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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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Zeppelin Damage, Great Yarmouth, 19th January 1915
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On the 19th January 1915, the world's first air raid took place. A German Zeppelin aiming for Humberside drifted off course and found itself over...
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Saunderton Station Burned by Suffragettes, 1913
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George & Dragon Public House, Coleshill, c. 1906
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A packed coach sits outside the George & Dragon in a postcard from around 1906.
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East Street, Wimborne, 1900s
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Quiet view past King's Cycle Works towards the Minster, with a closeup of the Rising Sun's sign in the foreground.
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Coakes's Milk Float, Wimborne Minster, c. 1910s
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Coakes's horse-drawn milk float is decked in flags in this picture taken on the High Street, next to Hayter's. Although the image looks...
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Morris Dancing in The Square, Wimborne Minster, date unknown
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Morris dancing taking place in The Square, at the end of Cook Row, long before the Folk Festival came along! Not sure of the date of the shot,...
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Richmond Town Cricket Club, 1924
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Terribly well presented 1st XI of the Richmond Town Cricket Club, taken in 1924. Players featured are Jackson, Hickox, Harris, Greenfield,...
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High Street, Brentwood, c. 1910s
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This view appears to have been taken during the First World War, with Hazell's on the corner of Kings Road - narrow as it was then. Brentwood...
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Town Centre from The Minster, Wimborne Minster, c. 1910s
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A Valentine postcard taken from the top of one of the Minster's towers, looking over Cook Row and towards The Square. St Andrew's University is...
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West Borough, Wimborne Minster, c. 1920s
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The road looks particularly narrow in this Valentine picture looking towards The Square and the Minster beyond. Looking at the car, and the ladies'...
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The Broadway, Winchester, c. 1915
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View of The Broadway, Winchester with soldiers and civilians in the street.
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Soldiers at the New Inn, Winchester, c. 1915
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Soldiers of the Royal Engineers 151 Field Company pose outside The New Inn (latterly The Percy Hobbs) in the vicinity of the Morn Hill and Avington...
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The Bishopstoke Family, Eastleigh, date unknown
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This wedding photo shows the Bishopstoke family grouping, around the turn of the 19th/20th century.
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Chatham from the Medway, c. 1905
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A Raphel Tuck postcard looking along the Medway. It's a bit tricky to work out exactly where we're looking here, but that could be Rochester Castle...
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Cinematograph Theatre, Edgware Road, London, 1912
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Exterior view of the Cinematograph Theatre at 164-166 Edgware Road, showing posters advertising the latest films and newsreels and billboards...
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Piccadilly Circus, London, 1912
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Looking north-eastwards from Piccadilly Circus along the line of Shaftesbury Avenue. Shaftesbury Avenue cut through a slum area and opened in 1886....
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