What on earth do you do with old photographs?
Many of us have become the inadvertent custodians of ancient family photograph albums; rarely, if ever, looked at, but too precious to throw away.
One local family solved this problem by generously giving to our village dozens of photographs of the houses and inhabitants from about 1903. Fascinating – but how could we share them?
There is a technological solution, but it's not perfect. I spent a day slowly copying all the pictures, editing and annotating the results, and then uploading them all to the village website.
It has been popular, but this is only a temporary solution. The photographs have survived for over 12 decades at no cost to anyone. Will our village website exist in another 120 years' time?…
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The Oldie (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025