Maps

5,497 maps found.

1920, Broomhill Ref. POP652484
1920, Buckland Ref. POP654731
1920, Chilton Ref. POP667921
1920, Chipstead Ref. POP668052
1921, Bonnington Ref. POP645833
1920, Bishopstone Ref. POP641207
1898-1899, Pineham Ref. RNC806308
1898-1899, Stanford Ref. RNC838229
1898-1899, Summerfield Ref. RNC842657
1897-1898, Wilmington Ref. RNC870728
1946, Milton Ref. NPO781148
1946, Newnham Ref. NPO791395
1947, Knowlton Ref. NPO750598
1940, Linton Ref. NPO756634
1946, Priestwood Ref. NPO810892
1940, Parkgate Ref. NPO801420
1895, Bossington Ref. RNE646480
1895, Calcott Ref. RNE659449
1895, Oare Ref. RNE795720
1895, Nettlestead Ref. RNE789174

Books

28 books found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Memories

569 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

Lots Of Films

I started working at the Plaza just after I left school as rewind boy, later becoming a projectionist, where I stayed till national service. I showed the films at the camp cinema in the evenings in my last 15 months. Demobbed, I ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by Roy Sinfield

I Was Born Here In 1946

Not exactly a memory, but I can advise you that I was born at Highfield Maternity Hospital in Highfield Rd on Saturday, 28 September 1946. As the local hospital at Rotherhithe, in London's docklands, had been ...Read more

A memory of West Byfleet by stefan

Woolworths

As a 14 year old I was a 'Saturday girl' at Woolworth's in 1961. I was on the glass counter, selling everything from vinegar bottles with plastic tops, ashtrays, jugs etc. The number of items displayed on the sloping counter was enormous ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich by mrsjdennett

The Awakening

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

Help

My Nanna went to oak bank open air school Sevenoaks kent in the late 40's. We are sending her back to the area for her 80th birthday in 3 weeks, we have been collecting pictures of inside the building but can't find any of the building itself and ...Read more

A memory of Seal by lisajennison28

Arnolds Of Rode

My great aunts Amy And Bet Arnold lived in Ivy house (22 High st) from 1921 to 1965 when they had a bungalow called Mayfair built on the road to St Laurence's church and the main road, . Sadly they died not long after moving there. Ivy ...Read more

A memory of Rode by mary.barnes

A Month Not In This World, An Inmate Of Parkside Hospital Macclesfield

It was early summer in 1967 when suffering from a 'mental breakdown' I was admitted into Macc in the middle of the night, horror upon horror me and my mates had often talked ...Read more

A memory of Macclesfield

Lives Saved

In 1949 my father died of TB, contracted whilst serving in Irag/Iran during WWII. At that time many sufferers of the disease were sent to sanitoriums in the European Alps for a cure. My Father died at our house in the village of ...Read more

A memory of Heath End

Good Old Battersea

I was born and bred in Battersea, Firstly we lived in Yelverton road with my Grandparents and I attended Falconbrook School. Then my parents got a Maisonette in Culvert road I then attended Chesterton School. in 1969 I attended ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by lgladwin99

Growing Up In West Lavington

My name is Mark McCabe I grew up in west Leamington , best years of my life ,moved a couple times eastfields, white street , sandfieds, I also moved to market Lavington for a while, the best was highlands farm outside ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by razzel23.mm

Captions

216 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Eythorne, The Colliery C1955

This is one of a cluster of collieries which opened in east Kent just before the First World War.

Caption For Otford, Morris Dancing On The Green C1955

Morris dancers are recorded as greeting Charles II in Kent on his return from exile.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street 1891

Until the railway arrived, only 35 years before this photograph was taken, Grange-over-Sands was little more than a fishing village, looking out across the Kent estuary to the rest of Lancashire.

Caption For Flimwell, The Village 1903

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.

Caption For Cliffe, The View From The Church C1950

Once known as 'Coveshoo', Cliffe was a meeting place for the Great Councils of Kent in Saxon times.

Caption For Chartham, The Parade 1905

Kent Lunatic Asylum was built here, and accommodated 900 patients.

Caption For Flimwell, The Village 1903

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.

Caption For Hartfield, 1906

We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, From Cragg 1901

On the left we can see the long, steeply pitched roof of the Methodist church on Kents Bank Road.

Caption For Hadlow, The Post Office Corner C1960

The tower is very prominent in the mid-Kent landscape.

Caption For Eynsford, C1955

The river flowing beneath the 15th-century bridge is the Darent, which rises near the county boundary with Surrey near Westerham and runs through a myriad of Kent villages to the Thames near Long-reach

Caption For Sevenoaks, High Street And Church 1900

This country town is close to one of the noblest houses in Kent - the Jacobean home of the Sackvilles, Knole.

Caption For Ashford, Middle Row 1908

Can you spot the white-bearded man peering out at the photographer from the doors of the Man of Kent pub, right?

Caption For Minster In Thanet, The Square C1955

A good strong 'Maid of Kent' carries her shopping home, right, while the pedestrians, left, look as if they would rather wait for the bus!

Caption For Canterbury, The Cathedral 1888

By the late 19th century the Pilgrims' Way through London to Kent had brought many visitors to its doors.

Caption For Sandgate, Parade 1899

Near the cliffs in the distance are the remains of the castle built by Henry VIII in 1539 as part of his coastal defensive scheme; it is one of the four he constructed in Kent.

Caption For Sidmouth, Looking West 1924

In the early years of the 19th century the impoverished Duke of Kent came to live at Woolbrook Glen.

Caption For Sandgate, Parade 1899

Near the cliffs in the distance are the remains of the castle built by Henry VIII in 1539 as part of his coastal defensive scheme; it is one of the four he constructed in Kent.

Caption For Silverdale, Road To The Beach C1955

From here she described the sunsets and the views across the Kent estuary and the Irish Sea.

Caption For Eastry, Church C1965

Nearby was once the royal palace of the early Saxon kings of Kent.

Caption For Burwash, The Village 1889

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.

Caption For Sidmouth, Esplanade 1919

The Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, was an early visitor.

Caption For Sidmouth, The Bathing Beach 1925

It was to this western corner of Sidmouth that the Duke of Kent brought his baby daughter Alexandrina Victoria in 1819.

Caption For Dudley, Panoramic View From Castle Keep C1955

To the right of this is the Council House, which was opened formally by HRH The Duke of Kent in December 1935.