Maps

714 maps found.

1899-1909, Brook Ref. RNC651805
1945, Winford Ref. NPO871353
1895, Nettlecombe Ref. RNE789156
1895, Newbridge Ref. RNE790685
1895, Newport Ref. RNE791457
1945, Upton Ref. NPO858087
1895, Swanmore Ref. RNE843488
1896 - 1907, Upton Ref. HOSM63098
1907, Newbridge Ref. HOSM54828
1907, Thorley Ref. HOSM61599
1907, Kingston Ref. HOSM37729
1907, Brook Ref. HOSM39126
1919, Barton Ref. POP634313
1895, Pyle Ref. RNE811921
1895, Oakfield Ref. RNE795413
1945, Swanmore Ref. NPO843488
1895, Upton Ref. RNE858087
1895, Thorley Ref. RNE846902
1895, Wellow Ref. RNE863114
1899, Swanmore Ref. RNC843488

Books

5 books found. Showing results 121 to 5.

Memories

452 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

Crescent Way Orpington Kent 1960 1968

My family lived at 3 Downsway just off Southlands Avenue.  I had two older brothers when we arrived and by 1966 I had two more and a sister. My older brothers and I attended Warren Road Primary and I remember ...Read more

A memory of Orpington in 1965 by Peter Browning

It Has To Be The Canal .........

My cousin who lived beside the canal in Gringley Road was Roy Butroid, my favourite cousin, who was the local carpenter and later undertaker.  Sadly he died eight years ago but his widow, a lovely lady named Pauline, still ...Read more

A memory of Misterton in 1946 by Joan Huntington

Policing Redditch

The policeman in this photograph, much to my amazement, is me! I joined the Worcestershire Constabulary in 1961 and worked at Redditch from 1961 to 1965, when I then went to be a 'village bobby' at Oldswinford in Stourbridge. We ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1961 by Anthony Ingham

Gellideg Isaf Farm

I was born in 1958, onto the farm namely Gellideg Isaf of which now sadly only the farm house exists. The farm in 1958 did have some twenty one acres, and as I got to the age of eight I started to help my parents with the hay ...Read more

A memory of Maesycwmmer in 1958 by Roy Williams

Lydia And Wendy

I worked in the big hotel in Sandown, and a couple of hotels on the very seafront with two girls from Binstead, what fun we had, laughter and tears went together. I've lost touch with them but would love to hear what they are up to ...Read more

A memory of Binstead in 1973 by Patricia Hamilton

Mile Oak Portslade 1938 To 1950

Hello, I was one of the few children who lived in Mile Oak Road and and also played on Broomfields Farm, we lived at no 222 which was the second to last house before the road dropped down the hill to Mile Oak. The ...Read more

A memory of Mile Oak in 1947 by Frank Piner

Tithby Or Tythby

I used to live in the village of TYTHBY, spelled with a Y and not an I. I did not even know that there was another village close by with a similar name. But I have checked on the computer and there it is, not too far away in the ...Read more

A memory of Tithby in 1944 by Brian Williamson

Mill Street Clowne. 1950

The gentleman pushing a cart in the foreground of this picture is my grandfather, Ernest Pearce (1895-1970). The cart was used to transport bundles of sticks that he cut for sale as firewood. They were sold for 4d a bundle. ...Read more

A memory of Clowne in 1950 by June Harvey

History Of Clayton Family 1700s

Descendants of George Clayton Generation No. 1 1. GEORGE1 CLAYTON was born 1788 in Pickhill, West Roxby, Yorkshire England. He married ANN MUDD 08 December 1806 in Pickhill, West Roxby, Yorkshire England. She ...Read more

A memory of Pickhill in 1860 by Orrin Clayton

My Early Years

my memories relate from the very early forties till the early eighties. I was born in Andover in 1937.My mother was a Lambourne and was born in Thruxton in 1903 at Rose cottage which is just to the left of the "George" looking ...Read more

A memory of Thruxton in 1940 by Ronald Hodgson

Captions

333 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

Caption For Petersfield, Methodist Church And Corner Shop 2004

Fields Antique Shop passed into memory in the early '80s and a new retailing form took its place - the Eight until Late shop, this being its latest incarnation.

Caption For Pennard, The Castle 1910

Pennard stands high above a tidal creek about eight miles south-west of Swansea.

Caption For Guildford, High Street 1903

A picture taken eight years later than No 35060A, and lower down the High Street towards the river.

Caption For Widnes, St Bede's Roman Catholic Church 1900

It was so-called because of all the apple orchards here - in fact it was said that on one day alone eight tons of apples were once picked here to be sent to market in Liverpool.

Caption For Duloe, The Stone Circle 1900

This small stone circle has only eight stones; it is distinguished because of the size of the stones - one is nine feet high - and the fact that they are made of white quartz.

Caption For Lough Cloon, The Lakes C1955

A marvellously peaceful view of Lough Cloon, about eight miles north of Ballinrobe, one of the many lakes in this part of Mayo, of which the largest is Lough Mask.

Caption For Dawlish, Dawlish Water 1928

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

Caption For Deepcut, Gun Park 1906

The guns appear to bear more resemblance to those used at Waterloo than to those that would be used eight years later at the outbreak of the Great War. The regimental dog is in the left foreground.

Caption For Worthing, The Bandstand And The Pier 1921

Eight years later, the South Pavilion at the end of the pier was destroyed by fire.

Caption For Petersfield, Dragon Street C1965

Fields Antique Shop passed into memory in the early '80s and a new retailing form took its place - the Eight until Late shop, this being its latest incarnation.

Caption For Abergavenny, From The Canal 1893

Between the new cemetery in the centre and the allotments and houses to the right, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny railway line, opened in 1862, begins its climb of 1000ft to Brynmawr,

Caption For Monsal Dale, Monsal Head Hotel C1955

After the railway closed, the National Park bought the track bed in 1980 and created the eight-mile-long Monsal Trail.

Caption For Aylesford, C1960

There is a magnificent prospect of the church, which looks over the eight brick gables of the cottages. The bridge is built of ragstone and dates from the 14th century.

Caption For Abergavenny, From The Canal 1893

Between the new cemetery in the centre and the allotments and houses to the right, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny railway line, opened in 1862, begins its climb of 1000ft to Brynmawr, a mere eight

Caption For Theale, Englefield House, The Terrace C1955

About eight miles west of Reading, beyond the M4, Englefield House sits in extensive parkland grazed by fallow deer and beside a fine church by George Gilbert Scott of 1857.

Caption For Liphook, The Town 1911

The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.

Caption For Maidenhead, Boulters Lock 1913

Boulters Lock is probably the most famous lock on the Thames, and was the first and the lowest on the river of the first set of eight to be built under the legislation of 1770.

Caption For Oxford, Eights 1906

This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.

Caption For Bedford, The River Ouse C1955

The riverside willows on the north bank have only recently been pollarded in this view, in which an eight rows past. The opposite bank is Long Island.

Caption For Tetbury, Church Street C1949

Close to the Wiltshire border, this little market and wool town has retained many of its 17th- and 18th- century buildings, such as the Eight Bells Inn, seen here on the right.

Caption For Dawlish, Dawlish Water 1928

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

Caption For Oxford, Eights 1922

The Thames is not sufficiently wide at Oxford for the conventional kind of race in which one boat, known as an eight, overtakes another.

Caption For Cambridge, Eights On The Cam 1909

Eights such as this one start about one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus 'bumping' it.