Photos and Info about old churches

[kaths2010]

Hi, I'm in Australia so, like many others, it's a bit difficult to pop over and take a few snapshots to add to my family history.
I'm putting my info together using Movie Maker and it will be a mixture of family photos, short descriptive texts, maps, .jpgs etc of relevant certificates etc
Where I find an old photo of a significant site or place or some history about a place of birth/work/marriage/death for one of my ancestors I include that as well.
I'm getting stuck though on finding information on or photos of old churches. The one I am looking for is "Crossgates, Halbeath, Fife"

Are there any particularly good sites for such information?
Thank you all
Kath
" Edited, information found"

[Maisie]

Hi Kath

Not sure what you've found but is this the one at Crossgates?

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1756780

Best wishes

Maisie

[Herrie]

Hello Kath
have a look at this one http://www.rdsasmemorials.co.uk/churches/
Good Luck
Herrie

[Currie]

Hello Kath,

The Google camera car has driven past the church that Maisie found. You can get some more shots from there. If you have Google Earth on your computer you could go full screen, and send yourself some pictures by email. The church seems to have been crowded out by suburbia. The Google Earth co-ordinates are Lat. 56° 5'13.63"N, Long. 3°22'31.41"W

You can also see it on Google Maps but I’m not sure you can do the same email thing as is possible in GE http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&i ... 2,,0,-2.51

All the best,
Alan

[Adam Brown]

Alan

If you go into the image in Google Maps and look in the top right hand corner there is a small square. If you click on that it gives you a full screen which you can copy using the print screen button on your keyboard.

Paste into Windowns 'Paint' and then save as a .jpeg and it can then be cropped in any photo editing software to remove the Google tools.

For example here is a screenshot from the link you gave.




And here is a cropped one. All done in about two minutes.





Cheers

Adam

[Currie]

Thanks Adam,

I’ve never noticed that button, it must have been a bit grey for my eyes, unless I thought it was a UFO. I’m more of an Earther than a Mapper.

With Google Earth you can do the print screen thing, but the email button will send a jpg rather than just a link as with Maps, although it still needs cropping if desired.

It can make quite an acceptable picture provided the zoom isn’t overdone and there aren’t too many telegraph poles in the way.

All the best,
Alan

[Wee Ann]

Just a thought - and totally off subject ;- Why do we still say 'Telegraph Poles', when we no longer have Telegraphs, and most of the poles are Power Poles anyway? And its not jusy us oldies - younger people say it too!
Wee Ann

[Rockford]

Only coz you oldies teached us......!!!!

We still call the cinema 'the pictures' too....

Brian

[WilmaM]

Well, hereabouts a lot of the overhead wires are power ones [don't we know it just now when the wind is howling and the lights are flickering ] but a good few of them are telephone ones as well, so unless they are obviously Pylons, Telegraph Poles covers it.

[kenspeckle]

on old terms ..... My husband pulled me up the other day when I said that we need to get a " steamroller " to compact our drive I still think of them as steamrollers

regards Lesley