Places
Sorry, no places were found that related to your search.
Photos
3 photos found. Showing results 41 to 3.
Maps
5 maps found.
Books
Sorry, no books were found that related to your search.
Memories
88 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
My Dad
I remember the snows of 1963, I was four, looking out of our bedroom window on Camp Road and the snow was drifted up to the windowsill! Gorgeous memories of our bedroom fire making shapes on the ceiling and being warm as toast as me ...Read more
A memory of South Kirkby in 1963 by
Hummed To Sleep By A Factory
We used to live on what was called The Avenues on the Rylands estate. This was situated behind the Princess shopping parade, so called after the name of the local flea pit where all the kids went to Saturday morning ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham in 1961 by
Montgomery House Ymca Hall Of Residence
I was a student here between 1966 and 1969 and loved the place! Although it was an all-male Hall of Residence we organised events with other Halls from the University and Colleges. I was the social ...Read more
A memory of Manchester in 1968 by
Magna Carta Island
I have several photographs of the house on Magna Carta Island taken during the 1910s and early 1920s. The house was owned by my grandfather during this period, John Francis Mc Gregor (a stockbroker) who was married to my ...Read more
A memory of Runnymede in 1920 by
Early Days In Filton
Although originally from Manchester my parents were living in Filton when I was born in Cheltenham in December 1941. My father, like the majority of men in that area worked at what was then the BAC. He worked at the Rodney Works ...Read more
A memory of Filton in 1940 by
French Kid
I was a french kid like can see and used to come in Hythe to my grand-parents house not very far from here in Hotspur Close. And I have meet a girl that was the grand daughter of Mr Stewart that as own the West Cliff Hall and ...Read more
A memory of Hythe in 1980 by
The Local Dances And Playing Pool
In the mid 1950s to early 1960s there were local dance halls, one at Newburn which was down Station Road, take a left towards the bridge and it was just there on the left side opposite the level crossings near ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1955 by
Matchbox And Dinky Toys
I grew up at Barforth Hall and left when I was 18. I used to spend my pocket money on toy cars with Mrs Brown in this dark and evocative shop, the memory has never left me. I would also go to buy my parents' Christmas ...Read more
A memory of Gainford in 1964 by
School Uniform And Schooldays
This was 1958 the time when I seriously got into drainpipes, drapes and rock 'n roll music. I was at Walbottle Secondary Modern School. I used to take in the leg width of my jeans by hand using a needle and thread to ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1958 by
Lewis's Briggate
I lived in Leeds from birth in 1958 to the time I left in 1977 to seek my fortune in London. Still here but as poor as when I left Leeds all those years ago. Lewis's for me was the best shopping store in Leeds I used to go there ...Read more
A memory of Leeds in 1970 by
Captions
88 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
Here in the Market Place a number of local people and tradesmen are curiously watching the cameraman's antics in the middle of the street.
In the mid 19th century, many middle-class residents of central Leeds began to move out to the north of the city near to the country estates of Beckett's Park and Hollin Hall, and Headingley became a rather
The monuments to the fallen seen here have been relocated elsewhere in the town. Oldfellows Hall is on the left.
Richmond had a strong Roman Catholic tradition, partly due to the Lawson family of nearby Brough Hall, who gave the land here in Newbiggin for the church of St Joseph and St Francis Xavier; it was
Here a group of people take the chance to admire the view over Spa Cliffs, or catch up with the latest news. The Spa by this time was long gone, having been destroyed by fire in 1876.
With a gritty foreshore and good anchorage, there is a long sea-faring tradition here with many tales of shipwrecks and smuggling.
Here, shoppers were offered an impressive choice of produce right in the centre of the city, just opposite the tram and trolleybus stops outside the town hall.
Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The name was then taken by the two main families that owned land here – the Leghs and the Leighs.
The Arndale House building is much the same, but the cinema has made way for the Cornhill shops, and beyond the canopy of the Town Hall extension are the new shops which have
This delightful old stone pack-horse bridge has stood here since the 16th century. It is named after the Earls of Essex, who lived at Chartley Hall.
During the Second World War, there was an encampment of the Black Watch Regiment here: they kept their armoured vehicles on the green, and had their canteen in the village hall.
Here we see the castle after its restoration by the Marquis of Bute. The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.
This post office and hardware shop is near to the church of St Andrew, the church hall that was previously the village school, and the Castle of Comfort pub.
The stream which rises at Lavenham Hall used to flow here, but now it runs in a brick culvert underground.
They were built in 1806 to re-house workers from the Shugborough estate and thereby ensure privacy for the Hall's residents.
In this view, looking downhill towards County Hall, there is a sheep market under way.
Here, a little further north up High Street, we look west along Bedford Road. The late 19th-century town hall is on the left.
Owing to an unfortunate one-way traffic system foisted on the town since this photograph was taken, Dursley's Market House and Town Hall is now isolated on a roundabout.
The clock turret of Moreton's most prominent building displays the date of its construction as 1887, and on the south wall is the coat of arms of the Redesdale family of Batsford Park who
The Hall is situated close to the village green along Hadlow Road.
Here is a fascinating picture taken from the newly built block of flats, Low Cross Court.
Dale Street is one of Liverpool's original seven streets, and is captured here full of hustle and bustle. The Municipal Building, with its tower and clock face, stands out further up the street.
His wife Elizabeth died in mysterious circumstances here in 1714; and although Nicholas died at Hampstead in 1728, his ghost still haunts the main hall, playing an old English madrigal on his flute when
Places (0)
Photos (3)
Memories (88)
Books (0)
Maps (5)