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Putting Photos on This Website

I have found a photo online of the Shell Doorways on PHS, which I would like to post on here. The building later became McDonalds.  
You can buy a copy from Wandsworth Heritage Service but you can just see it online for free on Facebook and there is also a postcard for sale on EBay.  Am I allowed to just put a screenshot on here, as I wondered about copyright? I can’t be the only person who didn’t know about them, so I thought it would be of interest to those who like local history.

Martine Guy ● 10d8 Comments

I am hoping someone knows about the shell doorways and can tell us about the history of the building.

Martine Guy ● 10d

I wouldn't like to say, architectures aren't my speciality! Interesting that it looks like the window  above the left hand door has been bricked up?

Michael Ixer ● 10d

Thanks Michael.  I don’t understand tech talk, sorry. re: the date of the building, I wondered if it was early Victorian, even Georgian?  Putney doesn’t have much Georgian, but there is more early Victorian around.  Wish the shell doorways were still around in PHS.

Martine Guy ● 10d

Martine, sorry, it's just a link in one document to another document.  So the link in my document, a post on the SW15 website, to the URL (uniform resourse licator) of the Historic England document. In this case it was the full text of the URL, but the URL could be embedded behind other descriptive text or a picture.Sorry, I shouldn't use jargon but hyperlinks along with Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP, and mostly these days, the encrypted secure version, HTTPS) are the foundation of the World Wide Web as defined by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.

Michael Ixer ● 10d

Michael, what is a hyperlink?

Martine Guy ● 10d

Sorry,  I can't help with the date of demolition but as the photo dates back to the late 19th century probably while ago. Incidentally, Historic England do seem to own the rights to the photo but are ok with it being used for non commercial purposes.

Michael Ixer ● 10d

Thanks Michael for putting the photo on here.  I didn’t know about them until I saw them online.  They were where McDonalds is.  
I wondered when the doorways were demolished.  Does anyone remember these beautiful doorways?

Martine Guy ● 10d

Martine. It's not obvious who, if anyone, now owns the copyright but as it's on the Historic England website as well as Facebook it's ok to post a link to that site - isn't rhay the whole point of hyperlinks on the www? :-)https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/OFH01/01/01/F07/10

Michael Ixer ● 10d