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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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Dickinson Street Power Station, Manchester, c. 1890s
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 1205In Gallery: Greater Manchester Miscellaneous
The Dickinson Street Power Station main entrance, seen from Portland Street. Appearing more than ten years after electrification began in London,...
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Dickinson Street Power Station, Manchester, c. 1890s
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 1288In Gallery: Greater Manchester Miscellaneous
The Dickinson Street Power Station was Manchester's first electricity generating station, providing electricity to around a square mile of the city...
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St. Mary the Virgin, Long Preston, c. 1892
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 317In Gallery: North Yorkshire Miscellaneous
A shot from the churchyard looking towards the church, taken from the 1892 book by Harry Speight entitled "The Craven and North-West Yorkshire...
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Shiplake Church & Farm, c. 1897
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 1666In Gallery: Oxfordshire Miscellaneous
This view of the Church and barn would appear taken from inside he grounds of what is now Shiplake College. It is taken from an 1897 book...
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Imperial Hotel, Bournemouth, c. 1880s
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 3183In Gallery: Dorset Miscellaneous
This picture is taken from "A Descriptive Guide to Bournemouth, Christchurch, Wimborne and Corfe Castle", published in 1890, dating it to the very...
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Coventry from the Priory Mill Dam, c. 1800s
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 1295In Gallery: Warwickshire Miscellaneous
This engraving of the early 1800s shows a view from the Priory Mill Dam looking towards the Cathedral in Coventry. The spire on the left is that of...
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West Borough, Wimborne Minster, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 590In Gallery: West Borough, Wimborne Minster, c. 1910s
Taken from the end of School Lane looking towards the Minster. Possibly a coal delivery taking place on the left-hand side.
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Penmaenmawr from the West, c. 1936
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 592In Gallery: Wales Miscellaneous
A view from Penmaenmawr mountain taken in 1936. The A55 North Wales Expressway now runs between the railway line (just visible in the centre of the...
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Town Hall, Merthyr Tydfil, c. 1904
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 276In Gallery: Wales Miscellaneous
The Town Hall in Merthyr Tydfil near the beginning of the 1900s. The impressive red-brick building is now known as Redhouse, a community arts...
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High Street, Merthyr Tydfil, 1904
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 445In Gallery: Wales Miscellaneous
The High Street has changed beyond all recognition, making it hard to say exactly where this photograph was taken, but this is my best guess....
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Fenchurch Street Station, London, 1907
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 1852In Gallery: London Miscellaneous
This photograph shows a mixture of motor vehicles and horse-drawn vehicles waiting outside Fenchurch Street Station in 1912. Although the motor car...
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Pennington Hall in snow, c. 1960s
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 934In Gallery: Pennington Hall, c. 1960s
This incarnation of Pennington Hall had been around since built by Samuel Hilton in 1748, who sold it on in 1807 to the Gaskell family of...
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Royal Parade, Plymouth, c. 1955
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 436In Gallery: Devon Miscellaneous
A model in 1950s civic planning! All looking very clean and modern in this Raphael Tuck postcard....
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Midland Red Digbeth Garage, c. 1930s
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 1739In Gallery: Allsorts
Originally built in 1929, as a local bus station, the building was renamed Spencer House in the 1950s, and quickly became the central hub for coach...
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Briggate, Leeds, c. 1900s
Added by @iamtimbo 8 years ago / Views: 1401In Gallery: West Yorkshire Miscellaneous
This Raphael Tuck photograph was first issued in 1904, meaning it shows a busy Briggate at the turn of the 20th Century. This view looks north...
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Airship PL-18 'Parseval', Kingsnorth, c. 1913
Added by @iamtimbo 10 years ago / Views: 1980In Gallery: Allsorts
The Navy purchased an airship designed by (and subsequently known as) Parseval. It was based at RNAS Kingsnorth on the Hoo peninsula in Kent, where...
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