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Subject: BS: Take a walk round my village From: Will Fly Date: 11 Nov 15 - 06:34 AM I've lived in the same village in the county of West Sussex UK) for 40 years. Apart from music - and most of you will know me as Will Fly, musician - one of my abiding interests is the local history of my village. Add to this an interest in photography, which has led to me photographing the village - houses, streets, shops, pubs, churches, etc. over and over again over the years. I've accrued over 2,000 photos of the village in that time, and scanned in many old black & white photos from various sources as well. Some years ago I set up a website to record and describe some of this, and have recently revamped it with about 600 of my photograph collection. So, if you want to take a walk round my village and explore some of its locations and history - just out of curiosity - take a look at: Henfield Then And Now It's all free - and no ads! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 11 Nov 15 - 07:09 AM Hi Will, Thanks for this link I've had a quick look and will return to the site again. Something you may want to consider. Some years ago my son did Art to GCSE. One of his projects was to look at an artists work and "revamp" it to the 21st century. He choose Frank Meadow Sutcliffe a photographer to took photographs of Whitby mainly in the early 20th century. We bought a book of his pictures and toured the town taking the same scene from the same site and the same angle. Thus we managed to produce some amazing scenes which we printed in sepia and were able to compare the identical scene 100 years apart. The most important bit was taking the photograph from exactly the same location, the same time of day to try to get the same light and including everything in the original. Thanks again |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: Will Fly Date: 11 Nov 15 - 07:22 AM Cheers, Raggytash. I did a little of this myself some years ago. I took a collection of old black & white photos of the village - not enough to form a logical "walk", unfortunately - and, armed with prints, set out to do just what you've mentioned. When I'd got the old/new pics together, I put them into iMovie as stills, one after the other, and faded from the old in to the new, with captions. Great fun. Can't think where I put the DVD. If I can't find it, I might have to do it again! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 11 Nov 15 - 07:43 AM The chap who owns Sutcliffes prints and sells them by the bucketful also tried to do the same a year or two later. One of the things he tried to do was to take modern versions of people photographed by Sutcliffe using relatives wherever possible. A great idea but he did not ensure the subjects had exactly the same pose as the originals and thus the photographs "lacked" something. Spoilt for a ha'p'orth of tar. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Nov 15 - 08:15 AM I'll pop in when I have more time too, Will. On a brief glimpse it looks fascinating. Thanks for the link and all the effort. Any shots of local musicians or dancers BTW? Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 11 Nov 15 - 08:32 AM what a beautiful village, Will, thanks for posting the link sandra back in the 80s a colleague produced a book Sydneyside comparing historical photos & maps with the same place in the 80s. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: Will Fly Date: 11 Nov 15 - 10:10 AM No people as subjects in the website yet, Dave - just places and things. There was a local professional photographer called Marjorie Baker who took thousands of photos of the locality - including studio portraits and various local groups - but I haven't got round to any of those yet. All the negs. - some 30,000, are in the local museum archive. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: GUEST,Allan Conn Date: 11 Nov 15 - 10:33 AM Great site Will. What always interests me is the difference in how settlements are perceived depending on what part of the country you live in. Henfield seems to have a population of approx just over 5,000 which would make it, if it had been situated here in southern Scotland, a sizeable town rather than a village. Bigger than Jedburgh, Duns and Melrose - and not much smaller than Kelso, Selkirk or Peebles :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 11 Nov 15 - 10:47 AM Mr. Fly, You live in a lovely village. Thank you for the tour. It is obviously a labor of love and exceedingly well done. Sincerely, Gargoyle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: GUEST,Sol Date: 11 Nov 15 - 10:48 AM Good site. Odd that pubs 1, 2, 3 & 4 look exactly alike though. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 11 Nov 15 - 02:24 PM Excellent! Just the sort of resource that railway modellers love. Have you looked on Geograh to see if there are more contemporary photographers at work? Might be a source of further old photos. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 11 Nov 15 - 02:26 PM That was supposed to be geograp.org.uk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link Date: 11 Nov 15 - 04:43 PM Have looked at a few pages. Looks like a lovely place to wander round some time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 11 Nov 15 - 04:47 PM Thanks for sharing your village, Will. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: Mr Red Date: 12 Nov 15 - 04:01 AM I am doing something similar with audio in the area of Stroud Gloucestershire. StroudVoices.co.uk. The easiest way to pick clips is the search engine - try courting to see how it works. It is interesting! The search engine is my concoction and recognises phones and tablets but the search has a quirk in that one word automatically reveals a second box, which happens behind the text entry keyboard so you have to "go" (enter) a second time without further text- I will fix this soon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Take a walk round my village From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 12 Nov 15 - 12:59 PM Lovely pictures Will. This was very enjoyable, thank you so much for posting. I have been taking pictures in my Garden. I take four on the first day of each month, have been doing this for some. Always interesting to look back. Thanks again |
