Its a simple idea - to try to photograph every kilometre square in Great Britain and these pictures are meant to represent the geographical features in each square. The vision and expertise of the photographers is variable but there are some memorable images and great discussion pages with pages devoted to all sorts of topics including how to use the images in education which is how I got here!
This is one of my pictures for Square SK1870 which is just outside Ashford in the Water in Derbyshire. This was Christmas Day a couple of years ago after lunch. 
The other is of poppies in similar fields close by in the summer but not, I'm afraid, by me. but by George Wolfe 
I also like the quirky and one of my particular interests is street furniture such as telephone boxes, letter boxes or street signs and they too can be found in profusion on this site. The picture on the left is in Square NT0987 and is by Paul McIlroy. Edward VIII boxes are relatively rare and this one in in Dunfermline. The telephone boxes on the right in Square TQ3181 by Patrick Mackie are in Smithfield Market. The one at the bottom of a combined telephone box, stamp machine and letter box is mine and is close to the station in Froadsham, Cheshire.
Already, in a couple of years, over 50% of all the squares have been filled - but don't worry more than one image per square helps to show what it is like. Join in. The more pictures there are, the more they can be used.
All the photographs are Creative Commons Licenced.
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