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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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Tooting Cinenews, London, c. 1930s
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 1256In Gallery: Tooting Cinenews, London, 1930s
This view of the building shows a newer, art deco facade added to the building. The cinema itself saw several other incarnations, both before...
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Looking west along Marine Road, Morecambe, 1880-1890
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 593In Gallery: Marine Road, Morecambe, c. 1880s/1890s
A view looking west along Marine Road Central and the Promenade at Morecambe. The twin domes of the former People's Palace can be seen in the...
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Cloth Hall, Colne, 1953
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 987In Gallery: Cloth Hall, Colne, Lancashire, 1950s
The Cloth Hall at Colne was built in 1775 for the sale of woollen goods. The area was important for the production of wool and worsted from the...
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Colne Cloth Hall in disrepair, 1953
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 1623In Gallery: Cloth Hall, Colne, Lancashire, 1950s
Originally the building was used as a cloth hall for the sale of woollen goods. By the 1820s the building was used for the general sale of goods as...
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Theatre de Luxe, Northgate Street, Gloucester, 1937
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 1638In Gallery: Theatre de Luxe, Gloucester, 1937
The theatre became only the fourth in the country to show a talking picture, and was eventually taken over by the Odeon chain. It was destroyed by...
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Andrews Saddle & Harness Maker, High Street, Oxford, c. 1909
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 1106In Gallery: Andrews Saddle & Harness Maker
Exterior view of the frontage of a saddle and harness shop. Edinburgh Woollen Mill now stands on the site.
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Odeon Cinema, Cleveleys, Blackpool, 1935
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 1537In Gallery: Odeon Cinema, Cleveleys, 1935
The film 'Sanders of the River' would seem to date this picture to 1935. The cinema became a bingo hall, and was ultimately demolished in 2010.
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Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, c. 1900
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 8058In Gallery: Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, c. 1900
The Imperial Hotel on a windy day with two horse-drawn carriages parked outside awaiting fares. The hotel was built in 1867-8 by Clegg and Jones at...
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Empire Theatre, Church Street, Blackpool, c. 1895
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 998In Gallery: Empire Theatre, Blackpool, c. 1890s
The Empire Theatre was built in 1895. Renamed the Hippodrome, it subsequently became the ABC Cinema and is now a nigtclub. Here, it advertises the...
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In Gallery: Blackpool Holidaymakers, c. 1950s
Holidaymakers make their way from the Promenade towards Talbot Road Station on the London & North Western Railway. The Church of the Sacred Heart...
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Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon, c. 1920s
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 741In Gallery: Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon, c. 1920s
A virtually traffic-free Chapel Street. The half-timbered building on the left is Nash's House, next door to where New Place stood - the building...
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Brook Mill, Leigh in the 1970s
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 516In Gallery: Brook Mill, Leigh, c. 1970s
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Pennington Mill Interior, c. 1970s
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 807In Gallery: Pennington Mill, c. 1970s
Photo taken shortly before the mill's demolition.
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Cottages at Parsonage Colliery, Leigh, Date Unknown
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 1073In Gallery: Parsonage Colliery, Leigh, Date Unknown
Cottages on the site of what's now the Parsonage Way retail park. The railway line is where Parsonage Way itself now runs.
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Former Steam Mill, Chester, 2001
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 512In Gallery: Chester City Centre, 2001
This building was derelict at the time, but has now been redeveloped as a business centre.
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Ruins of St. John the Baptist, Chester, 2001
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 461In Gallery: Chester City Centre, 2001
The more than faintly sinister 'Dust to Dust' wall niche in the ruins of St John the Baptist , Chester.
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