Society's Visual Archive going on-line! - 29 June 2010

On behalf of the Formby Civic Society, Tony Bonney has arranged for 2165 images from our main archive to be uploaded to Flickr at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/formbycivicsociety/sets/

These are contained in folders (Flickr call them Sets) for each location to allow for ease of searching. Flickr also has an excellent search engine not only within our own area but throughout the site. For example entering cockle cottage formby will bring up our 3 images.

Each image has an (at present) an empty ‘comments box’ but we are slowly adding short ‘captions’. A user, (if registered with Flickr), may add further comments.

We still have well over 1,000 additional images, including the Sibley sketches/watercolours, to add but feel that the 700 Sibley sketches should be in a separate folder (Set) rather than included in the present folders.

Attached stats. from Flickr showing 802 views since the 25th June when we registered. Not a bad start.

Google has indexed some of the first images uploaded and we hope more will be included in time.

Posted by: Dr Reg Yorke - on: 29 June 2010