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Flooding in North Street, Strood, 1898
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In Gallery: History of Strood, 1899
This image shows North Street, looking from the High Street, during the floods of 1898. From 'History of Strood', published 1899.
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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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Chestnut Avenue, Walderslade, c. 1910s
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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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West Street, Wimborne Minster, c. 1890s
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In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
Looking down West Street towards the Square, past the King's Head Hotel (and Stables!). The hardware shop on the right with the tin baths and...
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West Street, Sittingbourne, c. 1960s
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In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
This shot looks east past the Convent of the Nativity Girls' School up the hill towards the old Shell Garage. Most of the buildings in the left...
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Sittingboure Cooperative Society Limited
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In Gallery: Sittingbourne Co-operative Society, Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne Cooperative Society, possibly located between East Street and Canterbury Road.
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The Yew Tree, Wimborne Minster, c. 1950s
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In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
Genuninely impossible to date this from the postcard - I remember it looking pretty much like this in the early 1990s. I'm assuming this is...
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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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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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Traffic Jam in East Street, Wimborne Minster, c. 1960s
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In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
Image courtesy of Winston's Blighty Barber Shop.
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Added/updated: The Yew Tree, Wimborne Minster, c. 1950s in their gallery Wimborne Pictures
@iamtimbo • 2 months 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....
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Posted a new comment on Family outside 'Brookdale', possibly Ferndown, c. 1900s:
"This is the back of the postcard - no stamp or postmark, unfortunately; Transcription as far as I can work it out... Dear Mrs Snow, Thanks for P.C...."@iamtimbo • 2 months ago • comments: 1
Added/updated: Family outside 'Brookdale', possibly Ferndown, c. 1900s in their gallery Dorset Miscellaneous
@iamtimbo • 7 months 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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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 • 11 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 • 11 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 ):
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Shared an update: Apologies if you’ve experienced slow loading times over the last couple of days - all sorted now!@iamtimbo • last year
Shared an update: Great post on St Dunstan & All Saints in Stepney (@stepney-tower-hamlets-greater-london-england-e1-1) on the London Inheritance blog here:
