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The Living Memory Association,
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PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE
Welcome to our archive on the web.
Since 2002 we have been collecting together old family and personal photographs from members of the public. Obviously a lot of these are Edinburgh and Scotland based, but we do have other photographs from as far away as China, Canada and India. The majority of the images are from the 20th century but our oldest photos date from 1850.
Abbey Church Girl Guides at Newstead/North Berwick.The leaders (back row, left to right) were Frances Smeaton, Captain Anderson and Lieutenant McLeod and Betty Malcolm is 4th from the right in the second row.
Why family and personal snaps? Images of family life, childhood, work, recreation, school, holidays etc? Why these very ordinary, everyday events? Well, simply because they are ordinary. The archive is a celebration and a record of the richness of ordinary lives, lived, quite often, through some extraordinary times.
At the moment we have
1826
photographs online. We have many more being catalogued as the collection process continues.
Please go and browse or search through the archive using the menu above. Find familiar places and people or just enjoy the rich variety of these ordinary people's photographs. Your comments and own reminiscences are always welcome through the Comment page.
It was nice to see the Photo's of an Era that has gone,
Each framed within its timescale much like a later dawn.
I do remember some things that happened when I was Wee,
But then without a certain Photo there's not a lot to See.
My time as a yound lad can never return again,
But with a Picture laid beside Me a reminder of when thing's were of a lesser strain.
Thanks to Matt Rooney for submitting this comment.
