Maps

459 maps found.

1899-1900, West Leigh Ref. RNC864565
1899-1900, East Leigh Ref. RNC697546
1886, East Leigh Ref. HOSM44460
1919, East Leigh Ref. POP697546
1946, East Leigh Ref. NPO697546
1898, West Leigh Ref. RNE864565
1946, West Leigh Ref. NPO864565
1922, Dawn Ref. POP688976
1947, Dawn Ref. NPO688976
1899, Dawn Ref. RNE688976
1900, Dorn Ref. HOSM43399
1946, Dorn Ref. NPO692140
1908-1909, Downies Ref. RNC692744
1898, Dorn Ref. RNE692140
1919, Dorn Ref. POP692140
1899-1901, Dorn Ref. RNC692140
1902-1903, Dawn Ref. RNC688976
1911, Dòun Chàrlabhaigh Ref. RNC692305
1903, Lynton Ref. HOSM70325

Books

47 books found. Showing results 529 to 552.

Memories

8,130 memories found. Showing results 221 to 230.

Majestic Cinema

Glad someone remembers the Majestic Cinema at Fair Green. We lived in Norbury, just over the border in Croydon, but my Dad was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and regularly did relief stints at the Majestic when the regular ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Colin Marsh

Island Cottage

My nanna and grandad Noden lived at Island Cottage. Grandad was a bridgekeeper along with Jack Powell and Syd Bebbington at Acton swing bridge from 1945-1960. There was an enormous flood in 1946 when my grandparents were the ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge in 1955 by Christine Ruskin

Doon The Brae In 1950

When my family moved here I was only 7 and there was only a cottage on the left at bottom of Brae and a row of four terraced houses on the left, they were holiday homes for my grandmother and her sisters. We lived there with ...Read more

A memory of Mid Calder by Doreen Knox

Happy Days

In 1959 I became a pupil at St Michaels School (The Old Vicarage Residential Home) where I stayed for 3 happy years, until I was told it closed after the head disappeared with the school funds. Whether or not this is true I don’t ...Read more

A memory of Stockland Bristol by Chris Sheridan

Marshall's Airport

I lived at 14 The Homing, Meadowlands, Cambridge which was close to the airport. I was 8 years old in 1955. Often on sunny weekends, my Mum would takes us on a walk over to the airport. It was a quiet relaxed place in those ...Read more

A memory of Cambridge in 1955 by Chris Birkbeck

Happy Hours Of Reading But Also Destruction.

So many hours of reading here in this library. The children's section was in the main door and to the right served by the 2 windows shown on the ground floor. I recall taking out every Arthur Ransome ...Read more

A memory of Wallington by Chris Scott

Post Office

Post Office and shop on the left. Mrs. Cornwall was the Postmistress. On the right is a lovely tree next to the Blacksmith's cottage, which was cut down for a new house later on. Lovely empty street here. Wonder who the child is?

A memory of Wilburton by Sandra Shaw

Andrew Duncan Home For Boys

At the age of 13 I suffered a nervous breakdown due to problems at home. It was decided by my doctor to send me away from home to give me a break. My mother took me to a mainline station in London where I was handed ...Read more

A memory of Shiplake by Wi Taylor

Oakhanger, Hampshire

Grew up in Oakhanger and enjoyed the freedom of exploring the common in the centre of the village. Some good times were had sledging down a hill on the common in the snow. Also, finding and catching tadpoles in the pond ...Read more

A memory of Oakhanger

School Holidays

I remember long hot summers back then 1960’s playing in Crago’s barn just outside of village and picking primroses down the hill at Treburgy Water with my sister .. we had to fill a basket and then when we got home we had ...Read more

A memory of Dobwalls by Janice Webb

Captions

2,258 captions found. Showing results 529 to 552.

Caption For Widnes, Widnes Road C1960

This view was taken in Albert Road looking down Widnes Road.

Caption For Handforth, The Greyhound Inn And Wilmslow Road C1965

Looking south down the main road towards Wilmslow, with the road over to Macclesfield going off to the left, affluent Cheshire is driving towards the viewer and the young couple wait for

Caption For Alton, Church Street 1898

The pale-coloured cottages, where a man is standing in a doorway (centre right), were pulled down to make way for the Foresters' Hall, the home of the Electric Picture Theatre and other events.

Caption For Wells, The Market Place C1960

The fountain dates from the 18th century, and water flows down a channel made in 1803 'for cleansing and fire fighting'.

Caption For Kendal, The Castle 1894

Kendal Castle was built by the Normans to the east of the town, probably by Ivo de Tailbois, the first Lord of Kendal in the late 12th century, and it still commands good views to the north and

Caption For Grasmere, Vale 1926

There is not much traffic—a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger—in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

Caption For Findon, Post Office Corner C1960

Much of the downland around Findon, at the southern end of the same 'wind-gap' in the South Downs, was for centuries an open sheep-walk.

Caption For Powerstock, The Village 1902

The modern houses (left) are down towards Merriott Bridge.

Caption For East Grinstead, Lewes Road 1907

East Grinstead, a Wealden market town founded during the early 13th-century woodland clearances, was recorded as a borough by 1235.

Caption For Polperro, 1888

Polperro is the archetypal Cornish fishing village - a higgledy-piggledy maze of narrow streets leading down to a perfect, tiny harbour.

Caption For Ringwood, Fridays Cross C1950

Further down the street is a sign for the estate agents Woolley and Wallis, still trading today.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street 1929

Unsaddled horses are being led down the street.

Caption For Chesterfield, The Cricket Ground, Queens Park C1950

Proposals were drawn up for a new pavilion, indoor nets, and a banqueting suite at Queen's Park, but were turned down by Chesterfield Borough Council.

Caption For Mousehole, Harbour 1893

The winding road out of Newlyn rounds Penlee Point then dips down to this celebrated fishing village that nestles within stout stone breakwaters.

Caption For Bude, The Town 1929

With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.

Caption For Woking, Chertsey Road C1955

Almost sixty years after photograph 42025 was taken, Frith's photographers returned to take a further view down Chertsey Road.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road C1965

Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned down

Caption For Northwich, Bull Ring 1903

Within a few years the Bull Ring became one of those places where pedestrians took their lives in their hands, having to dodge scores of ICI workers as they freewheeled four, five, even six abreast down

Caption For South Walsham, Broad 1902

The lawn of a country house sweeps down to the water; a pile of mown grass can be seen on the right.

Caption For Isle Of Grain, The Cat And Cracker Hotel C1955

The Cat and Cracker got its name in 1954, when the brewers Style & Winch Ltd of Maidstone named it after the catalytic cracker, which breaks down crude oil, and was used by the nearby Anglo- Iranian

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1925

His original shop was further down the High Street.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, The Park 1918

Here, children are playing on the steps leading down to the bandstand, which has now gone.

Caption For Downham, Post Office And Old Stocks 1921

On the right an old sycamore tree shades what is left of the village stocks.The film 'Whistle Down The Wind' with Hayley Mills was filmed in and around Downham village.

Caption For Kingsclere, Newbury Road C1955

Lying at the foot of spectacular downs, it is not surprising that Kingsclere enjoys strong ties with the world of racing.