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Last 7 Days Top 10 Images
St Martin's Church, Tipton, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 6696
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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Odeon Cinema, Cleveleys, Blackpool, 1935
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 932
In Gallery: Odeon Cinema, Cleveleys, 1935
The film 'Sanders of the River' would seem to date this picture to 1935. The cinema became a bingo hall, and was ultimately demolished in 2010.
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Wimborne Road, Winton, Bournemouth, c. 1900
Added by @iamtimbo 3 years ago / Views: 1071
In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
This shot is taken looking north along Wimborne Road at the junction with Talbot Road (on the left). The building on the immediate right is now...
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J J Allen's Auxiliary Depository, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, c. 1920
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 3585
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, Chatham, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 3386
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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Imperial Hotel, Bournemouth, c. 1880s
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 1403
In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
This picture is taken from "A Descriptive Guide to Bournemouth, Christchurch, Wimborne and Corfe Castle", published in 1890, dating it to the very...
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St. Saviour's Church, Saltley, c. 1897
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 1453
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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Kodak Factory, Harrow, London, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 2456
In Gallery: London Miscellaneous
This photograph taken in the Developing and Printing Department shows women retouching glass negatives. Taking photographs was becoming far more...
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The Crown Hotel & 'Lillies of the Valley', Wimborne Minster, c. 1910
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 3836
In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
A detailed close-up of the front of the Crown Hotel - where Costa Coffee and Barclays are now - complete with coachmen and footmen on hand. The...
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Chestnut Avenue, Walderslade, c. 1910s
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 1253
In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
The date on this image is a complete guess, as there is so little in the picture to go on. Now heavily developed for residential use, in this...
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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 :
