25 Years In the past – April 1999. Once I started posting on my web page My London Diary I made a decision that the posts would start from the beginning of 1999, and there are nonetheless picture information I created in January of that 12 months on line, although I believe they in all probability solely went stay on the internet a number of months later.
In these early days of the location there was little or no writing on it (and comparatively few photos) with most photos simply posted with minimal captions if any.
A single textual content on the introductory web page for the 12 months 1999 defined my slightly diffuse intentions for the location as follows (I’ve up to date the structure and capitalisation.)
What’s My London Diary? A file of my each day wanderings in and round London, digicam in hand and a few of my feedback which can be associated to those – or not
Issues I’ve discovered and maybe issues individuals inform me. If I actually knew what this web site was I wouldn’t trouble to jot down it. It’s London, it’s a part of my life, however primarily photos, organized day-to-day, ordered by month and 12 months.
Within the years following My London Diary expanded significantly, step by step including extra textual content in regards to the occasions I used to be protecting however retaining the identical fundamental construction. Had I begun it a number of years later it will have used a running a blog platform – reminiscent of WordPress on which this weblog runs, however in 1999 running a blog was nonetheless in its infancy and My London Diary was handcoded html – with assist from Dreamweaver and extra just lately BlueGriffon, now sadly now not.
My London Diary continued till Covid introduced a lot of my new pictures to a standstill and stuttered briefly again to life after we got here out of purdah. However by then my priorities had modified, and though I’m nonetheless taking some new pictures and protecting slightly extra fastidiously chosen occasions my emphasis has switched to bringing to gentle the numerous hundreds of largely unseen photos taken on movie in my archives, notably by means of posting on Flickr. Since March 2020 I’ve uploaded round 32,000 photos and have had over 12 million views there, primarily of images I made between 1975 and 1994. The photographs are at increased decision than these on my numerous internet sites.
Since I moved to digital pictures My London Diary has put a lot of my work on-line, although newer work goes into Fb albums (and far onto Alamy.) My London Diary stays on-line as a low decision archive of my work.
April 1999 was an attention-grabbing month and all the images on this submit come from it. I’ve added some temporary captions to the images.
Flickr – Fb – My London Diary – Hull Photographs – Lea Valley – Paris
London’s Industrial Heritage – London Photographs
All pictures on this web page are copyright © Peter Marshall.
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