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We really want Our Town Story to be an album for your old photos, to fill in the gaps in the history books of our villages, towns and cities. We would also love for those pictures to be able to help others - for instance by using reminiscence therapy in treating dementia .
We're still a work in progress, and we appreciate all suggestions and observations!
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The Yew Tree, Wimborne Minster, c. 1950s
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 1219In 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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Family outside 'Brookdale', possibly Ferndown, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 1785In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
The postcard credit on the back os for Frederick Ash of Victoria Road, Ferndown, so there is a chance that this is a local family, but the house...
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Coach & Horses, Wimborne Minster, c. 1900
Added by @iamtimbo 5 years ago / Views: 2021In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
Hard to date this picture as the place didn't change for so long at a time, but turn of the 20th Century, I should think...
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Unknown Place, Unknown Date
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 2017In Gallery: Forgotten Photo Friday
Not a lot to go on here......but you never know! 1950s onwards...?
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Haworths Shop, Location Unknown, 1949
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 2152In 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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Thatched Cottage, Bourton, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 2402In Gallery: Gloucestershire Miscellaneous
I really can't begin to work out exactly where this is in Bourton-on-the-Water - assuming it even is that Bourton, so if you know, please comment...
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“Practical Jobbing”, Unknown Location, Date Unknown
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 1767In Gallery: Forgotten Photo Friday
Great picture of a cobbler, complete with hammer and shoes in hand. Sadly no idea where it is, or who, or when. If you have any thoughts, then...
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Church of St James, Holt, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 3000In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
According to the Wimborne Minster website, this building is a rebuilt chapel of 1834, and includes a pulpit and bell formerly belonging to the...
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Rochester Road, Burham, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 2917In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
No dating information on here, but would guess it to be around the 1900s.
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High Street, Sittingbourne, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 6 years ago / Views: 3785In 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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Tolpuddle, Dorset, c. 1940s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 1467In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
A few looking to towards the thatched cottages in Tolpuddle opposite the Martyrs’ Seat, built to commemorate the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The seat and...
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Newcastle Street, London, 1907
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 3362In Gallery: Allsorts
This building in Newcastle Street carries hoardings advertising all sorts of products, from lager to soap. Newcastle Street no longer exists -...
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Thornton Road, Goxhill, c. 1920s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 494In Gallery: Lincolnshire Miscellaneous
Very hard to tell when this picture was taken, but the houses are all still there, and relatively unchanged.
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Newington Station, c. 1940s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 1501In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
A shot looking along Newington Station in the 1940s.
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Taylor’s Hill, Chilham, c. Late 1800s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 1861In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
View here hasn’t changed too much in the last hundred or so years. The house on the left appears to have been slightly reconfigured, but the roof...
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Mather Lane Mill from the Bridgewater Canal Towpath
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 1419In Gallery: Mather Lane Spinning Company, Leigh, c. 1970s
Accordingly to Wikipedia: “The second Mather Lane Mill is a Grade II listed cotton spinning mill on the north bank of the Bridgewater Canal. It was...
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