Maps

9,439 maps found.

1898, Middletown Ref. RNE779591
1898, Picton Ref. RNE805833
1898, Manton Ref. RNE774122
1897, Marden Ref. RNE774483
1895, Wootton Ref. RNE874449
1886, Deepdale Ref. HOSM42948
1883 - 1902, Cleeve Ref. HOSM41134
1903, Barlow Ref. RNC633348
1913, Roxby Ref. HOSM58211
1906, Normanby Ref. HOSM55127
1907, Selside Ref. HOSM58816
1889, Dalby Ref. HOSM42800
1891, Foston Ref. HOSM45708
1891, Howsham Ref. HOSM49058
1889 - 1890, Kelfield Ref. HOSM49649
1891, Sproxton Ref. HOSM59946
1889 - 1890, Thorganby Ref. HOSM61592
1890 - 1891, Howe Ref. HOSM49030
1907, Calton Ref. HOSM39871
1907, Cray Ref. HOSM42196

Books

39 books found. Showing results 1,825 to 1,848.

Memories

1,544 memories found. Showing results 761 to 770.

Clara Vale

My family lived in Stanner House, a lovely old house in Clara Vale from 1952 until 1964 - my parents moved there shortly after they got married in 1951. I was born in 1958 and can remember the house as if it was yesterday. In the 1800's ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1958 by Helen Mc Guinness

A Long Time Ago

My father Leonard Alfred Passfield was born in South Ockendon, in 1916 to Fred Passfield and Emily Jane who lived in North Street. Many are the stories he told me of his early life in South Ockendon. He had three brothers, ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1910 by Robert Passfield

Old North Ormesby.

My grandma lived in Stovin Street and I attended Westbourne Grove Methodist Church from about 1948 until 1956ish. I remember the hospital and the wonderful markets where we used to buy a penny bag of winkles. I also ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1955 by Patricia Lancaster

Phil Bateman Mayor Opens Ashmore Park Community Centre

Bateman Opens Community Centre: Wednesfield North today boasts a new Community Centre after Mary and Phil Bateman MBE, as Mayor and Mayoress, opened the new venue on Griffith Drive, ...Read more

A memory of Wednesfield in 2006

Waterworks During The War Years

I was not born in Murton and did not revisit it after the Second World War years until 1975. However my grandmother lived there and my grandfather was killed in an accident in 1932 in Polka pit. My ...Read more

A memory of Murton in 1940 by Thomas Davison

Those Younger Days

I remember Wincanton when my grandparents ran the grocery shop in North Street. I often stayed and poped next door to the wonderful cake shop then onto my great uncles who ran Parsons Dairies. I went out with my grandfather ...Read more

A memory of Wincanton in 1961 by Annette Rosaline Dunn

Blacksmith Shop

The blacksmith's shop was at Jack Geddes' farm opposite the Quakers' burial ground. I used to go in and watch sometimes when my brother and I were bringing milk from Cockburns farm further along on the other side of the ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1945 by David Leckenby

Horden Memories

Hi, my name is Lorraine, my surname was Humphreys at the time I spent my early childhood in Horden with my nana and grandad, both sadly gone now. I lived at 90 Seventh Street, I went to school on the top road we used to call 'the ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1971 by Lorraine Irle

Brownieside Cottages

My brother David and me - Jacqueline, were born in the row of cottages in Brownieside to our mum Jessie nee Bell and our Dad Harold Rose in 1942 and 1945. Dad was in the RAF and Mum was a nurse. I think we lived in the ...Read more

A memory of Brownieside in 1945 by Jacqueline Battye

1955 1978

Growing up and living in Lindfield Avenue, playing football in the street or up at Blakelaw Park with my brother Ken. Later playing for Montague and North Fenham Boys Club under Dicky Almond (Big Dick). Some games later for West End ...Read more

A memory of Blakelaw by Michael Lydon

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 1,825 to 1,848.

Caption For Preston, Avenham Park And The Park Hotel 1893

The hotel was built by the London and North Western Railway Company for travellers from London to Scotland.

Caption For Effingham, The Village C1965

People first settled here at the foot of the North Downs because of the fresh water springs emerging from where the chalk meets a band of clay.

Caption For Northchapel, The Village C1955

The village of Northchapel, which is situated 5 miles north of Petworth, was formerly a chapelry of Petworth, and only became a parish in its own right after an Act of Parliament in 1693.

Caption For Bourton On The Water, View From The Memorial C1955

This Roman road runs from the mouth of the River Humber in the north-east of England to Devon in the south-west.

Caption For Blackpool, North Pier 1890

Doubling as a landing stage for steamers, North Pier was the first of Blackpool's three to be built and opened in 1863.

Caption For Furnace, Minard Castle, Holiday Fellowship Centre C1955

Overlooking Minard Bay, an inlet on the north side of Loch Fyne, stands the 19th-century Minard Castle.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Cross C1955

View from just into North Load Street.

Caption For Binbrook, The Square C1955

The north side of the Market Place has seen many recent changes: The Marquis of Granby, partly dating from 1695, was restored in 1999 and the paint removed from its stonework.

Caption For Nunney, Frome Road From Church Tower C1960

Here we see Nunney at the north-east end.

Caption For Symondsbury, Village C1940

Here Symondsbury may be deficient but it can boast the thatched Ilchester Arms Inn (right), which is named for the Strangways family, owning lands from Abbotsbury Swannery to Melbury

Caption For Crayford, Saint Paulinus Church C1955

The earliest parts of the north nave date from c1100, and another nave and chancel were constructed in the 14th century.

Caption For Holbeach, High Street C1955

The 180 foot spire of All Saints can be seen beyond, but the most remarkable feature of the church is the north porch: this seems to be a re-used castle gatehouse, perhaps from Moulton Castle, five miles

Caption For Wainfleet, Woolpack Hotel C1955

North from the Market Place, the High Street curves away past The Woolpack, now rendered and roughcast.

Caption For Middleton Tyas, Scotch Corner Hotel C1960

This landmark, familiar to drivers on the A1, was in the 1950s THE place for film stars to stay on their way north, and most of the cars we see here are in the luxury class.

Caption For Belfast, Ulster Bank, Waring Street 1897

For those coming into town by way of Donegall Street or North Street, it gave quick access to the first docks.

Caption For Sunderland, Fawcett Street 1890

This part of Sunderland developed into the commercial and civic heart of the town following the opening of Fawcett Street Station by the North Eastern Railway.

Caption For Abergynolwyn, The Village 1968

There is little apart from the Mini van parked in front of the terraced house on the bottom right of the picture to give away the date of this view, which looks north over Abergynolwyn.

Caption For Torquay, From Waldon Hill 1888

Tor Bay is bounded on the north by Hope's Nose (round the corner to the left) and Berry Head, seen here across the bay.

Caption For Westcott, The Village 1922

The dovecote on the small triangular green, with its unusual weathervane carrying the letter 'T' signifying north, was erected as a First World War memorial.

Caption For Merstham, The Village 1923

This attractive cul-de-sac running north to the gates of Merstham House, where rampant lion statues guard the way, acquired its name as a joke.

Caption For Chilham, Old Wives' Lees 1908

Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

Caption For Woolverstone, The Church C1955

In 1888-90 a new nave and chancel were built over the north aisle of 1830, which left the earlier church as the new south aisle and chapel.

Caption For Ollerton, Thoresby Hall, The Queen Victoria Room C1965

To the north of the house Warner's have built a brick and stone-dressed bedroom block and a spa and health club.

Caption For Stamford, The Lodge Gates, Burghley Park 1922

Positioned alongside the old course of the Great North Road, the unusual and impressive 'Bottle Lodges' at the entrance to Burghley Park must have been a familiar sight to travellers approaching Stamford