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The Football Grounds of Britain and Ireland 2025-26
Article by Roger Cornfoot, with 4863 words, 1,157 images and viewed 14,279 times.
Updated 1 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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Events On This Day In History
Article by Thomas Nugent, with 103905 words, 3,369 images and viewed 23,427 times.
Updated 10 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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Preserved diesel locomotives of British Rail
Article by Roger Cornfoot, with 3753 words, 1,055 images and viewed 14,180 times.
Updated 23 days ago.
Manufacturers in the United States and mainland Europe had started building diesel locomotives from the late 19th century and in large numbers from the 1930s onwards. In the UK, most of the pre-grouping companies experimented with them. The LMS produced a successful series of diesel shunting ...
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Class 158 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 8164 words, 1,852 images and viewed 15,669 times.
Updated 5 months 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 156 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 4297 words, 518 images and viewed 6,870 times.
Updated 5 months 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 ...
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Beam Engines in the UK
Article by Chris Allen, with 15257 words, 737 images and viewed 36,113 times.
Updated 9 months ago.
INTRODUCTION
To many people the archetypal stationary steam engine is the beam engine. The UK was where the beam engine (initially all steam engines were beam engines) was invented and it is now where the largest number are to be found; including many workable examples.
There are over 170 beam ...
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Class 185 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 1910 words, 217 images and viewed 3,542 times.
Updated 10 months ago.
Introduction
[img=https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1700002963a49da13542e0726b7bb758/185_front.jpg TransPennine Express 185 No.185133 York Railway Station]
Class 185 Pennine is a class of Diesel Multiple Units (DMU's) that were built in Germany by Siemens for the train operating company First ...
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British Road Signs 2002
Article by Road Engineer, with 6012 words, 453 images and viewed 11,171 times.
Updated 10 months ago.
Introduction
This article is a collection of photos of British road signs.
For simplicity, the photos in this article are structured using the following headings:
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| | Warning Signs: | | Regulatory Signs: | | Informatory Signs: |
| | Junctions | | Compulsory ...
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My own monthly photographs
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 793 words, 259 images and viewed 2,702 times.
Updated 12 months ago.
Before YOMP
I have put together this article as a show piece to illustrate the variety of subjects and the wide geographical distribution of my contributions to Geograph and as a reminder of the many happy times I have spent acquiring these images. The YOMP competition as such was not established ...
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My own day in History
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 5452 words, 2,060 images and viewed 12,160 times.
Updated 12 months ago.
Introduction
The discussion topic "This day in history" has now been running for over 10 years. Initially it generated a lot of interest and attracted a lot of contributors. But latterly interest has dwindled to such an extent that there are only four contributors still in the game - namely John ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2013
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4540 words, 2,839 images and viewed 5,203 times.
Updated 12 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 4,088 times.
Updated 12 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 6,346 times.
Updated 13 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
A J Paxton (24602) 5
7729230 7761402 7832996 7833075 7904081 ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2017
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4024 words, 2,600 images and viewed 3,699 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Reid
Adam Ward (6363) 5
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2016
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4076 words, 2,609 images and viewed 3,972 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AlastairG
Adam Ward (6363) 15
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2015
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4260 words, 2,667 images and viewed 3,963 times.
Updated 14 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 4,123 times.
Updated 14 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 4,340 times.
Updated 14 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 3,839 times.
Updated 14 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 3,631 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: A Holmes to AlastairG ...
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2009
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4667 words, 2,575 images and viewed 4,063 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: adam sommerville to Alexander P Kapp ...
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2008
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4182 words, 2,382 images and viewed 3,414 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AlastairG
Adam Ward (6363) 8
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Adie Jackson (14680) 1 ...
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2007
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4054 words, 2,208 images and viewed 3,382 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: A Holmes to Alan Walker
A Holmes (13178) 1
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Adam Brooks (7979) 1
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Adam Ward (6363) 5
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2023
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3950 words, 2,632 images and viewed 3,855 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to AJD
A J Paxton (24602) 17
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2022
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3897 words, 2,620 images and viewed 4,300 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
A J Paxton (24602) 5
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