anyone tried this site http://www.cumbriaimagebank.co.uk

It's suppose to have 4000 old photos of cumbria, not impressed with it
myself, type in 'Kendal floods' and you get pictures of trains.

Dave, Kendal

On 1 Oct 2005 11:39:02 -0700, "Lakeuk" 
wrote:


>anyone tried this site http://www.cumbriaimagebank.co.uk
>
>It's suppose to have 4000 old photos of cumbria, not impressed with it
>myself, type in 'Kendal floods' and you get pictures of trains.
>
>Dave, Kendal

You are wasting your time posting this  here because < uk.local.*>
news groups, all of them, have been from the very beginning and will
be to the very end safe play areas for all sorts of raging nutters,
social malcontents, control freaks and malevolent beings. 
You may feel that they should go elsewhere but where? The asylums 
are all closed. Every so often they stop taking their medication and
go off their fucking heads. What would you have of them? Standing in
their back yards at midnight howling to the full moon and frightening
the shit out of the neighbours into the bargain? Have them running
around shafting masons, suspected vampires, werewolves, communists,
socialists, conservatives and women with vaginal warts by the dozen?
OR harmlessly making utter cunts of themselves in a uk.local group?
Lets face it what is one other cunt amongst the many?? I know what I
prefer!! The uk.local hierarchy of newsgroups is a valuable safety
valve which helps to keep society a wee bit more safe. 
You may disagree. I would be interested to hear your opinion and no
doubt would the rest of the group. Thanks in advance.
Go with God my friend....go with God...
through the hazardous pilgrimage of life.
Good and ill emanate from God.
We are all being tested my friend, all of us.
So take heart, you are not alone.

Lakeuk wrote:

> anyone tried this site http://www.cumbriaimagebank.co.uk
>
> It's suppose to have 4000 old photos of cumbria, not impressed with
> it myself, type in 'Kendal floods' and you get pictures of trains.
>
> Dave, Kendal


Type in 'floods' and you get 'floods'....  'Kendal' gives you 'trains'....
'Trains' gives you a blank page.... 'Dalton' gives you 'Carlisle'!!!????

One of my favourite photo sites is of old south Lakes and Furness:
http://www.southlakes-uk.co.uk/old.html

Kez-given-up

"Dirty Sanchez"  wrote in message
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> Lakeuk wrote:
> > anyone tried this site http://www.cumbriaimagebank.co.uk
> >
> > It's suppose to have 4000 old photos of cumbria, not impressed with
> > it myself, type in 'Kendal floods' and you get pictures of trains.
> >
> > Dave, Kendal
>
> Type in 'floods' and you get 'floods'....  'Kendal' gives you 'trains'....
> 'Trains' gives you a blank page.... 'Dalton' gives you 'Carlisle'!!!????
>
> One of my favourite photo sites is of old south Lakes and Furness:
> http://www.southlakes-uk.co.uk/old.html
>
> Kez-given-up


That's a lovely site, Kezzi.

Edith.

"Dirty Sanchez"  wrote in message 
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> Lakeuk wrote:
>> anyone tried this site http://www.cumbriaimagebank.co.uk
>>
>> It's suppose to have 4000 old photos of cumbria, not impressed with
>> it myself, type in 'Kendal floods' and you get pictures of trains.
>>
>> Dave, Kendal
>
> Type in 'floods' and you get 'floods'....  'Kendal' gives you 'trains'....
> 'Trains' gives you a blank page.... 'Dalton' gives you 'Carlisle'!!!????
>

The database just hasn't been set up properly. An awful lot of the photos 
seem to be part of a huge collection of old railway photos, which are 
immensely valuable for people researching in that area. But the 'search' 
facility just picks up whatever words happen to be in the title of the 
photo. I typed in 'Cockermouth' and was treated to all the images relating 
to the Cockermouth-Keswick-Penrith railway, before being shown a small 
number of others of Cockermouth itself.

I don't suppose the word 'trains' will figure anywhere! People who have a 
collection that size of railway images think it's so blindingly obvious that 
most of the pics are of trains that they won't bother to include it in any 
of the titles!

Somebody needs to sit down and prepare a list of keywords relating to all 
the photos - a mammoth task, unfortunately, if they've really got 4000 
images - and create a proper database.

It could be a useful resource for historians if they put in the work first, 
but it's not really designed for expats who want to drool over photos of the 
fells...

ally

On 2005-10-01 19:39:02 +0100, "Lakeuk"  said:


> anyone tried this site http://www.cumbriaimagebank.co.uk
> 
> It's suppose to have 4000 old photos of cumbria, not impressed with it
> myself, type in 'Kendal floods' and you get pictures of trains.
> 
> Dave, Kendal


You would probably find somewhere like Flickr.com would be better, do a 
tag search for Cumbria and quite a lot would come up.