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Last 7 Days Top 10 Images
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In Gallery: around neath abbey
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Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, c. 1900
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 6090
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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In Gallery: Blackpool Holidaymakers, c. 1950s
Holidaymakers make their way from the Promenade towards Talbot Road Station on the London & North Western Railway. The Church of the Sacred Heart...
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St Martin's Church, Tipton, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 3 years ago / Views: 3717
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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Queen's Hotel, Hastings, c. 1950s
Added by @iamtimbo 8 months ago / Views: 569
In Gallery: East Sussex Miscellaneous
The structure of the building still exists, but is no longer the Queen's Hotel. Very recognisable, but a far cry from the impression it gives in...
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Drake Street, Rochdale, c. 1930s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 months ago / Views: 434
In Gallery: Lancashire Miscellaneous Photos
The Wellington on the left is still there, and the opticians on the right is now a Dallas Fried Chicken. The domes on the buildings up Drake Street...
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Lord Street, Southport, c. 1950s
Added by @iamtimbo 6 months ago / Views: 558
In Gallery: Merseyside
This postcard was sent in 1954 by 'Em' to Miss Walters in Weaverham, Northwich. It's taken looking north east from next to Beales (which closed in...
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J J Allen's Auxiliary Depository, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, c. 1920
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 3018
In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
Taken looking north along Holdenhurst Road, showing J J Allen's Depository, along with the many shops fronting the street. Shops discernible...
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High Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, c. 1910s/1920s
Added by @iamtimbo last year / Views: 631
In Gallery: Oxfordshire Miscellaneous
In this retouched postcard, Woodstock looks quiet and peaceful. Apart from the traffic and parked cars, Woodstock hasn't changed very much at all...
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Chain Gate, Wimborne, c. 1890s
Added by @iamtimbo 4 years ago / Views: 2165
In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
My best guess is that this is where the Cowgrove Road turns off the bottom of St Margaret's Hill, the large building in the picture being the St...
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@iamtimbo • 5 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 • 5 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 • 6 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 • 6 months ago
Shared an update: More #coronavirus lockdown portraits - this time by Lizzie Adams in Leicester (@leicester-leicestershire-england-le1-5)
@iamtimbo • 6 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 • 6 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 • 6 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 • 6 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 • 6 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 • 6 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 • 6 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 • 6 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • last year
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 • last year
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 • 2 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 :
