Maps

108 maps found.

1897-1909, Fox Corner Ref. RNC708671
1898-1899, Fox Hill Ref. RNC708761
1897-1899, Fox Holes Ref. RNC708789
1898-1899, Fox Street Ref. RNC708807
1898-1899, The Fox Ref. RNC846364
1897 - 1909, Fox Hall Ref. HOSM55835
1924, Northfield Ref. HOSM45750
1894, Amport Ref. HOSM45748
1895 - 1896, Pondtail Copse Ref. HOSM45749
1896, Box's Shop Ref. RNE647477
1900, Box's Shop Ref. RNC647477
1919, Box's Shop Ref. POP647477
1946, Box's Shop Ref. NPO647477
1919, Box Ref. POP647434
1897, Box Ref. RNE647433
1899, Box Ref. RNC647434
1946, Box Ref. NPO647434
1898, Box Ref. RNE647434
1882, Box Ref. HOSM38505
1919, Box Ref. HOSM38573

Books

37 books found. Showing results 49 to 72.

Memories

837 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.

Turnford A Peaceful Place

I was born and grew up in a happy, peaceful village where everyone knew everyone else. My memories are of long walks in a beautiful countryside which could have been a million miles from London instead of an hour on a ...Read more

A memory of Turnford by Geraldine Atkinson

Songs Of Praise At Ecclesall Church

This was the church I went to as a child - mostly I had to go as a condition of attending Brownies, but it was always both imposing and comforting as a building and place of worship. However, the most ...Read more

A memory of Sheffield in 1961 by Jean Smith

Mixed Feelings

I first arrived in Llanegryn at the latter end of 1939 along with my younger sister and a lot of other kids from my school (St Johns)in Birkenhead. I was eight years old at the time and my sister was six. We were all put into the ...Read more

A memory of Llanegryn in 1930 by Bob Boyd

My Schooldays 1952 54 Near Skipton

My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their ...Read more

A memory of Skipton in 1952 by Trevor Jackson

London,Piccadilly Circus 1951 1955

I was a young Constable in the year 1951, and fresh from Peel House, Westminster was assigned tio the Savile Row station known as CD. I lived at the Section House on Broadwick Street, Soho named after Lord ...Read more

A memory of London in 1951 by Nelson Jones

Whitethorn Morris At Letchmore Heath

The Three Horseshoes is an attractive pub facing the village green and the war memorial at Letchmore Heath, a beautiful place between Elstree and Aldenham just outside Watford. This pub regularly attracts ...Read more

A memory of Elstree in 2006 by John Howard Norfolk

Shops

Bryant's Post Office with Mrs Robson, a Queen Motherish figure always dressed in a black two piece, dishing out pensions, stamps and postal orders from the aloof position behind her cage. Duggie Bain's cobblers, the warm oily smell, ...Read more

A memory of Howden-le-Wear by David Quinn

The Bower

I moved to the Bower in 1945 with my parents and two brothers. We lived there until 1952 when we imigrated to Canada. The road takes a fairly sharp turn to the right just in front of the house and on Guy Fox night we used to turn off all ...Read more

A memory of Hever in 1945 by Ian Balding

St Nicholas School

Formerly St Nicholas School.  I attended St Nicholas School from 1952 until 1956. I have a photograph taken in 1955 where at the age of 7 I was on the football team, The sons of the singer Joan Regan attended the school and ...Read more

A memory of Mickleham in 1955 by John Wordsworth

Dunwich Monastery Gateway

My earliest memory of Greyfriars in Dunwich was probably driving down the hill in my grandfather's old car in 1960 as he brought me to my new home at The Barne Arms Hotel. I had been at boarding school at Dollar in ...Read more

A memory of Dunwich in 1965 by James Ritchie

Captions

235 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.

Caption For Guisborough, Fox Inn, Bow Street C1960

The Fox Inn dominates this view up Bow Street to the tall Market Cross, which we can just see at the head of Westgate in the distance.

Caption For Durham, Elvet Bridge 1918

It was repaired by Bishop Richard Fox between 1494 and 1501. During the floods of 1771 the bridge was badly damaged, and in 1804-05 the opportunity was taken to widen it.

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Caption For Evershot, C1960

These woods around Melbury Park lay at the heart of the Fox-Strangways family lands of the Earls of Ilchester.

Caption For Taunton, French Weir 1906

The mills, which lie just outside the town, are owned by the Fox family and are still renowned for producing high quality flannel and material for nurses' uniforms.

Caption For Acock's Green, Olton Boulevard East C1965

At its western end, between Shaftmoor Lane and Fox Hollies Road, there is a parade of early 20th-century shops, and opposite there is a late 20th-century supermarket.

Caption For Wellington, High Street C1965

The mills, which lie just outside the town, are owned by the Fox family and are still renowned for producing high quality flannel and material for nurses' uniforms.

Caption For Burnley, Manchester Road 1895

The Town Hall was built in 1888; it was completed in the October of that year to a design by Holton & Fox of Dewsbury, at a cost of £50,000.

Caption For Ulverston, St Mary's Church 1929

In 1658, George Fox (founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers) appeared here and argued with the parish priest, only to be violently ejected.

Caption For Port Talbot, Station Road C1955

Port Talbot received its name from the Talbot family, who were related to the pioneer photographer, Fox Talbot.

Caption For Haslington, High Street C1955

The garage in the centre of the photograph has been demolished to make way for a new post office and convenience store, but the building in the foreground, the Cosey Social Club, still remains

Caption For West Witton, The Village 1911

On the left is the old Fox and Hounds Inn, next to the medieval Catheral

Caption For Bletchingley, The Morning Of The Hunt C1945

Here the photographer looks west along the High Street from the junction with Outwood Lane on the morning of a fox hunt - this type of scene was much favoured for Frith postcards.

Caption For Barley, The Village And Pendle Hill C1960

The ancient name for the village is Barelegh (meaning 'wasteland'), but lush meadows now support flocks of sheep.

Caption For Lacock, The Village And Church 1904

Lacock was given to the National Trust in 1944 by descendants of William Fox Talbot, who lived at Lacock Abbey between 1800 and 1877.

Caption For Wrea Green, The Village C1965

St Nicholas's lych gate was used as a resting place for coffins before burial. In the opposite corner is the village school founded by the gift of £180 from a tailor, James Thistleton.

Caption For Ollerton, The Dukeries, The Hop Pole Hotel C1955

North-east of the church is the Hop Pole Hotel, a good 18th-century coaching inn that also catered for visitors to the great Dukeries mansions.

Caption For Barley, The Fox And Hounds C1955

One of two Hertfordshire inns with cross-street signs (the other is the Four Swans at Waltham Cross), the Fox and Hounds moved to its present site in 1955 after a disastrous fire at the old building in

Caption For Belfast, Floral Hall, Hazelwood 1936

It looks as if it was intended for Portrush, and is an enthusiastic example of the architecture of the time.

Caption For Port Talbot, Station Road C1955

Port Talbot got its name from the Talbot family, who were related to the pioneer photographer, Fox Talbot.

Caption For Lacock, Abbey C1955

Sharington's Tower (right) was the strong room for valuables, and its ornamented balustrade is noteworthy.

Caption For Morley, Queens Street C1965

It was built in 1895 by G A Fox, with a portico formed of six composite columns. Until recent times textile mills jostled the building.

Caption For Morley, Queens Street C1965

It was built in 1895 by G A Fox, with a portico formed of six composite columns. Until recent times textile mills jostled the building.

Caption For Nottingham, Upper Parliament Street C1950

On the left, the old Turkish Baths (the 1890s building with the columns to the top floor) and the florid News Theatre beyond were demolished in 1962 to make way for an eight-storey office block.

Caption For Tetbury, Long Street Corner C1955

'Chipping' is the Anglo-Saxon word for 'market', and the fairs were once 'mops', at which farm and domestic servants sold their labour to an employer for the year ahead.