Photos

6 photos found. Showing results 121 to 6.

Maps

150 maps found.

1946, Hanbury Woodend Ref. NPO726319
1921, Shenstone Woodend Ref. POP829684
1904-1906, Woodend Ref. RNC873042
1903-1908, Woodend Ref. RNC873044
1901-1904, Woodend Ref. RNC873059
1902-1903, Woodend Ref. RNC873066
1947, Lower Woodend Ref. NPO769950
1908-1910, Upper Woodend Ref. RNC857964
1908-1910, Lower Woodend Ref. RNC769949
1898-1899, Woodend Green Ref. RNC873092
1895, Kingsmead Ref. HOSM64969
1897-1898, Lower Woodend Ref. RNC769950
1901-1902, Shenstone Woodend Ref. RNC829684
1883 - 1901, Footherley Ref. HOSM59036
1897, Rhodesia Ref. HOSM65009
1880 - 1881, Bibstone Ref. HOSM65010
1902, Rood End Ref. RNC819619
1921, Rood End Ref. POP819619
1899, Rood End Ref. RNE819619
1946, Rood End Ref. NPO819619

Books

4 books found. Showing results 145 to 4.

Memories

2,330 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.

My Poor Upbringing By Teresa Shackell/Torrington

I was brought up in gwehelog no usk very poor and I can ember vividly very hungry most of the time oh and ice inside the windows I was so cold yet we had coal or rather wood from our local fields we used to ...Read more

A memory of Usk by teresashackell

Chainhurst In The Early 1960's

We moved from London to Chainhurst in 1961 into a small cottage two doors away from the Royal Oak Public House. I remember they let us use an upstairs room once a week so we could play records and I suppose keep us ...Read more

A memory of Chainhurst by Dawn Brady

A Lifetime In Bredbury And Woodley

I have so enjoyed reading all the memories of Woodley and Bredbury. I lived on George Lane from 1939 to 1964, and went to St Mark's School in Bredbury. My Dad, Jack Hallsworth, worked at Livingstone's ...Read more

A memory of Woodley by Elizabeth Thompson

Memories Remembered

Memories Remembered After reading Brian Keighley’s story of his memories in Lifton, my memories came flooding back and has prompted me to recall a few of my own. I was born in Lifton 18 months after my sister Jean in 1927 at ...Read more

A memory of Lifton by geoffbailey29

Stowlangtoft Hall

Hi my name is Rita i don't remember much about my time at the hall as I was only 7months old in 1957 when we arrived Luckily my sister Maria Attard and brother Dominic Attard were a bit older, my sister was 3 years old and ...Read more

A memory of Stowlangtoft by Rita Croston

Life In Cannich And Fasnakyle

My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction ...Read more

A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by Denman Lalonde

The Start Of A Wonderful Marriage

My wife and I married here on the 17th Feb 1977 and we've not regretted a day since. It poured with rain going in but the sun shone coming out. That has just about summed things up for us. The Rev Wood and Rev Carr ...Read more

A memory of Saltash by Chris Scott

St.Matthias Youth Club 1950s

I was born in December 1939 in Redhill Hospital which then changed to Edgware General. My parents Bill and Gladys Wyness lived in Marlow Court, Colindeep Lane and my maternal grandparents lived in Chalfont Court also in ...Read more

A memory of Colindale by sandymills03

Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I

Every now and then I reminisce and take a trip down memory lane, of my childhood days growing up in Newarthill on Burnside Rd. I remember Tosh McGarry and I going to Father Gillan's jumble sale and buying an old fox ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

Machine Gunned On Churston Drive By A Young German Pilot

My Aunt Joyce (born 1931) used to live on Churston Drive. She told me this morning about how she was walking to school with a friend one morning during the war when a German plane machine-gunned ...Read more

A memory of Morden by David Stephenson

Captions

583 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.

Caption For Coniston, From Church Tower 1906

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the

Caption For Ewhurst, The Mill 1925

Hurt Wood Mill is a small brick tower mill with four patent sails and a fantail. It is located on a remote hilltop surrounded by woodland. The mill has now been converted into a private house.

Caption For Grindleford, View From Goatscliff C1960

In the background are the wooded slopes of Froggatt and White Edge and the National Trust's Longshaw Estate.

Caption For Caterham, 1925

The hilly and wooded nature of the landscape is clearly seen, and the view is surprisingly little changed today.

Caption For Sheffield, Endcliffe Woods 1893

Endcliffe Woods were bought by the Council in 1885, and public access extended in 1887, when an additional nine acres were purchased through public subscription and presented to the town in celebration

Caption For Ashmore, The Pond C1960

Ashmore is a village of Cranborne Chase, with a splendid setting and a large pond that attracts a variety of birdlife.

Caption For Betchworth, From The Church 1900

Modern buildings have crowded in along the northern part of Betchworth's long village street, but the line of the North Downs and the big chalk pit remain much the same, although the downs are far more

Caption For Angle, The Village C1955

This enticing street is lined by woods on one side.

Caption For Stourport On Severn, The Weir C1965

This part of the Severn between Stourport and Lenchford remains one of its most pleasant stretches, the river running through a valley and wooded hills.

Caption For Blackhall Colliery, Crimdon Dene C1965

The wooded valley of Crimdon Dene is an unspoilt area close to Blackhall, where the beach is not polluted with coal spoil.

Caption For Coniston, From Church Tower 1906

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.

Caption For St Annes, Clifton Drive South 1914

The paving blocks between the tracks were made from white wood, balastic lava or jarrah. The running of connecting trams between Lytham and Blackpool began in 1905.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Bridge Street 1922

Bridge Street leads on to Wood Street, where there is a fountain and a clock tower presented to the town in 1888 by an American visitor.

Caption For Richmond, From West 1908

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Caption For Middleton, Main Street 1951

Middleton - full name Middleton-by-Wirksworth - was a quarrying and mining village which produced the famous Hopton Wood stone.

Caption For Richmond, From West 1908

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Caption For Dartmouth, Dartmouth Regatta 1889

Queen Victoria much admired the town of Dartmouth and its beautiful estuary, recording in her journal that '...the place is lovely, with its wooded rocks and church and castle at the entrance.

Caption For Rowsley, The Peacock Inn 1886

Middleton – its full name is Middleton- by-Wirksworth – was a quarrying and mining village which produced the famous Hopton Wood stone.

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 Stopham, Bridge 1932

The narrow bridge stands at the confluence of the Rivers Rother and Arun, and replaces a former Anglo-Saxon structure built of wood. A

Caption For Newton Abbot, From Decoy 1906

With playing fields, a recreation area, a lake and woodlands, it is very popular with the local townspeople. There are fine views over the town and to the wooded slopes beyond.

Caption For Bath, North Parade And Abbey 1949

The architect John Wood the Elder planned the Parades as part of an area based on the architecture of ancient Rome.

Caption For Luxulyan, The Village 1907

All about are rocky fields and wooded slopes, pitted with gigantic granite boulders. The cottages in the winding street are solidly built of local granite.

Caption For Hawkshead, Bobbin Mill 1896

Bobbin manufacture for the wool and cotton mills of the north of England was once an important industry in the well-wooded Lake District.