Maps

789 maps found.

1947, Yardley Wood Ref. NPO875593
1897, Donnington Wood Ref. RNE692041
1896, Browns Wood Ref. RNE653172
1895, Coolhurst Wood Ref. RNE676827
1896, Hinchley Wood Ref. RNE736757
1895, Holt Wood Ref. RNE738967
1896, Hadley Wood Ref. RNE724307
1895, Kerthen Wood Ref. RNE746563
1895, Talbot Woods Ref. RNE844560
1898, Stock Wood Ref. RNE839720
1908, Edzell Woods Ref. RNC699430
1920, Abbey Wood Ref. POP618426
1903, Wood End Ref. RNC872446
1902, Wood End Ref. RNC872450
1898, Wood End Ref. RNC872457
1902, Wood Lane Ref. RNC872720
1903, Wood Road Ref. RNC872771
1903, Wood Seats Ref. RNC872775
1919, Broadgreen Wood Ref. POP650935
1925, Booth Wood Ref. POP646011

Books

4 books found. Showing results 577 to 4.

Memories

2,403 memories found. Showing results 241 to 250.

Bramley In The Years 1935 To 1941

Now 80 years of age I used to live with my Mum and Dad and brother Michael in Lincroft Crescent just above the Sandford estate. The houses were new and rather small though we were so happy ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1930 by Lynden Flint

Barking Road, C1965

The photograph on Barking Road c1965 brought back some childhood memories. I was born in Dukes Court in 1955. I can remember the shops in the photo, the Fish & Chip shop, Johns the Greengrocer's, Walkers, Aflecks, the Dry ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1965 by Valerie Bethell

Triggered A Few More Memories

Waterloo in the 1940s to 1950s My early memories are of Waterloo where I used to live at Winchester Avenue until 1958. My father died there in 1989. On College Road there were air raid shelters which me and ...Read more

A memory of Waterloo by Graham White

Born In Fairford 1939 Left 1957 I Still Call It Home Prim Clements

My family moved to Fairford with Rev Gibbs? 1937, I always lived at Victory Villas, went to infants school, Farmors School and Cirencester Grammar School, worked at Busbys garage. ...Read more

A memory of Fairford in 1957 by Primrose Croteau

A Wartime Child

I was born in 1935 at 25 Cambridge Road, maiden name Lee. There were six of us, parents, 2 older sisters, Beryl and Gwen, and grandmother. I remember many of the shops from the late 30's to the early 50's when we moved to ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow in 1930 by Margaret Waddingham

Childhood Memories

I was born at Hill View Lamberts Castle in the 1940s. Mum use to run a small tea rooms and I remember a hiking organisation called the Holiday Fellowship calling their once a week. No mains water, electricity or gas ...Read more

A memory of Lambert's Castle in 1940 by Michael Loving

Petworth Mill

My grandparents Hylands live in the millhouse at Petworth. When I was a child, after moving from a farm at Sutton my grandad Bill worked for the mill driving a flour lorry and nan Olive used to sell tickets to men wnting to fish ...Read more

A memory of Petworth in 1970 by Jackie Bush

My Youth

I lived in Tamar Drive and went to the local school, my senior school was Lennards Comprehensive. My best mates were Jenny Cutler, Shirley Jassec, Pat Madder. We spent alot of time roaming the streets, I remember the fair coming to town ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1960 by Gillian Woodford

Hixon Village

I was 6 when we moved to Hixon from Stowe by Chartley. My dear dad Len, my 2 sisters Rose and Sue and my 2 brothers Gray and Mick. We lived in the Croft no 24, my brother still lives in that house today overlooking the woods that were ...Read more

A memory of Hixon in 1965 by Pam Clemson

Bluebells Ginger Beer At Slinden Woods

I am now 74, but to this day I have such lovely memories of trips with my Girl Guide troop going on the bus to Slindon Woods. Across the road from where the bus would stop was a lovely little shop, where we ...Read more

A memory of Slindon in 1948 by June Fahnestock (Nee Clea

Captions

663 captions found. Showing results 577 to 600.

Caption For Warwick, The Castle 1892

Henry de Newburgh built a large wooden motte and bailey on the site of the present castle; before his death in 1123 he might well have begun to replace the wood with stone.

Caption For Burnley, Towneley Park Gate 1895

The castellated entrance to Townley Hall, on the A671 Todmorden Road at Burnley Wood, was photographed when it was still a private estate.

Caption For Heysham, The Docks C1915

There was a lodge down in the village, and the estate of about 14 acres was laid out with attractive gardens and woods.

Caption For Balcombe, The Village C1955

This village is noted for its beautiful woods, a railway tunnel under the Balcombe Forest and a brick viaduct over the Ouse valley. The church of St Mary was built in 1847.

Caption For Colwyn Bay, On The Sands 1898

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

Caption For Burnley, Brunswick Chapel 1895

Though a good picture of a much-missed local landmark, this photograph also gives us a hint of Burnley as an industrial town.

Caption For Devils Bridge, The Falls C1880

The awful height of the fissure which the bridge bestrides a hundred feet above the observer, rendered doubly gloomy by its narrowness, and the wood which overhangs it; the stunning noise of the torrent

Caption For East Hoathly, South Street C1950

The village is noted for trug manufacture at a local steamed wood works.

Caption For Rousdon, The Landslip And Whitlands Cottages 1900

In the decades that followed there were a number of minor landslips, forming the wild and jumbled wood and cliff that we see today.

Caption For Cookham, High Street 1908

The village, which stands opposite Cliveden Woods, is also famous for a sarsen boulder known as the Tarry Stone, which has occupied different positions in the High Street over the years.

Caption For Abinger Hammer, The Village C1955

Across the chalk ridge, the route returns to the greensand country, and to one of Surrey's prettiest and most wooded areas.

Caption For Steeple Ashton, St Mary's Church 1900

Stone vaulting in the nave has been replaced with wood. The large impressive Perpendicular church has a four-stage powerful tower; the steeple gave the church an overall height of 186ft.

Caption For Waddington, Village 1899

It was at Waddington Old Hall that Henry VI took refuge after leaving Bolton-by-Bowland, and it was here that he was betrayed and captured in nearby Clitheroe Wood.

Caption For Waddington, Village 1899

It was at Waddington Old Hall that Henry VI took refuge after leaving Bolton-by-Bowland, and it was here that he was betrayed and captured in nearby Clitheroe Wood.

Caption For Slad, The Valley 1910

Immortalised by Laurie Lee in his autobiography 'Cider With Rosie', Slad and its wooded valley is known throughout the world by millions of readers who have never been there.

Caption For Neston, Old Mill C1939

This lovely old building stands in Leighton Road, close to its junction with Wood Lane.

Caption For Rudgwick, The King's Head C1965

A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border. At the top of the hill is the mainly 14th-century church of the Holy Trinity.

Caption For Heysham, Heysham Tower 1915

There was a lodge down in the village, and the estate of about 14 acres was laid out with attractive gardens and woods.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, Sailing Boats 1896

Almost certainly a race or regatta is in progress, as the distinctive boats of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club pose gracefully against the wooded shoreline.

Caption For St Annes, Lightburn Avenue C1955

Built of wood, it stood in the sand dunes between Riley Avenue and Lightburn Avenue from 1864 to 1901.

Caption For West Hoathly, The Village C1950

The forests had deposits of iron ore, and supplies of wood fuel to smelt it; the iron-making families brought much wealth to the parish.

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

We always built a hut in the woods — and would like to have slept there, but weren't allowed to.

Caption For Alfriston, Market Square C1955

We can see old shops in the photograph - S Selvey, the grocer, and Wood, the butcher. The ancient market cross has been knocked down by vehicles and restored several times.

Caption For Herstmonceux, Castle, The Inner Courtyard 1890

Monceux in 1320, the last of the family that had held the manor since the 12th century and had given the village the second part of its name; the other part, 'hyrst', is Anglo-Saxon for 'a wooded