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Hampstead High Street, London, late 60s/early 70s
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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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Newmans Close, Wimborne Minster, 2000
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In Gallery: Wimborne Minster Development Newmans Close
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Blitz Bomb Damage in Highgate Road, Birmingham, 29th July 1942
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In Gallery: Blitz Bomb Damage in Highgate Road, Birmingham, 1942
A general view showing the damaged caused by a bombing raid during the Blitz.
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High Street, Chatham, c. 1900s
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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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St Martin's Church, Tipton, c. 1900s
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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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Military Road, Chatham, c. 1904
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In Gallery: Allsorts
A Raphael Tuck postcard first used in 1904, looking down Military Road towards the Town Hall. The Pentagon Shopping Centre has now replaced all the...
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Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, c. 1900
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In Gallery: Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, c. 1900
The Imperial Hotel on a windy day with two horse-drawn carriages parked outside awaiting fares. The hotel was built in 1867-8 by Clegg and Jones at...
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Family outside 'Brookdale', possibly Ferndown, c. 1900s
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In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
The postcard credit on the back os for Frederick Ash of Victoria Road, Ferndown, so there is a chance that this is a local family, but the house...
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Blitz Bomb Damage in Highgate Road, Birmingham, 29th July, 1942
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In Gallery: Blitz Bomb Damage in Highgate Road, Birmingham, 1942
A general view showing the damage caused by bombing during the Blitz. Several people, including a policeman, are looking at the damage. A...
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High Street, Selly Oak, c. 1897
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In Gallery: Images from The Making of Birmingham..., c. 1897
Image taken from the 'Illustrated Midland Business Review and View Album. Special edition for the district of East Birmingham, with part of Aston,...
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@iamtimbo • 2 weeks 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....
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"This is the back of the postcard - no stamp or postmark, unfortunately; Transcription as far as I can work it out... Dear Mrs Snow, Thanks for P.C...."@iamtimbo • 2 weeks ago • comments: 1
Added/updated: Family outside 'Brookdale', possibly Ferndown, c. 1900s in their gallery Dorset Miscellaneous
@iamtimbo • 5 months 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 :
@admin • 9 months ago
Shared an update: Thanks for your patience if you recently signed up - we have to do our best to sure that everyone who signs up is real!@iamtimbo • 9 months ago
Shared an update: Some beautiful photographs of Wapping ( @wapping-tower-hamlets-greater-london-england-e1w-2 ) here’s on the Retronaut site...
https://retronaut.com/content/1948-docklands-before-docklands@admin • 9 months ago
Shared an update: We’d love the images within Our Town Story to find uses in all sorts of areas, but few more so than in reminiscence therapy with those coping with dementia. This article from the Alzheimer’s Society discusses RT with South Asian residents in Coventry ( @coventry-west-midlands-england-cv1-2 ):
@admin • 9 months ago
Shared an update: Apologies if you’ve experienced slow loading times over the last couple of days - all sorted now!@iamtimbo • last year
Shared an update: Great post on St Dunstan & All Saints in Stepney (@stepney-tower-hamlets-greater-london-england-e1-1) on the London Inheritance blog here:@iamtimbo • 2 years ago
Shared an update: Blitz: The Bombs That Shaped Britain is on BBC2 right now - tonight looking at @bristol-bristol-england-bs5-6 ; I’ll post a link to the iPlayer version once it’s available....@admin • 2 years ago
Shared an update: Fixed a problem where maps wouldn't show on some gallery pages...
@iamtimbo • 2 years ago
Shared an update: Just goes to show that you never knew what you might find!
