Maps

9,439 maps found.

1898, North Lancing Ref. RNC793608
1903, North Ormsby Ref. RNC793790
1903, North Reddish Ref. RNC793853
1898, North Shoebury Ref. RNC793902
1911, North Tolsta Ref. RNC794000
1911, North Uist Ref. RNC794018
1899, North Wick Ref. RNC794081
1903, North Willingham Ref. RNC794084
1899, North Wootton Ref. RNC794123
1920, North Acton Ref. POP792840
1919, North Baddesley Ref. POP792871
1919, North Barrow Ref. POP792899
1921, North Benfleet Ref. POP792924
1920, North Bersted Ref. POP792927
1919, North Brewham Ref. POP792977
1923, North Carlton Ref. POP793018
1924, North Cave Ref. POP793031
1920, North Chailey Ref. POP793034
1925, North Cheek Ref. POP793046
1922, North Cornelly Ref. POP793093

Books

39 books found. Showing results 145 to 168.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.

Alcombe School

This is a very exciting discovery for me because it is one of the oldest photographs I have seen of a part of old Alcombe that I can recognise, even at my great distance from the UK. My Great-Grandfather, George Mildon had a school ...Read more

A memory of Alcombe in 1880 by Richard Mildon

Good Times, Good Money, Good Friends.

I was sent frtom Leeds to Lower Bynamman in 1970 to work building up a huge 2400 Marion excavator for Sir Lindsey Parkinson at the GCG (Tyor Gwaith?) opencast coal site. I lodged at the Bryannam Hotel with Dez and ...Read more

A memory of Brynamman by Paul Leavett

Fulham Memories

I was born in 1951 at Parsons Green maternity home. I have many memories of my mum's family. My nan lived in Bayonne Road, Escourt Road, Heckfield Place, Bramber Road, Cassidy Road, Fairholme Road and latterly Charleville Road, then ...Read more

A memory of Fulham by jenny_blakemore

183 Bus To The Pinner Red Lion

All buses going to Pinner in the 1950's had the destination "Pinner Red Lion" as there was an old pub of that name on the corner of Love Lane and Bridge Street. The bus in this photo has continued its journey having ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1956 by John Howard Norfolk

Hornchurch Baptist Church, North Street

The church on the left hand side of the photograph was Hornchurch Baptist Church. I was, in the second half of the 1950s and the early 1960s, a member of the 6th Hornchurch Scout Group based at the church. A ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch

Pioneer Christian (Interdenominational) Youth Hostel.

The newly named Pioneer Christian Youth Hostel, (open to all faiths) was situated 197O in the flat (apartment) accommodation basement of the old Methodist Church. The hostel was served by ...Read more

A memory of Sinderhope by David Armstrong

Going To The Shops...

As a fully paid up member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, born in 1947, I've been reading all the stories posted on this lovely website (which - like many others, I suspect - I came across purely by chance). I was born in Perivale ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Peter Taylor

Memories Of North Cheam

My friend and I now both 90 yrs old and still in daily contact! Although we live a long way from each other. My maiden name was Sheila Dwight and my friend's maiden name was Joan Byrn. We met age 5 yrs old at North Cheam ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam by Sheila Ashe

Memories Of A Great School

I was a day pupil as a 7 year old in the Spring and Summer terms of 1953. I remember the headmaster, Mr. Arch. Mr. Randle and Mr. Griffin. There was a forth teacher, was that Mr. Peacock? I recall the Sunder march to the ...Read more

A memory of Boldre by Alan Locke

North Heath, Chieveley.

I owned the house known as 'Bridle Way' on North Heath just outside the town.

A memory of Chieveley by Ron Warwick

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.

Caption For Waldringfield, Mill Road C1965

This photograph was taken from the church tower looking north towards the main street.

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 Cricklade, High Street C1950

This small Wiltshire market town has a long, roughly north-south High Street, seen here looking north from the junction with Bath Road.

Caption For Willingdon, The Downs C1955

Heading north from Eastbourne, you turn left in Willingdon to climb Butt Lane to the Downs.

Caption For Oxford, Mesopotamia, The Ferry 1912

Children crossing the river at Marston, once a village but now a north Oxford suburb.

Caption For Hathersage, North Lee's Hall 1902

The Tudor tower house of North Lees Hall was one of seven halls built by Robert Eyre for his sons, all allegedly within sight of one another.

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 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 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 Bridport, St Mary's Parish Church 1902

This is St Mary`s parish church in South Street, seen from the north-east.

Caption For Newquay, From The Fish Cellars 1887

Here we have an early view of Towan Beach, with everyone overdressed for the seaside.

Caption For Croxley Green, All Saints Church 1897

The church, built in 1827 to designs of one J Norton, is in a fairly routine design but with a circular turret and spire on the north, or Green, side.

Caption For Swindon, Victoria Road To Regent Circus C1955

Looking North The Swindon and North Wilts Technical Institute building (now known as the College) is on the left.

Caption For Enfield, Market Place C1950

The compact market place on the north side of the town is enhanced by its octagonal timber market cross, built in 1903 in celebration of Edward VII's coronation to replace a stone Gothic cross of 1826.

Caption For Durham, From Railway Station 1892

A train belonging to the North Eastern Railway is about to ease out onto the great viaduct, built by Robert Stephenson in 1857, that carries the line 100 ft above the streets of Durham.

Caption For Grimsby, The Docks 1893

Humberside and the North-Eastern Ports

Caption For Sandy, Bedford Road 1925

Sandy was originally a modest Roman settlement on the Roman road between St Albans and Godmanchester; in the 18th century the town became important for its coaching inns servicing the Great North Road.

Caption For Horsham, St Mary's Church 1907

The reign of Queen Victoria saw many additions and rebuildings, including the fountain on the right erected in 1897 to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee, now relocated to the north end of North Street

Caption For Bangor, "Longhole" 1897

Longhole is the name given to a curiously-shaped channel, bordered by the north-easterly arm of the North Breakwater, which leads inland towards the central pier.

Caption For Misterton, The Church 1960

Moving on to the far north-east corner of the county, we reach Misterton.

Caption For Newark, Trent Bridge C1955

Seen from the north-west bank of the River Trent, the castle appears foreshortened; but the wall in this view is that half of the east curtain wall that survived the 1650s demolition, with the gatehouse

Caption For Wilmington, The Old Yew Tree C1960

To the north of the north porch there is a massive, very ancient yew tree, its weary boughs propped on posts.

Caption For Littlehampton, Promenade 1903

Here the photographer looks north-west along the east bank wharves towards the site of the swing bridge that opened in 1908, five years after this view and now rebuilt in its turn as well as superseded

Caption For Littlehampton, Harbour 1903

Here the photographer looks north-west along the east bank wharves towards the site of the swing bridge that opened in 1908, five years after this view and now rebuilt in its turn as well as superseded