Maps

517 maps found.

1947, Cumeragh Village Ref. NPO686203
1898, Pathfinder Village Ref. RNE802008
1898, Washington Village Ref. RNE861326
1899, Withymoor Village Ref. RNE872025
1897, Whitbarrow Village Ref. RNE867508
1896, Whiteley Village Ref. RNE868983
1896, Village, The Ref. RNE859066
1899, Swan Village Ref. RNE843442
1895, Swanley Village Ref. RNE843485
1921, Swan Village Ref. POP843442
1920, Swanley Village Ref. POP843485
1922, West Village Ref. POP865108
1921, Withymoor Village Ref. POP872025
1892, Grimeford Village Ref. HOSM47122
1879 - 1901, Grange Village Ref. HOSM38050
1896, Aycliffe Village Ref. HOSM36722
1896, Aycliffe Village Ref. HOSM48057
1902 - 1904, Elan Village Ref. HOSM44794
1899-1900, Pathfinder Village Ref. RNC802008
1904, Livingston Village Ref. RNC758459

Books

26 books found. Showing results 169 to 192.

Memories

4,711 memories found. Showing results 71 to 80.

Eastry Childrens Home

I had a wonderful upbringing ‘up the hill’ from Buttshole pond… 1958 - 1966 I was raised in one of the seven cottages- mine was Lime Cottage. My matron was Mrs. Aunty Betty Harris- who had a daughter, ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by John Boston

Woofy And The Bungalow.

I was in Founders house 1962 - 64. Mr Gentry (Duck Billed Platypus) was housemaster and Twiggy his wife (thin as a lathe she was). I decided to get into bricklaying and ended up with Mr Cliffe as our building teacher (Woofy) ...Read more

A memory of Tiffield by Philip Kellett

Beginnings

My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My ...Read more

A memory of Crantock by Dianne Christopher

Good Old Days

i lived at 13ward gardens just by the village green.spent my youth there until moving to new zealand when i was 25,spent many a day fishing for sticklebacks in the stream by the pond back in 1964,as i got older spent many an hour in ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by Elkin Stephen

My Home

I have lived in the village all my life, all 29 years of it. I have lived in 3 different cottages, the 1st was opposite the village hall, I am 1 of 4 children and I have many happy memories of living there till just before my 10th ...Read more

A memory of Walton in Gordano in 1982 by Amy Maguire

Born And Bred A Jersey Marine Girl

There's alot to be said about Jersey Marine,it will always be home to me. I come from a well known family "Huxtable" and most of them are still there today. I've very fond memories of growing up there, ...Read more

A memory of Jersey Marine in 1974 by Rebecca Williams

18 Two Meadows

As a Londoner, when my new husband was offered a job in Great Yarmouth in 1964, I was excited, although a bit apprehensive about moving to the small village of Hemsby. We bought a brand new house in a new subdivision at Two Meadows. It ...Read more

A memory of Hemsby by Carol Watts

Sandbanks

Sandy banks in strelley village is a place in the 70s where we would build rope swings and camp

A memory of Strelley by Susan Lee

Upper Heyford School

My father was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford 1949 to 1953.  My brothers, Peter, Michael and myself, Mary, went to the village school.  My older brother Richard went to school in Steeple Aston.  I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Upper Heyford in 1949 by mooremary4

Ryders Folklore

These cottages are now known as Ryders, but it appears that in Edwardian times the place (or maybe this corner) may also have been known as "Seven Trees Well": I have a postcard with this picture on it sent on 7th May 1906 to ...Read more

A memory of Okewood Hill in 1900 by Gary Crouch

Captions

5,033 captions found. Showing results 169 to 192.

Caption For Hinderwell, High Street C1960

The village grocer's and newsagent's shop is seen in the foreground here with, immediately to its left, the village post office.

Caption For Elham, High Street C1960

The pretty village of Elham, at the heart of the valley of that name, is clustered around its market square and this High Street, lined with buildings from several periods.

Caption For Downham, The Village 1921

In this carefully composed picture we see the lower part of the village.

Caption For Burton On The Wolds, Seymour Road C1960

This small village, about three miles to the east of Loughborough, has in recent decades expanded to accommodate country- dwelling commuters.

Caption For Cilcain, The Village C1955

The White Horse Inn (facing us, left) is now the last of seven public houses that are said to have once traded in the village; it is remarkable that the local population of so many small

Caption For Bolton By Bowland, Yew Tree Cottages C1955

This beautiful village, once famous for its skilled bowmen, stands on the edge of Bowland Forest.

Caption For Keld, Butt House C1950

The tiny and isolated village of Keld stands high up in Swaledale (1100ft), surrounded by beautiful walking country; it is a favourite with lovers of the wild northern dales.

Caption For Glandford, The Ford And Church C1965

Glandford village was built as a model village by Sir Alfred Jodrell of nearby Bayfield Hall in the late 19th century.

Caption For Castle Donington, High Street C1955

Bondgate crosses Mount Pleasant to become the restrained High Street on the south side of the village rising up to Hill Top.

Caption For Buriton, Pond 1898

Located at the western extremity of the South Downs, Buriton captures the essence of the traditional English village.

Caption For Gronant, Llanasa Road C1955

A village inn, the 1930s car, and the shop all seem to have a timeless feel to them; they stand undisturbed on the outskirts of Prestatyn.

Caption For Langtoft, The Cross C1955

On the Scarborough to Driffield road, Langtoft is an increasingly popular Wolds village.

Caption For Rhossili, St Mary's Church 1901

The village overlooks the often windswept Rhosili Bay on the western edge of the Gower Peninsula.

Caption For Clifford, Village 1897

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

Caption For Rhossili, St Mary's Church 1901

The village overlooks the often windswept Rhosili Bay on the western edge of the Gower Peninsula.

Caption For Wortley, Stores And Post Office C1960

Converted from a Georgian private house, the Village Stores and Post Office was the communal centre of the former West Yorkshire village of Wortley, which is now not much more than a suburb of the city

Caption For Larne, Glynn Village C1890

A charming view of Glynn, a little Irish village about a mile to the south of Larne, on the western edge of Larne Lough.

Caption For Findern, The Green C1965

When suggestions were made in the early 1960s to convert this village green into a formal crossroads, the local Women's Institute galvanised villagers into action and turfed the whole area

Caption For Rillington, School Corner C1955

East of Malton we find the mostly Victorian village of Rillington - its development followed the arrival of the railway.

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1955

Harcourt is taken from Harcourt in Normandy, and from Robert de Harewecurt, who held the village in 1202.

Caption For Cowden, The Village C1960

This beautiful village is situated on the Sussex border on a headstream of the Medway river.

Caption For Great Bircham, The Country Stores C1960

This shop frontage shows the development of the village shop into the mini-supermarket, ultra-modern for its time.

Caption For Castleton, Old Hall C1864

The building was erected in the 17th century, and now serves as the village`s splendid and recently refurbished youth hostel.

Caption For Alton, The Round House C1955

The windowless stone-built village lock-up.