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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2013
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4540 words, 2,839 images and viewed 4,086 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: A Thomas to Albert Bridge
A Thomas (38050) 1 ...
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Beam Engines in the UK
Article by Chris Allen, with 15221 words, 735 images and viewed 31,827 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
INTRODUCTION
To many people the archetypal stationary steam engine is the beam engine. The UK was where the beam engine (initially all steam engines were beam engines) was invented and it is now where the largest number are to be found; including many workable examples.
There are over 170 beam ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2012
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4638 words, 2,790 images and viewed 3,122 times.
Updated 3 months ago.
A: A runningman to Albert Bridge ...
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2008
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4182 words, 2,382 images and viewed 2,495 times.
Updated 3 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AlastairG
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Adie Jackson (14680) 1 ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY 2021
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3946 words, 2,642 images and viewed 2,748 times.
Updated 3 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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The Long Winter 1962-3
Article by Julian Paren, with 673 words, 79 images and viewed 1,856 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
The Long Winter 1962-63
Introduction
The introduction by Geoffrey Moorhouse to a Guardian pamphlet with the title The Long Winter 1962-63 (price 6d) says
BY any standard the winter of 1962-3 was one of the hardest Great Britain has ever had. It has been reckoned that in the Midlands, which didn’t ...
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Watermills
Article by John M, with 24335 words, 1,451 images and viewed 19,361 times.
Updated 41 months ago.
The article is open for collective editing.
Introduction
Watermills in various forms were introduced into Britain and Ireland in the late Roman and early medieval period. Numbers grew through the Medieval Period and at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 there were around 6500 in England alone. ...
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English Castles
Article by Oast House Archive, with 4714 words, 414 images and viewed 17,803 times.
Updated 50 months ago.
List of surviving Castles in England and smaller Islands.
This does not include earthworks and demolished castles.
Also see Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Bedfordshire to Isles of Scilly
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*| Photo | Region | Castle | Grid Square |
| 45239 | Bedfordshire | Someries ...
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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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WW1 Great War Centenary - Auxiliary Hospitals
Article by John M, with 13227 words, 786 images and viewed 44,706 times.
Updated 69 months ago.
AUXILIARY HOSPITALS IN THE UK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
4134493 The British Red Cross WW1 Centenary Project are collecting memories and records for their work during the Great War. The Geograph Project can supplement this by providing a record of the surviving buildings that were used during this ...
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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 42,192 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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Dorset Postboxes – Sherborne and Sturminster Newton
Gallery started by Chris Downer, with 1 posts, 134 images and viewed 1,316 times.
Updated 126 months ago.
There are 134 postboxes in the DT9 (Sherborne) and DT10 (Sturminster Newton) postal areas, that are within the county of Dorset (two boxes are right on the border, at Corton Denham and west of Stalbridge, and are included).They are plotted on these two maps: Sherborne and Sturminster.Being a mainly ...
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Post Offices
Gallery started by Chris Downer, with 23 posts, 263 images and viewed 6,578 times.
Updated 153 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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Castles
Gallery started by Colin Smith, with 48 posts, 351 images and viewed 12,446 times.
Updated 178 months ago.
Castles by county mostly - with some county boundaries and names changing through time.Castles - Aberdeenshire ["Castle Country", with "Castle trail"] 447229 96559 477241 507903 446077 463640 476318 13971 3069 94019 115946 114446 117811 138244 172987 ...