The sandstone group

What is Frodsham pictures?

Frodsham pictures is a website that that began in 2004. Back then it was known as 'frodsham-pics.co.uk'.

In 2009 it became frodshampictures.co.uk during Frodsham's 800yr anniversary and showcased many pictures and videos of the town's celebrations in Castle Park

The site then languished between 2010 and 2018 with little update and became run down and full of woodworm. Then in 2019 a new project was launched thanks to investment (of a few quid) from the sanstone.group and ourown producer's credit card.

A team of professionals (never done a day's work in their lives) and a quartet of highly trained mice were assembled at a small office in Preston Brook over the winter months of 2019 to design, develop and publish a brand new website. We were told to 'keep it simple'. We tried that but wordpress proved clunky and full of holes requiring plugins. So we adapted a minified javascript, html 5 with 'Ajax dynamic pushstates' (whatever that is) and colour to produce a site that just might work. The result was Frodshampictures.com, a site we launched in January 2020.

The project and this website is just a 'bit of fun' and you shouldn't take us seriously. We certainly don't! But we do remain passionate about Frodsham, the buildings, parklands and of course, the people. We're all proud of our town of Frodsham and we all love living here and that's got nothing to do with all the pubs being here either! Of course for those of you that are not lucky enough to live in Frodsham, we do offer you this site, together with its many pictures, sights, sounds and smells. Ok, maybe not the smells. We'll reserve that for our Ellsmere port site! (only joking).

Aye S.

What is the purpose of Frodsham pictures?

Our objective was simply to showcase the many historic buildings and the environment of Frodsham, with a dash of history and archive sprinkled on top. Somewhere in there is the need to have fun building it and trying out new ways to capture and showcase pictures of Frodsham.

Who owns Frodsham pictures?

Frodsham pictures is a privately owned website. It's registered to someone who has lived in Frodsham for over twenty-four years and is only just beginning to understand the bus timetables.

'2 Ears'

Anna

Anne

Arthur

Aye

Chris

Cindy

Emma

Jess

Karl

Liz

Viv

Wendy

Yual

Research

Lead Researcher
EMMA DREAMING

Archivist
ARTHUR WHITE

Library Researcher
CHRIS MUSS

Researcher, Content contributor
JESS LYKEDEE

Editor
JUAN HIAH

Knights Lab timeline Editor
HUGH STERNO

Castle Park Researcher, Gallery & Content Contributor
WENDY 'TREETOPS'

Media Management
LIZ ANNE

Designer, 'Now and then' Contributor
ANNE CHILD-WREN

Community Liason
LIZ ANNE

3D Audio Consultant
"2-EARS" LAYBELLE

Archive and Stock Photography
CINDY SNOW

Location

Principal Photography
AYE SAYED

Videography and Gimbal
EMMA DREAMING

Panoramic, 3D and VR Photography
ARTHUR WHITE

3D Sound Recording
CHRIS MUSS

Events research
VIV AVERAY

Additional Wild sound
CHRIS MUSS

Transport & Beer Scout
"KARL"

Media Correspondent
DAI WRIGHT

Communications
MAYALL DAISBEE

Website Desgner
MARY-ANNE BRIGHT

Editor
ANNA MAYOR-HALL

Coffee machine re-filler (when he's not producing)
YAUL KRISS

Sandstone meeting rooms (thanks to)
MRS. B. WHITE

Layout

Chief Editor (gallery)
AYE SAYED

Lead Designer & Editor (content)
EMMA DREAMING

Marzipano Integration
ARTHUR WHITE

Server Management ('Mr Robot')
CHRIS MUSS

Supplier Management (SaaS subscriptions)
JESS LYKEDEE

Web design, Style & Branding
JUAN HAIH

X3 Support and coding
HUGH STERNO

Local and social media
WENDY 'TREETOPS'

Design, Typesetting, Layout
and 'Frodsham Websites'
LIZ ANNE

Alpha Testing & Beta Responder
ANNE CHILL-WREN

Additional Photographs
LIZ ANNE

3D sound integration
"2 EARS" LAYBELLE

History Editor
CINDY SNOW

Production

Video Editor
EMMA DREAMING

Graphics Editor
ARTHUR WHITE

Sound Mixer
CHRIS MUSS

Network security and Backup Management
VIV AVERAY

Social Media & Web SEO
CHRIS MUSS

Finance and Beers
"KARL"

Media Correspondent
DAI WRIGHT

Frodsham Liason, Rental and Procurement
MAYALL DAISBEE

Legal
MARY-ANNE BRIGHT

Project Director
ANNA MAYALL

Producer and MS Teams champion (Mr 'Blue Sky')
YUAL CHRISS

Executive Producer (on behalf of the sandstone.group)
MRS B. WHITE

The Sandstone Group wishes to thank the following companies for their software and services that made this site possible:
Imagevue; Pixelbay; Unsplash; Affinity; Luminar; Dermandar Ltd; Hawkhost; Namecheap; Cloudflare; Blackmagic Design; 'Knight Lab' at Northwestern University; Pingdom; GTMetrix, Nikon, Apple and Google.

A sandstone.group production.
© 2020 Frodsham Pictures. All rights reserved.








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