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Happy Birthday to ya- February
Article by Basher Eyre, with 3875 words, 143 images and viewed 178 times.
Updated 9 hours ago.
For several years now I have recorded the names of those eminent people that have died during the last month. I am, however, equally interested in birthdays. So I am going to endeavour to find a person born on each day (living or dead) and then find a relevant photo on Geograph. So sit back and ...
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Events On This Day In History
Article by Thomas Nugent, with 103905 words, 3,369 images and viewed 23,423 times.
Updated 9 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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Former youth hostels of Great Britain
Article by Stephen Craven, with 6172 words, 171 images and viewed 44,133 times.
Updated 29 days ago.
INTRODUCTION
Background
The idea for this article came from a discussion on the Geograph forum in March 2017 which highlighted that fact that there are hundreds of former youth hostels in Great Britain. Many of these closed over the years due to declining use or building decay, but from the early ...
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Class 150 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 5487 words, 636 images and viewed 9,403 times.
Updated 6 months ago.
Introduction
[img=https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1700002963a49da13542e0726b7bb758/150_front.jpg Class 150 No. 150119 Accrington Railway Station]
The British Rail Class 150 Sprinter is a class of diesel multiple-unit trains. They were built by BREL, York between 1984 and 1987. A total of 137 ...
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Examples of Ordnance Survey Abbreviations
Article by David Hawgood, with 3132 words, 130 images and viewed 68,309 times.
Updated 8 months ago.
This is a work in progress. Through the Geograph discussion forum we are collecting examples of as many abbreviations as possible used on Ordnance Survey maps at 1:25,000 (25K) and 1:50,000 (50K) scales - and we want examples of other abbreviations.
Note that maps may have changed since the article ...
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Architectural features illustrated
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 6166 words, 899 images and viewed 4,057 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, 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 3,971 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, 2012
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4638 words, 2,790 images and viewed 4,336 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 3,628 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
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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 2021
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3946 words, 2,642 images and viewed 3,869 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2019
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4102 words, 2,679 images and viewed 4,067 times.
Updated 14 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Hughes
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2024 Geograph Calendar
Gallery started by Robin Stott, with 4 posts, 104 images and viewed 1,133 times.
Updated 15 months ago.
Calendar format: A4 landscape: 297 x 210mm = 10:7 = 1.43:1≈ 3:2 and 4:3. Closest is 7:5 – not a format I use! 7554534 Cover 7380885 7417054 7432700 7456387 7534953 7576408 7551754 7603503 7400414 7285484 7364486 7377584 My Geograph 2024 calendar selection featuring some of the Irish ...
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THE GRAND CHRISTMAS MARKET TOUR 2023
Article by Roy Hughes, with 2171 words, 167 images and viewed 3,804 times.
Updated 25 months ago.
ITINERARY
Page 2.... Sunday 6th November - Royal Leamington Spa
Page 3.... Monday 7th November - Birmingham, the Frankfurt German Market
Page 4.... Saturday 11th November - Cardiff
Page 5.... Friday 17th November - Nottingham, Christmas Winter Wonderland market
Page ...
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Land's End to John o' Groats
Article by JThomas, with 39014 words, 4,284 images and viewed 5,932 times.
Updated 29 months ago.
... , Leamington Spa
| SP3266 | - | Victoria House, Leamington Spa | 3397288 | 3397299 | Willes Road, Leamington Spa
| SP3366 | - | Houses on Burbury Close, Lillingtona | 3906753 | 3906754 | Burbury Close, Lillington
| SP3466 | - | Field entrance ...
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DAY TRIPS BY TRAIN - 2021
Article by Roy Hughes, with 7124 words, 259 images and viewed 1,940 times.
Updated 47 months ago.
DAY TRIPS BY TRAIN 2021
My wife and I very much enjoy taking day trips by train. We live in Worcestershire and have easy access to train trips in any direction from our home. We tend to take most of our "long distance" trips on Saturdays or Bank Holidays when Off-Peak fares are available all day. ...
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My 2022 Calendar
Gallery started by Robin Stott, with 8 posts, 208 images and viewed 1,346 times.
Updated 49 months ago.
6805667 6449494 6858556 6199835 6000067 5813759 6663928 5981096 6618697 6325266 6704682 6134554 5699373 I've trawled through my back catalogue of 20,000 (yikes! I apologise to the hamsters and will leave a carrot or two for them) and chosen these. I have taken one from ...
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WW1 Great War Centenary - Drill Halls
Article by John M, with 13781 words, 1,165 images and viewed 33,538 times.
Updated 73 months ago.
Introduction
Drill halls were built from 1860 for the local Rifle Volunteer Corps funded by public subscription or local benefactors. This became more formalised with the 1863 Volunteer Act. The units required a secure armoury and place to train. Initially this may have been found in the town hall, ...
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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 47,677 times.
Updated 93 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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Tributaries of the River Severn
Article by John M, with 3615 words, 1,025 images and viewed 8,233 times.
Updated 97 months ago.
Introduction
This article shows a representative collection of photographs taken by Geograph contributors for the tributaries of the River Severn.
The first post gives an overview of the tributaries from the source in Wales to the Bristol Channel and further posts give a collection of photographs ...