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The Football Grounds of Britain and Ireland 2022-23
Article by Roger Cornfoot, with 3243 words, 819 images and viewed 9,094 times.
Updated 2 days ago.
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An attempt to illustrate the football stadia of the British Isles, old and new, using some of the excellent photos from our Geograph contributors.
I have started with the senior clubs from England and Wales. More countries and levels of the 'pyramid' to follow!
Please let me know if you can ...
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Class 158 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 8101 words, 1,843 images and viewed 11,466 times.
Updated 3 days ago.
Introduction
[img=https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1700002963a49da13542e0726b7bb758/158_hull_crop.jpg Class 158 at Hull Paragon Station - photo by JThomas] Built by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) at its Derby Litchurch Lane Works, the British Rail Class 158 Express Sprinter is a diesel ...
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Class 150 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 5473 words, 634 images and viewed 5,658 times.
Updated 4 days ago.
Introduction
[img=https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1700002963a49da13542e0726b7bb758/150_front.jpg Class 150 No. 150119 Accrington Railway Station]
The British Rail Class 150 Sprinter is a class of diesel multiple-unit trains. They were built by BREL, York between 1984 and 1987. A total of 137 ...
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Events On This Day In History
Article by Thomas Nugent, with 84817 words, 2,938 images and viewed 12,490 times.
Updated 6 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 153 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 2662 words, 295 images and viewed 5,622 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
Introduction
[img=https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1700002963a49da13542e0726b7bb758/153_front2.jpg FGW 153380 Looe Railway Station]
The Class 153 Super Sprinter is a single car diesel multiple unit (D.M.U.) converted from British Rail Class 155 units.
These units were originally built as two- ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2013
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4540 words, 2,839 images and viewed 4,181 times.
Updated 5 months ago.
A: A Thomas to Albert Bridge
A Thomas (38050) 1 ...
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Architectural features illustrated
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 6166 words, 899 images and viewed 3,393 times.
Updated 5 months ago.
Architectural features illustrated
Definitions from various sources primarily Wikipedia
All images used and reusable under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence
Please feel free to add more images; up to nine per definition (page limits are 100 images)
Insert better ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2024
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3969 words, 2,668 images and viewed 5,476 times.
Updated 6 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
A J Paxton (24602) 5
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2017
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4024 words, 2,600 images and viewed 3,045 times.
Updated 6 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Reid
Adam Ward (6363) 5
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Preserved steam locomotives of British Rail
Article by Roger Cornfoot, with 4943 words, 2,045 images and viewed 15,584 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
Almost from the beginning of our railways, attempts have been made to preserve examples of the most significant locomotive designs. By the end of mainline steam in 1968, there was a reasonable mix of public and private preservation (mainly on static display in museums) together with a selection of ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2015
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4260 words, 2,667 images and viewed 3,040 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
A: Adam C Snape to Alan Richards
Adam C Snape (122082) 1
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2014
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4245 words, 2,675 images and viewed 3,088 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to alistairG
Adam Ward (6363) 3
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2011
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4285 words, 2,555 images and viewed 3,218 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Tunnicliffe ...
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2009
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4667 words, 2,575 images and viewed 3,115 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
A: adam sommerville to Alexander P Kapp ...
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2007
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4054 words, 2,208 images and viewed 2,716 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
A: A Holmes to Alan Walker
A Holmes (13178) 1
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2006
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 2783 words, 1,454 images and viewed 2,209 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
A: Aaron Thomas to Andrew Longton
Aaron Thomas (8220) 2
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Adam Ward (6363) 4
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2023
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3950 words, 2,632 images and viewed 3,029 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to AJD
A J Paxton (24602) 17
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2019
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4102 words, 2,679 images and viewed 3,206 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Hughes
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Images shortlisted for POTY 2018
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4156 words, 2,698 images and viewed 2,505 times.
Updated 7 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan O'Dowd
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Rights of Way and Access - OS 25K map symbols
Article by David Hawgood, with 1219 words, 30 images and viewed 28,109 times.
Updated 8 months ago.
Note: this article is being amended as the Ordnance Survey key has been reorganised to have separate sections for access in Scotland.
This is one of a series of articles which give photographs of features on the ground which have standard symbols on Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps, and also show the ...
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Maundy money and Maundy Thursday
Article by Philip Halling, with 756 words, 69 images and viewed 1,704 times.
Updated 15 months ago.
Dating back to the thirteenth century every year at Easter the British monarch presents special 'Maundy money' to local pensioners in a UK cathedral or abbey. Maundy Money is specially minted money and presented to an equal number of men and woman dependent on the monarch’s age, for example, when ...
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Native Butterflies of Britain and Ireland
Article by Anne Burgess, with 1041 words, 1,344 images and viewed 4,807 times.
Updated 22 months ago.
Britain and Ireland currently have just under 60 species of native butterfly. Our contributors have photographed most of them. The order is taken from http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/taxonomy.php which lists many other species which once occurred in Britain, or which may or may not once have occurred ...
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New Year's Day 2010
Article by Penny Mayes, with 1229 words, 198 images and viewed 578 times.
Updated 26 months ago.
There was no forum-based collection of photos taken on New Year's Day, in 2010, apart from a few pics added to the 2009 thread. However, 198 contributors took and submitted photos of their outings on the day.
Much snow in the north and west of the Union, mostly cold and bright elsewhere.
I've ...
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Birds of the British Isles
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 3099 words, 546 images and viewed 1,029 times.
Updated 42 months ago.
This collection is the work of many Geographers who spent time and patience waiting for the right moment to get the images displayed below. Take a while to appreciate the achievement and consider if you can, filling in a few blank spaces.
Some of the entries may seem a little ambiguous but the ...
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Watermills
Article by John M, with 24335 words, 1,451 images and viewed 19,726 times.
Updated 45 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. ...