My Grandparents took a lot of photos in their lifetime, and I think I’ve got most of them.

My grandfather had a darkroom and used to develop pictures himself; he’d be amazed to know what’s possible today with digital photography and the Internet.

One of the more surprising things about the oldest of the pictures is how small most of the prints are (typically only 3cm x 4.5cm) and happily, how well they scale up when scanned at very high resolution.

I’ve spent some time now carefully doing just that, and I’m about 50% of the way through the archive: so far I’ve scanned everything pre-1944. So there’s photos in and around Liverpool, Wallasey Gas Works, North Wales, the Ajay, camping trips, summer holidays etc.

Family members, please put in your requests for copies of the entire archive; possible delivery media include:

• A directly over the web if you have broadband
• On DVD
• On several CD’s

More senior family members may also be able to help prior to distribution by identifying some of the featured people who were nameless in the albums.

To whet your appetite, here’s some of what I have digitised already: