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For the archive to continue growing I need your help. If you or your family have any old photographs of Broadland, or can help with memories, stories or holiday tales then please get in contact with me. If you have lived or worked in Broadland over the years and have some interesting tales to tell or can provide any information about it’s history then I would be delighted to hear from you. You will be given full credit for anything you submit and you will be helping to preserve the history of the area for future generations, as well as providing a wonderful online resource for those who are researching the history of the area or just have an interest in The Norfolk Broads.

The Archive itself is divided into seven main eras covering the last 150 years up to the end of the 20th century. Under each era you will find sections for history / overview, photo gallery pages, and a personal stories / memories directory.  In early 2008 two new sections were added to the archive, the “Then & Now” and “Mystery” pages which you will also find links to from the main archive directory page. A short while later the “Paper & Ephemera” section was also added - here you will find old newspaper cuttings,  documents, boating invoices and letters, advertisements, maps and old postcards etc. The directory for this has now been added to the main Archive page.  New for 2009 is the “Further Historical Reading” area which will include other articles on Broadland’s history which have been written for, or submitted to, Broadland Memories. This section will also be expanded to list books which may provide further insight into various aspects of the history of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads.

After several months of hard work, the archive was launched on the 3rd November 2006. Although not as complete as I would have liked it to be, the response in it’s first year was overwhelming with new photographs and memories being added to the website on a regular basis. This is an ongoing project and new photos, stories and features will be added as they are gathered. The research and writing of the historical overviews is also continuing and the remaining eras will be published here once completed. In the future I also intend to do further, in depth research into various aspects and events in Broadlands history and the well known boatyards, you will find links to those articles from the main overview pages and the “Further Historical Reading” link on the Archive directory page.

I am always delighted to receive any stories or memories of Broadland and photographs of any size and quality to store within the archive. Unfortunately I am unable to display all submitted photographs on the website but do try to use as many as I can, however,  everything is archived and stored permanently. To enable me to display photos on the site  I need an absolute minimum of 800 pixels in width for those in landscape format, and 500 pixels in width for those in the portrait format, obviously the higher resolution the better. Please don’t let that put you off sending in any images you have as everything is gratefully received. If you need any advice about scanning or emailing photographs for the archive then please get in contact and I will do my best to advise. Please try to include as much information as you can about the photographs - the year that they were taken (or approximation) and location if  known etc.  

All photographs are archived as they have been sent in, with no digital correction or alteration.  Those which are displayed on the website are digitally re mastered, where possible, to remove colour casts, correct brightness and contrast and to clean up spots and marks to enable better viewing. Sometimes it may also be necessary to crop images for web display.  To give you an idea of the correction which is possible, and that has been done, I have included a couple of examples below.

Submitting photographs:

The above image was sharpened and cleaned, and the brightness and contrast adjusted to bring out more detail from the photograph. Individual work around the edges evened up the overall tone.

The photograph on the left had a strange pink colour cast which was removed and a more natural tone  restored to the image., the camera flare spots in the top right have also been toned down.

Paper & Ephemera

If you have any old Broads related newspaper cuttings, documents, hire invoices, letters, postcards, brochures, holiday guides advertisements etc., then I would also be very pleased to receive scans of these items for inclusion within the archive (copyright permitting!).  

I am always pleased to hear people’s memories of Broadland too - however brief or long they may be! Smaller snippets of holiday memories may be included within the “Collected Memories” sections of the various eras, so if you are not able to recall enough to write a full blown account, then please don’t let that put you off telling me what you can remember!

Submitting memories:

The Broadland Imagebank

Copyright

Please remember when using the Broadland Memories archive that all photographs, stories and written articles are protected by copyright and should not be copied for use in the public domain without the express permission of the copyright holder or Broadland Memories.

If you see a photograph within the archive which you believe to be incorrectly attributed then please contact us. We will endeavour to investigate all possible copyright infringements and, if proven, we will either remove the image or ensure that it is correctly attributed.

Accuracy

We endeavour to ensure that all information within Broadland Memories is correct, however, if you do spot any mistakes then please contact us. Wherever possible we have spoken to the contributors to gain as much information as we can about the photographs submitted. The holiday tales and personal stories are unedited and are as submitted by the contributors.