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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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Avenue Road, Wimborne Minster, c. 1909
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 2139In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
Not very high quality, but a little look down Avenue Road in about 1909, or perhaps a bit earlier.
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Avenue Road, Wimborne Minster, c. 1909
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 3092In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
This image must have been taken earlier than 1909, as that's when the card is postmarked. This shot looks up Avenue Road from the junction with...
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East Street, Wimborne Minster, c. 1910
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 1947In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
Some likely lads in the foreground of this shot, taken looking down East Street towards the Minster from the end of the bridge.
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High Street, Harrow, c. 1930s
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 1049In Gallery: Middlesex Miscellaneous
View down the High Street in Harrow-on-the-Hill - all the buildings visible in the picture seem to have survived.
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High Street, Wimborne Minster, c. 1905
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 3561In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
An instantly recognisable view of the bend in the High Street. The shop on the corner is Sansom's Hardware, and the poster on the side of the...
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Old East Street, Wimborne Minster, c. 1890s
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 2862In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
This picture is extremely hard to locate the position of. It is apparently of 'Old East Street', which could be where East Street is today, or...
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John Hallett, Watch and Clockmaker, Wimborne Minster, c. 1908
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 3303In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
I've not come across this name in Wimborne before, and can't place this shop...
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The Hospital, Wimborne, c. 1907
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 2332In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
A shot of Victoria Hospital looking much more like a cottage affair than the complex of buildings there today, although this building survives...
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JJ Allen's Employees Social, Bournemouth, 14th March 1919
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 1583In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
This photo would be viewed as astonishingly politically incorrect today; the fancy dress demonstrating some fairly broad-brush racial stereotyping!...
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High Street, Rochester, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 1807In Gallery: Allsorts
Rochester almost looks like a Wild West town in this postcard, although the buildings really haven't changed much to this day. The tram tracks...
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The Pier, Rochester, c. 1930s
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 1784In Gallery: Allsorts
A view across the Esplanade to the Pier.
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Interior of Pennington Mill, Leigh, Lancashire, c. 1970s
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 2015In Gallery: Pennington Mill, c. 1970s
Pennington Mill (situated to the west of St Helen's Road, just before the bridge over the Bridgewater Canal), along with Stanley Mill, is listed in...
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The Square, Wimborne Minster, c. 1968
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 3226In Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
Looking towards the King's Head across an array of what would now be considered classic cars in the central parking area.
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The Six Bells Inn, Hollingbourne, c. 1898
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 779In Gallery: Old Cottages and Farm Houses in Kent and Sussex
Taken around ten years before the building was destroyed by fire, the name lives on in the present property. The images in this album are from a...
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The King's Head, Sissinghurst, c. 1898
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 1004In Gallery: Old Cottages and Farm Houses in Kent and Sussex
This pub is now a private residence. The images in this album are from a 1900 book entitled 'Old Cottages and Farm Houses in Kent and Sussex'....
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Old Weaver's House, Canterbury, 1898
Added by @iamtimbo 9 years ago / Views: 414In Gallery: Old Cottages and Farm Houses in Kent and Sussex
The Old Weaver's House in Canterbury, now a pub, in this incarnation was the St. Lawrence Steam Laundry Company. The images in this album are...
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