local photos
photos of the area
The Swanage and Purbeck photo archive contains photographs dating back to the mid 1800's, to view any of the photos in the gallery simply select the category from the menu on the left of this page and you will be shown all the photographs for the section, you can click on any of the photographs to view the full size version and further information about the picture and photographer.
We are always on the lookout for more pictures and information for this section. If you have old or new photographs that you would like to add to these pages please contact us. We regret that we are only able to accept photographs containing people if there is a signed model release form with the image(s).
Copyright of photographs & using our pictures on your website
Unless otherwise stated all images and photographs are are the property of The Virtual Swanage Team and/or its contributors. We allow the use of some of our images and photographs for other website owners if they provide the following copyright notice next to any images or photographs used: "Copyright Virtual Swanage - www.virtual-swanage.co.uk".
If you would like to use our images on your website please contact us with the image name(s) you would like to use and the websites location which they will be used on. Some images maybe available in a high-resolution version suitable for print work so please contact us to discuss your requirements.
We would like to thank the following people
We would like to thank the following people for the loan of their photos for the Virtual Swanage gallery, Andy Farrer, Carole Lingard, Cynnie Tibbitts, Ian Bell, John Chappell, L Dorey, Lex McKee, Matt Lee, Mr Graham, Mr Terry Hardy, Mr Tim Addis, Mrs Susie Kew, Mr Tim Kew and Mr Dave Sansom.