Photos

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Maps

195 maps found.

1899, Townsend Ref. RNC851264
1897-1899, Townsend Ref. RNC851268
1897-1900, Townsend Ref. RNC851269
1898, Townsend Ref. RNE851263
1895, Townsend Ref. RNE851269
1946, Townsend Ref. NPO851263
1945, Townsend Ref. NPO851269
1946, Townsend Ref. NPO851270
1898, Townsend Ref. RNE851264
1898, Townsend Ref. RNE851265
1947, Townsend Ref. NPO851268
1891 - 1892, Townsend Fold Ref. HOSM62193
1903, Townsend Fold Ref. RNC851279
1896, Townsend Fold Ref. RNE851279
1881, Sandylake Ref. HOSM43453
1924, Townsend Fold Ref. POP851279
1947, Townsend Fold Ref. NPO851279
1902, Town Centre Ref. RNC850995
1919, North Town Ref. POP794008
1947, North Town Ref. NPO794008

Books

160 books found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Memories

3,719 memories found. Showing results 81 to 90.

Selby Market 1960's

I remember on Mondays in the market there used to be a little hand cranked roundabout for small children. I think it had seats like wooden ducks. I also remember an old country man used to come into town to sell his eggs in the market and he wore a white smocked top.

A memory of Selby in 1965 by Katharine Hope

Nostalgia

Greenfield Road was known as Greenfield Villas before World War II. I lived and grew up in 4 Greenfield Villas with my grandparents, Mr & Mrs W A Davies, my mother, Nancy, and sister, Gertrude, from 1937 until 1947. My father was ...Read more

A memory of Llanelli in 1940 by Rhys Northwood

Holes, Hoardings & Hythe Ferry

On returning from the Middle East, my family holed up across the water at Fawley. A big city was very exciting for me and after getting off the Hythe Ferry it was all bomb craters up to about the Dolphin. Above Bar ...Read more

A memory of Southampton in 1954 by Jeannette Lomas

Town Hall Roundabout

Living in Watford from the early 1950's, I well remember the Town Hall roundabout before they moved it. Can't recollect whether it was nearer or further away. I can recollect, not far from a pub called the OBH, or almost ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1952 by Jacqueline Hathaway

Evacuation To Fonab Castle Sept.1939

Evacuation - September 3rd 1939 The government decided that mothers and children should be moved to the countryside away from areas at risk from bombing. On the 3rd, parents and children all gathered at their ...Read more

A memory of Pitlochry in 1930 by Anne Jackson

Growing Up In Edgware

I was actually born in Bushey but I grew up in Edgware. I always thought it a funny little town but in it's own way it was beautiful. The parks were beautiful and always had Rose Gardens and ponds to visit. Walking was a way ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1961 by Edna Ryan

Lound School

I remember walking up (what seemed like then) the long steep hill every morning to go to Lound School... apparently the old one..with the stone walls around it, and the Vicors house across the road. There used to be ...Read more

A memory of Chapeltown by Mark Carter

Childhood Memories We Never Forget

To anyone reading this; I was born Valerie Harding and lived in Wedges Mills and I remember so many things about my childhood in Cannock. The Maypole dancing at John Woods school, attending Church each Thursday ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1953 by Valerie Van Ramesdonk

Wimbledon Broadway

My parents moved to Wimbledon Broadway in the 1950's. They had a restaurant next door but one to the Gaumont cinema. Between us was a pub and then the restaurant we owned, it was called the Elite Restaurant, if it had any ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1950 by Chris Nicola

Highgate Village In The 1960s

What I am most interested in writing about is how Highgate Village has changed so much since my school days, growing up there in the 1960s. Today most of the shops are coffee shops, ...Read more

A memory of Highgate in 1965 by Robert Molesworth

Captions

5,111 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For Reading, The Arcade 1896

Reading's covered market was built in a landlocked site entered via the Corn Exchange from Market Place and the great archway from Broad Street.

Caption For Hastings, From Pier 1890

The earlier stucco terraces are dominated by the towering Palace Hotel, which opened in 1886 with a busy roofscape and a French pavilion roof.

Caption For Crawley, High Street 1903

Nowadays, virtually all we see in this tranquil Edwardian view of Crawley Green at the north end of the High Street has been swept away, although elements of the grassed area and a couple of trees survive

Caption For Worthing, Warnes Hotel 1925

By the end of the Victorian period the scale of amenities offered by larger boarding houses, such as the Eardley Boarding Establishment at Splash Point, often overlapped with those of newly erected

Caption For Worthing, Marine Parade 1890

The largest seaside town in West Sussex, Worthing began to grow as a fashionable resort towards the end of the 18th century.

Caption For Blackpool, From North Pier 1906

The in-fill was sand, brought from the southern end of town by means of a specially laid railway line.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1904

The east end of the High Street, looking east.

Caption For Denbigh, High Street C1955

The contrasting styles of urban architecture seen in modern Denbigh speak of its history and its regenerative powers; here, medieval and Jacobean frontages are replaced with Georgian and Victorian modernisations

Caption For Swanage, From Ballard Downs 1899

The fields of Whitecliff Farm (foreground) hosted summer camps for militia and artillery volunteers in late Victorian times.

Caption For Rothwell, Church And Memorial Cross 1922

The graceful war memorial recalls the men of Rothwell who fought and died in the Great War.

Caption For Rochdale, Technical School 1895

This Accrington brick school was opened on 26 April 1893 and among its impressive facilities was a huge weaving room.

Caption For Abingdon, The Lock From Downstream 1890

Downstream, you reach the market town of Abingdon, once noted for its important medieval abbey, dissolved in 1538.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Blackfriars Tower 1908

This well-worn structure of decorative flint work was part of the old medieval town walls, built as a fortification at the end of the 13th century.

Caption For Castleford, Carlton Street C1965

This is the main shopping parade in the town. M & S proudly displayed their new frontage from 1964. At the end of the street were the swimming baths, which opened in May 1911.

Caption For Bournemouth, Invalid's Walk 1900

It was to be the very end of the century before the town became popular as a holiday resort.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Gardens 1904

It was to be the very end of the century before the town became popular as a holiday resort.

Caption For Gillingham, The Strand C1955

A sign in the river warns of hidden dangers for swimmers and small boats, but ashore there were plenty of safe ways to enjoy a summer's day on this pleasant, green, riverside corridor

Caption For Sutton, Grove Road C1960

The brick buildings at the far end, their six windows facing the camera, were demolished in the 1970s for the widening of Sutton Court Road.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Silver Street 1906

Appropriately still running beside trees at Burley Villas and Abbeyfield (centre), Silver Street was named in the Middle Ages for the Latin word for a wooded setting, rather than the precious metal.

Caption For Penarth, The Beach And Esplanade C1955

A further two confectioners and a snack bar could be found on the pier. Accommodation was also plentiful.

Caption For Burgh Le Marsh, The Windmill C1965

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401. At its east end is another of Lincolnshire's preserved windmills.

Caption For Abingdon, The Crown And Thistle Hotel C1955

The Crown and Thistle Hotel, first mentioned in 1605, was a coaching inn, and one of the town's best known ones.

Caption For Newnham, High Street 1950

The charming central Green is overlooked by houses and shops, most of which were built in the late 18th and 19th centuries when local merchants invested wealth made in the maritime

Caption For Fleetwood, The Beach 1918

By the end of the Great War the town had lost many of its young men—they had marched away past the Steamer Hotel along Dock Street to the railway station.