thanks for that advice Toby, especially the hint re thumbnails. I'm not actually working on the website, we have a highly skilled techy person for that, but I was given those pics and so I had to store them.
You may be interested in the story of our village cos I know you like history. It's a tiny village, population just over 215 adults very few children, situated on huge areas of forestry and heathland. Mainly prairie farming now, the animals seem to have gone, altho we do have an amazing herd of alpacas! <cross between a sheep and a llama, strange little faces> so the farmers aren't fixed in their thinking by any means, altho turf seems to be the money maker! The fields are being decreased in size now, with miles of new hedging being planted.
Ancient maps show the village away from the forest, as of course it wouldn't have existed, being mainly firs. It is now split into two distinct areas...I live in the "new side" dating from Victorian times, and in fact the village only had running water in the 50's...until then, they used the pump in the old school yard.
The forest is so close to the village that the last houses were built in the 50's on the edges...the deer still wander right down the track to my cottage.
It was decided to work on the archive this year, when one more of the old guys who lived and worked in the village all their lives, dropped off his perch. It is vital to collect and document stuff, before the memories of the last of that particular generation have gone. Another is working with the techy, to go through every single pic to make notes.
One family tree has shown that there are actually only two surnames rooted in the population of the traditional villagers...which has made one or two people shuffle their feet a bit I can tell you! People have been mailing the website from Australia..all related!
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