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Last 7 Days Top 10 Images
Pearks Stores, Birmingham, c. 1910
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 1858
In Gallery: Shops
The staff pose for a picture outside Pearks Stores on the corner of Edgbaston Street. The perfect Victorian urban scene, complete with cheeky...
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St Martin's Church, Tipton, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 4 years ago / Views: 4233
In Gallery: Staffordshire Miscellaneous
This iteration of St Martin's Church in Tipton was known locally as the 'pepperpot' (for obvious reasons!), and was opened in 1795, closing in the...
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Unveiling of the Percy Gordon Plaque, Rochester, 1912
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 1534
In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
This image shows the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the death of Percy Henry Gordon, who died whilst rescuing a girl from drowning in the...
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Added by @ann doran 5 years ago / Views: 989
In Gallery: around neath abbey
dyffryn pond longford neath abbey
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Coventry from the Priory Mill Dam, c. 1800s
Added by @iamtimbo 4 years ago / Views: 797
In Gallery: Warwickshire Miscellaneous
This engraving of the early 1800s shows a view from the Priory Mill Dam looking towards the Cathedral in Coventry. The spire on the left is that of...
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Fort Clarence, Rochester, c. 1910s
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 848
In Gallery: Fort Clarence, Rochester, c. 1910s
Fort Clarence was one of a number of forts built to defend the Medway towns from assault by river. Constructed between 1808 and 1812, the arch over...
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Avenue Road, Wimborne Minster, c. 1905
Added by @iamtimbo 2 years ago / Views: 652
In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
Looking from the bottom of Avenue Road towards St John’s Hill. Postcard is postmarked 1905.
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Small Bottles, Voctorian Bottle dump,
Added by @Noswar 4 years ago / Views: 452
In Gallery: My Secret Victorian Dump in Dorset
Some of the treasures I found on a local Victorian dump site.
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High Street, Chatham, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 4 years ago / Views: 2470
In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
The High Street is virtually unrecognisable in this picture, with so much modernisation having been carried out in the intervening century. A...
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Hampstead High Street, London, late 60s/early 70s
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 12936
In Gallery: Hampstead High Street, London, c. early 1970s
View from outside the greengrocers, with the Bird in Hand pub on the other side of the road. A newer building on the site is now (2015) a...
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@iamtimbo • 8 months 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)....
@iamtimbo • 8 months 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....
@iamtimbo • 9 months 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:
@iamtimbo • 9 months ago
Shared an update: More #coronavirus lockdown portraits - this time by Lizzie Adams in Leicester (@leicester-leicestershire-england-le1-5)
@iamtimbo • 9 months 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:
@iamtimbo • 9 months 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).
@iamtimbo • 9 months 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?
@iamtimbo • 9 months 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!
@iamtimbo • 9 months 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)
@iamtimbo • 9 months 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...
@iamtimbo • 9 months ago
Shared an update: The Guardian has published a photo essay with a variety of pictures of the London Underground during the coronavirus lockdown....
@iamtimbo • 9 months ago
Shared an update: You can see the most viewed photographs of the last 7 days here: http://ourtownstory.co.uk/hit-parade@iamtimbo • 9 months 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!
@iamtimbo • 10 months 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?!
@iamtimbo • 10 months 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...
@iamtimbo • 10 months 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 • 2 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...
@iamtimbo • 2 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....
@iamtimbo • 3 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 :
