Save the date! #AllAboutThatPlace is back! It starts Friday 27 September 2024. What are you hoping to learn? What would you like to see more of?
#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies #StreetStudy #StreetStudies #HouseHistory #HouseHistories #CemeteryStudy #CemeteryStudies
In addition to her #RootsTech presentation #OnePlaceStudies: Studying a Village, @Liz has one with a different #OnePlaceStudy focus: #StreetStudies.
Find out how Liz is researching the history of her street and its residents—lots of great ideas on how you can do the same for the street where you live, or one that your ancestors inhabited! https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/session/one-place-studies-studying-a-street
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For #MapMonday, a close-up view of part of #Rawtenstall, Lancashire, where Bank Street is the subject of a #OnePlaceStudy (or #StreetStudy) recently begun (and registered with us) by our Chair, @Springhill_OPS.
Profile page: https://www.one-place-studies.org/bank-street-rawtenstall/
Country: England Region (County/State / Province): Lancashire Website: www.springhillhistory.org.uk/page-4/page-17/index.html Contact: Janet Barrie Photo Credit: None specified Study Description This study aims to reconstruct Bank St, a major shopping street in Rawtenstall by beginning with a resident's reminiscences of 1870s and working backwards and forwards through census, newspapers and other data. Timeframe 1800s Population None specified Social...
The latest member-registered #OnePlaceStudy to be added to our website is Tony Smith's #StreetStudy of St John's Square, Wakefield.
Find out more on the OPS profile page: https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/west-yorkshire/st-johns-square-wakefield/
#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceWednesday
Country: England Region (County/State / Province): West Yorkshire Website: www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk Contact: Tony Smith Study Description St. Johns Square, just north of Wakefield City Centre and the church is a Georgian development that was built between 1791 to 1796. It was masterminded by John Lee, a local solicitor and Francis Maude, a wool merchant. The study will focus...
Another new member-registered #OnePlaceStudy is a #StreetStudy, of Northdown Close, #Ruislip, Middlesex—a living memory of the street where one-placer Christine Payne lived.
Find out more in the overview on this study's profile page on our website: https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/middlesex/northdown-close-ruislip/
Country: England Region (County/State / Province): Middlesex Website: None specified Contact: Christine Payne Study Description Northdown Close Ruislip 1940-1962 This is a living memory of the Street where I lived and as part of a One Place Study. Overview 20A Northdown Close Ruislip On the 31st of October 1952, it was in the back bedroom of...
Another addition to our member-registered #OnePlaceStudies! Kate Holloway is doing a #StreetStudy of Warren Road, #Bexleyheath, an area she walked during lockdown. Now Kate wants to go back in time—a #OnePlaceStudy is the next best thing! 😀
Profile page: https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/greater-london/warren-road/
Country: England Region (County/State / Province): Greater London Website: None specified Contact: Kate Holloway Study Description Warren Road, Bexleyheath is somewhere my daughter and I walked during lockdown. Jenkins Directory 1920 lists eleven houses in that road and I wondered when they were built, who lived there, what the occupants did for a living and whether...
Has it dawned on you yet just how wonderful #OnePlaceStudies are?!? 😀
Join in with our mid-week social media chat #OnePlaceWednesday, using the hashtag to follow along or to contribute #OnePlaceStudy / #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory / #CemeteryStudy news, views, resources, questions, or general chat at any time during the day.
We've three newly-registered #OnePlaceStudies to tell you about today!
First, a #StreetStudy—our member John Cordwell is researching the residents of Haw Street in Wotton-under-Edge, #Gloucestershire, from the 18th to the mid-20th centuries.
Profile page: https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/gloucestershire/haw-street-wotton-under-edge/
#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy #WottonUnderEdge
Country: England Region (County/State / Province): Gloucestershire Website: None specified Contact: John Cordwell Study Description Investigating the lives of the people who lived there. Timeframe 18th century to mid 20th century. Population None specified Social Media Links None specified In-Depth Report None specified
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