- local history books and booklets
- a range of old maps, including large-scale Ordnance Survey maps
- copies of old photographs, postcards or paintings
- documentary sources such as census returns, parish records and trade/street directories
- modern photographs of buildings and features in the area
- help may be available from staff at your library, local museum and the borough or county record office. Parents and older residents may give information from different perspectives
- English Heritage produce many valuable teachers' guides. The Teachers' Guide to Local Studies will be very useful in this context
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