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From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Local newspaper holdings
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:49:14 +0000
In-Reply-To: <NFEBKNGJIFOEHGGFJODJIEDBCCAA.greenall@walthamabbey.co.uk>


In message <>,
LA Greenall <> writes
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake [mailto:]
>> Sent: 31 January 2001 09:55
>>
>> - the British Library Newspaper Library at Colindale in N.London.
>> The URL for this useful site is http://prodigi.bl.uk/nlcat/
>
>
>Thankyou very much Barney - this will save me hours! Didn't think to
>try the web!
>Here's a couple of sites that may be of interest:
>
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~abneypark/abneyy.html
>
>This is a searchable database of burials at Abney Park Cemetery in
>Stoke Newington, London. For those mumbling 'big deal' it was one of
>the earliest New Victorian Cemeteries to be opened, on a vast scale,
>intended to alleviate the ever-increasing pressure on parish
>churchyards. Nonconformists, such as Booth of the Sally Army, thought
>it a des-res, especially as Bunhill Fields was overflowing; but so
>also did many ordinary folk - you may even find an ag lab or two,
>Barney, though they might not be yours. And...
>
>http://collage.nhil.com/
>
>where one can search through AND VIEW about 20,000 online pictures
>from the archives of the Guildhall Library and Art Gallery, under such
>subjects as London's First Railways, Tudor London, and even
>Handkerchief and Anaglyptograph - oh, and Surnames [nearly forgot].
>
The Tate Gallery has a large number of images of its holdings freely
viewable from its website. Great if, like me, you are pretentious enough
to be interested in art. They even had a portrait of my 4 * gt
grandfather, William Drake, that I downloaded.

Handy hint: If you find a link to an image file or an Acrobat document
on a web page and you want to save that file to disk,just right click on
the link and choose the Save as... or Save target item from the popup
menu that appears. There is nothing more frustrating than viewing an
Acrobat document online only to find that the embedded Acrobat Reader
won't let you save it. So hit the Back button on your browser, then
right click on the link.
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

Drake Software web site: http://www.tdrake.demon.co.uk

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