO695531
1940, Easton Ref. NPO698713
1919, Longfield Ref. POP766884
1919, Pitton Ref. POP806948

Books

16 books found. Showing results 25 to 16.

Memories

113 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Box Fieds Hawthorn

My parents met at a place called Thornypits and married during the war years.They were George and Pam Edwards, he was a local barber and came from Killarney, Southern Ireland, she came from Ditcheat, near Shepton ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1942 by Pam Mears

Brooksby Hall Agricultural College, Leicestershire,England

Like Gwilym Evans I was enlisted into HM Forces in 1944, along with my twin brother. We were born in May 1926. Served with RASC as drivers first in Wiltshire, England, driving 3 ton ...Read more

A memory of Nantgwynant in 1949 by Reuben Reynolds

Brother Of Christine Brown Brooks See Previous Memory

I was born in Mayday Hospital in 1938 and was brought up in Clarendon Road, West Croydon. I went to the Croydon Parish Church, Waddon Secondary Modern and Stanley Technical Schools. I would ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Michael Brown

Burrows Family Circa 1952 To 1960

My grandparents lived in Ditcheat; Sarah and Hubert Burrows. They had three daughters, Elisabeth (Bessie), Gertrude (Gertie), Pamela and also a son Mettford (Mett) Burrows. My mother Pamela, like her siblings, ...Read more

A memory of Ditcheat in 1952 by Pam Mears

Bussing To The Grammar

I fondly recall my days as a late 1950's pupil at the Grammar School on its hill. A bus service was used to ferry pupils like me from the more distant parts of the county. We had a mixed attendance and the headmaster ...Read more

A memory of Chippenham in 1959 by Mark Newberry

Charlton Park Camp

I was one of a family of Seven children(two girls and five boys) born to Louise and George Tawn. We first lived at Pinkney park where my father was employed as a farm bailif. Due to his affair with the farmers wife we were ...Read more

A memory of Malmesbury by mahoneyrosie21

Childhood

I did get the privilege to revisit Mitcham again this year. The fair green has changed little, there is now a main road running striaght to Tooting Broadway opposite the fair green, where the Bucks Head pub was there is a paved off area ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1964 by Marion Lane

Childhood Memories

These memories have been contributed by Myra Greer. In 1947, when I was 7, my mother and I moved from Salisbury in Wiltshire where my father was stationed at RAF Boscombe Down, to near Llanfarian, where my grandparents had ...Read more

A memory of Llanfarian in 1947

Childhood Memories

My mum Ruby Osbourne born in 1913 and her brothers and sisters grew up in Lowestoft. She married my dad a sailor in the Royal Navy and was then Ruby Pearce. She later moved to Wiltshire with my two brothers due to the Second ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft by barree64

Court Hall Remembered

From 1946 until 1949 I was a boarder at Court Hall. At the time I was there Lady Poultimor lived in a cottage in the grounds and kept parrots. There were stables at the rear of the house and a full pack of hounds was ...Read more

A memory of North Molton in 1946 by Brenda Mitchell

Captions

77 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Sherfield English, The Hatchet Inn C1965

Situated to the west of Romsey, Sherfield English lies close to the county boundary with Wiltshire.

Caption For Cricklade, High Street C1950

This small Wiltshire market town has a long, roughly north-south High Street, seen here looking north from the junction with Bath Road.

Caption For Limpley Stoke, The Village C1955

This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.

Caption For Exmouth, The Strand 1906

This earlier view of the Strand shows the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank on the left and the Commercial and Temperance Hotel in the far distance.

Caption For Masham, The Druids Temple C1960

This miniature model of Stonehenge in far-off Wiltshire was erected by William Danby of Swinton Hall, Ilton, near Masham in around 1820 as a folly to interest and impress visitors to his estate.

Caption For Trowbridge, Silver Street And Town Hall 1900

Home brewed Wiltshire Ales can be obtained at the New Inn, and Ushers Ales are still brewed today in the town.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The White Horse C1955

It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

Caption For Goodworth Clatford, St Peter's Church 1965

Near the Wiltshire border, St Peter's contains a tablet which recalls a chorister's dedicated service in this church.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The White Horse C1955

It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

Caption For Calne, Church Street C1965

At No 23 is Rosa Lewis Cole, confectioner, and next door at No 24 is Wiltshire & Sons, butchers; their grocer's shop is opposite (left) at No 22.

Caption For Combe Down, Church Road C1965

Westbury Avenue, to the right, was named because of its view to Westbury White Horse in Wiltshire.

Caption For Calne, Holy Trinity Church C1960

The school friends Brian Gregg, Rod Goodway, Roger Hartley, Bob Duke and Andy Rickell were discovered by pop impresario Micky Most, who lived in Wiltshire at the time.

Caption For Lechlade, The Moorings C1955

Wharves and warehouses were built alongside the river to accommodate the trade in cheeses from all parts of Gloucestershire and North Wiltshire.

Caption For Warminster, Christ Church C1950

This church was built as part of the 'suburban' church movement for dealing with the expanding industrial towns of Wiltshire.

Caption For Bristol, Union Street C1965

The business was founded by Joseph's father, who had come to Bristol from Wiltshire.

Caption For Hever, The Village 1906

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Holy Trinity Church 1914

On the wall of the nave is 'one of the loveliest fragments of sculpture in Wiltshire, the portrait of a 13th-century lady, with curls in her hair, and hands clasped'.

Caption For Ashton Keynes, High Road C1955

This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.

Caption For Beckhampton, The Waggon And Horses C1955

The petrol station opposite, once owned by Frank C Harcombe, according to Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire 1939, is now a parking area.

Caption For Calne, Church Street C1965

Wiltshire & Sons (left of photograph) opened their first supermarket in the 1960s, which later became Gateway in 1973.

Caption For South Tidworth, Old Cottages C1962

South Tidworth is situated in the Test Valley, but in the 1974 boundary changes it ended up in Wiltshire.

Caption For Swindon, High Street And Goddard Arms C1950

This building opened as the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank in 1885 and is now used as offices and as a hairdresser's salon.

Caption For Trowbridge, Fore Street 1900

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, chosen in 1888 for reasons of communication.

Caption For Bruton, King Alfred's Tower C1955

The last tour heads west from the Wiltshire border to Devonshire; we are never far from Dorset to the south.