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Inchworm
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Have you visited :
www.local.live.com
This is Microsofts answer to Google Earth - only better !
If you view in "Birds Eye View" you get such a clear picture. Use the compass to turn N, E, S & W.
It is great for looking up places where ancestors once lived, that you cannot get to.
Have fun.
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukDUNNILL - Yorkshire & Worlwide PETTY - Shaftesbury, Dorset WOOLRIDGE - Shaftesbury, Dorset NEWSOM - London, Surrey, Sussex FROST - Staffs,Notts, Derbys,Leics,London,Somerset ROSSITER - Somerset ROWE - London, Hertfordshire COLVER - Leicestershire DICKIE - Buteshire, Ayreshire, Renfrewshire KIRKLEY - North Yorkshire |
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Nutty1966
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Annie Isabelle Bollands nee Rice
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Thanks very much for that Inchworm, saved to my fave's
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LEICESTERSHIRE & MIDDLESBROUGH - BOLLANDS, GORE, LINCOLNSHIRE - BAKEWELL, MARRIOTT MONAGHAN & CRAMLINGTON - RICE LAZENBY - HANSOM, HARRISON, NODDINGS, EASBY BARNBY DUN - HARVEY, BLANCHARD DANBY & WHITBY - JEFFELS LIVERPOOL - GANDER SKELTON & ESTON - SEATON BEDALE & MIDDLESBROUGH - STEPHENSON BROUGHTON - HARRISON MIDDLESBROUGH - WARD,FOSTER PINCHINTHORPE - POSTGATE BILSDALE- BOYES Cenusu informations is from crown copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uK |
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casalguidi
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Very interesting 
I'm wondering about the date of the images - I reckon at least 5 years ago 
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Inchworm
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No, my area was done about spring/summer 2005. I know this as my car is in the front drive and our roof extension is complete. 
They aim to have most of Europe done by the end of this year. I think that most of mainland England is finished now.
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukDUNNILL - Yorkshire & Worlwide PETTY - Shaftesbury, Dorset WOOLRIDGE - Shaftesbury, Dorset NEWSOM - London, Surrey, Sussex FROST - Staffs,Notts, Derbys,Leics,London,Somerset ROSSITER - Somerset ROWE - London, Hertfordshire COLVER - Leicestershire DICKIE - Buteshire, Ayreshire, Renfrewshire KIRKLEY - North Yorkshire |
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Lloydy
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Amazing!!!!
....and I can narrow down when the photos were taken.............last Summer. I only know because we had our patio furniture and umbrella on the lawn while the kitchen was being fitted. The fitters were using the patio to sort everything out. You can see the top of the umbrella on our back lawn!!!! The kitchen was fitted in July 2006.
Jan
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casalguidi
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Well our drive isn't there which was built Autumn 2002 so guess it must depend where you live
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Lloydy
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Maybe some areas have newer photographs.
Just down the road from my house a new hotel and pub was built last June....that's on there too.
Jan
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Inchworm
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Have found my Grt. Grandfathers pub which he moved to in 1896. Plus the Church and cemetry next to it where some of the family were buried.
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukDUNNILL - Yorkshire & Worlwide PETTY - Shaftesbury, Dorset WOOLRIDGE - Shaftesbury, Dorset NEWSOM - London, Surrey, Sussex FROST - Staffs,Notts, Derbys,Leics,London,Somerset ROSSITER - Somerset ROWE - London, Hertfordshire COLVER - Leicestershire DICKIE - Buteshire, Ayreshire, Renfrewshire KIRKLEY - North Yorkshire |
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Comosus
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Google has slightly newer images, at least in my area, probably from about 2-3 years ago. Microsoft's ones are older but I'm not sure how much.
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Leeds - HOLMES (also at Boston Spa, Thorp Arch), SCHOLEY/SCOREY/SCHORAH (also at Stanley, Wakefield), TURVEY (also at Birmingham), WARD, WHITE, WOODHEAD (also at Halton, Whitkirk, Templenewsam). Dewbury - CRAWSHAW, GLEDHILL, SPEIGHT Great Horton - RAMSDEN, SHACKLETON, WOOLER Woolsthorpe by Belvoir - SMITH Barrowby and South Stoke, Lincolnshire - PARKER Derby and Newhall - STREET Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Inchworm
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Microsoft are still filming. Not all areas of the UK are completed yet. Some are very recent, just depends on where you live. They have finished the more populated areas first.
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukDUNNILL - Yorkshire & Worlwide PETTY - Shaftesbury, Dorset WOOLRIDGE - Shaftesbury, Dorset NEWSOM - London, Surrey, Sussex FROST - Staffs,Notts, Derbys,Leics,London,Somerset ROSSITER - Somerset ROWE - London, Hertfordshire COLVER - Leicestershire DICKIE - Buteshire, Ayreshire, Renfrewshire KIRKLEY - North Yorkshire |
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Had a look at different places in UK, US & Europe that I know but images were much fuzzier than GoogleEarth- for Ireland could not make out towns let alone houses. Road names on map bit is good though.
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walkerpete
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There was a Tesco store near us (Beccles, Suffolk, UK ) opened in Sept 2005 which doesn't feature. The original buildings are all on site, no signs of clearance work, so the image for here was taken at least 30 months ago.
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Walker- Tideswell DBY Conboy - Greagh LET Wilson - Bradfield WRY Prior - LET Sanderson - WRY Graham - GLS Such - GLS Moffatt - LND Hudson - KEN DOR Prebble - KEN Ling - SFK Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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stoney
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...so many "trees" - what's a dog to do!
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Brilliant! I've had great fun playing around with this! As the debate rages over "when" the photography was done, I can see the shed we had put up last September....!
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Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston, Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland. Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England
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