The History Files

How to use gallery pages

The gallery pages within the History Files contain multiple images or photos, which are quickly loaded for you so that you are easily able to scroll through them with no delays for downloading each new image.

At the top of each gallery page, you will see a series of numbers, bracketed by 'Back' and 'Next' labels, as shown in the image below. This is the gallery navigation bar.

A sample of a gallery navigation bar

Each gallery page will typically hold between six and ten photos, and will always load with the first image showing, which is why the first number on the navigation bar is slightly faded, to show that it is active.

To access the remaining images, either click with your mouse on the number, or click on 'Next', which will scroll you through the images at a rate of one image per click. Click on 'Back' to scroll in the opposite direction.

Churches, castles, palaces and manor houses

The 'Churches of the World' series of photo galleries, and similar gallery pages which focus on castles, palaces, manor houses and other buildings of historical interest, sometimes concentrate on one individual church or building per page, but in many cases, especially with the church pages, they will focus on multiple buildings. The number of churches on one page depends on the available content, and may number anything up to ten, although something between three and five is more normal.

You will be able to spot when a new church comes up because its name will be shown emboldened in the text below the photo, as shown below.

Emboldened text which highlights the name of a new church within a single gallery page

There may also be more than one emboldened church name in the text. Very often, especially with non-conformist, minor churches, the name will change over the years. If a second name is shown in the text, this will be the name by which that church was previously known.

Emboldened names are always included in the index, so that you can find a church by whichever name you best know it.

Index page links to a specific church

Links to individual churches in the main index pages pages will only take you to the gallery page which contains that church. It is up to you to scroll through the pictures until you reach the entry for the particular church you require.

Taking the 'tour'

The reason that there are often multiple churches entered onto one gallery page is that they are formatted so that you can take a kind of virtual tour around a specific town or district, reading about each of the churches as they come up, almost as if you were walking around the town itself.

To take the tour, click on a photo on the index page. The photo is always located above the individual links for each church in that section.

Once you have finished with the first page in a section, use the 'Related Links' on the righthand side of the page to access the next page, which will be labelled 'Part 2', 'Part 3', etc. When you come to the last part, and the next link is for a different county or district, you can either continue the tour by clicking on that link, or go back to the main index by selecting the 'Special Index' link below it.

Finally

A list of churches in the British Isles which have already photographed for the collection can be found here.

To help the photo galleries grow, you can let us know what material you would like to send in by contacting us here.