A
picture of a street in your home town, can
trigger memories of childhood that are pleasant
to recall. The particular street depicted may
not have been particularly important to you but
it will still act as a catalyst to memories
associated with living in that town.
About
The Francis Frith Collection
The
Frith archive was founded by Francis Frith, the
pioneer Victorian photographer, in 1860 and
today contains over 365,000 photographs of some
7,000 towns and villages throughout Britain.
Taken between 1860 and 1970 these form a
topographical record of Britain without equal
and is recognised as probably the only
photographic collection of national importance
in private hands in Britain today.
At its
most effective Frith offers a photograph of YOUR
home town; where YOU were born, went to school
or college, were married, owned your first home,
went on holiday etc. - photographs of the places
that bring back specific memories for YOU.
Simply
enter a Town or Village in the search box above
and bring those bygone days back to life. For
those of us not old enough to remember it's a
fantattic opportunity to see how a place that
means something to us today was in the past.
What
better way to illustrate a family history than
with some images of how thing were back in
the days of our grandparents and even our great
grandparents.OU. |
