A brand new picture archive launched today by the owners of MyBury allows users to upload old photographs and breathe new life into them.
Memory Lane is a vast collection of photos from the past and you can also upload their own for others to see.
Users will be shown hundreds of photos relevant to their area, in association with several online archives including Britain From Above, Francis Frith and the vast picture libraries of our own network of national and local newspapers.
Backed by broadcaster, author and historian Professor Kate Williams, photos are searchable by location, date, topics, people, categories and more.
It aims to create a bigger, more inclusive picture of history by allowing you to preserve, discover, share and colourise the past.
And it can also provides a home for photographs that may have been gathering dust in the loft or at the back of a cupboard for years.
ProfWilliams 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."
The launch follows a YouGov survey carried out for Memory Lane suggesting that the past is in danger of being lost because 80% of Brits haven’t digitised all their photos.
According to the survey:
67 per cent of the population are looking for something that brings them comfort
More than half of UK adults (55pc) are thinking about what we did before the pandemic
Almost a third of the population (31pc) are looking at old photographs to get themselves through these strange times.
So Memory Lane is asking the public to preserve, discover, celebrate and share images which matter to them as we enter another challenging time during the pandemic.
