Maps

9,439 maps found.

1898, North Ormesby Ref. RNE793789
1893, North Runcton Ref. RNE793874
1899, North Scarle Ref. RNE793888
1896, North Sheen Ref. RNE793898
1896, North Shore Ref. RNE793903
1895, North Stoneham Ref. RNE793947
1895, North Street Ref. RNE793952
1895, North Street Ref. RNE793953
1895, North Street Ref. RNE793956
1895, North Tamerton Ref. RNE793971
1899, North Thoresby Ref. RNE793985
1897, North Togston Ref. RNE793999
1895, North Town Ref. RNE794007
1895, North Waltham Ref. RNE794038
1899, North Wheatley Ref. RNE794073
1898, North Wraxall Ref. RNE794128
1940, North Ascot Ref. NPO792860
1945, North Benfleet Ref. NPO792924
1946, North Cerney Ref. NPO793032
1945, North Cheam Ref. NPO793045

Books

39 books found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Memories

1,548 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

I Was Born In Dunbeg Dunstaffnage

First day at the old village school, classmates, Mrs Gardiner, Miss Cowan. Now live North Carolina, would love to hear from anyone who remembers. Margaret

A memory of Oban in 1950 by Margaret Abrams

Living In Chilton

My family moved to Chilton Foliat and took over the "Old Post Office". I was still young then and went to the old school run by Mr & Mrs Hassall who lived next door to the school. Two classrooms and very fond memories. ...Read more

A memory of Chilton Foliat in 1964 by Steve Elliott

Talke A Forgotten Village

As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more

A memory of Talke in 1959

Warden Point

I used to live in Cherry Tree Cottage, Warden Point in 1930, my father was Jock Martin, a sergeant in the R.A.F. stationed in Eastchurch. My mother was Phylis Woollett, daughter of Frank Woollett, mine host of the Crooked Billet. ...Read more

A memory of Warden in 1930 by Frank Martin

The Castle School Stanhope

I think I must have talked to about three ex-Castle School kids since I wrote my memories about the the school. It was opened by an Act of Government during the Second World War in 1942. I can remember one of the ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope by Michael Purves

Swimming Above Stepping Stones Weir At Bothal

Our Mam being an Ashington lassie, we returned to her birthplace when Mam divorced my father who she met before the Second World War - that was when Mam was in London and working in 'service'. We were ...Read more

A memory of Bothal in 1949 by Wullie Harries

The Low Davidson Family

My sister and I are from Canada and came to Scotland this past month, August, 2009, to see where our mother, Kathleen Low, and her family were born and raised in their youth. After many years of hearing them describe ...Read more

A memory of Johnshaven in 1900 by Judi Parry

Burrow Hill Today

Burrow Hill School is now derelict. It closed in 1998 and I have just walked past the boarded-up site this afternoon. Although I have lived in Frimley Green since 1993 and seen one of its main buildings from within a ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by John Parker

Raf Radar At Inverbervie

I was based in Inverbervie from March 1957 till March 1958 with 977 Signals Unit of the Royal Air Force. 977 SU operated radar from an underground site on the hill a couple of miles north of the village. Height finding ...Read more

A memory of Inverbervie in 1957 by Martin Dilly

Rayne In 1950 1960

I was born in Rayne and in the 1950s.I have fond memories of being able to play various sports in the road at School Road with my brother Peter and friend Richard Dodd, gaining a few more players as word got around! We used to ...Read more

A memory of Rayne by Hugh Walker

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Trowbridge, St James's Church, North East C1955

The two-storey north porch has a two- centred arch. The east window dates from 1846- 48.

Caption For Wallingford, The Bridge Boat House 1899

There are the earthworks also of the Norman castle in the north-east quarter of the town.

Caption For Taunton, North Street 1925

Looking back up North Street towards the Parade and Market House, with the Post Office on the left, as it still is today.

Caption For Hornchurch, North Street 1908

The Britannia ale house, which stood on the corner of the High Street and North Street, was believed to be one of the earliest houses in the town and had monastic connections.

Caption For Caversham, From Caversham Heights 1908

This view from Caversham Heights, north-west of the village centre, gives a good impression of the scale of Reading in the Edwardian period and before Caversham itself expanded far to its north and

Caption For Kendal, Stricklandgate 1888

The name means 'the road leading to the stirk land', and was often referred to as the Drover's Road, where cattle were driven along from the north.

Caption For Uley, The Tumulus C1960

Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley

Caption For Leicester, St Mary De Castro Church C1955

All Saint's Church c1965 Prominent on the north side of Bradgate Road as it rises away from the City towards Ulverscroft Priory, the church with its recessed spire is comparatively unadorned,

Caption For Shildon, Church Street C1965

In 1921, locomotive and rolling stock manufacturing in the North East provided 6300 jobs; by 1951, the figure had risen to 11,000. Then in 1965 BR suddenly closed North Road Works, Darlington.

Caption For Skegness, North Shore C1955

The North Shore of Skegness was slow to develop, but it now has lots of attractions for visitors, including an AstroGlide slide for children.

Caption For Oving, The Village C1955

Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury

Caption For Inveraray, Loch Awe And Kilchurn Castle C1955

Situated at the north east of Loch Awe, Kilchurn is a 15th-century tower built by Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy.

Caption For Brockham, Old School Lane 1958

Further down Tanner's Hill, the lane becomes Old School Lane; this view looks north past these pairs of tile-hung former estate cottages, which are all now in private hands and extended by a bay at

Caption For Waldringfield, Mill Road C1965

This photograph was taken from the church tower looking north towards the main street. The post mill, which stood to the north of the cottage, was built in 1829 and demolished in 1912.

Caption For Waterlooville, London Road C1965

London Road is not the main road to London any more. Here a few Victorian houses survive, mostly rendered, some with verandahs. Further north is a small oak forest.

Caption For Skegness, North Shore C1955

The North Shore of Skegness was slow to develop, but it now has lots of attractions for visitors, including an AstroGlide slide for children.

Caption For Blanchland, The Village C1935

It is unusual in that it is an L-plan building incorporating the Abbey chancel, crossing and north transept with its 13th-century tower and 14th-century belfry.

Caption For Twickenham, The Fox Inn 2005

This profitable use for the local land had swept away the old rabbit warrens by 1800; the only trace of them left is the reference to the Warren Footpath on old pictures of the riverside from Marble

Caption For Binbrook, Market Place C1955

Binbrook, on the side of a valley of the rolling western part of The Wolds north of Ludford, was once a prosperous small market town with two parish churches.

Caption For Stilton, The Bell Hotel C1965

This inn on the Great North Road was built in 1642 from the local limestone. It has a central carriageway and two wings; at the rear they formed an open courtyard with stables and a barn.

Caption For Hartlepool, Marine Drive C1955

This attractive terrace of houses lies close to the sea on the north side of the Headland, which is beyond the buildings in the centre distance.

Caption For Binbrook, Market Place C1955

Binbrook, on the side of a valley of the rolling western part of The Wolds north of Ludford, was once a prosperous small market town with two parish churches.

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park, The Main Entrance C1950

Renowned as one of the finest parks in the north of England, Queens Park was given to the town by the London and North Western Railway Company to commemorate fifty years of the railway in the town.

Caption For Market Rasen, Town Hall Cinema C1955

The Town Hall, in the 1950s a cinema, was demolished; now a gruesome 1960s Co-op mars the north-west corner of the Market Place, which has the fine parish church to its north side.