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Last 7 Days Top 10 Images
St Martin's Church, Tipton, c. 1900s
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In Gallery: Staffordshire Miscellaneous
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Drake Street, Rochdale, c. 1930s
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In Gallery: Lancashire Miscellaneous Photos
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Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, c. 1900
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In Gallery: Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, c. 1900
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28 College Road, Clifton, c.1900s
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In Gallery: Bristol Miscellaneous
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J J Allen's Auxiliary Depository, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, c. 1920
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In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
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A view down the public footpath, Ugford, Late 1980's
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In Gallery: Ugford
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The Square, Wimborne Minster, c. 1940s
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In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
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In Gallery: Swanage - Dorset 2 friends waiting for the train.
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Lord Street, Southport, c. 1950s
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In Gallery: Merseyside
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West Borough, Wimborne Minster, c. 1920s
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In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
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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)....
@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....
@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:
@iamtimbo • 2 years ago
Shared an update: More #coronavirus lockdown portraits - this time by Lizzie Adams in Leicester (@leicester-leicestershire-england-le1-5)
@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:
@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).
@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?
@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!
@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)
@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...
@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....
@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!
@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?!
@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...
@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...
@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....
@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 :