Site containing thousands of photos of Cromarty, along with comments and stories from locals and expats.
The program developed for this site has gone on to be used by other communities from Orkney to Eindhoven.
Visit Website:: http://www.thecromartyarchive.org
Updates:
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9 June 2009 – Cromarty Image Library – Upgrade
Here at Plexus we’re not all about profit! We’ve created a number of community based sites over the years, and probably the most successful and satisfying of them all has been the Cromarty Image Library.
We set it up in 2003, to host pictures of the town we’re based in, allowing comments to be made about the photos to build up an archive of information and anecdotes about the history of the town. We didn’t realise at the time that it would take off as well as it has, or that for many people it would be the current photos they’d be interested in as much as the historical ones.
The site now has over 2,000 photos and 4,000 comments on it – not bad for a town of less than 1,000 people.
The latest upgrade of the system makes it the easiest to use yet, allowing visitors to upload their own photos, and administrators to upload video, audio and documents to go with the pictures.
We’ve never understood why every town doesn’t have one of these – so now we want to try to make that happen. If you’d like a site like this for your community, please contact us on info@theoldhometown.com.
