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Maps

1,865 maps found.

1897-1898, Oakleigh Park Ref. RNC795543
1911-1912, Obsdale Park Ref. RNC795834
1897-1909, Pachesham Park Ref. RNC799325
1897-1902, Park Langley Ref. RNC801160
1905-1906, Park Mains Ref. RNC801177
1904-1905, Possil Park Ref. RNC809963
1897-1899, Radley Park Ref. RNC812738
1902-1903, Plumtree Park Ref. RNC807742
1903-1904, Hollin Park Ref. RNC738085
1897-1899, Hook Park Ref. RNC739946
1897-1902, Wandle Park Ref. RNC860333
1899-1909, Meyrick Park Ref. RNC778597
1898-1899, Welshwood Park Ref. RNC863234
1901-1902, Selly Park Ref. RNC827544
1903-1904, Tong Park Ref. RNC849911
1897-1898, Wilton Park Ref. RNC870839
1903-1908, South Parks Ref. RNC835184
1897-1909, Worcester Park Ref. RNC874507
1898-1901, Wroughton Park Ref. RNC875009
1888 - 1890, Park Ho Ref. HOSM44449

Books

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Memories

4,383 memories found. Showing results 611 to 620.

High Street

I can remember going in J E Cooke shop for chocolate and papers, and just past this shop on the left was Amblers fish shop where we went for our fish and chips. On the other side of the road I went into the butchers for ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield Woodhouse in 1955 by Maureen Hawkins

Canley

The part of Canley where we lived was made up of what were called "the steel houses" and "the prefabs". Charter Avenue was a dual carriageway and then, at the beginning of Ten Shilling Woods it became a single road. I was always told that ...Read more

A memory of Coventry in 1950 by Tony Gillen

Keynsham Avenue Slinger Family

I, alongside four sisters, were were born at number 7 Keynsham Avenue. My grandfather owned the house before my parents. I attended Woodford Green Primary School with my younger sister from 1968 onwards. The ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1962 by Andrew Slinger

The Crescent Tottenham

I lived at number 59 The Crescent for 10 years from when I was born until 1970 when we moved due to the road being demolished for the new estate that is there today. Our family name was Dobson and there was my Mum Joyce, ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1970 by Susan Holt

Maindy And Canada Road In The 1950s/60s

Hello Lyndon, I too have many vivid memories of Maindy and the surrounding area. I was born in 62 Canada Rd in 1945 and lived there until 1967...the so-called summer of love! I was sort of brought up by my ...Read more

A memory of Maindy in 1950 by Andy Thompson

Romford's Market Town Long Gone!

I lived at 81 Junction Road from the age of 3 - 11 from 1946 - 1953. The house was one of 4 large detached houses close to the railway which have been demolished, but the row of shops in Carlton Road still exist. I ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1952 by Mary Hill

Halfords Cafe And Outside Caterers, Castleford Rd.

Hi everyone. I was born in 56 and lived in Normanton and Altofts until moving to Pontefract when I was 7 or 8. My grandad had a cafe down Castleford Road called Halfords. Funny how this works ...Read more

A memory of Normanton in 1959 by Shawn Halford

Growing Up In Gilnahirk

My family moved from Leeds, Yorks to Gilnahirk when I was 11 months old - my parents had a house built in Gilnahirk Walk and we moved in when I was two. I and my two sisters had an idyllic childhood, we had so many places ...Read more

A memory of Belfast in 1961 by Isobel Buck

Year Of 1959

My grandmother came from Shepton Mallet and left to live in West Yorkshire. I came to live for a short while and attended school out on Charlton Road. The house I lived at was the last one on Waterloo Road at its junction with ...Read more

A memory of Shepton Mallet by Ian Ludwell

Growing Up In Tyldesley

I was born in 1958 and brought up in Green Street which was facing the Conservative club. I went to St George's junior school where the headmaster was Mr Hosfield; a disciplinarian but very fair. After school I would play ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley by Adrian White

Captions

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Caption For Ilkley, Denton Park From The Cow And Calf Rocks 1914

Through the famous Cow and Calf Rocks high up on Ilkley Moor, we can see the estate of Denton Park, once the home of the Fairfax family.

Caption For Nether Alderley, Old School C1955

Built in St Mary`s churchyard in the late 17th century with an endowment from Thomas Deane de Parke, this building educated the village boys until early last century.

Caption For Phillack, The New Inn C1960

The New Inn is a welcome haven in the centre of the small village, with its own car park at the side allowing calling motorists to leave the narrow street.

Caption For Buckingham, Palladian Bridge, Stowe School C1955

Its 18th-century picturesque naturalistic park, designed by Bridgeman, Kent and Capability Brown, is dotted with Georgian temples, columns and garden buildings.

Caption For Charlton Kings, Charlton Hill From Cirencester Road C1955

Until the 1960s, Charlton Kings railway station stood half a mile up the hill from this spot - its site is now an industrial park.

Caption For Letchworth Garden City, Leys Avenue 1955

The Commer van, 'Say it with Flowers' (left), is rather close to the zebra crossing and has been parked there for some time - it appears in the same position in the photograph of Barclay's Bank!

Caption For Bognor Regis, East Parade 1903

The site is now merely a car park for the somewhat less distinguished Regis Centre. Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

Caption For Pontypool, The Grotto C1955

The grotto in Pontypool park was believed to have been the home of an old hermit, and is considered by academics to be the most important example in Wales.

Caption For Penarth, The Bay C1955

Original ideas to use its space for car parking were scrapped, and the house struggled to find a fitting use.

Caption For Bridport, W.Frost Shop Front 1909

Wilfrid Frost lived at Glyn in Park Road.

Caption For Latimer, The Church 1897

The church is away from the present centre of the village and relates more to Latimer Park.

Caption For Glasgow, A View On The Kelvin 1897

almost half a century ordinary members of the public paid a penny to gain admission, but in 1891, when the burgh of Hillhead was annexed by the city, the Botanic Gardens were transferred to the Parks

Caption For Frensham, Troops At Frensham 1917

Frensham is known for its ponds and its common – now Frensham Country Park.

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Caption For Windermere, From Calgarth 1887

The site is now a caravan park. The 1881 Census recorded Thomas Walker, whose name is painted on the boat, as a boat builder, resident at Crown Villas, Bowness.

Caption For Lechlade, Riverside Tea Gardens C1955

Nowadays the fields to the far left are a leisure yacht park - yachts are the river's modern traffic - and the tea garden in the middle distance has long gone.

Caption For Stanstead Abbotts, High Street C1955

Apart from the more modern cars parked at the kerbs, little has changed in the village.

Caption For Woolpit, Main Street C1955

This group includes the Bull (centre left) and the late 15th-century Weaver's House beyond the parked car. On the right is a former 16th-century pub with a decorative Victorian front.

Caption For Wimborne, The Square C1965

In this picture, The Square is beginning to acquire its modern layout with marked parking bays in the centre, one-way arrows and white lines to define the bus-stop outside the Midland Bank

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park Lake 1925

Note the open vista through the trees at the top left of photograph - the park not yet fully encircled by housing.

Caption For Gainsborough, Bridge Street C1955

On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider. Here the river Trent is the boundary between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

Caption For Port Talbot, The M4 Motorway C1966

Beulah Methodist chapel had to be removed to make way for the motorway, and was rebuilt in the country park in the Afan Valley.

Caption For Aldershot, Union Street C1965

Parked outside Timothy Whites (left) is a 1954 Austin A40 Cambridge saloon. There were over 600 Timothy Whites chemists across the UK.

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Caption For Burley, C1955

A man is hunched over his parked car (right), no doubt tinkering with the engine. Further on and to the left are a family who might have just popped into Lloyds Bank to withdraw some cash.

Caption For Hill Head, C1955

The road leads all the way round the shore here, and today there is a car park behind the third building.