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Berkshire
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} Shinfield - St. Mary's
Parish Church.
} The original church at Shinfield was built in 1069. |
Cheshire
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} Bowdon - St. Mary's Church *Additional
images and more info*
} Includes quote from Balshaw's Directory (1855). Bowdon Church is
today surrounded by a paved area made up from the headstones of the
very many graves in the churchyard that had been flattened in 1860. |

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} The Cat and Fiddle
Inn, near Buxton *Additional images and more info*
} High on the moors between Buxton and Macclesfield. |
Cumberland
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} Aspatria - King Street,
about 1930. |
Devon
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} The Town of Ashburton, about 1845,
} Engraving, about 1845, from Dugdale's "England and Wales
Delineated". |
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} Powderham Castle engraving, about
1845,
} Engraving, about 1845, from Dugdale's "England and Wales
Delineated". |
Gloucestershire
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} Painswick, a Cotswolds
town. |
Hampshire
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} Hampshire - The Market
Place, Petersfield. *Image rescanned*
} Engraving, about 1845, from Dugdale's "England and Wales Delineated" |
Lancashire
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} Jacob's Ladder, Nuttall Park, early twentieth
century *New*
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} Broughton High School for Girls,
Higher Broughton - in 1931. *Updated*
} With information about how and when the school was founded. |




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} Manchester - Market
Street. *Additions*
} Market Street is the city's main shopping street and for a long time was the home of the once magnificent Lewis's department store.
Manchester Exchange (Manchester Royal Exchange) is also here. |




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} Piccadilly, Manchester and the Albion Hotel, 1820s-1927. *New*
} Piccadilly has always been one of the city's main thoroughfares and shopping area.
Manchester Royal Infirmary, built in 1752, was here until 1908. |
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} Manchester - The
Shambles, 1900. |
Leicestershire
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} Bradgate Park, Little Matlock *New*
} Once owned by the Grey family. A reservoir was built here in 1860 and
the park was given to Leicestershire, for public use, in 1929. |
London, City of
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} The Charterhouse, City of London. *New*
} Built in 1371 for Carthusian monks, taken by the Tudor King Henry
who sold it on, turned into a home,
then into Sutton's Hospital and was the first home of Charterhouse
School.
5 postcards.
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Kent
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} Kitt's Cotty
House, near Aylesford.
} Engraving, about 1845, from Dugdale's "England and Wales
Delineated". |
Oxfordshire, but some places formerly
in Berkshire
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} Ardington - Holy Trinity Church.
} Ardington, near Wantage, is a pretty Oxfordshire village, lying
in the Vale of the White Horse. Here are 4 photographs and a 1903 postcard. *New image and info*
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} East Hagbourne
and St. Andrew's Church.
} East Hagbourne, originally in Berkshire, is a really beautiful
village. |
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} East Hagbourne, Whitechapel Road, about 1912 *New*
} Now known as Blewbury Road, the image shows a saddler's and harness
maker's premises and Whitechapel Cottage. |
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} [Didcot] North Hagbourne: South View, 1914 *New*
} Recently built houses on South View, later Wessex Road. With five young boys. |
South London Cinemas
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} The Golden Domes
Cinema, Streatham; The Plaza Cinema, Catford, The Ritz Cinema,
Balham; The Rex Cinema, Norbury
} (Golden Domes shown on left). |
Staffordshire
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} Ilam, Holy Cross Church *New*
} The church before and after the 1856 restoration. |
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} Ilam Hall *New*
} Lithograph, with accompanying text, from William Adam's "The
Gem of the Peak".
The Hall was rebuilt in the Elizabethan Tudor style during the reign of George IV. |
Wales
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} Aberystwith
Castle, Cardiganshire (Ceredigion) *Image rescanned*
} Engraving, about 1845, from Dugdale's "England and Wales
Delineated". |

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} Betws
y Coed, Conwy: Miners' Bridge *New*
} Albumen print and postcard ofa painting by H. Hadfield Cubley.
The wooden bridge, used by lead miners to get to work,
spans the Afon Llugwy. |
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} Mochdre, Montgomeryshire
(Powys) - St. Asaph's parish church. |
War and War Graves
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} How He Won the Victoria
Cross (the Zulu War)
} Postcard of a painting showing one of the acts of bravery of Captain
and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, later General, Redvers H. Buller |



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} France and Belgium
} 1. France:
Faubourg-D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras;
Etaples - a general view and the headstone for JH Smithies (Etaples
shown left);
Poppies in Flanders Field;
Belfast Tower, near Albert;
Honlon Cemetery nr St. Quentin;
Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, near Wimereux and Boulogne.
Thiepval British Memorial, near Albert;
Wimereux Communal Cemetery
2. Belgium:
Dickebusch New Military Cemetery Extension, south of Ypres
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} Le Touquet. Paris
Plage. La Gare des Tramways (tram station) *New*
} A World War One postcard. |
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} The Great War. - Estrées (Somme). Entrance of the
Village *New*
} A World War One postcard. |

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} WW2 - Reginald Andrews' Franconia Adventure*New*
} One soldier's small part in the Second World War and his trip to the Crimea. |
Yorkshire - West Riding
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} Tong - St. James' Parish Church *New*
} There is archaeological evidence that a church was built here before
the Norman Conquest. |
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} Tong - Houses at Holme, 1910 or before *New*
} Two sixteenth century deeds link the Stead family to Holme in the
Lordship of Tong. |