Photos

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Memories

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Great Haseley

I was five when I moved to Great Haseley from Newington, near Stadhampton, with my mother, father and brother. The year was 1957 and Horse Close Cottages was a new housing estate - we were thrilled to have a bathroom and an ...Read more

A memory of Great Haseley by Linda Twibill (Nee Ring)

St Albans Summer Holidays In The 1950s

A child from Thanet taking annual last week of August holidays with an adored great aunt at Chiswell Green, travelling by train to Victoria Station, London, taking the Greenline to ...Read more

A memory of Frogmore in 1953 by Sandra Dudley

The Brook

Wonderful memories! It was awonderful place to have grown up. I learned to swim in the brook, aged about 11 years. I wonder who wrote the following which I was taught in school. Very appropriate! "Little stream flowing ...Read more

A memory of Gayton by Sylvia Pugh

Fitba In The Big Park

I was born in Suttislea in Nitten in 1947 but my sister and I emigrated to Gowkshill when I was 2 (I think) and lived at 18 Pentland Avenue till I married Isobel from Bonnyrigg when I was 21. I grew up with the Weighands ...Read more

A memory of Gowkshill by John Smith

Old Manor Cafe

My memory of Blackwater started when I was 14, for those of you who don't know what the Old Manor was, it was a transport cafe, which stood on what is now a supermarket site, on the right, at the junction with Rosemary Lane. In ...Read more

A memory of Blackwater in 1960 by Graham Davis

Before The Town Centre Was Built ...

My family came to Basildon in 1957 as part of the overspill from London. My late father was a toolmaker and was offered a job and a house. Money was tight and we made out own entertainment. Collecting wood from ...Read more

A memory of Basildon in 1957 by Susan White

Things I Remember

Greenford market, that's where the buses terminated. If you were quick you could jump off the back of a bus at the corner when it turned into Windmill Lane, that way if the bus was going further than the market it saved you ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1975 by Terry Tomlinson

Cooksons Leadworks Part 2

1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1965 by Jimmy Burrows

Higher Bebington Road

I grew up in Higher Bebington Road, my mum lived there from 1957 up until she died in 2008. I have seen so many changes. When we were kids we would pond-dip in the ponds on the fields at the back of the Oval now football ...Read more

A memory of Bebington by Sue Fowler

Halton Gorse Cottages And Castle Road

I too spent my school holidays in Halton village, my grandparents were Lillian and Benjamin Atkinson, they lived in Gorse Cottages, you had to go up the steps from the underpass to get to it, or down the steps ...Read more

A memory of Halton in 1955 by Beryl Gordon

Captions

2,258 captions found. Showing results 1,321 to 1,344.

Caption For Langdale Pikes, The Valley 1892

Stickle Ghyll, which flows down from Stickle Tarn, passes under the bridge in this view, which looks towards the 2,403 ft summit of Harrison Stickle, the highest of the pikes.

Caption For Conwy, High Street And Castle Hotel C1955

As the High Street runs down toward the medieval town wall gate and through to the harbour, the influence of Robert Wynn's Plas Mawr can be seen in the transomed stone mullions of the Castle

Caption For Holywell, High Street 1959

Much of the prosperity of the town derived from the nearby Greenfield Valley.

Caption For Luccombe, The Village 1901

Down in this very picturesque village, the cottage beyond the lych gate has the village hall attached at the far end, all beneath a continuous thatched roof.

Caption For Stafford, Greengate Street C1960

Further down the street we can see the distinctive sign of the Bear Inn.

Caption For Alton, Ashdell 1928

By 1928, the Rustic Bridge seen in photo 40743 had been taken down. The two houses on the left were owned by Spicer Brothers, who owned the paper mill, and were called Orps Mill Cottages.

Caption For Sudbury, The Mill 1904

The tall silo above the granary fed grain down the chute and over the road into the mill. The chimney, silo and granary hoist have all gone.

Caption For London, National Gallery C1960

Since 2003 traffic has been banned from the front, and wide steps now lead down into the square.

Caption For Sonning, Village 1904

This view looks east down Pearson Street, with the High Street off to the left just past the cart..

Caption For Launceston, Castle Lodge 1906

Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and

Caption For Dublin, St. Patricks Cathedral, Nave East 1897

A view taken from the west entrance, looking straight down the nave to the east window. St Patrick's is the largest church in Ireland, and this picture demonstrates its spacious proportions.

Caption For Cawsand, The Bay 1904

The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

Caption For London, Regent Street C1890

creation was compromised by poor building work, but all agreed that Nash conjured for this region of the West End a genteel and polished atmosphere that has considerably added to its prosperity down

Caption For London, St Paul's 1890

Its position above London Bridge - the successful docks were all in broader reaches down-river - led to its inevitable decline.

Caption For Abergavenny, From Near The Station 1893

The stone half way down the other side of the road marked the entry to Mill Lane which led to Mill Street, the main entry road to the town for many centuries.

Caption For London, St Paul's 1890

Its position above London Bridge - the successful docks were all in broader reaches down-river - led to its inevitable decline.

Caption For Bristol, Muller's No 3 Orphan House 1901

Prussian-born George Muller arrived in Bristol in 1833 and three years later started building five orphanages on this site at Ashley Down. This is the third.

Caption For Leek, Market Place 1959

They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake for the day.

Caption For Lincoln, Steep Hill C1965

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

Caption For Lincoln, Steep Hill C1955

Further down we come to the crossroads with Michaelgate and Christ’s Hospital Terrace.

Caption For London, Westminster Abbey C1867

This sublime abbey, scene of many coronations down the centuries, is probably the most famous of English religious buildings, and considered the pinnacle of European Gothic architecture.

Caption For Northampton, George Row 1922

With the hoods of the cars down and the trees clearly in leaf, this photograph was obviously taken at the height of summer.

Caption For Raglan, The Castle From Moat 1893

The machicolated heights of William Herbert's gatehouse and closet towers look down on the moat which surrounds the famous Yellow Tower, the work of his father William ap Thomas.

Caption For London, The Tower Of London C1890

This ancient fortress has served as arsenal, prison and royal residence, and is comprised of an irregular mass of buildings erected at various periods down the centuries.