Warsash
Local History Society

All of our pictures are divided into categories. You can see what categories we use by opening the Category menu. When you first open this web page, the category is automatically set to "Groups" - you will see the word "Groups" inside the "by Category" box. We do this simply to reduce the number of pictures on display - we have nearly 2,000 pictures on-line.

To view a different category, click the arrow to the right of the box then click on the category you wish to select, or filter by. The selected pictures are then displayed.

The category is a quick way to find a picture, but it is limited because a picture can only be in one category at a time. The content of many of our pictures can be in many categories.

So you may choose to search or filter by entering a word or phrase. You can do this using the "by Words" box.

Searching by words (or parts of words) usually gives you a more flexible search, but to use it effectively you have to understand a little about how it works.

The search function takes what you have entered and sees if it can find a match anywhere within the words it searches. So if you entered for example 'rg' (without the quotes) you'd find pictures which have words like 'barge' or 'large' in their description.

If you entered something like 'Men sitting in a boat' you'd get no results, because none of the pictures have that exact group of words in them.

So the secret is to use the minimum number of characters which define what you want.

For example - say you wanted to find all the pictures of Shore Road, then the optimum search term is Shore R. Not Shore Road - because some of the descriptions might have 'Shore Rd' in them. Not 'Shore'. You'd get all the Shore Road pictures, for sure, but you'd also get a lot of pictures about the Hamble River Shore.

Finally - note that the search is NOT case sensitive - Wasash is the same as warsash as far as the search is concerned.