Maps

714 maps found.

1899-1909, Pound Green Ref. RNC810299
1919, Thorley Street Ref. POP846906
1919, St Lawrence Ref. POP824024
1919, Norton Green Ref. POP794639
1945, Thorley Street Ref. NPO846906
1945, School Green Ref. NPO826423
1919, St Helens Ref. POP823882
1945, St Lawrence Ref. NPO824024
1899-1909, School Green Ref. RNC826423
1895, Pound Green Ref. RNE810299
1895, St Helens Ref. RNE823882
1895, St Lawrence Ref. RNE824024
1907, St Helens Ref. HOSM60126
1895, Norton Green Ref. RNE794639
1945, Pound Green Ref. NPO810299
1945, St Helens Ref. NPO823882
1895, Thorley Street Ref. RNE846906
1945, Norton Green Ref. NPO794639
1899, Lane End Ref. RNC752082
1907, Limerstone Ref. HOSM51250

Books

5 books found. Showing results 193 to 5.

Memories

452 memories found. Showing results 81 to 90.

How I Found Abbotsley

My Dad, a countryman born and bred, went to London in the late 1920's for work - since there was a huge depression in his type of country work (farm labourer). He met my Mum, and I was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, in ...Read more

A memory of Abbotsley in 1930 by Alan Cross

My Oldham

I was born in Oldham in 1946. Lived in Norfolk Street, Chadderton until 1953 then moved to the Isle of Wight. My mother, Marjorie Bolton, lived in Hollinwood and represented Oldham as Cotton Queen in the 1930's. Have always loved the ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1946 by Margaret Lorraine Toms Nee Mangnall

Hop Picking

My memories of Rolvenden will never be forgotten. I was eight years old, we lived in Brighton on the south coast, but every year our families would go hop picking at Little Holden farm. The farm was owned by Mr/Mrs Hilder - they ...Read more

A memory of Rolvenden in 1945 by Roy Page

School

I went to St Anne's from 1944 - 1952. Enjoyed it most of the time with the gym, hockey and high jump, not much else. Mother Mary Clare was the Headmistress, quite gentle, and Mother Mary Dominic was in charge of drama etc. Enjoyed the ...Read more

A memory of Sanderstead in 1944 by Beryl Couchman

Childhood Days In The Broch

I left Fraserburgh as an eight year old. but I remember playing round the lighthouse. On the rocks below there was a large pool where we built rafts from herring boxes nailed together and filled with cork floats from ...Read more

A memory of Fraserburgh by boyd.livingstone

The Awakening

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

Queens Rock Swimming Place

This early picture of Settle shows the River Ribble as it bypasses the South/West of the actual town, the Bridge in the middle left carries the A65 trunk road which then ran through the very center of Settle, and was the main ...Read more

A memory of Settle by peter

Charnwood Forest Children's Convalescent Home, Summer 1950

It was July/August of 1950 when I was sent here from my home town of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at the age of eight, to convalesce after a serious post-operative infection. My first ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Eric Brass

Family Movements

found site november2015, message for lynette ware one of the barton boys you mentioned on message board about prefabs five boys are now me high Wycombe david new south wales Australia kieth Bournemouth laurie isle of wight and Christopher still in southall

A memory of Southall by michael.barton3

The School Of The Holy Child, Laleham Abbey

heads the label in a dictionary of music that I received as a prize in Upper IA. No date. It must have been 1955. My name was/is Margaret Morley. I joined the school on my return from Malaya in 1951, followed ...Read more

A memory of Laleham

Captions

333 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For London, The Houses Of Parliament 1886

Covering nearly eight acres of ground, it was constructed to Sir Charles Barry's design, although its intricate ornament and detailing were conceived and wrought by that master of Victorian Gothic

Caption For Charminster, Church And War Memorial 1922

The river runs alongside the right of the churchyard.

Caption For Bere Alston, Street 1898

Before the arrival of the railway, only eight years before this picture was taken, the sense of isolation must have been even greater.

Caption For London, The Houses Of Parliament 1886

Covering nearly eight acres of ground, it was constructed to Sir Charles Barry’s design, although its intricate ornament and detailing were conceived and wrought by that master of Victorian Gothic

Caption For Saffron Walden, Bridge Street C1955

Two women stand by the wall outside the Eight Bells with its Benskins board.

Caption For Chobham, High Street C1955

They include an eight- sided wood-panelled font and a 13th-century chest with triple locks.

Caption For Ventnor, Esplanade 1892

The town lies at the foot of an eight hundred feet hill with gradients in some streets of 1 in 4. This shelter aids the growth of luxuriant vegetation in the steep gardens.

Caption For Oxford, Eights 1922

The object of Eights Week is for each crew to move up one place in a complex table of positions maintained from year to year.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.The stones tend to be larger at one end of the beach than the other.

Caption For Oxford, 'the Eights' 1922

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

Caption For Higham Ferrers, College Street C1950

The jumble of gables and chimneys on the right of the street represents a 17th-century house; opposite it is the entrance to Chichele College, founded by Archbishop Chichele in 1422.

Caption For Runcorn, Top Locks C1955

This service was so profitable that it was soon extended to Runcorn - the journey from Top Locks to Manchester took about eight hours.

Caption For London, Bank Of England 1908

A gap of just eight years after photo number L130223 sees this junction now dominated not by horses but by motor cars and buses. The number 11 bus still passes this point.

Caption For Stoughton, The Barracks 1906

With their barrack buildings in the background, and eight tents pitched alongside the parade ground, the officers and men of the Royal West Surrey regiment march off parade.

Caption For Eccleshall, The Castle C1965

During the Civil War it was garrisoned by Royalist troops, but it fell in August 1643 after a siege lasting eight weeks.

Caption For Preston, Market Place C1955

Preston also had a covered market, so this busy scene could be the yearly Pot Market, which took place in the square for eight days.

Caption For Bridgend, St Illtyd's Church 1898

The church has a 16th-century crenellated tower with gargoyles and low pinnacles, a clock and a peal of eight bells.

Caption For Aldbrough, The Church And Lychgate C1960

Eight miles south of Hornsea, Aldbrough is a more genteel resort about a mile inland - although coastal erosion shortens this distance each year.

Caption For Macclesfield, West Park 1903

Opened in October 1854, the park covered around sixteen acres, eight of which comprised the old Town Field; the remainder was purchased from an adjoining estate.

Caption For Carisbrooke, The Village C1955

A Victorian guidebook noted that 'the coach excursionist will be saved the trouble of choosing his quarters, as the coaches usually set him down at the Carisbrooke Castle or the Eight Bells'.

Caption For Coverack, The Harbour C1960

An anker was eight and a half gallons, so the haul represented around 5,500 bottles - and that was not considered a large cargo!

Caption For Chester, 1923

In AD972 Edgar engaged in a set piece of power politics at Chester, when he was rowed in state along the Dee by eight Celtic kings and chieftains.

Caption For Oxford, From Magdalen Tower 1890

From the vantage point of Magdalen College belfry we look westwards along the High Street towards some of the wondrous 'dreaming spires', including the 14th-century spire of St Mary's Church; to its right

Caption For Tredegar, Largest Block Of Coal Plaque C1955

Every day for eight hours he dies, gives up a slice of his life and buries himself'.