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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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St Martin's Church, Tipton, c. 1900s
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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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St. Saviour's Church, Saltley, c. 1897
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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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Haworths Shop, Location Unknown, 1949
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In Gallery: Forgotten Photo Friday
Yet another image that I thought would be easier to locate than it turned out! Lots of information in the picture, especially about the Benson’s...
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Wimborne Police Station, Poole Road, October 1984
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In Gallery: Wimborne Police Station, Poole Road, c. 1984
In 1756 the Chief Magistrate of Westminster, Henry Fielding, set up the first full-time police force. In 1856 the County and Borough Police Act was...
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High Street, Chatham, c. 1900s
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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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Wimborne Station, 1974
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In Gallery: Railway Pictures, Wimborne Minster, 1974
This photo originally appeared at disused-stations.org.uk, and is (c) Ian Corps. Used by kind permission.
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Blitz Bomb Damage in Highgate Road, Birmingham, 29th July, 1942
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In Gallery: Blitz Bomb Damage in Highgate Road, Birmingham, 1942
A general view showing the damage caused by bombing during the Blitz. Several people, including a policeman, are looking at the damage. A...
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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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High Street, Sittingbourne, c. 1900s
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In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
Traditional view down Sittingbourne High Street - not a motor vehicle in sight, but plenty of action. That ladder propped up against the clock...
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Added/updated: Coach & Horses, Wimborne Minster, c. 1900 in their gallery Wimborne Pictures
@iamtimbo • 3 weeks 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 :
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In the Wimborne Minster forum, @ created a new Industry & Business forum topic: "Eclipse Works":"The Eclipse Works was in Eden Grove and made parts for brewers. Does anyone know how many people it employed?"@admin • 5 months ago
Shared an update: Thanks for your patience if you recently signed up - we have to do our best to sure that everyone who signs up is real!@iamtimbo • 5 months ago
Shared an update: Some beautiful photographs of Wapping ( @wapping-tower-hamlets-greater-london-england-e1w-2 ) here’s on the Retronaut site...
https://retronaut.com/content/1948-docklands-before-docklands@admin • 5 months ago
Shared an update: We’d love the images within Our Town Story to find uses in all sorts of areas, but few more so than in reminiscence therapy with those coping with dementia. This article from the Alzheimer’s Society discusses RT with South Asian residents in Coventry ( @coventry-west-midlands-england-cv1-2 ):
