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Welcome to the TOTNES IMAGE BANK & RURAL ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTRE |
You will find four main features at the Image Bank:
DIGITAL DATABASE
The Image Bank & Rural Archive is a unique photographic record of Totnes and the surrounding areas, villages and rural life mainly in the South Hams. There are 36,000 scanned images stored on our databases available to view on screen at Town Mill in Totnes. The earliest images date from the 1870's continuing up to the present day. The website will give you an overview of the many subjects we cover on the databases.
EXHIBITIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Prints on display showing local town history, events, rural life and commerce plus exhibitions of local photographers work from time to time.
DISPLAYS OF CAMERAS & EQUIPMENT
Over the years we have been donated many cameras and items of photographic equipment. We have recently expanded the collection into a new area dedicated to film based technology.
THE DARKROOM
A complete darkroom from the 1950s and 60s with all the atmosphere of the world of the professional photographers wet processing environment. An interactive button brings the work space to life.
(Place your mouse over the image on the right to see old Totnes)
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A Letter from Aachen (Newsletter 10) |
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The Totnes Image Bank published the account of a wartime funeral in Newsletter No:3/2002. In 2005 Walter King wrote an account in the Totnes Review under the heading 'The Funeral that Never Was'. |
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