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Co-founder of Our Town Story. If you have any questions about the site, or wish to provide feedback, please visit the Admin forum and post in the appropriate place - we'll do our best to help you out as quickly as we can!
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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Chatham from the Lines, c. 1930s
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 2352In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
Looking west from the Lines, with what is now the Brook Theatre, but then the Town Hall, on the right hand side. Sun Pier is visible in the...
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High Street, Chatham, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 5110In 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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Richard Watts's Charity House, Rochester, c. 1906
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 1314In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
This is a Raphael Tuck postcard looking towards the bridge. The charity house remains unchanged externally (although is more generally known as Six...
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Chestnut Avenue, Walderslade, c. 1910s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 1780In 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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Chatham High Street/Military Road, Chatham, c. 1930s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 3577In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
The Burton building on the far corner still exists, and is now a Halifax building society, but many of the other buildings in this picture are long...
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West Street, Sittingbourne, c. 1960s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 3718In 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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Odeon Cinema, Sittingbourne, 1937
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 2191In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
According to the Cinema's current website, the building, originally seating 1,593 across two levels. It has had various owners and incarnations,...
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Daffodil Pickers, Hoo St. Werburgh, 29th December 2015
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 1317In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
Temperatures in December 2015 were significantly above average for the time of year, meaning that the daffodil crop, normally expected in around...
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St. Mary's Island from Hoo St. Werburgh, October 2015
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 945In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
Looking across the River Medway to St. Mary's Island. The 'island' was formed by the interconnecting basins of the Royal Dockyard at Chatham....
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Unveiling of the Percy Gordon Plaque, Rochester, 1912
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 2853In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
This image shows the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the death of Percy Henry Gordon, who died whilst rescuing a girl from drowning in the...
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River Medway from Rochester Castle, c. 1905
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 2257In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
This view looks towards the Medway from Rochester Castle, with significant river traffic visible, as well as the cement factories on the far bank.
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Rochester Castle Gardens, c. 1910s
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 1808In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
General view of children playing in the gardens. The Castle Grounds and Terrace were created in 1870. The land for them was leased from the Earl of...
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High Street, Sittingbourne, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 1992In Gallery: Kent Miscellaneous
Plenty of bicycles visible in this nice postcard of Sittingbourne High Street, taken around the turn of the 20th Century....Maypole's name is...
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Technical School, Manchester, c. 1893
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 817In Gallery: Greater Manchester Miscellaneous
The Manchester Corporation determined that there was a requirement to improve the provision of 'technical instruction' within the city, and with...
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Hydraulic Pumping Station, Manchester, c. 1895
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 713In Gallery: Greater Manchester Miscellaneous
As part of its drive to improve the services powering its massive industrial presence (which would also include the provision of electricity and...
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The Wilts & Dorset Bank, Swindon, c. 1885
Added by @iamtimbo 7 years ago / Views: 692In Gallery: Wiltshire Miscellaneous
This image of the newly-built Wilts and Dorset Bank in Swindon was included in a book by William Morris (grandfather of Desmond Morris) written in...
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