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What a fantastic find that is, there are photos and memories, when you're on the site all you need to do is type in the name of the place you're interested in and you will find old photos etc on there. To join is free, Brilliant.

THERE ARE LOVLEY BOOKS WITH HIS PHOTO'S
IN

Thank you for this. What a great site.

Me to could spend all night on it.


Hazelx

I bought a beautiful Francis Frith book in a second hand shop here in Australia. It has a lovely photo of Whitby. I love the website.

S x

I agree that the site has some fantastic old photos and if you find any with a connection to your family I would recommend adding a 'memory' as we did so last year and have recently had a brilliant contact which is going to result in 2 siblings who knew nothing of each other finally making contact.

Lovely story Carolyn. You too Joan - wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to identify the lady on the doorstep.

For people from the Leeds area the Leodis site also has some wonderful photos. I've found a large number of photos of ancestors' streets and often their houses - www.leodis.net/


S x

Hi Susan........i have just looked up this web site and thankyou. The first picture i found was the house where my Grandmother was born in 1901. My ancestors lived in this house from at least as early as 1841 and they were still there in the 1911 census. The house is a listed building and looks no different today as it did back then. Still trying to buck up the courage to write a letter to the owner's with a request saying............"Please let me in!!"

T'uther Susan

OTHER SUSAN
I WOULD ASK,THEY MIGHT BE INTERESTED

Susan, please do it, it is very exciting and I'm sure they wont mind.

I made my Dad take me to the cottage I was born in (1953), which Mum and Dad rented at the time from 2 sisters, got chatting to a man doing the garden and told him who I was and why I was there, turned out he was renting it from the same family all these years later and i took some photos.

We then went on to where my Dad went to school in the 1930s, the class room is still there, and from there to the church where he was choir boy and there we both signed the visitors book, I put a brief discription of who we were, after that of course we just had to go to the pub where he used to drink in the early 1940s for lunch and a pint.