The Knutsford Photographic Society Web Site 
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Transcript
...."But Carol Sparkes, formerly of Grove Park, Knutsford, has been involved in it for years. By early 1995 she had already designed a web site for Knutsford's Photographic Society just as the World Wide Web was starting to grip Britain. It is believed that the site was one of the first in the country to be created for a camera club.
"When I first suggested setting it up many on the members did not know what I was going on about" she said.
"A lot of our members still do not have access but it is growing".
Ms (correction Mrs) Sparkes learnt the computer language needed to create a site while off work for six months recuperating from major back surgery.
She regularly adds news, events and new photographs taken by society members to the site. "The important thing is to keep it updated," she said. "If a site becomes a dead zone, then people stop visiting it".
As IT manager at Radbroke Hall (corr. ITS-CSC, Risley) she uses the Internet as a useful reference guide at work. E-mail is also an important tool.
"We get a lot of ex-pats who use to live in Knutsford visiting the site and getting in-touch through e-mail" she said. "The (corr. members') photographs of the town I have put on there bring back happy memories for them".....
