Share your snapshots and preserve history!
A FREE new online picture archive from the owners of the Mercury, The Mirror and The Express is being launched today.
Memorylane.co.uk is a new tool that allows you to celebrate historical snapshots in time by sharing and viewing old photos online.
It’s fully searchable by location, date, topics, people, categories and more and described as a destination for sharing, discussing, selling and viewing pictures of places and people from times gone by.
The launch of Memory Lane follows a YouGov survey carried out for Memory Lane suggesting the past is in danger of being lost because 80 per cent of Brits have not digitised all of their photos.
According to the newly commissioned nostalgia survey for Memory Lane, 76 per cent of people keep their old photos stored away, with only 23 per cent of people having them out on display.
Memory Lane is being is backed by broadcaster, author and historian Professor Kate Williams, who is passionate about the preservation of memories.
She 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 photos of royalty and aristocracy.
“If important images languish in the loft, there is a real danger they may be lost forever.”
So why not give it a go? Visit and see what it’s all about!