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Last 7 Days Top 10 Images
Lord Street, Southport, c. 1950s
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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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Richmond Town Cricket Club, 1924
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 708
In Gallery: Sports Variety
Terribly well presented 1st XI of the Richmond Town Cricket Club, taken in 1924. Players featured are Jackson, Hickox, Harris, Greenfield,...
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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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J J Allen's Auxiliary Depository, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, c. 1920
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 2829
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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Bell Farm House, Harrietsham, Kent, c. 1898
Added by @iamtimbo 4 years ago / Views: 889
In Gallery: Old Cottages and Farm Houses in Kent and Sussex
The images in this album are from a 1900 book entitled 'Old Cottages and Farm Houses in Kent and Sussex'. According to the book, the images are...
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Staff of Mac Fisheries, Wimborne Minster, c. 1930s
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 2189
In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
The staff of Mac Fisheries stand outside the shop on the High Street. Image courtesy of Winston's Blighty Barber Shop.
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St Martin's Church, Tipton, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 3 years ago / Views: 2877
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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The Crown Hotel & 'Lillies of the Valley', Wimborne Minster, c. 1910
Added by @iamtimbo 3 years ago / Views: 2764
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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Chain Gate, Wimborne, c. 1890s
Added by @iamtimbo 4 years ago / Views: 2072
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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Coronation Day, Bramley Park, June 22nd 1911
Added by @iamtimbo 7 months ago / Views: 377
In Gallery: West Yorkshire Miscellaneous
Children (3,000 apparently!) celebrate the Coronation of King George V.
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@iamtimbo • 5 days 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 • 3 weeks 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 • 3 weeks ago
Shared an update: More #coronavirus lockdown portraits - this time by Lizzie Adams in Leicester (@leicester-leicestershire-england-le1-5)
@iamtimbo • 3 weeks 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 • 3 weeks 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 • 3 weeks 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 • one month 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 • one month 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 • one month 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 • one month 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 • one month 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 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 • 2 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 • 2 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 • 2 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 • 9 months 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...
