20 of 63
Collections used near tm4796
-
Class 170 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 3472 words, 340 images and viewed 8,656 times.
Updated 13 hours 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 ...
-
Class 156 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 4263 words, 514 images and viewed 3,948 times.
Updated 14 hours ago.
Introduction
[img=https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1700002963a49da13542e0726b7bb758/156_front.jpg Class 156 No. 156413 Market Rasen Railway Station]
The British Rail Class 156 Sprinter is a class of diesel multiple-unit trains. Each consisting of two carriages, a total of 114 sets were built ...
-
Events On This Day In History
Article by Thomas Nugent, with 62073 words, 2,229 images and viewed 11,327 times.
Updated 2 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 ...
-
Images shortlisted for POTY, 2013
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4540 words, 2,839 images and viewed 4,018 times.
Updated 6 days ago.
A: A Thomas to Albert Bridge
A Thomas (38050) 1 ...
-
Images shortlisted for POTY, 2016
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4076 words, 2,609 images and viewed 2,593 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AlastairG
Adam Ward (6363) 15
4873697 4879901 4902961 4943011 4943078 4957739 4965059 4971747 4985399 5018114 ...
-
Images shortlisted for POTY, 2014
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4245 words, 2,675 images and viewed 2,941 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to alistairG
Adam Ward (6363) 3
4203818 4204360 4231646 ...
-
Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2009
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4667 words, 2,575 images and viewed 2,617 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: adam sommerville to Alexander P Kapp ...
-
Class 153 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 2660 words, 295 images and viewed 5,510 times.
Updated 5 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- ...
-
Windmills
Article by Oast House Archive, with 15104 words, 736 images and viewed 34,406 times.
Updated 11 months ago.
A brief description of different types and list of remaining windmills in Britain and Ireland.
Types
Post Mill
A small wooden mill based on a central pivot, turned manually by a tiller.
2100687 1266329
The remains of this mill show the central post that the whole structure would pivot on.
...
-
Village signs of Suffolk
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 1941 words, 867 images and viewed 10,547 times.
Updated 12 months ago.
An ornamental village sign is erected either at a principal road entrance or in a prominent location such as a village green to announce the village name to those entering the village. The design usually depicts a particular feature of the village or a scene from its history, heritage, or culture. ...
-
Native Butterflies of Britain and Ireland
Article by Anne Burgess, with 1041 words, 1,344 images and viewed 4,772 times.
Updated 17 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 ...
-
Inns and Public Houses in Suffolk
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 5238 words, 624 images and viewed 3,679 times.
Updated 19 months ago.
The number of pubs that have been lost over the years, their names perhaps forever lost into the mists of memory even if the building is still there. So before these ones disappear I thought them worthy of recollection here.
Post an image of the building and if possible the pub name sign.
To ...
-
New Year's Day 2011
Article by Penny Mayes, with 437 words, 78 images and viewed 450 times.
Updated 21 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, though none was organised back in 2011.
Contributors - a total of 78 - still went out on New Year's Day and took/submitted photographs, here is my selection.
I' ...
-
Lowestoft Public Houses
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 489 words, 130 images and viewed 781 times.
Updated 33 months ago.
A Pub Crawl around Lowestoft and the surrounding villages.
In Alphabetical Order Without Prejudice.
5279323 5279325 Bayfield's, High Street, Formerly The Anchor Hotel
5284556 5284558 Bell Inn, Carlton Colville
4945267 4945270 Blue Boar, 28, Oulton Street
5280230 ...
-
The River Waveney from source to sea
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 1758 words, 189 images and viewed 1,075 times.
Updated 44 months ago.
Briefly -
The River Waveney forms part of the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk. It rises here at Redgrave and Lopham Fen and flows in an easterly direction through the towns of Diss, Bungay and Beccles. There is a weir at Billingford, shortly after the River Dove, flowing northwards from Eye, ...
-
War Memorials in Suffolk
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 11476 words, 701 images and viewed 8,284 times.
Updated 51 months ago.
4345670 4496659 4390489 4537946 4537443
War Memorials are something all of us pass every day but how much notice do we take of them and do we think of the people behind the names inscribed thereon. Some memorials have already been damaged or forgotten.
By assembling this collection which ...
-
East Anglia World War Two Aircrew Crash Memorials
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 13548 words, 291 images and viewed 15,085 times.
Updated 53 months ago.
While creating the Article for War Memorials of Suffolk and Norfolk I came across many images and references for British, American, Canadian as well as Polish and Commonwealth aircrew who had lost their lives in crashes in East Anglia during World War Two.
I offer this article as a Sincere Tribute ...
-
Pillboxes and other military installations in East Anglia
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 693 words, 233 images and viewed 6,030 times.
Updated 93 months ago.
STRONG POINTS AND PILLBOXES
In May 1940, the Directorate of Fortifications and Works (FW3) was set up at the War Office. Its purpose was to provide a number of basic pillbox designs which could be constructed by soldiers and local labour at appropriate defensive locations.
In the following June and ...
-
Dismantled, Disused, and Derelict railways
Gallery started by Roger D Kidd, with 18 posts, 364 images and viewed 68,902 times.
Updated 109 months ago.
The North Staffordshire RailwayThis branch joined Stoke-on-Trent to Stockton Brook and Leek, then Caldon Low Quarry. Passenger traffic ended in 1966, and freight in 1988, but does the continued existence of the track mean that Tarmac are paying Network Rail to keep the line mothballed in case of ...
-
Tweeted from @geograph_bi, April 2014
Gallery started by Robin Stott, with 29 posts, 149 images and viewed 1,137 times.
Updated 127 months ago.
A gallery of daily tweets is a way (a) for contributors who subscribe to email notifications to learn that one of their pics has been posted on Geograph's Twitter account ('tweeted'); (b) to show any viewer the quality and range of the photos tweeted without going to Twitter; (c) to ...