Maps

459 maps found.

Books

47 books found. Showing results 985 to 1,008.

Memories

8,147 memories found. Showing results 411 to 420.

Memories Of St Gorran

I can vividly remember seeing Miss Richmond & Miss Charlton...........Miss Richmond would whip me with a riding crop as I was a Anglican and not Catholic hence I was picked on..............they would make the boys drop their ...Read more

A memory of Manaccan by bmwsimon

Wartime Memories Of Romiley

My memory of Romiley was around the Summer of 1940. My family stayed in a stone cottage, there were about 10 of them. They were on the road up to Greave which was about half a mile away. Going in the opposite direction down ...Read more

A memory of Romiley

Addlestone From 1943 1962

I lived down Shakespeare road (#31) in Addlestone from 1943-1962; my parents lived there until 1984. The area was known as poets corner for all the four roads were named after poets (Shakespeare, Tennyson, Byron and ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone

54 Albert Road

I lived in 54 Albert Road, Parkstone, from 1962 until 1972. My paternal grandparents lived at 56 Albert Road, next door. They'd lived there from the 1930's onwards. The back garden was very big and long, plus sloped downhill. I used ...Read more

A memory of Parkstone by Andrew Reid

Pickfords/ Thomas Hutchinson, Or Huskinsons,

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER, HUSKINSONS REMOVALS,? THEY WERE THE LAST HORSE DRAWN,REMOVAL COMPANY IN MANCHESTER, THEY HAD SHIRE AND CLYDESDALE HORSES, FINISHED ABOUT 1960/61.THEY WERE ON I ...Read more

A memory of Ardwick by Steve/Andy Anderson

Growing Up In Brentwood

My name is Viv Bayliss, I was born in my nan’s house opposite the Alexandra public house in 1948. Mum and dad moved to a prefab in Costed Manor then to Pilgrims Hatch. Who remembers Preslands fair and listening to them playing ...Read more

A memory of Warley by Viv Bayliss

Visitation Convent

I was a boarder at the Convent for four years 1954-58, cured me of religion as I hated almost every minute of it. The Nuns can only be described as brutal. I was once told that I was wicked because I had kept the other lads awake ...Read more

A memory of Bridport by Alan Yardley

Hornsea Children’s Convalescence Home

I was sent to this place in the late 1950’s. I don’t know why I was sent but I remember having two separate visits of one month. I was only 4 or 5 when I went, but I don’t have many good memories of my time ...Read more

A memory of Hornsea by Paul Morrissey

The Monotype

I came across this when I was hoping to find reference to the Royal visit by the Duke of York. Although I found a film about his visit to the Monotype works at Salfords unfortunately it isn't dated. However, my grandparents Henry ...Read more

A memory of Salfords by Clive Goddard

Boarding School

I went to st Roses convent in Stroud when I was eleven years old . The boarding house was up the lane called merrymeads. It was named st Bedes . I can remember going to the Holy Rosary church which was next to the convent . ...Read more

A memory of Stroud by Kathleen Ohara

Captions

2,258 captions found. Showing results 985 to 1,008.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Redoubt Bandstand 1925

After the 'bird cage' bandstand was taken down in about 1934 from its location on Grand Parade, it was moved east to the Redoubt Gardens; it is pictured here with a band in full swing.

Caption For Limpley Stoke, The Village C1955

This view looks north down the lane to Lower Limpley Stoke, with the railway curving along to the station beyond the locomotive water tower (now closed).

Caption For Buckden, The Village C1955

A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.

Caption For Bucklers Hard, The Village C1960

The tiny settlement of picturesque cottages looking down towards the Beaulieu River has hardly changed at all since the most famous ship built at Bucklers Hard, Nelson's 'Agamemnon', was launched here

Caption For Clovelly, Main Street 1894

Donkeys ply up and down the steep-stepped street, carrying goods on panniers. The New Inn is still there, offering rest and refreshment to visitors.

Caption For Totnes, Totnes Castle At The Landing Stage 1896

Trips down the river were as common then as they are today. It is regrettable that steam has given way to the internal combustion engine. Note the covered carriages waiting on shore.

Caption For Kingsbridge, Fore Street And Bank 1896

This old town is at the heart of a region of fertile farming country known as the South Hams. This view looks down the main street towards the tidal estuary extending up from Salcombe.

Caption For Castleton, The Winnats C1864

This awesome cleft's name derives from Old English words meaning 'wind gates' - a reference to the howling winds which blow down this limestone ravine, which was created under a tropical sea 350 million

Caption For Halstead, St Andrew's Church, High Street C1955

Much of the church dates from the 14th century, but the old west tower fell down and was rebuilt in 1850; further restoration followed.

Caption For Filey, On The Beach C1950

Filey Bay runs down from the prominent coastal feature of Filey Brig, which juts out into the North Sea.

Caption For Hereford, Cathedral, South West 1891

The original west front collapsed along with its tower on Easter Monday 1786, bringing down much of the nave with it. The massive noble central tower dates from c1325.

Caption For Deal, The Bandstand And The Pier 1906

Birch's pier was a victim of the Second World War: only the tollhouses remained after the damaged structure had been pulled down to assist the needs of a coastal gun battery.

Caption For Cootham, The Village 1894

Here the photographer has gone down Clay Lane to look north-east across the field towards the school seen in photograph No 34412.

Caption For Gorleston, The Sands 1894

The ports of East Anglia have suffered continual erosion down the centuries.

Caption For Gorleston, The Beach 1904

In this quintessential holiday scene a pleasure craft hoists its sail ready to carry a party of trippers up and down the coast. Children paddle in the shallows clutching their buckets and spades.

Caption For Weymouth, The Parade 1898

As time went by, these machines were replaced by single-sex saloons that ran on rails down to the water, each with a number of cubicles.

Caption For Aldeburgh, Esplanade 1894

The yawls parked on the beach were organised into two companies, the 'Up-towners' and 'Down-towners', with their respective headquarters at the lookout towers.

Caption For Wetherby, North Street 1909

Further down the street Continental Motors are the local Michelin agents.

Caption For Ockley, The Windmill 1906

However, it was abandoned in 1912 and finally fell down in 1944.

Caption For Dungeon Ghyll, Dungeon Ghyll Force 1888

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For London, Park Lane 1890

Park Lane, running from the western ends of Oxford Street and Piccadilly, was a narrow road down the side of Hyde Park.

Caption For London, Euston Square C1950

A view east down Euston Road. To the right we can see the cupola of St Pancras's Church peeping above the Friends' Meeting House.

Caption For Downholme, Bridge 1913

Downholme, where stone houses slope down to the Swale, lies 5 miles west of Richmond. In the village is a 13th-century Norman church.

Caption For Harlow, New Town Station C1960

The population in 1960 was 50,000, yet there are only about 75 cars parked at the station, as most people worked in the town.