East Cleveland Image Archive
March 17th, 2010 | 
Author: http://www.skinningrove.tv/image-archive/http://www.skinningrove.tv/image-archive/
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A little while ago a small group of enthusiasts began to meet in Loftus Library where they were digitising an image collection. I set them up with a website and ran a session or two on how to upload their images and so Loftus Digital Village was born. Over the coming weeks and months the archive grew at an amazing rate. Folks started to send images by email or bring them into the Library for scanning. Others left messages in the comments identifying people and objects in the pictures.
Just last week I go at call from the Library “Help, it’s grown like Topsy and now it’s not Lofts Digital Village any more, what shall we do?” Part of the answer was simple: rename the collection East Cleveland Image Archive, it’s still at http://www.ecol.org.uk/loftus and is well worth a visit. Leave yourself plenty of time, you could be browsing for hours!
Then I started to experiment with RSS Feeds and I was able to display images pertinent to village websites on that actual site NB the images are not actually on the Digital Villages sites – merely displayed there and the archive is still maintained at Loftus Library
You can see the results here: SKINNINGROVE www.skinningrove.tv/image-archive/ STAITHES www.staithes.org.uk/image-archive/ BROTTON www.brotton.org.uk/image-archive/ CARLIN HOW – www.carlinhow.org.uk/old-carlin-how-photos/image-archive/ LOFTUS ecol.org.uk/loftusdv/image-archive/ MARGROVE PARK www.margrovepark.com/images/archive-images/ SKELTON http://ecol.org.uk/skelton/ SALTBURN http://saltburn.org.uk/image-archive/
This is a fabulous resource for East Cleveland
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