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Last 7 Days Top 10 Images
St Martin's Church, Tipton, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 7412
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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Drake Street, Rochdale, c. 1930s
Added by @iamtimbo 2 years ago / Views: 2082
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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Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, c. 1900
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 6894
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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28 College Road, Clifton, c.1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 2 years ago / Views: 1627
In Gallery: Bristol Miscellaneous
This image appears on a postcard sent to Boscombe from Clifton in May 1905. I believe that the house is a dormitory for Clifton College, a private...
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J J Allen's Auxiliary Depository, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, c. 1920
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 3756
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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A view down the public footpath, Ugford, Late 1980's
Added by @Noswar 5 years ago / Views: 698
In Gallery: Ugford
Here is a very similar view to another I have listed only about 7 years later. I always tried to get the end of he house into a picture to prove it...
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The Square, Wimborne Minster, c. 1940s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 2362
In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
Possibly taken from the balcony of the King's Head, this view looks towards the original Boots location (before it moved to Crown Mead), Hardy's...
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Added by @Noswar 8 months ago / Views: 368
In Gallery: Swanage - Dorset 2 friends waiting for the train.
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Lord Street, Southport, c. 1950s
Added by @iamtimbo 2 years ago / Views: 1993
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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West Borough, Wimborne Minster, c. 1920s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 2020
In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
The road looks particularly narrow in this Valentine picture looking towards The Square and the Minster beyond. Looking at the car, and the ladies'...
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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 :
