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Maps
181,087 maps found.
Books
707 books found. Showing results 49 to 72.
Memories
57 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
The Grange
I also remember the Grange Hotel mentioned on Little Bookham memories. In the late 1950s or early 1960s it must have been, I recall Sandy who worked behnd the bar. Leslie the boss used to get a bit miffed with some of us ...Read more
A memory of Little Bookham by
Searching For De Keyser's Royal Hotel, Blackfriars
Relatives of mine met and fell in love at a hotel which used to stand where the Unilever Building now stands. It was a love match which lasted for many years and in relatives who were around in my ...Read more
A memory of London in 1890
The Post Office
My father Oliver Hiinwood was postmaster here from 1903 to 1961. He used to take photographs of the village and send them to Frith's to be developed and then sold the postcards in the shop. The photograph shows the garage ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop by
The Place I Was Born
I was born in Ayot St Peter - March 22nd 1932. My father was farm bailiff at the Frith estate. My mother told me she would take me for walks in my pram and would ofter meet George Bernard Shaw out for his walk, and they ...Read more
A memory of Ayot St Peter in 1930 by
Morden
I lived with my grandparents in Central Road, number 57, from birth until I was 3 when we moved to Highworth for a few years. My grandparents lived in the house before the war. My brother and his wife and children still live in the same ...Read more
A memory of Morden in 1951 by
The Good Old Days
Actually, my memories of Brighton go back earlier than 1953 because I was born there in 1933. I do have a memory of being wheeled in my pram over a small area of ridged concrete outside the little shop at the end of our ...Read more
A memory of Brighton in 1953 by
Harmel House, High Street, Haslington. And Castleigh House
I am researching my Sims-Hilditch family tree. Does anyone remember Edwin Sims Hilditch at Castleigh, Haslington around 1931? And at Harmel House, High Street, Haslington around 1946? Are ...Read more
A memory of Haslington in 1946 by
The Marlow Family Of Publicans
My great-grandfather was Samuel Marlow and a publican at the time of his marriage in 1897. His father was William Marlow and my family tree research has led me to the White Hart in Eversley Cross where there were ...Read more
A memory of Eversley in 1890 by
Respose To The Godlwy
Following Australian Dr Mc Harg's comment on Penge Secondary Modern A Godly responded to my comments but no way can I persuade the Frith website to accept a reply comment to his questions I am too old to understand why I am being excluded, but I was Primary at Melvin Rd before Malcolm was built.
A memory of Penge by
North London Photo Book
Having just purchased the Frances Frith Book "North London Photographic Memories" I was amazed too see on pages 30/31 a photo of Station Road Harrow on the Hill taken in 1914 the picture shows a "Home & Colonial" ...Read more
A memory of Perivale in 1956 by
Captions
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Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago
Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago
Although this photograph is later than many of the photographs in this Frith selection, it portrays a scene that could just as easily be sixty years before, apart from the dress styles of
Children wait on the pavement and road edge to be included in the Frith photograph.
The village is scattered along the margins of a long green, and Frith's photographer took his near-obligatory post office view on the north side of the green.
What the Frith views omit is interesting.
Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago
Frith's photographer looks from the railway station along The Parade, which was started soon after the railway arrived.
Frith's photographers visited Aldeburgh's High Street over a period of sixty years; their photographs, arranged here in chronological order, are a potent record of changing times, the advance of the
Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago
Note the pencil outlining on the church - a device used by the Frith re-touchers in the creation of artworks for postcards.
Between these working boats sprawled on the shingle, bathing huts were appearing; and as the Frith photographs show, the two trades lived peacefully together.
Such shops would not have been out of place when the first Frith photographs of Hitchin were taken.
Frith's Margate has now almost disappeared.
When Frith's photographer went to Belfast it was not his intention to record its industries, but he knew he had to take note of the fame of the fabric known world-wide as Irish Linen.
In 1858 William Powell Frith captured the panorama of social classes in his 'Derby Day'.
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