Maps

459 maps found.

1899-1900, West Leigh Ref. RNC864565
1899-1900, East Leigh Ref. RNC697546
1886, East Leigh Ref. HOSM44460
1919, East Leigh Ref. POP697546
1946, East Leigh Ref. NPO697546
1898, West Leigh Ref. RNE864565
1946, West Leigh Ref. NPO864565
1922, Dawn Ref. POP688976
1947, Dawn Ref. NPO688976
1899, Dawn Ref. RNE688976
1900, Dorn Ref. HOSM43399
1946, Dorn Ref. NPO692140
1908-1909, Downies Ref. RNC692744
1898, Dorn Ref. RNE692140
1919, Dorn Ref. POP692140
1899-1901, Dorn Ref. RNC692140
1902-1903, Dawn Ref. RNC688976
1911, Dòun Chàrlabhaigh Ref. RNC692305
1903, Lynton Ref. HOSM70325

Books

47 books found. Showing results 529 to 552.

Memories

8,147 memories found. Showing results 221 to 230.

The Dig In 1972

Virginia and I arrived at Loveden Hill in early September of 1972 during the middle of the last major dig on the site. She had found an ad in the Times for volunteers at the site and moved into the farm enclosure in our Citroen ...Read more

A memory of Loveden Hill by Ron Arnold

Holiday Place

Many many many, great holidays here. A very nice village. Sadly this place has now been knocked down and replaced with houses.

A memory of Rhosneigr in 1977 by Malcolm Lewsley

Football Years

I played for the first Sudbrook Cricket Club football team. We came second in the East Gwent 2nd Division and got promoted. I played with: Dave Clements, Mike Keogh, Paul Little, Ivor Baker, Tony Cochrane, Bobby Noade, Darren Noade, ...Read more

A memory of Caldicot in 1980 by Geoff Jones

Special Times

Once the time had come for blackberry picking and whimberry picking, my lovely Uncle Fred took us down the valley roads, to get picking, ready for those lovely pies my grandmother would make. We would climb up beside these waterfalls, ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr in 1953 by Jackie Haynes

Growing Up In Hornsey

I was born in Hornsey in 1923, and spent the first 10 years of my life living with my parents in the top flat at 257 Wightman Road. The ground floor was occupied by Mr and Mrs Dan Costigan. Mr Costigan was a bus driver, and ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1920 by Arthur Astrop

Hop Picking. Telephone Exchange Tunbridge Wells

 DOES ANYONE EVER ANSWER TO OUR MEMORIES?. THERE MUST BE SOMEONE OUT THERE  COME ON JOIN IN   I joined Tunbridge Wells telephone exchange September 1948.  I remember so well the evening the man would ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1940 by Daphne Hooker Married Name Russell

Why Is The Bell Closed

I have drunk at The Bell in Woodham Walter all my life, nearly 70 years. I have seen many things from the ghost sitting in the corner by the side of the fire to the changes of managment running it, and it unfortunately ...Read more

A memory of Woodham Walter by Woodham Walter

Waiting For The Bus

As a small child and a grown woman with children of my own I remember waiting for the Wakefield bus after a visit to my grandparents. Some times it would be the West Riding bus, at other times it was the United one. Until his ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth by David Johnson

Gaumont Cinema

Saturday morning pics - mostly with Suzanne! Used to walk up and down Watford Way with Helene, our hair in bunches, bright pink lipstick, carrying paraffin cans (have no idea why!!). Jean Philip (Kushner)

A memory of Hendon in 1957 by Jean Philip

Majestic Cinema

Glad someone remembers the Majestic Cinema at Fair Green. We lived in Norbury, just over the border in Croydon, but my Dad was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and regularly did relief stints at the Majestic when the regular ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Colin Marsh

Captions

2,258 captions found. Showing results 529 to 552.

Caption For Widnes, Widnes Road C1960

This view was taken in Albert Road looking down Widnes Road.

Caption For Handforth, The Greyhound Inn And Wilmslow Road C1965

Looking south down the main road towards Wilmslow, with the road over to Macclesfield going off to the left, affluent Cheshire is driving towards the viewer and the young couple wait for

Caption For Alton, Church Street 1898

The pale-coloured cottages, where a man is standing in a doorway (centre right), were pulled down to make way for the Foresters' Hall, the home of the Electric Picture Theatre and other events.

Caption For Wells, The Market Place C1960

The fountain dates from the 18th century, and water flows down a channel made in 1803 'for cleansing and fire fighting'.

Caption For Kendal, The Castle 1894

Kendal Castle was built by the Normans to the east of the town, probably by Ivo de Tailbois, the first Lord of Kendal in the late 12th century, and it still commands good views to the north and

Caption For Grasmere, Vale 1926

There is not much traffic—a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger—in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

Caption For Findon, Post Office Corner C1960

Much of the downland around Findon, at the southern end of the same 'wind-gap' in the South Downs, was for centuries an open sheep-walk.

Caption For Powerstock, The Village 1902

The modern houses (left) are down towards Merriott Bridge. Dugberry Hill is on the skyline (right of church tower).

Caption For East Grinstead, Lewes Road 1907

East Grinstead, a Wealden market town founded during the early 13th-century woodland clearances, was recorded as a borough by 1235.

Caption For Polperro, 1888

Polperro is the archetypal Cornish fishing village - a higgledy-piggledy maze of narrow streets leading down to a perfect, tiny harbour.

Caption For Ringwood, Fridays Cross C1950

Further down the street is a sign for the estate agents Woolley and Wallis, still trading today.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street 1929

Unsaddled horses are being led down the street. Could they be going to a Tattersalls sale?

Caption For Chesterfield, The Cricket Ground, Queens Park C1950

Proposals were drawn up for a new pavilion, indoor nets, and a banqueting suite at Queen's Park, but were turned down by Chesterfield Borough Council.

Caption For Mousehole, Harbour 1893

The winding road out of Newlyn rounds Penlee Point then dips down to this celebrated fishing village that nestles within stout stone breakwaters. At its back it is fringed by hills.

Caption For Bude, The Town 1929

With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.

Caption For Woking, Chertsey Road C1955

Almost sixty years after photograph 42025 was taken, Frith's photographers returned to take a further view down Chertsey Road.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road C1965

Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned down

Caption For Northwich, Bull Ring 1903

Within a few years the Bull Ring became one of those places where pedestrians took their lives in their hands, having to dodge scores of ICI workers as they freewheeled four, five, even six abreast down

Caption For South Walsham, Broad 1902

The lawn of a country house sweeps down to the water; a pile of mown grass can be seen on the right.

Caption For Isle Of Grain, The Cat And Cracker Hotel C1955

The Cat and Cracker got its name in 1954, when the brewers Style & Winch Ltd of Maidstone named it after the catalytic cracker, which breaks down crude oil, and was used by the nearby Anglo- Iranian

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1925

His original shop was further down the High Street.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, The Park 1918

Here, children are playing on the steps leading down to the bandstand, which has now gone. Housing has now appeared beyond the fringes of the park.

Caption For Downham, Post Office And Old Stocks 1921

On the right an old sycamore tree shades what is left of the village stocks.The film 'Whistle Down The Wind' with Hayley Mills was filmed in and around Downham village.

Caption For Kingsclere, Newbury Road C1955

Lying at the foot of spectacular downs, it is not surprising that Kingsclere enjoys strong ties with the world of racing.