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Events On This Day In History
Article by Thomas Nugent, with 58193 words, 2,103 images and viewed 10,818 times.
Updated 3 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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Descriptive words on OS maps
Article by David Hawgood, with 20261 words, 1,721 images and viewed 24,975 times.
Updated 12 days ago.
This is a work in progress. Through the Geograph discussion forum we are collecting examples of as many descriptive words as possible used on Ordnance Survey maps, and we want examples of others. We have also worked through OS Mastermap Real World Object Catalogue . This lists anything which can be ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2017
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4024 words, 2,600 images and viewed 2,895 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Reid
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2013
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4524 words, 2,827 images and viewed 3,395 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: A Thomas to Albert Bridge
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2012
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4638 words, 2,790 images and viewed 3,039 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: A runningman to Albert Bridge ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2022
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3897 words, 2,620 images and viewed 3,198 times.
Updated 1 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 2,674 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2020
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3979 words, 2,603 images and viewed 2,428 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AJD
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Windmills
Article by Oast House Archive, with 15104 words, 736 images and viewed 34,324 times.
Updated 10 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.
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The remains of this mill show the central post that the whole structure would pivot on.
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London from the air
Article by Thomas Nugent, with 876 words, 303 images and viewed 2,388 times.
Updated 62 months ago.
Our journey includes aerial photos taken by the author within 40Km of Heathrow Airport in Grid Square TQ0776. We start in the north east of the city, heading south and then following the Thames towards and beyond Heathrow. Most, but not all, of the flights from which these photos were taken started ...
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Great War Centenary
Article by John M, with 13210 words, 1,370 images and viewed 10,613 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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Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos
Article by Chris Downer, with 52102 words, 2,760 images and viewed 41,932 times.
Updated 80 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 ...