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@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: The #coronavirus lockdown has provided many photographers - amateur and professional - with opportunties to snap their local communities. Misan Harriman is in Woking (@woking-surrey-england-gu22-7)....

The photographer bringing his community together

Misan Harriman normally photographs celebrities but has turned to capturing his local community.
Source: BBC News

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: Another #coronavirus photo essay - this time from Ridley Road market in Hackney (@hackney-hackney-greater-london-england-e8-3) chronicling lockdown life and 2-metre social distancing....

Mind the gap: 2 metres apart and masked in Hackney – a photo essay

Gideon Mendel photographed people at Ridley Road food market in Hackney, east London, during the coronavirus...
Source: the Guardian

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: Up to 1000 people at a time lived in a series of tunnels under Ramsgate in Kent (@ramsgate-kent-england-ct11-8) during WWII - some repurposed railway tunnels - after their homes were bombed. There's a photo gallery here showng the tunnels then and now:

The abandoned Kent tunnel with a terrifying past

The underground railway has a fascinating - and somewhat scary - history spanning hundreds of years.
Source: kentlive

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: More #coronavirus lockdown portraits - this time by Lizzie Adams in Leicester (@leicester-leicestershire-england-le1-5)

Photographing the neighbours during lockdown

A photographer captures her neighbours as they cope with being stuck at home during lockdown.
Source: BBC News

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: The Friends of Streatham Hill Theatre (@streatham-hill-lambeth-greater-london-england-sw2-3) are fundraising to carry out a viability study on reviving the theatre as an arts and cultural venue. You can read more here:

Save Streatham Hill Theatre: Phase 1

Help us to carry out a viability study on reviving the former theatre as a multi-purpose arts/cultural venue,...
Source: Spacehive

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: Staffordshire Archives and Heritage, alongside partners the Wellcome Trust, are carrying out a project to shed light upon the history of Staffordshire’s three County Asylums; Stafford (opened in 1818), Burntwood (1864) and Cheddleton (1899). The research goes down to patient-level; in this piece, Edward Sillito looks at Phoebe Darby, originally of West Bromwich, but eventually found herself in the Asylum at Stafford (@stafford-staffordshire-england-st16-3).

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The Story of Phoebe Darby By Edward Sillitto Whilst working on the county asylums project as part of my work...
Source: Staffordshire's Asylums

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: It’s fashion identification again this week for the Garden Museum, as they request the public’s help to identify images in their archive - can you help?

The Great Garden Hunt Part Four: Gardening in Style - Garden Museum

Every week for The Great Garden Hunt, we invite the eagle-eyed among you to help us date some unidentified images...
Source: Garden Museum

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: Part 3 of the Garden Museum's call for assistance - this week they are trying to date some photos based on what the subjects are wearing? This isn't a quiz - they genuinely want to know!

The Great Garden Hunt Part Three: Gardening Get-Ups - Garden Museum

Thank you to those who attempted to identify the country houses in the images last week, unfortunately it was rather...
Source: Garden Museum

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: The coronavirus lockdown seems to be inspring a lot of photographers - Birgitta Zoutman is taking pictures during her daily exercise in Shrewsbury (@shrewsbury-shropshire-england-sy1-1)

Doorstep portraits capture lockdown life

Birgitta Zoutman takes pictures of people on their doorsteps during her daily exercise.
Source: BBC News

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: The BJP has highlighted a newly published collection of Czesław Siegieda's photographs, taken in the East Midlands during the 1970s of Polish communities that had formed following the end of WWII...

Polska Britannica: An unseen document of a Polish community in the East Midlands Polska Britannica: An unseen document of a Polish community in the East Midlands

Czesław Siegieda’s documentation of a generation of Poles who arrived in the UK as refugees has remained largely...
Source: British Journal of Photography British Journal of Photography

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: The Guardian has published a photo essay with a variety of pictures of the London Underground during the coronavirus lockdown....

The underground in London during coronavirus lockdown – photo essay

TfL gave the Guardian access over two days to document its reduced tube service
Source: the Guardian

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: You can see the most viewed photographs of the last 7 days here: http://ourtownstory.co.uk/hit-parade

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: The Garden Museum is asking for help to identify unlabelled photographs in the album of Gertrude Jekyll's that it holds. In the first batch is photos of public parks and gardens - click the link below for more!

The Great Garden Hunt: Public Parks - Garden Museum

The photographic collection is one of the Museum’s treasures, providing a unique record of British gardens. It...
Source: Garden Museum

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: Some great pictures of removal firms operating in and around York (@york-north-yorkshire-england-yo24-4) in the 1900s - why not use a traction engine?!

OLD PHOTOS: Furniture removal in York, 1900s-style

Welcome to the world of furniture removal, early 1900s-style.
Source: York Press

@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: Some amazing photos available on the Britain from the Air website, which is now free in high-resolution. Over 96,000 photographs taken since the 1910s, including many buildings now lost to history such as this picture of the Timpson shoe factory in Kettering...

EPW053718 ENGLAND (1937). The Timpson Shoe Factory, Kettering, 1937 | Britain From Above

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@iamtimbo • 2 years ago

Shared an update: Sainsbury's Archive shared this picture of their store in @ashford-kent-england-tn23-1 - there's even a Rumbelows - whatever happened to Rumbelows?!

https://twitter.com/sainsburyarch/status/1242386614682353665

@iamtimbo • 3 years ago

Shared an update: Shared an update: Some amazing photographs of Glasgow (@glasgow-glasgow-city-scotland-g1-1) by Oscar Marzaroli have been donated to Glasgow Caledonian University...

Marzaroli's important Glasgow archive donated

Thousands of photos by Oscar Marzaroli - including some used on Deacon Blue's record covers - are given to a university.
Source: @BBCNews

@iamtimbo • 3 years ago

Shared an update: BBC News reports on the closure of a handful of M&S stores, focusing on Bedford (@bedford-bedfordshire-england-mk40-3), with an old photo of their M&S....

The M&S stores closing their doors

The century-old retailer is closing shops as it plans to make a third of clothing and homeware sales online.
Source: @BBCNews

@iamtimbo • 4 years ago

Shared an update: Great piece in the Guardian about an ice house discovered under Park Crescent in @marylebone-westminster-greater-london-england-w1g-8 :

Chilling discovery: ice house found under London street

Cavernous 18th-century store reveals link to lost trade in ice blocks from Norwegian fjord
Source: the Guardian

@admin • 4 years ago

Shared an update: Want to post your pictures? Find out how here...

Adding images to Our Town Story

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The photographer bringing his community together

Mind the gap: 2 metres apart and masked in Hackney – a photo essay

The abandoned Kent tunnel with a terrifying past

Photographing the neighbours during lockdown

Save Streatham Hill Theatre: Phase 1

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The Great Garden Hunt Part Four: Gardening in Style - Garden Museum

The Great Garden Hunt Part Three: Gardening Get-Ups - Garden Museum

Doorstep portraits capture lockdown life

Polska Britannica: An unseen document of a Polish community in the East Midlands Polska Britannica: An unseen document of a Polish community in the East Midlands

The underground in London during coronavirus lockdown – photo essay

The Great Garden Hunt: Public Parks - Garden Museum

OLD PHOTOS: Furniture removal in York, 1900s-style

EPW053718 ENGLAND (1937). The Timpson Shoe Factory, Kettering, 1937 | Britain From Above

Marzaroli's important Glasgow archive donated

The M&S stores closing their doors

Chilling discovery: ice house found under London street

Adding images to Our Town Story