Maps

789 maps found.

1919, Bishop's Wood Ref. POP641178
1908, Durford Wood Ref. HOSM44088
1885, Wood Norton Ref. HOSM64972
1908, Ashurst Wood Ref. HOSM36489
1886, Binley Woods Ref. HOSM37769
1895, Petts Wood Ref. HOSM56666
1885, Wood Dalling Ref. HOSM64966
1903, Yardley Wood Ref. HOSM65360
1902, Leigh Woods Ref. HOSM51060
1883, Big Wood Ref. HOSM48610
1896, Bricket Wood Ref. HOSM38835
1895, Paddock Wood Ref. HOSM56074
1883, Walsall Wood Ref. HOSM63316
1887, Wood Walton Ref. HOSM65114
1896, Great Wood Ref. HOSM60794
1883, Wood Stanway Ref. HOSM64974
1895, Harold Wood Ref. HOSM47679
1900-1902, Priory Wood Ref. RNC811185
1897-1909, Spencers Wood Ref. RNC836236
1899-1902, Stock Wood Ref. RNC839720

Books

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Memories

2,403 memories found. Showing results 251 to 260.

Peartree Close

I was born in Burgess Hill in 1955 and lived at 18 Peartree Close. There was a rough track behind the house with rear access to garages, and we spent loads of time playing up and down this track and in the woods beyond. I ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1955 by Paul Smith

Love That Place!

Born at Petersfield in 1940, my first home was Berry Cottage, down Sandy Lane, opposite Sibley's farm. Berry cottage had only 4 rooms (2 up and 2 down), no running water, only a well and later a tap down in the lane. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Rake Firs in 1940 by Monica Stewart

Vine Cottage And Blacksmith Shop

William Wright lived in Vine Cottage, Aston, there was a blacksmith shop beside the house, across the road was the orchard with many fruit trees and all the animals. I used to spend time there in the ...Read more

A memory of Aston in 1950 by Primrose Croteau

Magical

Hi, Val and Sid Newman live in Lancing now. My nan and grandad lived in Sands Lane and I loved going there and helping Charlie in the woods cutting bean sticks. It was magical. A lot of the old characters have gone now but in the 1970s and 1980s the Fishes, Grettons and Wellsteads ruled the roost.

A memory of Small Dole by Mark Gretton

Moving Away

I was born in Redhill hospital in 1948 and lived in Shirley Avenue. I went to Downland School which was a stone cottage called Pound Cottage just before Stanley Close. There was Cherry Tree Cottage about 3 doors up, they used to ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon by Margaret Collins

My Home Area

Although I was born in Princetown I spent endless hours and days in Tafarnaubach. I was brought up in the area and my closest friends all lived in Princetown or Tafaneu. Friends like Ken Woods, Graham Davies, Denis Francis, Alun ...Read more

A memory of Tafarnaubach in 1948 by John Carol Evans

Nash Court

I too was a member of St Matthew's church choir in Stretford, Manchester. I remember going to Nash yearly for some years in the 1960s. Some of the choir men also went but I think the organiser was the choirmaster Mr Ronald Frost, who was ...Read more

A memory of Nash in 1965 by Stuart Hadden

Jim Iles

My husband Jime Iles was at Holmesdale School from 1956 to 1960. He won many awards for his metalwork and wood work with Mr Dodds. He lived in Tomlins Cottages in Snodland which have now been demolished. He worked at Holborough Cement ...Read more

A memory of Snodland in 1960 by Linda Iles

A Day At The Seaside Littlehampton C 1955

I cannot remember how old I was when we started going to the south coast of England for a Sunday trip, but it was when my father sold his Norton motorbike and bought a Golden Flash with a sidecar ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton in 1955 by Carole Baldwin

Childhood In The 1950s In Caerau

I was born at 87 Victoria Street in 1945. My father was a miner and worked all his life in Caerau colliery. My mother came from London with her brothers and sisters, they were evacuated to Caerau after their house ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1953 by Colin Evans

Captions

663 captions found. Showing results 601 to 624.

Caption For Harlow, Old Harlow, Churchgate Street 1903

Stafford Almshouse, now privately owned, was originally the home of a priest until 1548, when it became an almshouse for 'two poor widows to be given 20s for wood and 20s for clothing every year'.

Caption For Hampstead, Heath From Parliament Hill 1898

The view has altered dramatically in one hundred years - a mass of buildings has sprung up on the facing hill slope, and the Heath has become literally a wooded park with lakes.

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 Plaistow, The Village C1955

Located in a remote region north of Petworth, the village was originally formed in a clearing in the woods. The local wealden clay district is remarkable for large oak trees.

Caption For Tintern, Abbey 1890

The wire was used, among other things, to make brushes for carding in the wool industry.

Caption For Laindon, St Nicholas's Church C1955

It is rumoured that the timbers supporting the belfry came from ships of the Armada, but they are more likely to have grown in the nearby woods. The chancel and south aisle were added later.

Caption For Durham, The Cathedral Choir, East 1892

The medieval stone screen dividing the nave from the choir was demolished some time in the 16th century and replaced in about 1665 by one of richly carved wood.

Caption For Fittleworth, The Village C1955

Fittleworth is a picturesque village of fine old houses, commons and fir woods. On the left of the picture is the Swan, a 14th-century coaching inn with a sign spanning the main road.

Caption For Broad Chalke, All Saints' Church C1955

A monument near the south porch in the churchyard has a simple inscribed slab of 1930 to Christopher Wood, the painter who lived in nearby Reddish House, which has since been the home of Cecil

Caption For Lyme Regis, Cannington Viaduct 1903

Having curved from the woods on Shapwick Hill (top right) and around Combpyne Hill (centre), the new six-mile railway line from Axminster to Lyme Regis crossed the deep-cut valley at Cannington

Caption For Preston, Dock, North Side C1960

In this photograph we can see wood stacked for seasoning within the dock area. Frequent visitors here were the Russian ships bringing in hardwoods.

Caption For Huddersfield, Beaumont Park C1960

As early as 1869 he called a public meeting to win support for the acquisition of the Greenhead estate, including Gledholt Glen (now known as T P Woods after former owner, T P Crosland), to prevent

Caption For Dorking, Coldharbour Lane 1907

In 1672, following the Declaration of Indulgence, licences to preach in Dorking were issued to James Fisher and John Wood, who formed the Independent Congregational Church.

Caption For Preston, Dock, East Side C1955

In this photograph we can see wood stacked for seasoning within the dock area. Frequent visitors here were the Russian ships bringing in hardwoods.

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 Blackburn, Exchange 1899

The spring at Whittle le Woods was known to have healing properties, and when it was made into beer and stout it was said to be good for arthritis and other ailments.

Caption For Manchester, The Cathedral Choir C1885

Thousands of pieces of new wood had to be let into the elaborate canopies of the choir stalls seen here. Most of these stalls had been put here by Sir James Stanley in 1513.

Caption For Manchester, The Cathedral Choir C1885

Thousands of pieces of new wood had to be let into the elaborate canopies of the choir stalls seen here. Most of these stalls had been put here by Sir James Stanley in 1513.

Caption For New Brighton, The Lighthouse 1887

Wood and parts of the ship soon sank into the sand, but the bales of cotton did not. Then grass started to grow on the cotton bales, and this held firm in the sand.

Caption For Epsom, The Grandstand 1890

During race week the firm of Barnards put up temporary stands of wood and canvas along the course to the right, and on the left there was a smaller stand built for the Prince Regent.

Caption For Styal, The Cotton Mill 1897

All this can be seen at Styal, which nestles in the steep sided wooded valley of the River Bollin, now welcoming hordes of visitors, especially school children, who come to experience what it was

Caption For Lyme Regis, Church And Town 1890

Silver Street lives up to its medieval Latin name - 'silva', meaning a wood - as it rises through trees on the western skyline (top left).

Caption For Kippax, The Leeds Road C1960

Kippax Colliery near Owl Wood flourished between 1858 and 1904, but it was the nearby pits of Allerton Bywater (1875-1992) and Ledston Luck (1909-1987) that transformed the village into the town

Caption For Stourport On Severn, River Severn And Bridge C1955

Wood Green Farm still cultivates acres of pasture on the north bank of the Severn as far as Burlish Top, but changes came about after World War II.