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==Photograph Links==
 
==Photograph Links==
 
 
 
 
  
 
'''Photographs General'''
 
'''Photographs General'''
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*[http://www.picturesofengland.com/ Pictures of England-  Exploring The Most Picturesque & Historic Parts of England]
 
*[http://www.picturesofengland.com/ Pictures of England-  Exploring The Most Picturesque & Historic Parts of England]
 
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~temples/indexe.html Richard's Church Albums]
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
'''Place Specific'''
 
'''Place Specific'''
 
 
  
 
*[http://www.motco.com/panoramas/ Panoramic Views of London and The Thames]
 
*[http://www.motco.com/panoramas/ Panoramic Views of London and The Thames]
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*[http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/ Quality photographs of Derby, Derbyshire and the Midlands including lots of Historical data]
 
*[http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/ Quality photographs of Derby, Derbyshire and the Midlands including lots of Historical data]
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*[http://www.photo-ark.co.uk/ Photo Ark- Collection of Old UK Photographs, Postcards and Images] Mainly Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire & Lancashire, plus War & Regimental Images
  
 
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track]
 
*[http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ Staffordshire Past Track]
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*[http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/ Heanor and Derbyshire Local History Society]
 
*[http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/ Heanor and Derbyshire Local History Society]
  
*[http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/ Images of Dorset Churches]
 
  
*[http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/Alist.htm Suffolk Churches Site]
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*[http://www.achurchnearyou.com Church of England]
  
*[http://www.essexchurches.info/AtoZ.asp Essex Churches a-z]
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~temples/indexe.html Richard's Church Albums]
  
*[http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norfolkindex.htm Norfolk Churches Site]
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*[http://www.churchcrawler.co.uk/ Mainly Bristol...]
  
 
*[http://www.moston.org Photographs of More Than 400 of The Historic Churches of Cheshire]
 
*[http://www.moston.org Photographs of More Than 400 of The Historic Churches of Cheshire]
 
*[http://www.britainexpress.com/wales/mid/churches.htm Churches and Religious Places in Mid Wales]
 
  
 
*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcots/theParishes.html Cotswold Churches]
 
*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcots/theParishes.html Cotswold Churches]
  
*[http://www.achurchnearyou.com Church of England]
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*[http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/ Images of Dorset Churches]
  
*[http://www.churchcrawler.co.uk/ Mainly Bristol...]
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*[http://www.essexchurches.info/AtoZ.asp Essex Churches a-z]
  
 
*[http://www.toxteth.net/places/liverpool/churches/index.htm Liverpool Churches]
 
*[http://www.toxteth.net/places/liverpool/churches/index.htm Liverpool Churches]
  
*[http://www.photo-ark.co.uk/ Photo Ark- Collection of Old UK Photographs, Postcards and Images] Mainly Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire & Lancashire, plus War & Regimental Images
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*[http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norfolkindex.htm Norfolk Churches Site]
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*[http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/Alist.htm Suffolk Churches Site]
  
*[http://www.motco.com/print/ Historic Prints of London and Other Parts of Britain]
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*[http://www.britainexpress.com/wales/mid/churches.htm Churches and Religious Places in Mid Wales]
  
  
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[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]]
 
[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]]
 
  
 
*[http://photoexchange.ourgenealogy.co.uk/pe/index.php Genealogy Photos] Search for Volunteer Photographers.
 
*[http://photoexchange.ourgenealogy.co.uk/pe/index.php Genealogy Photos] Search for Volunteer Photographers.

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Lloyd George's Domesday: a useful source c 1910

Valuation Office Records, popularly known as Lloyd George's Domesday are held at the National Archives.

This was a precursor of Capital Gains Tax. Tax would be paid on the increase in value of properties sold, so their values had to be calculated. Most were apparently done in the summer of 1914.

Every property in the country (well, England & Wales) was marked on a map, given a hereditament number and then the property described in a field book. The field books (in IR 58) each contain (up to) 100 properties and there are four standard preprinted pages for each property. You get owner, occupier, rental, a description of the property and value.

Not everything survives, of course, but where it does, you can find out if your ancestor was in a detached house or a terrace, what it was made of, who his or her neighbours were etc etc.

I've been to several talks, which all made research sound very complicated. The parish of Bury in Sussex stretches over 6 maps, so working from map to field book would be a long winded process, but there are only three field books (less than 300 properties) so you could go the other way round if looking for rural properties. The fieldbooks have references back to the maps, which are very large scale, often with coloured boundaries, so works of art.

It would be more difficult in a town, where you would have to be able to pinpoint a property on a map before you started, but townmaps are very large scale.

We may not have censuses available for the period yet, but for those who can get to the National Archives at Kew, this would certainly help our understanding of pre WW1 ancestors.


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