Maps

241 maps found.

1887 - 1899, Valley Ref. HOSM63234
1903-1910, Valley Ref. RNC858581
1899, Valley Ref. RNE858581
1922, Valley Ref. POP858581
1947, Valley Ref. NPO858581
1923, Dulais Valley Ref. POP694770
1946, Trent Valley Ref. NPO852714
1947, Chad Valley Ref. NPO665993
1947, Dulais Valley Ref. NPO694770
1946, Emerson Valley Ref. NPO701233
1940, Findon Valley Ref. NPO705697
1947, Primrose Valley Ref. NPO810963
1947, Rimswell Valley Ref. NPO816897
1947, Llyfnant Valley Ref. NPO759793
1922, Happy Valley Ref. POP726633
1921, Golden Valley Ref. POP717278
1920, Golden Valley Ref. POP717280
1919, Golden Valley Ref. POP717283
1947, Happy Valley Ref. NPO726633
1901, Valley, The Ref. RNC858568

Books

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Memories

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1944 Vi Flying Bomb

This isn't really a memory because I was too young at the time. I was born in a timber bungalow called "Midway" on Lowford Hill, Bursledon in April 1942. Dad was working at the Follands aircraft factory at that time, building ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon by Nigel Olliver

Learning To Swim On The Rye

I was born in Amersham Hospital in 1956. It should have been the Shrubbery, but it was full on the day I decided I had had enough of the womb. Cut to the mid 60's and I'm a student at Crown House Primary in London ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe by Hugh Bristow

Through The Kitchen Window

I was born in my Grandparents house - "Wimbourne" - in the valley below the Mill. Many pleasant hours have I spent sitting in the kitchen with my grandmother shelling peas that granddad had grown in the garden. The Mill ...Read more

A memory of Barham in 1959 by Mark Whitaker

My Hometown

Brynmawr is a quiet little town on the edge of the valley roads. These photos bring back memories of all the hills I climbed, picnics on the mountain, paddling in the pond across from our house in Warwick Road. Snow 6ft deep in Winter. ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr by Jackie Haynes

St Joseph’ Junior School Pontefract

Born in December 1957 my maiden name was Kemp I must have started in Mrs Padgets class St Joseph's circa 1962. i remember the alphabet in pictures around the wall A is for apple B is for ball, C is for cat & ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by Margaret Lewis

Leaving A Mark On The Landscape

It was 1966 myself and 2 colleagues were bouncing across the downs in a Landrover when I first saw Imber. What a beautiful little village nestled in the bottom of the valley. It's red brick manor house next to the church ...Read more

A memory of Imber by Chris Scott

The Rhondda Fawr And Me!

My mother was born in Blaenrhondda at the top of the Rhondda Fawr in 1914 and was one of four sisters but she was the only one to leave the Rhondda at the age of fourteen to go into service in England. During WW2 when my ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert by Viv Browne

Chalk Pit Avenue.

My parents lived in Andrews close no. 4 from 1959 until 2013. Peter and Brenda cook had many friends in the area. I was born 1962 and lived at home until 1982. I went to St. Joseph's primary then St. Philomenas followed by St ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray by Jacqui Cook

Special Times

Once the time had come for blackberry picking and whimberry picking, my lovely Uncle Fred took us down the valley roads, to get picking, ready for those lovely pies my grandmother would make. We would climb up beside these waterfalls, ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr in 1953 by Jackie Haynes

My Life!

Thé café chips were amazing - so was the smell! I used to pack spuds in plastic bags to sell to the campers in the shop. Tony and I used to do the milk round for the campers! I spent all my early summer holidays at the valley! Christmases were ...Read more

A memory of Filey by Gregory Powell

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Captions

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Caption For Leeds, Seven Arches, Alwoodley 1891

Deep in the Colne Valley, Slaithwaite is dominated by the massive Worsted Mills.

Caption For St Blazey, Luxulyan Valley 1895

We are looking south across the Luxulyan valley.

Caption For High Salvington, 1919

In 1919 Worthing had not yet sprawled up the valley below Salvington Hill, and you could look across to Cissbury Ring without the neat, but characterless, housing of Findon Valley in between.

Caption For Devizes, On The Canal 1898

Devizes is perched on the top of a hill overlooking the Avon valley.

Caption For Chalford, The Golden Valley 1890

In this panoramic view of the Golden Valley, the mill chimneys are visible in the background; the workers' cottages are on the lower slopes of the hill, and the canal winds its way along the valley

Caption For Ewyas Harold, The Village C1960

The village is situated at one end of the beautifully named Golden Valley.

Caption For Helston, The Lake 1913

We are looking north-east up the valley to the town.

Caption For Whatstandwell, The Valley C1955

The broad valley of the Derwent near Whatstandwell opens out between well-wooded sides, as we can see in this picture.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Halfpenny Bridge C1885

Hazelgrove, the valley between the two cliffs, was laid out to provide a picturesque walk from the shore to the western side of the town.

Caption For Stourbridge, Hagley Road C1950

Two car dealerships feature in this scene - Stour Valley Motors selling Austins (centre right), and just beyond it, a Ford dealer.

Caption For Treherbert, The Reservoir And Pen Pych C1955

Another view of the mountain taken from across the valley with a very small man-made reservoir in the immediate foreground.

Caption For Low Row, General View C1960

We are looking east down the broad, U-shaped valley of Swaledale from the oddly-named village of Low Row.

Caption For Arundel, Castle And River 1923

Its impressive castle, re-built in the 19th century, overlooks the Arun valley.

Caption For Luxulyan, Valley 1907

The beautiful Luxulyan valley has great rounded granite boulders among the trees on its wooded slopes, and at one point it is crossed by a stone viaduct completed by Joseph Treffry in 1842 to carry both

Caption For Pentewan, The Valley 1912

The road on the left curves past the houses of Nansladron, where the fields in the valley floor are now caravan and camping parks.

Caption For Cornholme, General View C1955

An archetypal Pennine industrial landscape is presented in this view of Cornholme, in the deep valley of the River Calder between Burnley and Todmorden.

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Caption For Winsford, C1960

Here we can see Winsford nestling in the Exe valley below Bye Hill, with the valley of the Winn winding up to the left.

Caption For Tintern, Bridge And River C1935

This bridge originally carried a tramway believed to have served the wire industries in the Anghiddy Valley, which linked up with the Wye Valley railway south of Tintern Station.

Caption For Simonsbath, The Village 1907

Here, looking across the valley to the northeast, we can see the 19th-century St Luke's Church; in the centre, at the bottom of the valley, is the Exmoor Forest Hotel.

Caption For Seaton, The Beach 1935

Holidaymakers and day trippers have been drawn to the sandy beach at the mouth of the Seaton valley.

Caption For Troutbeck, The Valley C1880

The Troutbeck valley is one of the quietest in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district can

Caption For Troutbeck, The Valley C1880

The Troutbeck valley is one of the quietest in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district

Caption For Devizes, On The Canal 1898

Devizes is perched on the top of a hill overlooking the Avon valley.

Caption For Broadwas, Butts Bank Farm C1955

Broadwas is a pleasant village in pastoral Teme Valley farmland, six miles west of Worcester.