Maps

5 maps found.

Map Of Middlesex, Middlesex Ref. F25
1897-1902, Bow Ref. RNC647024
1896, Bow Ref. RNE647024
1920, Bow Ref. POP647024
1946, Bow Ref. NPO647024

Books

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Memories

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Smith Family Of Boundary Rd Pinner Middlesex

Colin (Frank) used to live at 10 Boundary Road, Pinner, Middlesex, his parents were Jessie and Frank Smith, they are deceased. I have lost contact, and have heard he may have moved to Devon. Can anyone ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1997 by Graham Nicholls

Pelican Cafe

I worked at the Bakery for about two years, this was my second job after leaving school, which was the Bishop Ramsey Church of England School which opened in 1980 taking over Ruislip Manor and St Martins C.O.E school that was in West ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham in 1981 by Wayne Barrett

Morris Dancing With The Clitheroe Morris Men

This was a weekend to remember! The Clitheroe Morris Men invited several other dance "sides" to join them for a weekend of dancing, music and - of course - beer drinking! By a lucky chance I was ...Read more

A memory of Clitheroe in 1980 by John Howard Norfolk

Ancestral Ties

My story is similar to that of Yvonne Parker. When I got married in 1974 we bought our first house in Victoria Road and raised our three children there. They all attended a playgroup in the Baptist Church on the other side of ...Read more

A memory of Berkhamsted in 1974 by Roger Bowen

An Idyllic Childhood In New Haw

I wanted to add my own memories of growing up in New Haw from 1965 until moving again in 1973. The family moved from Richmond (then in Middlesex) to 187 New Haw Road, a detached 3-bedroom house with 1/3 acre of ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1966 by Andrew Taylor

Saturday Lunch

I was born in 1962 in Greenford, Middlesex and I remember walking down Wembley High Road every Saturday and having lunch in a cafe at the triangle. I remember it being owned by an Italian family. We always used to have pink ice cream for pudding.

A memory of Wembley in 1966 by Wendy Wheatley

Canada Bound

While working in the Lake District as an hotel assistant manager I reached such a point of frustration that I up and quit my job and applied to emigrate to Canada. Five minutes later, after hearing of my decision, the head accountant ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1966 by Dylan Rivis

History Obliterated

Travelling from Uxbridge along Cowley Rd, on the right hand side just before Ferndale Crescent, stood a detached double fronted 3 storey house in a large neglected garden. It was plain Georgian architecture and had a large cast ...Read more

A memory of Cowley in 1965 by Philip Cousins

Middlesex Higher Secretarial College

I attended the above college for one year circa 1963. What happened to it? It was opposite Copeland School. Are there any other old girls out there?

A memory of Wembley in 1963 by Barbara Archer/Pitcher

The Village

I moved to Borehamwood from Acton, North West London, when I was three years old. I spent my childhood there, scrumping in neighbours gardens, getting the greenline bus into London for trips to Selfridges at Christmas, to London Zoo ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1961 by Debbie Hardy

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Captions

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Caption For Egham, Procession C1901

The procession consists of Hussars and men from the Middlesex Regiment, many of whom had just returned from the Boer War.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street C1965

unusual view looking south-west, taken apparently from an upper window of the Crown Hotel, we see the ever present line of parked cars, the newest of which, 6503MC, was registered in Middlesex

Caption For Staines, High Street 1907

Staines was formerly in Middlesex.

Caption For Ickenham, The Club House, Uxbridge Golf Club C1965

The huge growth in Middlesex's population has meant the creation of many golf courses on the green fields and heathlands of the county.

Caption For Stanwell, The Rising Sun C1965

In 1965, when Greater London was created, Surrey crossed the River Thames and gained a segment of the former county of Middlesex.

Caption For Ealing, Grammar School, The Green C1955

On the west side, Middlesex County Council built Ealing County Boys School in 1913 in Queen Anne style.

Caption For London, Northumberland House 1874

Already the lion, the familycrest, has been removed from high above the entrance to go to Syon House, the Northumberland riverside country seat in Middlesex.

Caption For Brentford, High Street C1960

In the days when Middlesex encompassed much of what is now Greater London, Brentford remained the important county town, though the title was more or less ceremonial - real administrative

Caption For Hatch End, The Broadway C1960

Although not designated an Ancient Monument, it is with its extensive boundary banks the best example of its type in Middlesex.

Caption For Laleham, Chertsey Lock C1960

West of Sunbury and on the former Middlesex bank of the Thames is Chertsey Lock, near Chertsey Bridge, an austere seven-arch stone bridge of the 1780s by James Paine.

Caption For Market Harborough, High Street 1922

The High Street, earlier called the Great Street, is lined either side with Georgian buildings which sit at the head of earlier burgage plots, much the same as at Uxbridge, Middlesex or St Ives, Huntingdonshire

Caption For Pinner, Memorial Gardens C1960

Pinner remains one of the most attractive towns in Middlesex.

Caption For Sunbury On Thames, Thames Street C1955

Sunbury was also in Middlesex until 1965.

Caption For Ealing, Uxbridge Road 1901

Ealing had been a modest village in Middlesex with a population of 7000 at the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign.

Caption For Batchworth Heath, 1903

Across the Colne the main road to Pinner reaches Batchworth Heath, just before the old Middlesex county boundary.

Caption For Wisbech, Young's Memorial 1901

Within the park is the memorial column dedicated to Richard Young (1809-71), a local shipping magnate, Member of Parliament, five times Mayor of Wisbech and Sheriff of London and Middlesex.

Caption For Ruislip, The George Hotel, Bury Street C1965

For further reading see 'The Goodliest Place In Middlesex' by Eileen M Boult, published in 1989 by Hillingdon Borough Libraries.

Caption For Teddington, The Bridge 1899

The bridge spanning the river from the Middlesex bank to the island is a suspension bridge, while the shorter structure crossing from the Surrey bank has a girder design.

Caption For Cockfosters, The College, Trent Park C1965

Now the campus of Middlesex University, the whole has taken on a care-worn air, which even extends to the early 18th-century garden statues by John van Nost, which were brought to the house by Sir Philip

Caption For Twickenham, The Fox Inn 2005

In the early 19th century London's growing population was generating increased demand for fruit and vegetables, and west Middlesex farmers and agriculturalists turned to market gardening on a

Caption For Twickenham, King Street C1960

In the 1950s, Middlesex County Council planners were asked to draw up a plan for renovation of the embankment and Church Street area by the Ministry of Town and Country Planning.

Caption For Ruislip, Bury Street C1955

However, it is the buildings within the earthworks which deserve comment and inspection: these include the Great Barn of the 13th century, probably the oldest timber structure in Middlesex, the library

Caption For Twickenham, The River 1899

As there was no bridge across the Thames from Twickenham on the Middlesex bank over to the Surrey bank until the 18th century, residents who wanted to cross to the opposite bank of the river did