Newport History Society's SNAP Photographs

This is the SNAP Home Page.

Newport History Society have digitised their photographic archive, and uploaded it onto this web site. S.N.A.P. stands for Shropshire Newport Archive Photographs.


The project was a Local Heritage Initiative lottery-funded project, which began in 2005, and has allowed us to scan in thousands of photographs and slides from Newport History Society's archives and from local people; we are very grateful for these donated images.

Now in 2008, we have digitised over 3,000 images, written their descriptions, catalogued them. The best images are in sixteen albums. However the full database can be chosen by using the 'Advanced Search' option by which you can search through all the images.

The SNAP team have also arranged reminiscence sessions with older Novaportans to look at our archive images of Newport. You can see a session, above, which we did with the Newport Rainbow Club.

How to look at our photographs

To look at our photos, there are two options:

either

BROWSE THE PHOTO ALBUMS,

On the top left of this page, you will see a tab called 'THE ALBUMS'. Click on this, and then you will see a list of sixteen albums on the left-hand side of the page (such as 'The Guildhall', 'Villages & Hamlets' or 'Leisure in Newport'). If you click on any of these titles it will take you directly to the album and its images. These albums are just a small selection of our photos - they show you a sample of what we have on our database.

or

DO AN ADVANCED SEARCH,

This search will encompass the whole of our 3,000+ images.
To do an 'Advanced Search',go to the top of any page. Click on 'Advanced Search'. Tick the 'Newport History Society' option and then type in your search word. The easiest is to use 'Keyword'. Then press 'Submit'. Now you will find every single image that we have on that subject.

To purchase prints and to give us further information

PRINTS
If you wish to purchase photos please contact us via our email address.

CAN YOU GIVE US MORE INFORMATION?
If you are browsing the albums: Click on the title of each image in any album and you will see a full size image. At the bottom of that image, is a place for you to 'Comment'.

If you are using Advanced search option, you will need to contact us via our email address as there is no 'Comment' facility here.


Our email address is snap.project@hotmail.co.uk


Many thanks! Have fun!
SNAP team