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Use it to find topics of your choice, wherever they occur in the Virtual Museum. You may search for names, places, dates - anything!

In addition to single words, this search now recognises phrases (in quotes), which can refine the matches found. Searching "6 High Street" in quotes finds only entries mentioning that address, whilst 6 High Street without quotes finds around 200 entries!

Entering this and that into the search form will return results containing both "this" and "that".

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Please note that many family names have a variety of spellings, such as Wodham and Woodham, Pearse and Pearce, Clisdel, Clisdale and Clidsdall.

Consider alternative spellings for everything! If you are looking for trades, note that you may find "plumber" often spelt "plummer", or "maltster" spelt "malster" in 18th century documents.

The search is very powerful, but because the Virtual Museum is so large, it can take a few seconds to display results.

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Aerial view of Market Place, Church Street and Great Western Mill, c1958 — aerial-001
Aerial view of Market Place, Church Street and Great Western Mill, c1958

Aerial view of Market Place, Church Street and Great Western Mill, c1958

Great Western Mill, c1936 — church street-004
Great Western Mill, c1936

Great Western Mill, c1936

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Great Western Mill, c1930 — church street-005
Great Western Mill, c1930

Great Western Mill, c1930

Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960 — church_st_02
Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960 — church_st_08_mill fire
Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

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Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960 — church_st_12_mill fire
Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

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Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960 — church_st_13_mill fire
Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960 — mill fire-009
Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

Great Western Mill on fire, 22 Jun 1960

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New Great Western Mill at Smitham Bridge, c1965 — church st new mill
New Great Western Mill at Smitham Bridge, c1965

New Great Western Mill at Smitham Bridge, c1965

New Great Western Mill at Smitham Bridge, c1984 — church street-101 smitham bridge mill 1981
New Great Western Mill at Smitham Bridge, c1984

New Great Western Mill at Smitham Bridge, c1984

Great Western Mill, Nov 1985 — great western mills 19851100
Great Western Mill, Nov 1985

Great Western Mill, Nov 1985

Great Western Mill, Nov 1985 — great western mills 19851101
Great Western Mill, Nov 1985

Great Western Mill, Nov 1985

Great Western Mill near the time of its closure in Jun 1984. (Ivor Speed Collection) — 19840000ca Great Western Mill-01
Great Western Mill near the time of its closure in Jun 1984. (Ivor Speed Collection)

Great Western Mill near the time of its closure in Jun 1984. (Ivor Speed Collection)

Great Western Mill near the time of its closure in Jun 1984. (Ivor Speed Collection) — 19840000ca Great Western Mill-02
Great Western Mill near the time of its closure in Jun 1984. (Ivor Speed Collection)

Great Western Mill near the time of its closure in Jun 1984. (Ivor Speed Collection)

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The Canal Wharf, Apr 2011 The Canal Wharf, 2011

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