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Every so often we find we have a photo with little, or no, detail of where it is.

Can you help us? Have a look through to see if you recognise any of these places. Click on any of the images to see a larger version.

If you think you know the site name or location for any of the following photographs please contact kate.bevan@english-heritage.org.uk quoting the AA number displayed next to the photograph.

Terraced houses in ChelseaAA064284, Chelsea. An unidentified street with a row of different sized terraced houses and cars parked, possibly in Chelsea. © English Heritage. NMR

 

Cattle Market in DevonAA087540, Devon. A view from an elevated position of a herd of cattle waiting in a pen at a market, with market buildings to the right, and a large whitewashed house in the background. © English Heritage. NMR 

 

Watermill in YorkshireAA083577, Yorkshire. Exterior view of an unidentified watermill with a waterwheel in the foreground, with hilly landscape behind. © English Heritage. NMR

 

Warwickshire man carrying bucketAA083531, Warwickshire. Rear view of a man carrying a bucket and a bag along a snowy path towards houses at an unidentified village in Warwickshire. © English Heritage. NMR


 

 

Minitry of Pensions and National Insurance building, HerefordshireAA075348, Herefordshire. A Georgian house with cows on the front lawn probably in Herefordshire, occupied by the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. © English Heritage. NMR

 

Brick and timber-framed houses, BuckinghamshireAA090048, Row of unidentified brick and timber framed houses in Buckinghamshire.  © English Heritage. NMR 

 

Storm, CornwallAA086707, A wave breaks over the harbour wall of a small port, possibly in West Cornwall, with a row of cottages to the left of frame and a wooded hill in the distance. © English Heritage. NMR

 

Delivering FlowersAA087484, A man carrying two buckets of flowers up the path to an unidentified church in Devon. © English Heritage. NMR

 

Villa in Marylebone St. John's Wood and MayfairAA071597, Exterior of an unidentified two storey villa in the Woronzow Road area of St Johns Wood with a sloping canopy over a ground floor veranda with trellis walls, and shutters on the outside of the upstairs windows, looking over a garden wall. © English Heritage. NMR

 

Three-storey terraced houses, Greater London

AA072914, A woman with hat and walking stick walking along the pavement past a row of three-storey terraced houses. Empty milk bottles stand on the pavement. © English Heritage. NMR

 

Boy walking across a weir, ShropshireAA081590, A boy walking across a weir towards an unidentified town in Shropshire on the other side. © English Heritage.NMR

 

 

Timber-framed house, Upton-upon-Severn, WorcestershireAA083548, An unidentified large timber framed house in Worcestershire, seen from behind Japanese anemones and showing a woman bending over by its porch. This image is likely to have been taken in Upton upon Severn or Wyre Piddle. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Unidentified Church PorchAA080484, A view from within the stone porch of an unidentified church, looking out through a pointed arch and pair of wrought-iron gates towards the churchyard, with a man in the foreground carrying a Christmas tree. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Thatched cottages in DorsetAA091507, Two unidentified thatched cottages in Dorset. © English Heritage.NMR

 

 

Policeman Controlling TrafficMF001399/11 - A policeman controlling the traffic beside a zebra crossing at a London road junction, with a Truman Hanbury Buxton and Co. Ltd public house in the background
1960 - 1963. © English Heritage.NMR


View from a London rooftopAA065757 - View from a London rooftop, showing terraces of houses and a railway viaduct. c1950. © English Heritage.NMR

 

 

Small boy on a tricycleAA073032 - A small boy on a tricycle and another holding a broom playing in the gutter between two rows of modest terraced houses, in an unidentified location in either Islington or Camden. 1960 - 1965. © English Heritage.NMR

 

View over city buildingsAA065164 - A view over city buildings, with tall warehouses or flats to the left, low dwellings to the centre, and a distinctive curved-walled building to the right, with triangular roof dormers. 1955 - 1965. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Number 32 bus in wet London streetAA093807 - A number 23 bus turns into a wet London street between Holborn and Marylebone. 1947 - 1957. © English Heritage.NMR

 

 

Looking along the pavement of a residential street  AA064802 - Looking along the pavement of a residential street, probably in the Kensington and Chelsea area of London, with nineteenth century town houses featuring first floor wrought iron balconies, and a Victorian lamp standard in the foreground. 1962. © English Heritage.NMR

 

 

Development of low-rise flatsAA070637 - A 1970s style development of low rise flats designed by the architects Andrews Sherlock and Partners viewed from an oblique angle. 1970 - 1979. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Street and buildings under a smoky hazeAA065759 - View from a London rooftop, showing a street and buildings under a smoky haze. c1950. © English Heritage.NMR

 

 

Man leaning on a street corner hoardingAA093694 - A man leaning on a street corner hoarding looks across the road to where a woman and child pass corrugated iron sheets enclosing an apartment block. 1945 - 1950. © English Heritage.NMR

 

 

Children playing and washing hangingAA073027 - Children playing and washing hanging in the courtyard of a tall tenement block in an unidentified location in either Camden or Islington, with terraced housing behind and a modern high-rise block in the distance. 1960 - 1965. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Children playing and washing hangingAA064831 - A row of unidentified five-storey terraced houses in the Ennismore Gardens area, on the border between Westminster and Chelsea. 1960 - 1965. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Hearse parked in the courtyard of a tenement blockAA073068 - A hearse parked in the courtyard of a tenement block, the bonnet of another car in the foreground partly obscuring a line of children standing watching, in an unidentified location in either Islington or Camden. 1960 - 1965. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Unidentified block of modern flatsAA071549 - An unidentified block of modern flats to the right with staggered balconies, with the end of a terraced house to the centre and a high rise building under construction behind, in the Euston Station area. 1962 - 1964. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Looking between two warehouses in IslingtonAA071582 - Looking between two warehouses in Islington into a dead end street with a tall modern office block behind, in an unidentified location. 1962 - 1964. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Two women and a child with a baby in a pramAA093705 - Two women and a child with a baby in a pram approach an arch along a cobbled street beside some imposing buildings, possibly a hospital or apartments. 1945 - 1950. © English Heritage.NMR


 

 

A view of a cobbled alleyway with garagesAA085129 - A view of a cobbled alleyway with garages in Kensington.
1971 - 1975. © English Heritage.NMR

 

 

Girls skipping in the road AA081664 - Girls skipping in the road outside a large unidentified thatched cottage in Suffolk. 1950s. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Large timber-framed and brick houseAA083507 - Oblique view of a large timber-framed and brick house in North Wiltshire with tile roof and dormer windows, showing a young woman in a summer dress approaching the house from the road. 1955 - 1965. © English Heritage.NMR


 
Road curving round to three-spanned stone bridgeAA092376 - A view of a road curving round to a small unidentified three-spanned stone bridge, behind which a thatch cottage lies; probably taken in Hampshire. 1960s. © English Heritage.NMR

 

Stone ashlar house with date stone of 1678AA082749 - A stone ashlar house with a date stone of 1678 on the porch, a stone roof and conjoined, diagonally set chimneys above the gable ends, possibly in Somerset. 1958. © English Heritage.NMR

  

 

Stone church with Friesian cattle grazing in pastureAA083481 - An unidentified stone church, most likely located in North Wiltshire, with Friesian cattle grazing in a pasture in the foreground. 1955 - 1965. © English Heritage.NMR

 

 

Flag pole in middle of possible village squareAA090090 - A flag pole in the centre of a paved area, possibly a village square, surrounded by buildings at an unidentified location probably in Buckinghamshire. 1950s. © English Heritage.NMR

 


Houses on steeply sloping road in CornwallAA086619 - Houses on a steeply sloping road in Cornwall, probably in or near St Ives. 1950. © English Heritage.NMR

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