Maps

2,499 maps found.

1904-1906, Craigie Ref. RNC680795
1904-1905, Crawford Ref. RNC681538
1904-1905, Crawfordjohn Ref. RNC681546
1904, Dolphinton Ref. RNC691898
1904-1905, Douglas Ref. RNC692272
1904-1905, Earnock Ref. RNC696621
1898-1899, Hawkesbury Upton Ref. RNC728823
1904-1905, Haywood Ref. RNC729475
1901-1904, Hebburn Colliery Ref. RNC730399
1901-1904, Hedworth Ref. RNC730539
1905, Heronsford Ref. RNC731830
1899, Crossways Ref. RNC684673
1899, Great Stoke Ref. RNC720420
1899, Hambrook Ref. RNC726030
1899, Hanham Green Ref. RNC726501
1905, Garleffin Ref. RNC711437
1904-1905, Auldhouse Ref. RNC628999
1899, Awkley Ref. RNC629276
1905, Ballantrae Ref. RNC631289
1904-1906, Alloway Ref. RNC621742

Books

23 books found. Showing results 1,465 to 23.

Memories

1,578 memories found. Showing results 611 to 620.

Whittlebury Lodge College

Dear Whittlebury Alumni, I have many pictures of my late Dad Sunil Bramdaw's stay at Whittlebury in the early 60s. First a student at Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire and subsequently at Whittlebury Lodge College in ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury by Nirode Bramdaw

Growing Up In Foxton Cambridgeshire

How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” ...Read more

A memory of Barrington by masters.clifford2

Crescent Way 1957 1977

I was born at 70 Southlands Avenue and lived there with my mum and dad and elder sister and attended Warren Rd and St Olaves schools. My mum worked at the South Suburban Co-op which had a butchers one side and possibly a ...Read more

A memory of Orpington by bryan.biggs

Post War Memories

I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

Kingsbridge Secondary School

I was in 1935 and in the early 1950's lived in Thurlestone. I initially attended the Thurlestone Primary School but after sitting the 11 plus exam and failing I went to Kingsbridge Secondary School (it was called ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbridge by Mike Linscott

Holidays In The 60s

We lived in South Shields and used to come to Allendale every year for our summer holidays. Can you imagine it now? A lot people from South Shields used to do the same. We always stayed at the Ashleigh Hotel and once ...Read more

A memory of Allendale Town by jill.graham

Kay’s Hairdressers

I did my apprenticeship in Kay’s ,I was 15 years 3 months when I started in 1965, so there is a very good chance I was working there when the South Street photo was taken. My boss was Mr Roy Collins who became Mayor of ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester by Ailsa Bowring

Paradise!

My grandparent's on mother's side lived in top flat of Otterburn, Stroncarraig Brae, Rhubaan and my first visit was in August 1938 on a three weeks holiday from my home in Penarth, South Wales. My grandfather had a small open motor ...Read more

A memory of Tighnabruaich by Alastair Urquhart

A Baby Boomer's Memories Of Groombridge

I was born in 1947 and as a baby lived for a short time with my parents at Leyswood Lodge south of the village. My family on my mother's side had lived in Groombridge for many, many years and I was the ...Read more

A memory of Groombridge by Keith Grose

Wonderful Days

We spent all our warm summer holidays at Westgate. We lived in South London. My Grandmother lived in Quex Road and we had a caravan on St Crispens caravan site. I loved getting fish heads from the fish monger to go ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by grahamleeper1

Captions

2,476 captions found. Showing results 1,465 to 1,488.

Caption For Cawsand, The Bay 1904

We are on the south-east coast at Cawsand Bay; the twin villages perched above the beach, where fishing boats are drawn up. The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

Caption For Barnstaple, From Rock Park 1890

This area was once known as South Walk. It was bought in 1879 by William Rock, a son of the town who had made his fortune in London before returning home.

Caption For London, Elephant And Castle 1885

This crowded region south of the river was once the heart of London cockney life.

Caption For Borrowdale, The Hotel C1870

The traffic-free minor road meanders between drystone walls through the dale south towards Grange and Rosthwaite.

Caption For Milton Malsor, Post Office C1960

Milton Malsor is a charming, typically English village to the south of Northampton and the M1. This picture shows the village post office, delightfully housed in a picturesque thatched cottage.

Caption For Cirencester, Market Place 1898

Much of south-west England was administered from here. It revived as a Saxon settlement, but it did not become prominent again until the emergence of the wool trade.

Caption For Daventry, Sheaf Street C1950

In the distance to the north, earlier housing estates, mostly Pre-War and 1950s, can be seen - the Development Corporation plans mainly expanded the town to the south and north-east.

Caption For Stanwick, The Duke Of Wellington C1965

Stanwick is a village two miles south-west of Raunds. In 1960 Phipps was taken over by the giant Watney-Mann brewery, which retained the Phipps name but introduced the lettering shown here.

Caption For Douglas, Rough Sea 1903

The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.

Caption For Culham, College 1900

South-east of Abingdon, on the A415 and a mile west of the Culham Science Centre, the former Culham College is a large and austere Victorian Gothic building based on an Oxford collegiate layout with a

Caption For Biddenden, High Street C1950

Half-timbered weavers' houses, with broad first-floor work-room windows, can be found on the south side.

Caption For Caversham, Bridge Street 1908

The 1869 bridge seen here replaced an odd 18th-century one: it was made of timber on the Berkshire south side and stone on the Oxfordshire or Caversham side, owing to a cross border disagreement.

Caption For Camelford, Advent Church 1906

The south aisle has been added, built with granite blocks, as seen at Boscastle's St Juliot church.

Caption For London, Crystal Palace 1900

After the Exhibition, it was moved to wooded parkland at Sydenham in south-east London.

Caption For Southport, London Square 1902

The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.

Caption For Hopton, The Holiday Camp C1955

Hopton is a diminutive village resort on the A12 just south of Great Yarmouth.

Caption For Grantham, Market Place 1893

Chapter Three is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

Caption For Southwold, North Cliff And Coastguards 1896

The white building was the Coastguard Station, built in 1884-1904 here on the corner of South Parade to replace the Watch House, which was on the beach. Next to the flagpole is a signalling device.

Caption For Swanage, The Mill Pond 1890

The setting south-eastwards from the Mill Pond includes tenements in former Church Farm (left) and cottages on Church Hill (centre), though those below Wyvern Cottage have since been replaced by the

Caption For Rochdale, Carr Wood Waterfall 1895

This waterfall just south of School Lane had a race feeding the waterwheel of Ashworth Fulling Mill, which was to the right.

Caption For Gawcott, Main Street C1960

Gawcott, a mile and a half south-west of Buckingham, lies at the head of a stream (flowing north into the River Ouse) whose course runs along the right-hand side of this road.

Caption For Rothley, Town Green C1965

We are south-west of the village centre, and the photograph exudes a strange feeling of well- cared-for neglect.

Caption For Uppingham, The School House C1950

This was the headmaster's house until 1975 when a new house was built in the garden facing South Backway.

Caption For Charlwood, The Archway 1906

A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs.