What's on the site
The website's archive of FGS mementoes is arranged in three parts, namely:
- WRINKLIES' GALLERY:
an indexed collection of photographs, Speech Day programmes, excerpts from old copies of Lumen, and all kinds of other treasured mementoes from the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s, kindly lent by a generous bunch of Old Farnworthians.
- PERSONAL PROFILES:
an indexed collection of notes on the lives, careers, etc. of a growing number of wrinkled Old Farnworthians, written in most cases by the subjects themselves. With few exceptions, a recent photograph of the subject accompanies each profile.
- WHOLE-SCHOOL PANORAMAS:
an indexed collection of annual panoramic photographs of the students and staff. In a bid to assemble as complete a collection as possible, I've waived the website's usual rule that stuff should be at least 50 years old, and am now including panoramas regardless of the year they depict. For more information please click here.
Finding your way around
- The point of access to all three parts of the archive is a page called Wrinklies' Corner. There you'll find a summary list of the latest acquisitions, additions and changes, together with click-button links to the three Lists of Contents.
- There's a link to Wrinklies' Corner at the foot of each page of the website.
There's also a link to Personal Profiles, which is a straggler from the original website. This link is now surplus to requirements but I haven't deleted it because:
(a) it still works;
(b) it's on more than 300 pages;
(c) life's too short.
- In each List of Contents, new entries and recently-changed pages are marked prominently in red. I really do try to keep things up to date, but nobody's perfect — so don't be too annoyed if you occasionally find an item marked
NEW that's been on the website for weeks.
- Inevitably there are loads of people in the old photographs who have not yet been identified. However, where a name is known, it should pop up as you pass your mouse across the person's face. Some of these pop-ups include a brief note about the person concerned. Others will invite you to click for details, and this will take you to the person's Profile.
- If you can name any of the people still unidentified in any of the website's photographs, please email me. My email address is fgs
 @dnet.co.uk but I'm afraid you can't click on it here as it's been doctored to foil the spam peddlers. Please type it in and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
- The date of the latest revision is shown in the top left-hand corner of:
- the Home Page;
- each of the three Lists of Contents;
- each Personal Profile;
- each photograph on which names are still missing.
A note about browsers
- INTERNET EXPLORER:
The site was designed to be viewed with this browser and works best with Version 6.
- NETSCAPE:
Earlier problems with pop-up names seem to have been solved in Netscape 6.2. The site works with this version, but some of the page formatting is still not as I intended it. Please use Internet Explorer if possible.
- MOZILLA FIREFOX:
Apart from some unintended changes in fonts and layout, the website seems to have few serious problems with this increasingly popular browser. I'd like to fix such problems as there are, but I really don't think I can find the time to swot up on how it's done.
- OPERA:
With the Opera browser the contents of the site are all there but the formatting is all over the shop. Again, please use Internet Explorer if possible.
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