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« on: Monday 19 August 13 12:14 BST (UK) »
Help to unlock 750,000 priceless Express & Star pictures of the past.
The Express & Star (Midlands) is planning to make some 750,000 photographs taken over the last 139 years onto a website available to the general public – but it needs your help.
The newspaper, with the support of the University of Wolverhampton and WAVE: The Museums, Galleries and Archives of Wolverhampton, is submitting a lottery bid which would allow its entire photographic archive, dating back to the time it was founded in 1874, to be made available to the public on an internet site where people can view the pictures free of charge.
The vast collection, at the moment in storage at the Express & Star head office in Wolverhampton, includes photographs of streets ravaged by bombs during the Second World War, royal visits to the Black Country, and countless smaller events from our region’s history.
Landmark occasions, such as King George VI’s visit to Dudley and Winston Churchill addressing crowds at Molineux, have all been captured on film. Black civil rights leader Malcolm X is pictured walking through Smethwick.
But the success of the Heritage Lottery Fund bid, will depend on support from the general public – and that is where readers come in. We need as many people as possible to write letters explaining the importance of the database as a social history resource.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/08/16/help-us-to-unlock-750000-priceless-express-star-pictures-of-the-past/
http://www.expressandstar.com/photo-bid/
Thanks in advance.
The Express & Star (Midlands) is planning to make some 750,000 photographs taken over the last 139 years onto a website available to the general public – but it needs your help.
The newspaper, with the support of the University of Wolverhampton and WAVE: The Museums, Galleries and Archives of Wolverhampton, is submitting a lottery bid which would allow its entire photographic archive, dating back to the time it was founded in 1874, to be made available to the public on an internet site where people can view the pictures free of charge.
The vast collection, at the moment in storage at the Express & Star head office in Wolverhampton, includes photographs of streets ravaged by bombs during the Second World War, royal visits to the Black Country, and countless smaller events from our region’s history.
Landmark occasions, such as King George VI’s visit to Dudley and Winston Churchill addressing crowds at Molineux, have all been captured on film. Black civil rights leader Malcolm X is pictured walking through Smethwick.
But the success of the Heritage Lottery Fund bid, will depend on support from the general public – and that is where readers come in. We need as many people as possible to write letters explaining the importance of the database as a social history resource.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/08/16/help-us-to-unlock-750000-priceless-express-star-pictures-of-the-past/
http://www.expressandstar.com/photo-bid/
Thanks in advance.