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Montysoptician said:
Great photos Snaggey, I have a massive collection of old photos from villages throughout the Northeast, but I am unsure of copyright
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A cautionary tale about this. Mate of mine volunteers for a local charity and puts together their newsletter which is distributed by email. He used an image he found online to go with a piece he wrote on the contribution local people had made in WWII. It was (he thought) just a generic photo and never even thought about copyright.

Anyway, a few weeks later he gets a letter from a legal company demanding £500 for their client who owned the copyright on the photo. My mate took his own legal advice as he thought this could be a scam, but was told it was real and that the best option he had was to explain it was for a charity newsletter and could they take that into account. Eventually he got them down to £80 which he paid out of his own pocket.

Apparently copyright images can have some kind of token attached which alerts the owner if it has been reproduced. Not sure his that works, perhaps someone more techy might know.
 
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Row 3 said:
A cautionary tale about this. Mate of mine volunteers for a local charity and puts together their newsletter which is distributed by email. He used an image he found online to go with a piece he wrote on the contribution local people had made in WWII. It was (he thought) just a generic photo and never even thought about copyright.

Anyway, a few weeks later he gets a letter from a legal company demanding £500 for their client who owned the copyright on the photo. My mate took his own legal advice as he thought this could be a scam, but was told it was real and that the best option he had was to explain it was for a charity newsletter and could they take that into account. Eventually he got them down to £80 which he paid out of his own pocket.

Apparently copyright images can have some kind of token attached which alerts the owner if it has been reproduced. Not sure his that works, perhaps someone more techy might know.
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Thanks for that mate, I am always cautious about copyright and would never publish anything that I didn't have provenance or permission. I save them for my own interest in local history.
 
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Snaggey said:
I'll post a couple of photos of the "then", but they are only of where I live, I dont know any of the people in the photographs. They were ones I either found online, or were posted on a Facebook group I follow (Consett & District Heritage Initiative).
I'll take some "now" pictures tomorrow from the same viewpoint to get a "then & now".


First one,
I live in the end bungalow on the right. The wooden building on the left side was apparently a general store, and then later a fish and chip shop, now long gone.
The "heap" behind is now woods....this is where i watch the deer, the bats, and listen to the owls.
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The second,
Taken from along the street, looking the opposite direction.
The bungalow to the left still has the coal bunker. The next one, my neighbours, still has the same wall, with the same half round coping stones on the top.
My one is the one on the end, but sadly not of its original external features remain.
The store/chippy can be seen on the right, and though this is now long gone, some of the structural support uprights are still there, well about 3ft of them anyway.


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@Smug in Boots I hope you dont mind me posting these on here, I feel like ive hijacked your thread a bit.
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While we're waiting patiently for the influx from RTG to take up @Smug in Boots bet, I thought I'd post the "now" photos for a comparison.

Its Consett, so your just gonna have to trust me here, the "then" photos are the ones in b&w :emoticon-0136-giggl

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Smug in Boots said:
I believe so but I'm not 100% sure.

This thread has kicked off a few private messages, from people who lived in that area.

One is from a lad called Clive 'Clibby' Hogarth who was a mate on Dene Bank, Allendale Cottages.

I left when I was around 8yo so it's going back a long time.
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I noticed the street sign. Zoomed in, looked like it began with 'SYC'. Assumed 'Sycamore'. A few quick google searches. Bingo! It was nearer Ebchester than anything. Virtually nothing there now but its still referenced on maps.
 
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RTG's 'radjee gadjee' shooting his mouth off again ...

... ha'way son, a little less chat and a bit more action.

There's £1000 just waiting for you to pick up.

radjee gadjee said:
Almost 750 pages, and 15000 posts saying absolutely nowt other than those believing random tweets, those then calling Xhaka a snake, a rat and other ridiculous comments without any factual evidence to back up any of their ****e, and those making stuff up to justify their anger and vitriol towards one of the best players ever to pull on a Sunderland shirt.
Absolute abomination of a thread !!!!
 
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