An online picture archive called Memory Lane is being launched by the owners of The Daily Record to help Scots capture historical moments in lockdown.
The new tool allows Scots to celebrate and share their experiences of events like Bonfire night and Remembrance Sunday - despite formal gatherings being cancelled across the nation.
Memorylane.co.uk is a free tool, so please use it to provide a home for your photographs that may otherwise remain hidden for years. Help us to create a rich, interactive and nostalgic archive with content searchable by location, date, topics, people, categories and more - to create a bigger, more inclusive picture of this unparalleled time in history by allowing you to preserve, discover, share and colourise what you are living through.
With Bonfire night and Remembrance Sunday just around the corner, Scots can help to document significant moments in our country's history - even if they do look a little different in lockdown.
Memory Lane follows YouGov survey results suggesting that the past is in danger of being lost because 80% of Brits haven’t digitised all their photos.
According to the newly commissioned nostalgia survey:
• 67% of the population are looking for something that brings them comfort
• More than half of UK adults (55%) are thinking about what we did before the pandemic
• Almost a third of the population (31%) are looking at old photographs to get themselves through these strange times.
So Memory Lane is asking Scottish people to preserve, discover, celebrate and share images which matter to them as we enter another challenging time during the pandemic.
Fronting the launch is Professor of History, author and broadcaster Kate Williams, who highlights the importance of Memory Lane.
Kate said: “Photographs are one of the most important social documents we have access to, allowing us to understand society and communities from different generations.
"We learn so much more about our past when we look at the photographs of everyday people as opposed to formal photos of royalty and aristocracy. If important images languish in the loft, there is a real danger they may be lost forever.”
