Recording my family memories

www.francisfrith.com/uk/ has old photographs of Britain. I even found some photos of the village my GGPs lived in and probably their cottage too. Certainly the church they got married in. I hope to visit the village again properly one day having visited briefly years ago before I had so much information.

Have you discovered Google Street view ? Just type in an address and USUALLY you get a the street not always the exact house.

Although they are all recent photographs it is fun to find places from your past.

Get Googling !

Haven't looked at places where I used to live, but I did look to find DD1's new house in Australia when she was telling us about it, only to find a view of a building plot.
When PC is connected again I'll go exploring again, thank you NanKate

If you want old maps, there is a company called Godfrey, which works from Leadgate, Consett, and sells old ordnance survey maps.
They have maps from about 1850 to 1930, and they cost £2.50 each, with coloured ones £3.25. Postage £1.25 per order, so order as many as you want for £1.25 postage.Their website is
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

Actually, I've just looked on their website, and I'm going to get some for my sister for her birthday next month.
I found out last year that one of my 2xgreat aunts was in the workhouse in Driffield, so I got the map. The workhouse is enormous, the biggest building in Driffield. Fortunately my relative was the school mistress. The census shows her living at the workhouse.

Thanks; I've just found the S.O.'s birthday present on that site as well .

Tegan, there's a lot of information on the back of each map as well.
It's usually a list from Kelly's Directory for a few streets on the map. If you are lucky, the street you want is on the back. It still makes interesting reading even if it's not the right street.

I've been going through family photo's (I have a suitcase full of them some dating back to 1883!) and picking out people I knew and writing all that I know/remember about them. Some are pretty brief as they were elderly great aunts/uncles (probably younger than I am now!!!) so I didn't know them that well, but others I did know, and hopefully it will make for interesting reading for someone in the future. Google street view is brilliant, again I've managed to find out where people lived way back!

I'm just starting with mine, so reading with interest.

Hope you did not know the ones on the 1883 photos, niggly.

Yes I did actually!!! My Great Aunt Winifred is there on her parents knee as a baby!!!! She died in 1966 aged 84! A spinster lady, (they were always too fat, too thin, too rich too poor too tall too short!! nobody pleased!) she used to come and stay with my Granny who was her younger sister by 10 years, (Aunt Win was the eldest of 5 daughters!)and I also have a photo of her with me sitting in the garden in deck chairs! I remember she bought me a Mickey Pop (does anyone remember these?) on an outing to Windsor, can't remember anything more about that day!!!!