Maps

118 maps found.

Books

263 books found. Showing results 649 to 672.

Memories

672 memories found. Showing results 271 to 280.

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

My Life At The Black Horse Hotel

I spent the first sixteen years of my life at The Black Horse Hotel due to licensees being Henrietta Smith and Charles Vernon Smith. My paternal grand mother and father. My mother Kathleen Smith shared ...Read more

A memory of Gomshall by Susan Hibbert

Good (Great) Old Days

I was born at The Four Lane Ends but really the only thing which I remember about that is the day we moved to South Market Street. Since then (about '46) I have always been proud to refer to myself as being amongst the ...Read more

A memory of Hetton-Le-Hole in 1950 by Keith Fisher

Early 1960's

Lived at No7 Wolverhampton Road.. opposite Sammy Hall's butchers. Mum and Dad ran a shop out front and a car repair garage at the rear. No.1 was Coopers tailors... No.3 Baileys dry cleaners and No.5 I recall was owned by Mr & ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town by Graham Lester

Going For A Dip.

I lived in Bassaleg from 1941-45 and attended Bassaleg County Ssecondary Grammar School. My Friend Hazel Williams and I used to walk to Allt-yr-yn lido for a swim in the hot weather. It used to take us the best part of an ...Read more

A memory of Allt yr Yn in 1944 by Hettie Marsh Jones

My Childhood Memories Of Crewe.

I left in 1966 to come to Australia, I went to West St Infant and junior then to Ludford St. My mum was Betty Brownell, Nee Fleet. a tailor at C.C. Dad, Alf Brownell, a tool maker, worked at the Railway work shop until ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1966 by Pamela Fawcett, (Brownell)

1939 45 Bomb In Yewtree Road

I lived just around the corner in County Road and was About 2 hundred yards away when the bomb dropped.I would take issue with the writer Mona Duggan in her excellent book in the Francis Frith history of Ormskirk when ...Read more

A memory of Ormskirk by John Parker

I Was Born In Althorne

My name is Clair salmon I was born at my home in althorne the house called charmouth on burnham road, I arrived late in July 1974. I was the youngest of two children, my sister phillippa was three years older than me she had ...Read more

A memory of Althorne by jamesjc23

The Shops At Merrow

I remember these shops well as my family moved into the 'new' council houses in 1952 when Bushy Hill estate was still being developed. From the left, the bright red letterbox which was always regularly painted, then the first shop ...Read more

A memory of Merrow by sandra

Dartmouth Road

I went to Sydenham County Girls school and left at 15 in 1963. Someone made a comment about Terry Maidment -that rang a bell, as my sister, Janet, used to go out with him for a while. I knew Brian Jacks very well - and did anyone ...Read more

A memory of Sydenham by Doreen King (Mahony)

Captions

749 captions found. Showing results 649 to 672.

Caption For Sudbury, Grammar School 1904

The school was vested in the West Suffolk County Council in 1902 and continued as a grammar school until 1972, when it became All Saints' Middle School until 1987.

Caption For Acle, The Green From The Post Office C1926

Acle has one of the biggest livestock markets in the county, especially for pigs - some families keep one or two pigs in their backyards for their own use and resale.

Caption For Bottesford, Market Street C1955

On the A52 between Nottingham and Grantham, Bottesford is the most northerly settlement in the county.

Caption For Tenbury Wells, Teme Street 1898

St Mary's church sits overlooking the River Teme (also the county boundary).

Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, Main Street C1955

Outside the church are the remains of a 9th-century cross shaft, the largest in the county.

Caption For Ashwell, Forester's Cottages, High Street 1951

foreground, were to be demolished in a few years after the photograph was taken, but were saved and extensively restored in the 1960s through the Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust and Hertfordshire County

Caption For Luton, The Andrew Carnegie Public Library 1924

Balfour's Education Act of 1902 placed 'board schools' under borough or county councils (Local Education Authorities), authorizing them to establish secondary and technical schools as well

Caption For Liverpool, Sessions House 1887

It is an imposing classical-style building; the frontage has five bays, with a portico of four paired Corinthian columns, and the coat of arms of the Lancashire County Council over the entrance.

Caption For Belvoir Castle, 1890

In the foreground, the cottages are roofed in attractive pantiles, a common material in this part of the county.

Caption For Daventry, Abbey Buildings C1950

The County Library was based here in the 1950s.

Caption For Redhill, The Earlswood Lakes C1950

Moving west, the route passes through Merstham, a village of two parts: the older part lies west of the railway, and to its east is a large former London County Council housing estate of the 1950s

Caption For Bridport, Wykes Court 1909

Post-war he was a county councillor and a member of the Board of Finance for the Salisbury diocese.

Caption For Gloucester, Eastgate Street 1949

Others included The Bell Hotel and The New County in Southgate Street and The Fleece in Westgate Street.

Caption For Mill Hill, The Village Pond, The Ridgeway C1965

standard artist's stuff, but the buildings, including Mill Hill School, some of 1825, Belmont of 1773, by James Paine junior, the Missionary Institute of 1778 by John Johnson, who designed Leicester's County

Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, Main Street C1955

Outside the church are the remains of a 9th-century cross shaft, the largest in the county.

Caption For Blackburn, The Town Hall C1955

Blackburn became a County Borough in 1888. On 5 November 1925 the Blackburn Church Diocese was founded, and the parish church became a Cathedral.

Caption For Groby, The Pool C1960

Once it was larger, but its 40 acres qualified the pool as the largest sheet of water in the county until the 19th century, hence the saying 'to thatch Groby Pool with pancakes' indicates

Caption For Stafford, County War Memorial, Victoria Park 2005

In the 1980s and 1990s Bingley Hall, part of the County Showground on Weston Road, hosted several groups such as Black Sabbath and the Electric Light Orchestra.

Caption For Bury, Walmersley Church 1897

He held directorships with the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, the Manchester & County Bank, and the Thames & Mersey Insurance Co, but is remembered for his active role in winning shorter factory working

Caption For Bottesford, Market Street C1955

On the A52 between Nottingham and Grantham, Bottesford is the most northerly settlement in the county.

Caption For Ollerton, Sherwood Forest C1955

As early as the 10th century, this vast tract of wooded landscape was known as 'sher wood', meaning 'the wood belonging to the county or shire', and by the 12th century it was a royal forest subject

Caption For Pontefract, Ropergate C1965

Ropergate also had the County Court Office, right, and nearer town, the old post office.

Caption For Redhill, High Street 1906

The chain store grocery International Stores were prominent across the Home Counties into the middle of the century, and the Empress Tea Stores has a roof-top sign advertising the well-known brand of Maypole

Caption For Abergavenny, Holy Mountain 1898

Archdeacon Coxe, who wrote a famous account of his travels through the county in 1801, reached the summit of the Skirrid 'with animation and lassitude, horror and delight'.