Old Documents Relating to Long Preston
Thank you to everyone who have scanned the documents,
or who have loaned them to the
Heritage Project,
and given us permission to use them on this site.
Articles from newspapers currently cover the period 1862 to 1888, also more recent ones
More documents are in the process of being scanned and prepared for publishing.
Documents added in the last 15 days ( or whose Caption has been changed )
are
shown by the NEW icon on the image and folder.
Navigation
Navigation through the galleries is very straightforward
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When in the main viewing window there are several ways of moving through the images:
- Use the Next -
Previous arrows at the top. - Click on a thumbnail at the left of the main picture.
- Click on the left or right hand side of a picture
- Click on the numbered list at the bottom of a picture
For full ‘pop up’ instructions click on the Help link here.
This link to ‘Help’ also
appears at the bottom of each gallery page.
Screen Settings
For optimal viewing of the galleries your screen resolution should be set to at least
1024 x 768 pixels.
For many documents you will need to use the scroll bars to see
the whole document.
The F11 key on your keyboard can be used to maximise the viewing area on your screen,
press
it again to return to a normal sized window.
Document Image Quality
The quality of the images of the documents in these galleries are dependent on the quality of the original printed document; some are difficult to read so where possible transcriptions have been added.