Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Christmas Deliveries: If you placed an order on or before midday on Friday 19th December for Christmas delivery it was despatched before the Royal Mail or Parcel Force deadline and therefore should be received in time for Christmas. Orders placed after midday on Friday 19th December will be delivered in the New Year.

Please Note: Our offices and factory are now closed until Monday 5th January when we will be pleased to deal with any queries that have arisen during the holiday period.

During the holiday our Gift Cards may still be ordered for any last minute orders and will be sent automatically by email direct to your recipient - see here: Gift Cards

Maps

1,865 maps found.

1925, Park Head Ref. POP800966
1924, Park Head Ref. POP800975
1919, Park Hill Ref. POP800999
1920, Park Street Ref. POP801231
1920, Park Town Ref. POP801259
1919, Queen's Park Ref. POP812315
1920, Queen's Park Ref. POP812316
1924, Swinton Park Ref. POP843999
1919, Moor Park Ref. POP783209
1923, Manor Park Ref. POP773966
1919, Manor Park Ref. POP773969
1920, Manor Park Ref. POP773971
1925, West Park Ref. POP864822
1924, West Park Ref. POP864832
1921, Westwood Park Ref. POP866589
1925, Park Gate Ref. POP1190923
1947, Grange Park Ref. NPO719034
1946, Manor Park Ref. NPO773969
1946, Leigh Park Ref. NPO754825
1898, Park Corner Ref. RNE800483

Books

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Memories

4,383 memories found. Showing results 671 to 680.

Heston As A Young Lad

I was born in West Middx Hospital in July 1942 and lived in Vicarage Farm Rd from then until about 1960. Went to Springwell Infants then onto Heston Junior School. Failed the 11+ so went to Heston Secondary Modern.Great teachers ...Read more

A memory of Heston by George Eyles

Lillah Street ( Off Cross Lane ),Salford...Lilian Bond,Joseph Burton & Hilda Hibbert

Hi everyone. My mum is Salford born and bred .Her name was LILIAN BOND born in 1947. She lived at 21 Lillah Street,next to the `corner`shop at 23, which was previously owned ...Read more

A memory of Salford by lowe38.family

The Ducks! The Ducks!

from the time after 1945 regularly on Sunday afternoons the suggestion was for us to go to Kelsey park and feed the Ducks! It was / is a large well planted park to walk around and get lost. Over the years visiting my parents, ...Read more

A memory of Beckenham by Pat Roberts

Timperley Village

As a child I can remember my mum shopping in the Co-op, the shop on the right between the two parked cars. Next door was the toy shop and next door to that was the Midland Bank. Coming back the other way towards Mayfield Road, there was the post office and a new small Spar supermarket

A memory of Timperley by mchlpilling

Start Of Western Esplanade From The Pier

This Picture was taken by someone on the Pier, above the roadway. The shops to the right were known then as Palmyra Terrace, IIRC, and the little sunken amusement park to the Left had been renamed by then from "The Shrubbery" to "Peter Pan's Playground".

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by julian

Western Esplanade, Alexandra Y.C. Dinghy Park. A Post Ww2 Facility.

As the classic 18ft long local dayboat classes became more expensive to build and maintain, there was an explosion of smaller, cheaper racing dinghy classes all round the UK, ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by julian

Bromley High Street

I remember the coffee smell as one wandered up the high street. Someone on this memory board has asked what was it called. It was called: Coffee Importers, because that was what they did. You could buy beans or have them ground ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Susan Tebby

Looking Westwards, Towards Thorpe Hall Boulevard Junction With The Esplanade.

In 2014, across the road there are tennis courts, and from Google Earth it looks like a thriving Sports Centre. If there were tennis courts on that site in 1963, hardly ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

Looking Westwards, Towards Thorpe Hall Boulevard Junction With The Esplanade.

In 2014, across the road there are tennis courts, and from Google Earth it looks like a thriving Sports Centre. If there were tennis courts on that site in 1963, hardly ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

Caddies Ice Cream Parlour

The ice cream parlour was at the back of The Princess Of Wales Precinct in Dewsbury, it is now a car park, what a complete waste of a lovely business, but the problem was the family refused to sell the recipe to anyone else, ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury by mickandsue16

Captions

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Caption For Camberley, London Road 1901

The tall building on the right, where the delivery vehicle is parked outside, is that of the London and Provincial Bank.

Caption For Camberley, Gordon Road 1931

Charles Raleigh Knight, who constructed the road in 1880, lived in Frimley Park, and it was he who was responsible for the development of Camberley.

Caption For Berwick, Drusilla's Park, The Cottage C1955

Fronting the road, beyond the outbuildings in the two previous views, is the 17th-century cottage where the zoo park started some seventy years ago; its outbuildings became the gift shop

Caption For Malmesbury, The Market Cross C1955

In this later photograph, there are inevitably more cars parked around the market cross.

Caption For Bradford, Lister Park Lake 1921

Today, the park is a wonderful oasis away from busy Manningham Lane.

Caption For Acle, The Bridge Inn C1955

Today the annexe has lost its pretty little porch and become a souvenir gift shop, and the lawns and flower beds are a car park.

Caption For Daventry, Recreation Ground C1965

A bus station and car park now make up the scene.

Caption For Skegness, North Shore C1955

What it does not have now is a helter-skelter and the North Shore Café - all that has gone, and there is now a huge car park here.

Caption For London, Hyde Park 1890

Hyde Park extends from Piccadilly westwards to Kensington Gardens. Its 360- acres of open green space were called by William Pitt ‘the lung of London’.

Caption For Nottingham, Landing Stages, Turney's Quay 1893

Passengers boarded vessels at the landing stages to take trips to Colwick Park. A lock linked the river and Nottingham Canal at the projection near the end of the walkway.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Jireh Court C1965

Not every residential unit would have a garage, hence the need for designated parking spaces as well.

Caption For Welton, High Street C1955

The outbuilding in front has been demolished for the enlargement of the pub car park. Beyond is the 14th-century tower of the parish church.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, Bournemouth Road C1965

Note again that convenient car parking is permitted.

Caption For Abergavenny, Holy Mountain From The Main Road C1955

The houses are now surrounded by the new Croesonnen Park estate, which was begun in 1965. In 1955 the land to the left of the road was part of Chandler's market garden.

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

Half a century after photograph M116301, the Market place is much tidier, with kerbs, grass and flower beds, and it has parked cars in the centre.

Caption For Pleasington, Priory Church 1894

Pleasington Priory, a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary and John the Baptist and built in 1819, is set on a hill on Pleasington Lane, close to the River Dunsop and Witton Park, Blackburn.

Caption For Edwinstowe, St Mary's Church C1960

Described as 'Robin Hood's village', Edwinstowe lies south of the Sherwood Forest Country Park.

Caption For Castle Bromwich, Chester Road C1965

The development of Castle Bromwich really got under way in the 1930s with the Hodgehill Common housing estate.After the second world war, in which Castle Bromwich played a major part with its Spitfire

Caption For Wonersh, Village 1932

The Pepperpot, on the right, is made of beams and tiles from Wonersh Park mansion. Struck by passing vehicles on a number of occasions, it now stands on a solid plinth to protect it.

Caption For Kingsclere, Swan Street C1955

The Swan Hotel can be seen in the distance and the shop, outside which is a parked car, is now a private house, once owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Caption For Piddlehinton, The Village C1955

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

Caption For Whitby, Tin Ghaut 1913

Tin Ghaut was demolished in 1959 to make way for a car park.

Caption For Sutton, St Barnabas Church 1904

It served the Sutton New Town development to the east of Manor Park up to the Carshalton parish boundary. The road is now St Barnabas Road.

Caption For Sutton, Albion Road 1904

Here the photographer is looking east from the junction with Langley Park Road. There are substantial houses with large dormers on the right, some of which still remain.