Places
32 places found.
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- Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
- Kensington, Middlesex
- Chelsea, Middlesex
- Sloane Square, Middlesex
- Kensal Town, Middlesex
- Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire
- Easton Royal, Wiltshire
- Hook Green, Kent (near Royal Tunbridge Wells)
- Tollard Royal, Wiltshire
- Studley Royal, Yorkshire
- Notting Hill, Middlesex
- Royal's Green, Cheshire
- Manor Royal, Sussex
- Mancot Royal, Clwyd
- Park Royal, Greater London
- Royal Oak, Durham
- Royal Oak, Lancashire
- Royal Oak, Yorkshire
- Royal British Legion Village, Kent
- Preston, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
- Hawkenbury, Kent (near Royal Tunbridge Wells)
- Stone Cross, Kent (near Royal Tunbridge Wells)
- Lower Green, Kent (near Royal Tunbridge Wells)
- Green Hill, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
- St John's, Kent (near Royal Tunbridge Wells)
- Lower Green, Kent (near Royal Tunbridge Wells)
- The Common, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
- Park Corner, Sussex (near Royal Tunbridge Wells)
- West Kilburn, Middlesex
- Knightsbridge, Middlesex
- South Kensington, Middlesex
- North Kensington, Middlesex
Photos
1,326 photos found. Showing results 601 to 620.
Maps
158 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 721 to 2.
Memories
992 memories found. Showing results 301 to 310.
1950s Belmont
I was born in Epsom and lived in Belmont all my childhood. I attended Cotswold Road Primary School and also the Sunday School that was there on a Sunday. The building was knocked down in the 1980s, it was opened in the 1890s and I ...Read more
A memory of Belmont by
National Service
I did my national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps at the Connaught Military Hospital during 1957 and 1958. I worked in the pathology dept., ending up as Corporal. I remember the Gurkha patients coming, I think in the ...Read more
A memory of Hindhead in 1957 by
Childhood To Marriage
MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to ...Read more
A memory of Llanhilleth by
Arthur Towle Lucan Old Mother Riley
Arthur Towle, (born Sibsey 1885) who became the actor Arthur Lucan, lived in a house in an alley called Woodyard near Craythorne Lane until he left Boston around 1901. His career began when he was about ten, ...Read more
A memory of Boston in 1900 by
St Peter Ad Vincula
Not a memory obviously but a fact discovered when doing family research. My Great Grandfather's eldest sister was married to a Grenadier Guard in The Chapel Royal at the Tower. Her husband Giles was stationed there at the time. The date was 1860.
A memory of London in 1860 by
I Was Born In Caerphilly In 1938
I left Caerphilly in 1955 to join the Royal Airforce. Prior to this I worked for AJ Marshall Wholesale Confectioners in Castle Street. I went to school at The Twyn Secondary Modern as it was then known. I ...Read more
A memory of Caerphilly in 1955
Hop Picking During The War
I hated hop picking. We started in 1938 to help pay for my sister's uniforms when she went to Ashford County School. At first my mother was slightly ashamed but soon entered ino the spirit and competition as to who ...Read more
A memory of Staplehurst by
The Good Life
I was born in 1926 at no 2 The Terrace. My dad was Taity Ponsford and I had 5 brothers and 2 sisters my sister Ida and Cis, who was killed in a motor cycle accident in 1933, at the time she was with Bill Murrant a local golf pro. ...Read more
A memory of Sunninghill in 1920 by
The Hunts
Dear Susan, I think that I was great friends with your mum and dad, I was with him when he met your mum at the Old Leathern Bottle at Warfield, she was in the Land Army and he had just been discharged from the Navy, we joined together. We ...Read more
A memory of Ascot in 1942 by
Memories Of Point Clear Bay Near St Osyth In The Mid 1950s& 60s
My family and I used to spend our holidays at Point Clear almost every year during the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, and often met the same families each time we went down there. I ...Read more
A memory of St Osyth in 1956 by
Captions
986 captions found. Showing results 721 to 744.
As a church architect, Peck was certainly indifferent, but his memorial is the former Royal Agricultural Hall, London Borough of Islington, which he built in 1861.
The Royal Oak run by George Wells for Ind Coope is on the left.
This substantial civic building was the gift of a local J P, and befits a leading Irish port serving the daily Royal Mail run to Stranraer.
Within easy distance of the railway station, the Royal Hotel served Ilkley's many visitors for nearly a century.
A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.
Renamed the Royal York Hotel when it was bought in 1983, it is a Grade 2 listed building. The station and hotel were designed by Thomas Prosser. Both thrive to the present day.
The heavily laden coach appears to serve either the Royal Gatehouse or the Lion Hotel.
After a period of monitoring and a competition inaugurated by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2000, this bridge was in turn replaced and opened in July 2003.
There is a glimpse of the Great House - visited by the earl of Chatham with 15-year-old William Pitt the Younger - before Star Supply Stores and the Royal Lion Hotel (centre).
Baron Serlo de Burg built the first castle at Knaresborough, and during the reign of King John the fortress was also a royal arsenal for the manufacture of crossbow quarrels.
It was from here that Henry VIII's legal team announced the annulment of the Royal marriage to Katherine of Aragon in 1533.
Personalities like Oscar Wilde, Shackleton, Einstein, Winston Churchill and members of European royal families came here, to name but a few.
Charles Dickens stayed here when reporting on the shipwreck of the 'Royal Charter' in 1859.
The Swan & Royal Hotel stands out on the right of the street, one of the many eating and drinking places on Castle Street.
Royal Insurance, Liverpool, London & Globe, and Prudential Insurance were among those who had their headquarters here on this street.
Easton Royal, near Pewsey, is a tiny vale village with a huge history.
On the south side, whilst a touring charabanc waits for its customers outside the Royal Oak public house, a handcart makes a delivery to Fraser`s, piano sellers and household outfitters.
Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.
Lyme was granted its Royal Charter by Edward I in 1284, and it has remained popular as a resort.
Fortrose was originally called Chanonry and was made a royal burgh in 1592.
The first fish dock opened in 1856, and the Royal Dock was built between 1849 and 1852.
By this date the Royal Hotel has a new glassed-in porch, and now guests can enjoy the fresh sea air without the north-east wind's assistance.
The soldier marching smartly across the road is almost certainly a member of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, garrisoned here.
It opened in 1875, covering 16 acres of land; it was the central depot for the East Surrey Regiment, later renamed the Queen's Royal Surreys. The barracks closed in 1959.
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