Maps

131 maps found.

1902, Cotes Ref. RNC678374
1897, Cotes Ref. RNE678374
1895, Cote Ref. RNE678318
1921, Cotes Ref. POP678375
1946, Cote Ref. NPO678319
1947, Cotes Park Ref. NPO678380
1947, Healey Cote Ref. NPO729912
1902-1903, Cotes Ref. RNC678375
1898, Cote Ref. RNC678320
1919, Cote Ref. POP678318
1946, Cotes Ref. NPO678374
1895, Cote Ref. RNE678320
1940, Cote Ref. NPO678320
1946, Cotes Ref. NPO678375
1920, Cote Ref. POP678320
1947, Cote Ref. NPO678318
1947, Cotes Ref. NPO678373
1919, Cote Ref. POP678319
1925, Cotes Ref. POP678373
1921, Cotes Ref. POP678374

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Memories

59 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Harrow Driving School Rayners Lane 1985 1986 Approx

Memories of getting the tube from Arnos Grove to Rayners Lane and then the long walk up Imperial Drive - until reaching the driving centre. The set up included traffic lights, zebra crossings, ...Read more

A memory of Harrow by John Walmisley

Paras At Watchfield In The 1950s

Yes, I lived on the Watchfield housing estate from 1952 to 1953. Large numbers of paras and their equipment were dropped regularly at the airfield. Trainees jumped from large silver barrage balloons, but ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield in 1953 by Geoff King

Coke Street

I remember living on Coke Street when we first came to live in Woodhouse from Sheffield. I remember going to Annie shop on the end of our street. The Rocks as we called it. Going to paling coal yard in the corner getting ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield Woodhouse by Carole Anne Cantrell

Machine Gunned On Churston Drive By A Young German Pilot

My Aunt Joyce (born 1931) used to live on Churston Drive. She told me this morning about how she was walking to school with a friend one morning during the war when a German plane machine-gunned ...Read more

A memory of Morden by David Stephenson

Royal Masonic Schools Bushey (J Ston And Ston)

I am not sure if this kind of opportunity attracts those who feel anger at a perceived or real unfairness, during their childhood years, and/or those who have a tendency to dwell on the negative but I'd ...Read more

A memory of Bushey by Laurence Blight

Childhood.

I was born with my twin sister in 1947 at Paxton Park maternity hospital in Stukely. Baptised at All Saints. We lived with my grandparents in Avenue Road and attended Waldren Rd CofE school. My Uncle was born in theOldCottages in ...Read more

A memory of Huntingdon by Geoffrey Hopkins

View Down Onto Umberleigh Bridge, Showing Village Square

It is with great interest we see your picture of the village square, showing what is now the Post Office and largest post code sorting office in England. It also shows the Regency Gables Tea ...Read more

A memory of Umberleigh by Frank Adey

My First Visit To England

We travelled down with a large group of Scottish NABC members from Edinburgh and the Lothian areas. My particulal journey commenced by coach to Liverpool where we continued by train to Hereford. On our arrival we were ...Read more

A memory of Nash in 1953 by Ian Harding

Memories Of War Years 1939 45 Newport

Memories of War years 1939 -1945. By John Beal. Little did I realise that I would be involved in the army when war broke out in 1939. I was attending Hatherleigh Central School in Newport at the time and as ...Read more

A memory of Newport in 1940 by John Beal

The Happiest Days Of Your Life

Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by Giles Daubney

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Captions

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Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, The Village C1955

St Paul's school to the left, dating from 1835 with its Tudoresque details and gable end bell-cote, has changed dramatically to become a residential property.

Caption For Ducklington, The Pond C1950

Note the old school bell-cote.

Caption For Porthpean, Church 1912

'Jesus came to them walking on the sea' is carved over the twin doorways below the bell cote.

Caption For East Hagbourne, Upper Cross C1955

Perched on the tower parapet of the church is a bell-cote, which houses its Sanctus bell.

Caption For Loughborough, Market Place C1965

The Italianate Town Hall dominates the street scene with its rather odd bell-cote.

Caption For Poole, From Constitutional Hill 1908

The tram is at the junction of Cotes Avenue.

Caption For Elstow, Village 1897

Beyond the left-hand cottage the Bunyan Memorial Hall was built in Arts and Crafys style in 1910, and at the far left is the bell-cote of Elstow Lower School, built in 1873.

Caption For Broughton Astley, Main Road C1967

The small school (note the bell in the bell-cote) has been replaced with three other larger establishments, which gives us some idea of the growth the village has experienced.

Caption For Malmesbury, Baskerville C1955

This is Culver House, which once housed the servants for the manor house and also a pigeon or dove cote - the pigeons were bred for the lord of the manor's table.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Cotswolds C1960

It is said that the name Cotswold originated because of the cotes (sheep pens) that were found across the wolds (rolling hills).

Caption For Culham, College 1899

To the left the building with the bell- cote is the detached chapel, also designed by Clarke, with 14th- century style window tracery.

Caption For Liverpool, The Exchange 1895

It was Liverpool's first public monument, and was designed by Matthew Cotes Wyatt.

Caption For Windsor, Castle, St George's Chapel, Princess Charlotte Memorial 1895

They include the Princess Charlotte Memorial, 1817, by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, which combines the sensational with the chaste.

Caption For Cheltenham, The Promenade 1931

Cheltenham's dress code has relaxed considerably in recent decades.

Caption For Oxford, Divinity School 1907

The Oxford Martyrs were cited to appear for examination here.

Caption For Langdon Hills, The High Road C1950

The hilliness of these parishes was often cited as the cause of the 'Pure Air and Good Health' lauded in the property advertisements.

Caption For Bletchley, Bletchley Park C1960

Architecturally something of a dog's dinner with bits added to the 1860 house piecemeal, Bletchley Park is famous for the cracking of the Nazi 'Enigma' code during the last war, admittedly in huts around

Caption For Newton Abbot, Courtenay Park Bowling Green 1907

The genteel sport of bowls was a favourite Edwardian pastime, although the all-white dress code seen on the greens today had yet to be introduced.

Caption For Folkestone, The Leas And Bandstand 1897

These strollers adhered to the proper dress code asked of all Victorians who wished to stretch their legs here.

Caption For Chester, St Werburgh Street 1929

Built of red sandstone, Chester cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey on the site of an earlier Saxon church dedi- cated to St Werburgh.