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Kelly's Directory (or more formally, the Kelly's, Post Office and Harrod & Co Directory) was a trade directory in England that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses of local gentry, landowners, charities, and other facilities. In effect, it was a Victorian version of today's Yellow Pages. Many reference libraries still keep their copies of these directories, which are now an important source for historical research. CREDIT:Wikipedia

In trying to make the recycle map more accessible we added a block to the Recycle centre‘s pages that also gave a tip relating to recycling but also a link to the map

Before we start, always ask permission of the photo/text owner and add a credit

How do I start?

ONLINE

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/search/pins/?q=lowestoft > then add your street name to the search, maybe in quotes and different variations eg "Old Nelson Street" "Old Nelson Street"

It has to start somewhere I just wish I didn't forget so much LOL

Starting point is 

https://memorial.mosteasterly.com

Started as usual with creating subdomain within Cplanel > domains > add

Probably worth then going to 

Cpanel > MultiPHP INI Editor > Memory_limit to 64M

but also seeing if you can up PHP version to high-test (8.12??

Also worth copying one of the root php files and calling it my info.php

then replacing content with this

/<?php phpinfo(); ?>

and

The map functionality requires no additional coding to show the user what they wish to see, it simply takes the last part of the web address as a filter. 

eg: /maps/milk will find all places/organisations that sell milk.

It also understands nested taxonomy a simple example would be

FOOD TYPES
_FRUIT
__Strawberries
___scottish strawberries

For simplicity we use the same 'add content' wether we are adding a 'Picnic next week' or an important historical event. This can be easily dealt with for the Timeline by simply filtering out all events AFTER year 2000.

One challenge we have with documenting the historic high street is that because the street is so narrow most old photos are taken looking up or down the street rather than flat on.  
 

we are using AI (an app called Snapseed) to correct this perspective. We start with the original image, then crop to the individual property. 
 

Writing this as a blog:

Just easily and quickly updated Use It All's front page, in this case by adding a new poster (image) to the events calender story, and selecting Front page/featured. No problems. But the page - now published - shows a set of 'history related pages...' on the righthand bar. I can't work out what is triggering this, as none of my checked 'related sites/pages' etc seem to be directly connected to our multi-faceted ever-growing history project. One for Monday's face to face meeting, me thinks.

Most photos have clues you can read. Pictures with cars in then can show that the photo must be AFTER a particular date. For example the photo opposite has a couple of C reg cars in it, so thanks to this site it must be after 1985.