Portobello Online - news update

[Bob Jefferson]

Recent and planned activity includes:

Home page - we now link directly from the home page to Talkporty, Portobello Sailing and Kayaking Club, PEDAL, POD and BTOTB. Email links now fixed.

New sections - Portobello Amenity Society page coming soon. Also an archive section to make it easier to find at a glance all the pdf documents currently hosted on Portobello Online and linked from Talkporty.

Planning section - hope to get this up and running again. It breaks every time they change things at their end.

Gallery section - I have tidied this up a bit by creating new categories and sub-categories. Hope it makes sense. It's a bit clunky as Coppermine doesn't allow the creation of sub-albums. We hope to update to the latest version soon, which may add some new features. Commenting currently disabled as I got fed up with the spam.

Reporter archive - no progress as yet on digitising the older editions but still working on it!

Portobelly Telly - we plan to let YouTube take care of the hosting and bandwidth issues and embed the videos on our own site.

[Bob Jefferson]

One of my current projects is to scan all of the Portobello Amenity Society newsletters and add them to the PAS section on Portobello Online. PAS started out back in 1979 as the Abercorn Amenity Society. Their very first newsletter is available to read here:



More to be added soon.

I'm also scanning some newly-discovered items relating to the original Portobello Amateur Rowing Club but they won't appear for a few weeks yet. As a teaser, however, here is one side of a postcard posted in 1885, which is the most exciting find thus far.

[Bob Jefferson]

And the reverse, one of 27 new images I have added recently.



The postcard was sent by Andrew Melrose Morrison, the great uncle of Bill and Derek Morrison who provided me with much of the material in the Portobello Amateur Rowing Club gallery.

[Bob Jefferson]

[Bob Jefferson]