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The site was originally set up to display the photo collection of Dennis Jeeps, a farmer who lived all his life in Willingham. Dennis and another resident, Mike Hopkins, used to present photo shows for the village and provide a commentary on the photos with many stories of people or events. Sadly, no one ever wrote down or recorded these shows.

When Dennis died he had about 4,000 slides – mostly 1″ glass format. These were actually “photographs of photographs” which he used in his projector at public displays. Most of the original photos have been lost so his slide record was invaluable.  He also had a set of glass plate negatives with exquisite detail and some 35mm slides. This collection is stored in the Cambridgeshire Collection of the Cambridgeshire County Library where the originals can be viewed. The slides and other items were scanned over a period of nine months in 2003/4 enabling opening of the site in 2004.

Since opening, thousands more photos have been added due to the generosity of people loaning their own photograph collections to be scanned.