Maps

9,439 maps found.

1899, North End Ref. RNC793227
1901, North End Ref. RNC793249
1903, North Frodingham Ref. RNC793371
1901, North Green Ref. RNC793417
1899, North Huish Ref. RNC793552
1899, North Poorton Ref. RNC793836
1899, North Star Ref. RNC793939
1899, North Stoke Ref. RNC793943
1899, North Town Ref. RNC794005
1899, North Wootton Ref. RNC794122
1920, North Chingford Ref. POP1188996
1947, Athersley North Ref. NPO628308
1920, Lydbury North Ref. POP770838
1923, North Anston Ref. POP792851
1921, North Barsham Ref. POP792902
1919, North Batsom Ref. POP792904
1919, North Bockhampton Ref. POP792952
1919, North Bovey Ref. POP792960
1919, North Bowood Ref. POP792963
1926, North Charlton Ref. POP793043

Books

39 books found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Memories

1,548 memories found. Showing results 81 to 90.

Looking For Anyone Who Knew Me

Hi, I was born in 1945 at 9a Rectory Road, Gateshead. I was adopted 6 weeks later by Edna and Jack Dixon. My name then was Joy Dixon. I attended Brighton Road school for 10 years. I left the the north when I was 19 ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1950 by Joy Shaw

Jaywick Sands From 1954 1960

I first discovered Jaywick when I was just ten years old in 1954. I was taken there by my parents in a 1936 Bedford Van to stay with my uncle Bill, aunt Flo and cousin Bill who was 6 months younger than me. This would ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1954 by James Tyler

Oh For Thing Past.

I was born in 1941 in St Augustine's Rd at the top of Chalk Pit Ave. The memory I have are, the Bull Inn at the corner of Sandy Lane next to Nashes Paper Mills. Ridge ways ? the all one shop, {things past}. Doing paper ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1950 by David Stallwood

Waiting For The Bus 1953

Pictured is the spot in New London Road where I used to wait for the school bus to Moulsham Schools. On the left was the Slyths Monumental Showroom full of sample headstones. If it was raining I would shelter in there ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by Kenneth Brown

Name Of

This picture is of St Peter-ad-Vincula (St Peter in chains) at Bottesford, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. One of only a few in the country with this dedication another being in The Tower of London. 13th century Early English style and ...Read more

A memory of Scunthorpe by Christine Bell

Broad Street School

I too, went to the Nursery School on Broad Street. I remember Miss Massey who slammed the desk down on my fingers squashing my signet ring, which resulted in my finger swelling and the ring having to be cut off! Such a nice lady ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1956 by Lynn Bryan

The Tin School And Thurlow Family

I was a pupil at the Tin School in Gilesgate Moor staring in 1954, leaving in 1961. It was at the crossroads of the road that now leads to Tesco, but opposite was the Durham District Services garage where my dad ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1954 by James Coatham

Memories Of Kilburn

Born of Irish immigrants in 1951, maiden name Power, I lived in Maygrove Rd and used to visit Timms sweet shop alot. I went to Kingsgate School and the Grange Park most lunch times, and every Sunday I had to ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1964 by Eileen Winters

I Know All The Memories Of Tynemouth

I was born in North Shields and know all the photos shown ...was my school holidays. I married my husband, a Northumberland Fusilier from Haltwhistle in January 1959 and in April we left from Newcastle on ...Read more

A memory of Tynemouth in 1959 by Patsy Norman Nee Quinn

Lost Village Of East Holywell

I was born in East Holywell in 1946 and lived at 24 North Row. By then there were only 2 rows of houses left. We lived with my grandmother, Eva Barnfather, who had been there since the turn of the century. Like ...Read more

A memory of East Holywell in 1950 by Maureen Thurlow

Captions

2,676 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For Sevenoaks, Constitutional Club 1895

The foundation stone of this building was laid with two gold sovereigns beneath it, not in the north-east corner but at the southern end of the building, in 1889.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, St Mary's Church 1906

A particularly striking monument is that by Humphrey Hopper to John North, who died in 1831, which occupies a space adjacent to the north door.

Caption For Bow Brickhill, The Parish Church C1960

In 1960 there were fine views from here across north Buckinghamshire; now trees obscure this completely in summer, but in winter we can look north-west over the new city of Milton Keynes, and

Caption For Colsterworth, The Village C1960

Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns. The building on the left was the Sun Inn, but now for over 23 years it has been the Old Sun Pottery.

Caption For Bridgnorth, North Gate 1896

The North Gate is the only part of the town's defences to survive, apart from the remains of the 12th-century castle.

Caption For Romaldkirk, Village 1898

Situated six miles north-west of Barnard Castle, Romaldkirk in 1898 was not in fact in County Durham but in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1949

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north-west corner of the Town Hall.

Caption For Ellington, All Saints Church 1906

Shortly afterwards, the nave arcades, north aisle and the north porch, shown in the photograph, were added. During the 1860s, Sir George Gilbert Scott redesigned and rebuilt the chancel.

Caption For Sutton Courtenay, High Street C1965

The village has two halves, one by the church and the other the north-south High Street, separated from each other by the grounds of The Abbey, another former grange to Abingdon Abbey with a fine aisled

Caption For Colsterworth, The Village C1960

Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns. The building on the left was the Sun Inn, but now for over 23 years it has been the Old Sun Pottery.

Caption For Grimsby, The Docks 1893

Humberside and the North-Eastern Ports

Caption For Garstang, The Canal Wharf C1955

Stone, slate and lime would be carried from the north, and Wigan coal from the south.

Caption For Machynlleth, Penrallt Street 1899

This town, known to its inhabitants as 'Mach', is situated at the far north-west corner of Powys, so distant that it is also in the Snowdonia National Park and just ten miles from the sea.

Caption For East Blatchington, The Village 1891

We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has a fine Norman fonty. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is buried here.

Caption For London, The Cenotaph C1950

North of the Palace of Westminster, Whitehall heads north towards Trafalgar Square.

Caption For Great Easton, The Village C1960

Great Easton lies in the south-east corner of the county, to the south of Eye Brook Reservoir, and to the north of industrial Corby, on the very edge of the Welland Valley.

Caption For Liverpool, The London And North Western Railway Hotel 1890

This view of St George's Plateau shows the London & North Western Railway Hotel; it was built by the London & North Western Railway Company, and opened in 1871.

Caption For Glastonbury, Market Place 1896

The town was laid out north and west of the Abbey precincts, with the Market Place at the junction of High, Magdalen, Benedict and North Load Streets.

Caption For Magham Down, Old Road C1955

Our first rural tour heads eastwards, skirting to the north of the Pevensey Levels, those great marshes largely drained during the Middle Ages, and following the road that heads for Ninfield

Caption For Ranmore Common, The Post Office C1955

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.

Caption For Brighton, Devil's Dyke 1894

Here the photographer looks north-west from near the hillfort that occupies the crest of the ridge, towards Poynings village and the scarp of the South Downs beyond at North Hill and Newtimber Hill.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1949

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north- west corner of the Town Hall.

Caption For Stratton, The Church 1893

Note how the 14th century north arcade of Polyphant stone contrasts with the more lofty granite south arcade which was built a century later.

Caption For Bletchingley, The Church And Post Office C1955

Off the north side of the High Street, the buildings are encroachments on the market place; Bletchingley had been a borough by the 13th century.