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	[EPR000481] Watford Grammar School for Boys, Watford, 1935
	[EPW016676] The London Electric Wire Company Works and environs, Leyton, 1926
	[EPW061546] A cityscape from Upper Knowle towards the city centre, Bristol, from the south-east, 1939. This image has been produced from a damaged print.
	[EPW048306] The residential estate at Knowle Park, Knowle, 1935
	[EPW048307] The residential estate at Knowle Park, Knowle, 1935
	[EPW048324] The residential area at Redland and Bishopston, Bristol, 1935
	[EPW048316] The residential area surrounding Hampton Road, Ravenswood Road and Cotham Lawn Road, Cotham, 1935
	[EAW000698] Brandon Hill, Bristol, 1946

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	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061115 - "Vivian Close"	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "Queen's Avenue at the junction with Hagden Lane and..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "Early 20th century housing along Mildred Avenue."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "Ribbon development along Rickmansworth Road."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "The old Shepherd's Cottage in the south-east corner,..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "School drive from an entrance on Shepherd's Road, close..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "The front terraced lawns on the south side of the school,..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "A new east wing was added in 1928 to accommodate the..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "The main building, with its neo-Georgian façade, opened..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "The old pavilion at the west end of the school site,..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "The old pavilion at the west end of the site, which was..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "Station Road awaiting new factory development."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "The School field, marked out for athletics and cricket in..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "Open air swimming pool in the north-west corner of the..."	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "Watford Metropolitan Station opened in November 1925"	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "Detached 1920s housing on Shepherd's Road"	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "Cassiobury Park Avenue"	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPR000481 - "Cassiobury Public Park"	5 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW016676 - "Members' Stand and famous old scorebox on the Brewster..."	6 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW016676 - "The late-Victorian cricket pavilion on Crawley Road, Army..."	6 years ago
	John Swain replied to a pin on image EPW016676 - "This famous old ground was the home of Essex County..."	6 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "The Pavilion End on Harleyford Street."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Pavilion"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "East Stand (Top and Bottom)."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "East Mound"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Vauxhall End"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Vauxhall Stand"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Wall surrounding the cricket ground built in the winter..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Alverstone House"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Lockwood House"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Lohmann House"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Clayton Street"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Read House"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Oval Mansions"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW060456 - "Grace House"	7 years ago
	John Swain replied to a pin on image EPW060456 - "This area suffered badly during the Second World War and..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW019306 - "Cassiobury Park Avenue"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW019306 - "Queens Avenue"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW019306 - "Mildred Avenue"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW019306 - "Rickmansworth Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW019306 - "Shepherds Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW019306 - "The former West Herts Golf Club pavilion built in 1890..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW019306 - "Terraced front lawns on the south-east side of the main..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "House of Charity, Industrial School and Chapel (1890-1902)."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - " A series of short 19th century terraces on the east side of Victoria Park, between St.John's Lane and Hill Avenue. From north to south the streets are: Montgomery, Mardyke, Monmouth, Merioneth, Maidstone, Water Lane, Margate, Nottingham and Newport, or right to left in the photograph. "	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Bonded Wills Warehouse, one of three built by the tobacco company between 1905 and 1914, which remain significant elements of the townscape in the 21st century as Grade II Listed buildings."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Bedminster, an industrial part of Bristol from 1897, which grew up as a Somerset town in the 19th century, from 3,000 in 1801 to 78,000 in 1881, based on coal, tanneries, glue, paper, metal smelting and the famous tobacco company of WD & HO Wills."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Bedminster Station on Fraser Street, opened on 27th May 1884."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Victoria Park on the north-east side of Windmill Hill. It was opened in 1891 on a sloping site and is the largest municipal park in south Bristol (20 hectares). The image shows the well-laid out paths in the park and a bowling green and tennis courts have been added to the amenities."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Perrett's Park was opened around 1900, at a time when the southern Bristol suburb of Knowle was expanding either side of the Wells Road. With an area of just six hectares, it remains a popular open space in the locality, with steep slopes providing plenty of sledging in the harsher winters."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Carboniferous Limestone Clifton-Clevedon Ridge forming the skyline to this 1939 cityscape of Bristol."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Ashton Park"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Leigh Woods"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Clifton"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Cabot Tower (1897) on Brandon Hill."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Wills Memorial Tower, University of Bristol (1925)."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Park Street"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "St.Mary Redcliffe Church"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "City Centre"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Upper Knowle, late 19th and early 20th century suburban growth on both sides of the Wells Road. "	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Totterdown"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Calcott Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Norton Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Woodbridge Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Hengrove Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Bayham Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Redcatch Road, which dates from about 1920 and was designated the B3122 later in the 1920s. It became one of the routes from the Wells Road westwards towards Lower Knowle, Windmill Hill and Bedminster. On the 1904 OS map of Knowle, Redcatch Lane is shown linking St.John's Lane in Lower Knowle to the Wells Road, with associated buildings at the House of Charity (1890), Warden's Lodge, Chapel (1902) and Industrial School. Today, the House of Charity is St.Saviour's House and St.Peter's Hospice occupies the remaining buildings. "	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW061546 - "Recent (1938/9) housing development on the west side of Redcatch Park: Stoneleigh Road/Crescent/Walk."	7 years ago
	John Swain replied to a pin made on image EPW061546 with comment of -"This contributor first visited Redcatch Park in October..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048306 - "1930s Playing Field which becomes the site of the Park Local Opportunity Centre in postwar years. "	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048306 - "Housing on Kingshill Road and Wellgarth Walk built on the site of the former rugby ground."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048306 - "Stoneleigh Road/Crescent/Gardens about to be laid out in the latter part of the decade, on the west side of Redcatch Park."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048306 - "Stockwood Crescent"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048306 - "Andover Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048306 - "Axbridge Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048306 - "Recreation Ground"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048306 - "Knowle Cricket Club and Tennis Club, which date from the 1890s. "	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048306 - "Allotment gardens occupying the site of the future Redcatch Park, which was open by the outbreak of war in September 1939."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a comment to the image EPW048307 - " The interwar council housing estate at Knowle Park ..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "New housing units, roads and schools being constructed on the south side of Somerdale Avenue."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Priory Road, one of the developments on the eastern side of the Wells Road, triggered by the arrival of electric trams in 1900. "	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Knowle"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "A mixed land use zone which eventually became the Broadwalk Shopping Centre."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Knowle Cricket Ground & Tennis Club, with Bowling Green. The Knowle Cricket Club had been founded in Victorian times (1850s) and the first record of cricket being played on this well-appointed ground took place in 1894. Somerset used the facilities at Knowle in their county championship programme for June 1926 (against Hampshire), June 1927 (Worcestershire) and August 1928 (Essex). The famous Knowle Tennis Club was formed in 1893 and a good friend of this contributor, the late Derek Walkerdine (1936-2011), wrote a history of the club in 2007. A University Alumni Reunion event for the Geography Class of 1965 was held at the Tennis Club in July 2005 and a most enjoyable occasion it was too!"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Redcatch Park:Bowling Green and Tennis Courts. This area had been allotments during the construction of the Knowle Park Estate, before becoming one of the valued green spaces in south Bristol, just prior to the Second World War. Wartime bomb shelters were erected in Redcatch Park and later tree planting in the park uncovered remains of at least one shelter and rubble from bombed houses."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Greenwood Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Wellgarth Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Wellgarth Walk"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Knowle Park Primary School"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Hill Crest"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Broadfield Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Springleaze"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Spring Gardens"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Kingshill Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Greenleaze"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Crossways Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Recreation Ground"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048307 - "Teignmouth Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Montrose Avenue"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Woodstock Avenue"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "St.Ronan's Avenue"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Montpelier Railway Station, opened in October 1874, with the opening of the first section of the Clifton Extension Railway to Clifton Down."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Railway Arches over the Gloucester Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Redland Railway Station opened in April 1897."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Montpelier"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Warwick Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Clifton Down Station just to the west of Whiteladies Road and off this image."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Abbotsford Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Junction of Cotham Hill and Aberdeen Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Cotham House"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Cotham Vale"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "St.Matthew's Church"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Kensington Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Hampton Park Railway bridge"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Railway overbridge on Hampton Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Great Western & Midland Joint Railway: Clifton Extension 1874."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Waverley Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Ravenswood Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Trelawney Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Cotham Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "Cotham Lawn Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048316 - "The relatively new buildings opened in September 1931, after Cotham Grammar School (founded 1856) moved out from its congested Inner City site on Unity Street, after the First World War. These fine buildings replaced a patchwork of old army huts and remain the core of Cotham School on the Cotham Lawn Road campus in the 21st century."	7 years ago
	John Swain replied to a pin made on image EPW048316 with comment of -"This contributor taught at the school in the Spring Term..."	7 years ago
	John Swain replied to a pin made on image EPW048324 with comment of -"Redland Station opened on April 12, 1897, on the Bristol..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048324 - "The location of my third and final set of "digs" in Bristol and the best, sharing the accommodation with several other students, courtesy of the Waller family, from September 1964 until June 1965."	7 years ago
	John Swain replied to a pin made on image EPW048324 with comment of -"In John Keegan's book, "Churchill's Generals", Abacus..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EPW048324 - "Tyne Road, the location of my second set of lodgings in 1963/64 whilst at Bristol University."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "An interesting conundrum is the row of pallets extending down the right-hand side of Jacob's Wells Road. Timber storage for the sawmills at Canon's Marsh or could they be building materials for the pre-fabricated, single-storey housing units constructed in post-war Bristol (Sea Mills)? "	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "On an Edwardian large-scale map of the area, this building is shown as the Public Baths."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Site of the 19th century (1855) St.Peter's Church until 1939 and which became occupied with a 1950s high-rise (8-storey) block of flats and maisonettes. This Clifton Wood church was closed in 1938 due to the decrease in religiosity in 1930s Bristol."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a comment to the image EAW000698 - " An interesting view of the area to the west of the city..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Bristol Grammar School"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Evidence of wartime bomb damage in the areas between St.George's Road and Anchor Road."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "College Street"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Great George Street"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Queen's Parade"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Wills Memorial Tower (1925)"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "St. George's Church, built in the 1820s and now a concert venue."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Bowling Green"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Cabot Tower (105 feet high), completed in 1897 to commemorate John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland four centuries earlier."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Brandon Hill"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "St.George's Primary School"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Bellevue Crescent"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Hotwell Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "St.George's Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Jacob's Wells Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Gasworks Ferry"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Anchor Lane"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Canon's Marsh freight line opened in 1906 and linked to Ashton Gate via the Ashton Avenue Bridge to the west-south-west."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Railway sidings at Canon's Marsh"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Floating Harbour"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW000698 - "Gas works at Canon's Marsh"	7 years ago
	John Swain added an image record to the groups Bristol - " Apart of the old city that I became familiar with during..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a comment to the image EAW050557 - " This contributor spent the first half of the 1960s..."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Cotham"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Kingsdown"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Tyndall's Park"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Victoria Reservoir (covered)"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Whiteladies Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Royal West of England Academy"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "University of Bristol Victoria Rooms"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Queen's Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Berkeley Square"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Park Row"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "St. George's Bristol"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Great George Street"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Charlotte Street"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Queen's Parade"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "St George's C.of E. Primary School"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Oil Storage Tanks, Canon's Marsh"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Bristol Grammar School"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Queen's Building under construction on University Walk (Engineering and Geology)."	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Royal Fort House"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Woodland Road"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "University of Bristol"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Wills Memorial Building"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Park Street"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Cabot Tower"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Brandon Hill"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "College Street"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "The Council House"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "College Green"	7 years ago
	John Swain added a pin to image EAW050557 - "Bristol Cathedral"	7 years ago