Stogursey News, September 2024

“I want to show you something I saw on social media yesterday… hmmm, can’t seem to find it now.”

If this sounds familiar it is because it happens to everyone that ever uses social media. Everything that you see is transient; sooner or later, it gets swamped by the newer content that is constantly arriving. Frankly, “sooner or later” is, at best, a few days or a week.

Yet this is the default medium for sharing images of local events and local life. That record of day-to-day life is fleeting, buried under the sheer volume of content that is published every day.

We wanted a more permanent record of life in our village and the surrounding area and so there will be an exhibition in the Jubilee Rooms, opening as part of the Stogursey Arts Festival.

We know not everyone will get to a chance to see that exhibition so we also decided to launch a website that can act as an archive, featuring both images from SAPS contributors and vintage photographs that we collect. It can also feature far more images than we can physically print and hang on walls.

The collection will continue to grow over time but the hope is that it will form a lasting place to find photographs of local life and the local area other than yesterday’s Facebook post.

By the time this edition of the Stogursey News goes to print, the site will be up and running so just point your web browser at stogurseyphotos.org.uk and have a look.

There is, of course, no substitute for seeing images printed, framed and hung on a wall so, if you can, please come along to the Jubilee Rooms when we open as part of the Stogursey Arts Festival at 7pm on Monday, 23rd of September.