Local history

In this special blog we provide hints and tips to help you discover the history of your street on our Newspaper Archive, as part of our local history month.

St Nicholas Churchyard Gosforth Newcastle UK

Okay, these photos might not change your life, but they will wake up your present moment, and that's what life is made up of.

Close Up... The Old Wellington Inn

Folkestone, The Fish Market c.1955. #Folkestone #Fishmarket #Marketdays #1950s #nostalgia

The Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society - Preserving the Past, Embracing the Present, Anticipating the Future

A hidden archive of glorious Kodachrome, rediscovered.

Here's what Los Angeles looked like before the stars came.

So many places have vanished over the centuries - but traces of them still remain to this day

From Beano's, Allders and the Blue Orchid - which one do you miss the most?

On 16 May 1968, a gas explosion in the kitchen of an 18th floor flat resulted in the collapse of the entire south-east corner of Ronan Point, a 22-storey east London tower block, killing four people and injuring 17. The disaster led to a loss of public confidence in high-rise residential buildings and resulted in major changes in UK building regulations

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Bowhead House, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1540-1879, demolished

Ed Stewpot Stewart opens Britain's first McDonald's; 1974

Of all the terrible slums created by the Industrial Revolution, Angel Meadow in Manchester was the worst – a violent Dickensian nightmare ridden with crime and disease that even Friedrich Engels called 'hell on earth'. One of the residents was the great-great-great-grandfather of 'Independent' writer Dean Kirby, who tells his story here

America's national parks are full of beauty and natural wonders, but they're also home to many things that can strike fear in the hearts of hesitant hikers.