Trip down Memory Lane using web picture archive
ONLINE RESOURCE LETS YOU BROWSE AND UPLOAD FILES
A FREE new online picture archive from the owners of the Mail is being launched as the nation goes into lockdown.
Despite events being cancelled nationwide, Memory Lane allows people to celebrate and share historical moments such as Bonfire Night and Remembrance Sunday.
The new tool, at memorylane.co.uk, is backed by broadcaster, author and historian Professor Kate Williams.
The launch of Memory Lane follows a Yougov survey carried out for the website suggesting the past is in danger of being lost because 80 per cent of Brits have not digitised all their photos.
According to the newly commissioned nostalgia survey for Memory Lane:
■ 67 per cent of the population are looking for something that brings them comfort.
■ More than half of UK adults (55 per cent) are thinking about what we did before the pandemic.
■ Almost a third of the population (31 per cent) are looking at old photographs to get themselves through these strange times.
So Memory Lane is asking the public to preserve, discover, celebrate and share images which matter to them as we enter another challenging time during the pandemic.
Prof Williams said: “Photographs are one of the most important social documents we have access to, allowing us to understand society and communities from different generations.
“We learn so much more about our past when we look at the photographs of everyday people as opposed to formal photos of royalty and aristocracy. If important images languish in the loft, there is a real danger they may be lost forever.”
Memory Lane is a free tool providing a home for photographs that may have remained hidden for years.
A rich, interactive and nostalgic archive with content searchable by location, date, topics, people, categories and more. It aims to create a bigger, more inclusive picture of history by allowing you to preserve, discover, share and colourise the past.
Go online to see some historic images that have been turned into colour using Memory Lane, before giving it a go for yourself.
Memory Lane provides a home for historical content that has remained hidden for years.
It is an interactive image and nostalgia archive, with content that is searchable by location, date, topics, people, categories and more.
A destination for sharing, discussing, selling and viewing pictures of places and people from times gone by.
Images are uploaded from users, newspaper archives, communities, schools, museums, councils, local businesses and more.