Lancashire, England : Classification : Photographs / Pictures
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| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | 1820 British Settlers to South Africa |
| Link: | http://www.1820settlers.com/ |
| Description: | 1820 British Settlers to South Africa |
| Extra Info: | Information about the 1820 British settlers to South Africa, including transcribed letters, photographs and pictures of some of the settlers and a forum. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | A Celebration of England in Photographs |
| Link: | http://www.thornber.net/england/ |
| Description: | A Celebration of England in Photographs |
| Extra Info: | Photographs of historic places in England. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Beamish Collections Online |
| Link: | http://collections.beamish.org.uk/ |
| Description: | Online Collection from Beamish Museum |
| Extra Info: | Includes photographs, advertising materials, trade catalogues and lots of information about the social history surrounding our ancestors. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | British Pathe Film Archive |
| Link: | http://www.britishpathe.com/ |
| Description: | British Pathe Film Archive 1896-1970 |
| Extra Info: | All sorts of social history on film as well as royal visits, wing walkers, early pictures of heathrow, swimming galas and much more. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Bury Image Bank |
| Link: | http://www.buryimagebank.org.uk/ |
| Description: | Bury Image Bank |
| Extra Info: | Images of Bury past and present. Includes pictures of schools, shops. churches, public houses and more. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Churches of Britain and Ireland |
| Link: | http://www.churches-uk-ireland.org/ |
| Description: | Churches of Britain and Ireland |
| Extra Info: | Photographs of the churches your ancestors attended. |
| Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Coal Mining History Resource Centre |
| Link: | http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/home/ |
| Description: | Coal Mining History Resource Centre |
| Extra Info: | Includes picture of the mines and details of the mines rescue crews. |
| Classification: | Newspapers, Religious Lists / Records, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Connected Histories |
| Link: | http://www.connectedhistories.org/ |
| Description: | British History Sources, 1500-1900, from the Universities of London, Hertfordshire, and Sheffield |
| Extra Info: | Burney collection of newspapers, British History Online, the Charles Booth Archive, Old Bailey Online and much more... |
| Classification: | Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | County Asylum |
| Link: | http://www.countyasylums.com/ |
| Description: | Rediscovering the Asylums and Mental Hospitals of England and Wales |
| Extra Info: | Lists architects' names and more. |
| Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Greater Manchester Police - Historical Image Collection |
| Link: | http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmpolice1/collections... |
| Description: | Greater Manchester Police - Historical Image Collection on Flikr |
| Extra Info: | Includes images of police from yesteryear, some old faces of crime and old police vehicles. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | GREATHEAD One Name Study |
| Link: | http://www.greathead.org/ |
| Description: | GREATHEAD One Name Study including variants GRE(E)(A)T(H)(E)ED Worldwide |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Halewood Local History Pages |
| Link: | http://www.roydenhistory.co.uk/halewood/ |
| Description: | Halewood Local History Pages |
| Extra Info: | Includes a photographic archive. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Sports Clubs and Associations, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Hurst and Surrounding District (Ashton-under-Lyne) |
| Link: | http://www.c5d.co.uk/hurstpages.htm |
| Description: | Hurst and Surrounding District (Ashton-under-Lyne) |
| Extra Info: | Includes Hurst United Methodist Football team, maps of old Ashton and Hurst, many old photographs and more. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Irish Family History in the Liverpool Area |
| Link: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~... |
| Description: | Irish Family History in the Liverpool Area |
| Extra Info: | Includes photographs and histories of many Liverpool churches. |
| Classification: | Tithe Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Knowsley Local History |
| Link: | http://history.knowsley.gov.uk/ |
| Description: | Knowsley Local History - Its People and Hertiage |
| Extra Info: | Includes Cronton, Halewood, Huyton, Kirkby, Knowsley village, Prescot, Roby, Tarbock and Whiston. |
| Classification: | Newspapers, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Lancashire Life and Times |
| Link: | http://www.lantern.lancashire.gov.uk/ |
| Description: | Lancashire Life and Times |
| Extra Info: | Includes details of Lancashire Pioneers, images of the county and more. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, School / Educational Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Liverpool Schools |
| Link: | http://www.liverpool-schools.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Liverpool Schools |
| Extra Info: | Includes Liverpool teachers from trade directories, census and more. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Lytham St. Annes-on-Sea |
| Link: | http://www.lytham-stannes.com/ |
| Description: | Lytham St. Annes-on-Sea - Its History and Photgraphs |
| Classification: | School / Educational Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Manchester High School for Girls |
| Link: | http://www.manchesterhigh.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Manchester High School for Girls |
| Extra Info: | Click on archive, then database for letters, minutes of governors' meetings 1873-1905 and more. |
| Classification: | Information, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Military Badges and Military Images |
| Link: | http://www.militarybadges.org.uk/ |
| Description: | Military Badges and Military Images |
| Extra Info: | May not work correctly in all browsers. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
| Link: | http://www.movinghere.org.uk/ |
| Description: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Old UK Photographs |
| Link: | http://www.oldukphotos.com/ |
| Description: | Old UK Photographs |
| Extra Info: | Lots of old photographs of interesting locations around the UK, many are taken from old postcards. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | P & O Heritage and Archives |
| Link: | http://www.poheritage.com/ |
| Description: | P & O Heritage and Archives |
| Extra Info: | Includes British India Steam Navigation Company, the Orient Line and other companies absorbed into P&O. The archive contains photographs, ephemera, fact sheets on the individual ships, with the shipbuilders' details and more. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | People's Network |
| Link: | http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/discover/simple |
| Description: | People's Network |
| Extra Info: | Items from a range of libraries, museums and archives including images and audio. Lots of photographs from mines in Durham to the scenery in Skye and much more. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Photo Ark Website |
| Link: | http://www.photo-ark.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Photos and Postcards Around England |
| Extra Info: | This site has not been updated for a while but contains photos, such as old shops and their proprietors. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Photographs of Churches in Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley, Pendle and the Ribble Valley |
| Link: | http://www.mylancashireancestors.co.uk/churches/ch... |
| Description: | Photographs of Churches in Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley, Pendle and the Ribble Valley |
| Extra Info: | See photographs of the church your ancestors attended. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | PRATLEY One Name Study |
| Link: | http://www.pratley.info/ |
| Description: | PRATLEY One Name Study |
| Classification: | Newspapers, Photographs / Pictures, Travellers / Romany / Canal Folk |
| Title: | Romany Genes Website |
| Link: | http://www.romanygenes.webeden.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Romany Genes Website |
| Extra Info: | Many photographs and pictures of those with Romany genes and their homes. |
| Classification: | Information, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Science and Society Picture Library |
| Link: | http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Science and Society Picture Library |
| Extra Info: | Over 50,000 images from buildings, such as textile mills, to pictures of historical fire engines. |
| Classification: | School / Educational Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | St Marks School and Church, Fletcher Street, Bolton |
| Link: | http://www.stmarksbolton.webspace.virginmedia.com/ |
| Description: | St Marks School and Church, Fletcher Street, Bolton |
| Extra Info: | Includes many school photographs and lists of pupils from the 1880's through to the 1970's, the head's diaries and more. Also a list of coal miners and cotton workers of the area. |
| Classification: | Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | The Children's Society Archive 1881-1918 |
| Link: | http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/ |
| Description: | The Children's Society Archive 1881-1918 |
| Extra Info: | Some records and the history of each home, many photographs. |
| Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Religious Lists / Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | The History of Newton-Le-Willows and Earlstown |
| Link: | http://www.n-le-w.co.uk/ |
| Description: | The History of Newton-Le-Willows and Earlstown |
| Extra Info: | Click on local history and scroll through the pages of articles. Includes a list of the rectors of Winwick, old photographs of the Sankey sugar works and more. |
| Classification: | Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Todmorden and Walsden |
| Link: | http://www.todmordenandwalsden.co.uk |
| Description: | Todmorden and Walsden |
| Extra Info: | Information and pictures for mills and mines. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Trafford Life and Times |
| Link: | http://www.trafford.gov.uk/content/tca/ |
| Description: | Trafford Life and Times |
| Extra Info: | A searchable database of photographs and reminiscences, illustrating both the past and present. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Victorian and Edwardian Photographs |
| Link: | http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/ |
| Description: | Victorian and Edwardian Photographs |
| Extra Info: | Includes famous victorians, actresses, family albums and much more. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Viewfinder - Historic Photographs of England |
| Link: | http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/ |
| Description: | Viewfinder - Historic Photographs of England |
| Extra Info: | Lots of interesting images of England's social, industrial, architectural and archaeological history. |
| Classification: | Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Waymarking - Interesting Locations |
| Link: | http://www.waymarking.com/ |
| Description: | Waymarking - Interesting Locations |
| Extra Info: | Pictures of all types of interesting places and features including prisons, churches, pubs, schools and more. Easy to search. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | Wigan World Website |
| Link: | http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/stuff/ |
| Description: | Wigan World Website |
| Extra Info: | Information and many interesting articles about the Wigan area. |
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