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I have decided to take a picture of every building in my village over 100 years old. A kind of archive record for peeps interested in their family history. The idea is to post them on a website so that folk from around the world can search and view images of the village and hopefully find images of properties that their forebears were born in,lived in, worked in, prayed in and were buried in

Did I say it was ambitious lol.;) There are 840 properties total but probably only 400 or so eligable.I'll just do 20-40 every weekend. The difficult bit will be indexing and listing them on a website.

The first thing that occurred to me is that it would probably be best to shoot in the same light and weather conditions so that there is some uniformity to the images.

I would be very interested in any feedback advice or questions that might help as this is going to be a very steep learning curve for me.
oh my hardware I'm afraid it is a lowly Finepix S5000 :'(
 
I think you should just get on with it weather permitting. ;)

Something like this a very worthwhile project. :)
 
:agree: Been considering something like this myself as the village where I live has so many old buildings & loads of history (there's a factory there that I want to go around so need to get into the village trusts good books :lol:)
 
As a thought ref indexing the images - assuming these are going on a website or navgatable CD of sorts...

Have you thought about looking up to see if any old maps are avalible from the OS website of the area and plotting Thumbnail Images/reference points on the map ala Flickr style?

Might make it easier than tagging them "Mrs Winkles house at number 42" when no one knows who Mrs Winkle is and the house is now number 14 or a Post Office (not for much longer)......

Sounds like a nice proj...
 
Try to make sure you either shoot the buildings from a public road or get permission from the owners to do it on their property. Just in case you come across someone who is not happy with the idea of having their home photographed and displayed.
 
rich_eason said:
As a thought ref indexing the images - assuming these are going on a website or navgatable CD of sorts...

Have you thought about looking up to see if any old maps are avalible from the OS website of the area and plotting Thumbnail Images/reference points on the map ala Flickr style?

Might make it easier than tagging them "Mrs Winkles house at number 42" when no one knows who Mrs Winkle is and the house is now number 14 or a Post Office (not for much longer)......

Sounds like a nice proj...
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thanks for all the encouragement everyone. I intend to start this weekend if my camera arrives in time.
Can't wait to get started now. i expect the whole thing will grow as it evolves or is it evolves as it grows ?
Some excellent ideas here too thanks. I like the idea of using a plotting map . Amazing I never thought of that format considering I look at the local Council planning plotting sheet most days . Brilliant . I'm really excited now :thumbs:
 
Steep said:
Try to make sure you either shoot the buildings from a public road or get permission from the owners to do it on their property. Just in case you come across someone who is not happy with the idea of having their home photographed and displayed.
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good point but I already looked into the legality issue and as you say providing I take the picture from a public space like the road or pavement I do not need permission fortunately .
 
peanuts said:
thanks for all the encouragement everyone. I intend to start this weekend if my camera arrives in time.
Can't wait to get started now. i expect the whole thing will grow as it evolves or is it evolves as it grows ?
Some excellent ideas here too thanks. I like the idea of using a plotting map . Amazing I never thought of that format considering I look at the local Council planning plotting sheet most days . Brilliant . I'm really excited now :thumbs:
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LOL

If you got to http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ it might be worth seeing if they have a decent map of the area avalible, and assuming the map is legible to what is there now i.e. no bypass running through, be nice to see if they have one relevant to the time of the buildings you are studying.

Good luck:clap:
 
thanks Rich
this is a truly amazing source of period maps I came across it a couple of years ago by accident then lost the link. Fortunatly in Somerset we have a set of Tythe maps from 1870-1890 so I will probably scan and use that if I can . It should give me a useful guide as to the age of all the older properties . Its not always obvious. Thanks again.
I think the camera came today so barring rain I start tomorrow yippee
 
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