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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2016
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4076 words, 2,609 images and viewed 2,592 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AlastairG
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Preserved steam locomotives of British Rail
Article by Roger Cornfoot, with 4943 words, 2,045 images and viewed 14,898 times.
Updated 1 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, 2014
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4245 words, 2,675 images and viewed 2,927 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to alistairG
Adam Ward (6363) 3
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2012
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4638 words, 2,790 images and viewed 3,094 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A runningman to Albert Bridge ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2011
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4285 words, 2,555 images and viewed 3,102 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Tunnicliffe ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2010
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4565 words, 2,621 images and viewed 2,890 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A Holmes to AlastairG ...
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2007
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4054 words, 2,208 images and viewed 2,582 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A Holmes to Alan Walker
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2023
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3950 words, 2,632 images and viewed 2,877 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to AJD
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2022
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3897 words, 2,620 images and viewed 3,199 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Images shortlisted for POTY 2021
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3946 words, 2,642 images and viewed 2,695 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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The Football Grounds of Britain and Ireland 2022-23
Article by Roger Cornfoot, with 3245 words, 817 images and viewed 8,385 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
Page 1
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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New Year's Day 2014
Article by Penny Mayes, with 366 words, 84 images and viewed 347 times.
Updated 22 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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Birds of the British Isles
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 3099 words, 546 images and viewed 957 times.
Updated 37 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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Lifeboat Stations
Article by Oast House Archive, with 2582 words, 212 images and viewed 1,413 times.
Updated 51 months ago.
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*| Photo | Lifeboat | Place | Grid square | Comment |
| 2906424 | | Aberdeen | NJ952059 | |
| 4753661 | | Aberdovey | SN613958 | |
| 724879 | | Abersoch | SH313283 | |
| 4679346 | | Aberystwyth | SN580810 | |
| 4130014 | | Aberystwyth | SN584820 | ...
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Great War Centenary
Article by John M, with 13210 words, 1,370 images and viewed 10,625 times.
Updated 73 months ago.
Introduction
As a collaborative project Geograph contributors have many diverse interests and over the last decade have taken photographs of the Great War sites, memorials and centenary commemorations throughout the British Isles. This article will try to bring together for a larger audience the ...
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River Thames from source to sea
Article by John M, with 4250 words, 817 images and viewed 19,486 times.
Updated 80 months ago.
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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 42,027 times.
Updated 81 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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Pleasure Piers
Article by Oast House Archive, with 1708 words, 117 images and viewed 22,426 times.
Updated 85 months ago.
1582682 Pleasure piers were first built during the early 19th century, and became popular during the Victorian era of the mid to late 1800s. The earliest pier was at Ryde (opened 1814), which is still open to this day. During this period, the railways were expanding allowing mass tourism to the ...
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Tweeted from @geograph_bi in March 2016
Gallery started by Robin Stott, with 4 posts, 147 images and viewed 641 times.
Updated 104 months ago.
A selection of Geograph photos tweeted or retweeted in March – a healthy 5 a day! Regular tweeters are Bob Harvey, Richard Humphrey, Roger Jones, Julian Osley and myself. Inclusion in this gallery ensures that you'll be notified if one of your photos has been posted (if you subscribed to ...
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Tweeted from @geograph_bi in June 2015
Gallery started by Robin Stott, with 1 posts, 186 images and viewed 544 times.
Updated 112 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 ...
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Tweeted from @geograph_bi in June 2014
Gallery started by Robin Stott, with 7 posts, 157 images and viewed 767 times.
Updated 125 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 ...
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Post Offices
Gallery started by Chris Downer, with 23 posts, 263 images and viewed 6,575 times.
Updated 152 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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Football Grounds
Gallery started by Roger Cornfoot, with 10 posts, 146 images and viewed 3,642 times.
Updated 182 months ago.
An attempt to show photos from all Football club grounds in the British Isles, league, by league, for the 2009-10 season. THE ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE (2009-10) 38473 Stadium of Light, Sunderland 897474 Kingston Communications Stadium, Hull City 777044 Ewood Park, Blackburn Rovers 762261 Turf Moor ...
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Coastal Piers/used & disused
Gallery started by brian sowerby, with 4 posts, 42 images and viewed 3,004 times.
Updated 198 months ago.
There are some very interesting and very old piers through out the UK ,some used ,and some now closed down.If you have pictures of any pier please share with others Used Piers:Brighton Pier (used to be called Palace Pier), East Sussex 40097 334460 Eastbourne Pier, East Sussex 307512 307609 ...