@nfgusedautoparts @benfulton @ohm @1ec5
The Edinburgh MESH project has made great use of #digitised street directories in association with mapping addresses on #OpenStreetMap
There's a good digitised collection of such directories for the UK at the University of Leicester archives (although MESH had higher standards). Pitt has a decent collection to 1945 for Pittsburgh. However, more fun for post-war period to ask people: there's amazing recall for old shops.
#Metadata can be an overwhelming subject. Read about how the CUL #DigitalPreservation team is working with the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory based at Cambridge University Library to manage and preserve metadata relating to #digitised collection items. By Alea Cook, Digital Preservation Analyst https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/investigating-image-metadata-at-cambridge-university-library-bd624643de8e
Writers may be interested : the article contains a link to a digitised copy of the work with the author's annotations.
#VirginiaWoolf first novel, The Voyage. #Annotated #Digitised
@Zumbador you may be interested.
The 265 surviving folios of the #AugustineGospels include 2 pages with lively illustrations: #StLuke at the beginning of his #Gospel, & 12 scenes depicting the #PassionOfChrist.
Higher-resolution images of the whole #manuscript may be seen at https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/mk707wk3350
#medieval #manuscript #6thCentury #digitised #book #OpenAccess #StAugustineOfCanterbury #PopeGregoryTheGreat #medievodon #histodon #bookstodon #StAugustine #BookIllustration #GraphicNovel @medievodons @histodons @bookstodon
#AnneOfGloucester grew up with the library of #Pleshey Castle, commissioned & collected by the #bibliophile #Bohun family, & catalogued in 1397 when her father was arrested. #WomensHistory prompts reflection on household culture, role models, generational influence - & how both we & kings may struggle with inner demons.
🎨 made for Anne's mother, #EleanorDeBohun. 🧵 13/
#BookOfHours #Psalter #digitised #manuscript #OpenAccess #MedievalWomen #medieval #medievodons #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII
An alternative series of Landscapes. This collection of images were originally captured on 35mm Negative or Transparency film stock, in either Colour or Black & White, with my ‘Ricoh XR7’ or ‘Nikon FA’ camera’s, then digitised from their original format.
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#35mm #BlackWhite #Digitised #FilmPhotography #Landscape #NikonFA #RicohXR7 #Transparency
https://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2022/11/black-theatre-makers-una-marson.html
Time to try #tooting #toots of some #library #archive #history work. #UK #britishlibrary
Check out the #digitised #manuscript of Una Marson’s play ‘A What A Price’. Building on Professor Kate Dossett’s #research into #Black British playwrights in the early 20th century.
Try the link for my new blog on the project and #UnaMarson
@histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon #blackhistory #UKhistory #theatre
The discovery and explore of a long lost, little known subterranean passage and tunnel under Renshaw Street, Liverpool City Centre. Located beneath what was once a former tyre fitting garage, next door to the Dispensary Pub. Sadly, I dont know if this will still exist, having potentially been filled in during the recent development that has taken place on this site. These photos, originally taken on 35mm negatives sometime in the early 2000’s, have been scanned and digitised.
This small but interesting underground find, consisted of a square chamber, accessed via a manhole in the floor of the former garage. In the upper most corner of the chamber, a bricked up tunnel entrance can clearly be seen. The tunnel headed up the hill beneath the buildings on Leece Street and Hardman Street, in the direction of the Fly in the Loaf and possibly beyond towards the Philharmonic pub. In the opposite corner of the chamber is a passage leading off under Renshaw Street in the direction of Lime Street. Within this passage, you can clearly see the bricked up windows and doors of forgotten structures, leading further beneath Renshaw street.
Media Coverage
Tunnel with bricked up windows and doors under Liverpool city centre street remains a mystery – Liverpool Echo
Incredible images of mysterious subterranean world below Renshaw Street – Liverpool Echo
Photographs taken within the small but interesting underground passages, found under Renshaw Street, Liverpool. The bricked in Tunnel continues up the hill under Leece St and Hardman Street towards the Fly in the Loaf and Philharmonic pub
The original building, that once stood on Baltimore Street, just opposite the side entrance of the ‘Fly in the Loaf’ pub was demolished around 2008. This revealed what looks like the continuation of the sealed up tunnel entrance at the botton of the hill under Renshaw Street.
Where did this tunnel lead and what was its purpose? Who knows…
This photo, whilst only taken using a mobile phone, clearly shows a brick built arched tunnel behind the wooden steps. The Tunnel seen here, is most probably the same Tunnel that emerges in the chamber at the bottom of the hill, beneath Renshaw Street.
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During construction of the new Garston Way bypass (A561) back in the early 1980’s. An old culvert of the old Garston River was discovered on ‘Church Road’. The discovery was made where the new Garston Way bypass bridge was being built. The culvert is thought to have been one of Liverpool’s ancient rivers, the old Garston Brook. The original stone arch can be clearly seen here in these images.
Newspaper article reporting the discovery of the old Garston River Culvert, from the Liverpool Echo, Thursday 4th November 1982. Curtesy of The British Newspaper Archive.
These photographs were originally taken with my Ricoh XR7, on 35mm negative film. In order to be able to photograph the culvert before it would be lost once again, it was necessary to photograph over the top of the barrier surrounding the worksite.
Sections from two old maps of Garston, showing the course of the old Garston Brook. The first of the maps, on the Left : Lancashire Sheet CXIII Surveyed: 1846 to 1864 & Published: 1850 and a slightly later map on the Right: Lancashire Sheet CXIII.SE Surveyed: 1888 to 1891 & Published: 1894 both maps show the original River, with features along it’s length. Followed by the changes that occurred to the brook and it’s visibility as the years passed. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
Old culvert, believed to be originally built for the ancient Garston Brook, exposed in the 1980’s, during the construction of the New Garston Bypass.
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