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Events On This Day In History
Article by Thomas Nugent, with 65723 words, 2,337 images and viewed 11,488 times.
Updated 8 days ago.
Events On This Day In History
Introduction
Every day there are anniversaries of events that have taken place throughout Britain and Ireland over the years. Sometimes Geograph has displayed a picture marking a particular anniversary as ‘Picture of The Day’.
This article is intended to use Geograph ...
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Class 170 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 3479 words, 341 images and viewed 8,692 times.
Updated 12 days ago.
Introduction
[img=https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1700002963a49da13542e0726b7bb758/170_front_170478.jpg Northern Class 170 No. 170478 Horsforth Railway Station]
Class 170 Turbostar is a class of Diesel Multiple Units (DMU's) that were built by Adtranz and later Bombardier Transportation at ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2024
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3969 words, 2,668 images and viewed 5,381 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2016
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4076 words, 2,609 images and viewed 2,963 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AlastairG
Adam Ward (6363) 15
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2010
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4565 words, 2,621 images and viewed 2,897 times.
Updated 3 months ago.
A: A Holmes to AlastairG ...
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New Year's Day 2022
Article by Penny Mayes, with 711 words, 88 images and viewed 612 times.
Updated 23 months ago.
The collection of photos taken on New Year's Day, one from each contributor, has been run in the Themed Topic Forum for a number of years.
Some people take active part and add their photos to the forum thread, as well as attaching the shared description to their image. Many others take the photo and ...
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Olympic and Paralympic Gold Post Boxes
Article by Oast House Archive, with 1832 words, 158 images and viewed 20,134 times.
Updated 65 months ago.
Introduction
3205878 During the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, the Royal Mail celebrated each Great Britain gold medal by painting a post box gold in the home town of each gold medal winner.
In total there were 29 Team GB Gold Medals for the Olympic Games and 34 Paralympics GB Gold ...
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Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos
Article by Chris Downer, with 52102 words, 2,760 images and viewed 42,197 times.
Updated 82 months ago.
INTRODUCTION
This article takes a little look back at the history of postal addressing, especially the period in the 1970s when the postcodes became national. We look at post towns, postal counties and postcodes and the way these have developed.
Following this, an album displays a photograph from ...
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Parliamentary Constituencies - Election 2017
Article by John M, with 11312 words, 958 images and viewed 3,628 times.
Updated 86 months ago.
East
The Eastern Region comprising East Anglia with Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire is overwhelmingly dominated by Conservative seats with 52 Conservatives, 4 Labour and 1 Liberal Democrat.
Cambridge
Cambridge only has one constituency. Overall the City has done well economically and has two ...
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Postboxes
Gallery started by Geographer, with 12 posts, 160 images and viewed 4,935 times.
Updated 108 months ago.
1027932 1037108 1088921 1095343 1138293 1175492 1182406 1202822 1193385 1220507 1221976 1221985 Victorian 950118 887867 878831 890587 (double slot) 865079 (wall boxes; the last of these has had its slot enlarged) 935823 953670 1064683 884587 1093167 935849 ( ...
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Mileposts
Gallery started by Geographer, with 7 posts, 10 images and viewed 2,667 times.
Updated 120 months ago.
1132533 1163465 1163465 235466 1189192 An example of Thomas Telford's milestones on the Holyhead Road. 1147462 All going to Londonhttp://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=5288637&displayclass=thumbs All going to Norwich http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=5288584&displayclass= ...
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Researched and Documented War Memorials
Gallery started by Trevor Wright, with 19 posts, 40 images and viewed 3,162 times.
Updated 121 months ago.
Each City, Town and Village has them; Memorials to the Fallen of the First and Second World Wars. Lists of names, often hard to read to the casual observer, that record the sacrifice of those who we can so easily forget.With the online facilities now available via the Commonwealth War Graves ...
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Post Offices
Gallery started by Chris Downer, with 23 posts, 263 images and viewed 6,578 times.
Updated 154 months ago.
Like all things in life, post offices come in all shapes and sizes, although the size of the network is increasingly downwards. There were around 20,000 post offices in the UK at the end of the 1980s, but this dwindled and dwindled throughout the 90s. The suburban network was slashed by a third in ...
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Strange and unusual Public Houses
Gallery started by Maurice Pullin, with 40 posts, 45 images and viewed 11,467 times.
Updated 173 months ago.
Just waiting for the moderators to do their bit then I'll set the tone of the thread. This is the sort of thing I have in mind. 621570 is it to do with the state of their customers when leaving? Or perhaps it was the pub down the road 621505 075376 Qualifies on account of it's age ...