“We’ve had some very dedicated admin over the years who kept Lost Wollongong and our sister pages running smoothly, especially Karen Lecourt, Scott Fleming and Allan Baker,” he said. “One of our recently retired admins, Janet Rogers, spent hundreds of hours collecting and categorising thousands of photos into dozens of easy-to-search albums.“ Looking back, Mr Bottin is most proud of the work he has done to leverage the group’s reach to promote local history. Lost Wollongong & Yesterday Stories. This entry was posted in Wollongong and tagged Australia, Harbour, Lost Wollongong, Martitime, Wollongong, Wollongong Harbour on July 30, 2013 by 99boomerangs.
You'll find albums for nearly 100 Illawarra Region Schools at our Lost Wollongong group - once you are a member you can check the table below and click on the school's link - or you can also scroll through our albums over at the LW Facebook group to find your school - and if you can't find… The online site's Facebook page includes a photo gallery tagged It includes photos found in an old frame, among the belongings of a deceased loved one, bought in a garage sale or found in a box when moving house.The one thing they have in common is they all include a mystery – the location is unknown or maybe it’s the names of those in the photo.“Some photos over the years people have managed to identify what it is and we’ve managed to put some information with the photo,” said one of Lost Wollongong’s founders David Bottin.“But there are a lot of photos even now that we don’t know what the history of it is and that’s what we’d like to find out.”Getting information about the found photos could also be the first step in returning them to the rightful owners.Mr Bottin said the group has had some luck identifying images but others have been really tricky.“Some of the photos, it’s very hard to pick what they are,” he said.“The only thing we know is that it’s from the Illawarra but trying to put the story to it isn’t the easiest thing.” "There's now a Facebook history page for most suburbs, including our sister pages Shellharbour History in Photos, Dapto History in Photos and Mount Keira History in Photos.”Mr Bottin says running the group’s social media accounts has been a major headache at times, but that improvements to Facebook have made it easier to manage and organise the sheer volume of photos. Read more: The rise and rise of Lost Wollongong Last week the group celebrated its fifth anniversary with a 26,000-strong following on Facebook and another 5000 on Instagram. They are the proud custodians of a staggering - and growing - collection of 28,000 historical images of the Illawarra. “One of our recently retired admins, Janet Rogers, spent hundreds of hours collecting and categorising thousands of photos into dozens of easy-to-search albums.“Looking back, Mr Bottin is most proud of the work he has done to leverage the group’s reach to promote local history.He created the Wollongong Museum Trail in 2015 in partnership with Destination Wollongong to take advantage of a rise in heritage tourism across Australia, and built the Lost Wollongong website to plug the region's libraries, museums and historical events. Six days after launching a local history group on Facebook back in 2013, David Bottin and his friend Brenden Brain watched in wonder as the number of page likes ticked over 1000.
If you recognise any faces in the photos, let us know in the comments section below or head to the Lost Wollongong Facebook … They are the proud custodians of a staggering - and growing - collection of 28,000 historical images of the Illawarra. As never-before-seen shots of the region went viral and the group's following exploded, Mr Bottin knew he’d tapped into something bigger than himself. “The only thing we know is that it’s from the Illawarra but trying to put the story to it isn’t the easiest thing.” If you recognise any faces in these photos, let us know in the comments section below or head to the Lost Wollongong Facebook album where you can view more images.https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/35ns5Wme2fedmBqQ6qZE6iD/85ded624-898f-44aa-9a52-7027d0a4d6fc.jpg/r4_4_1712_969_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg We’ve partnered with Lost Wollongong, with their 25,000+ Facebook followers, plus Instagram and Twitter.
"There's now a Facebook history page for most suburbs, including our sister pages Shellharbour History in Photos, Dapto History in Photos and Mount Keira History in Photos.” Mr Bottin says running the group’s social media accounts has been a major headache at times, but that improvements to Facebook have made it easier to manage and organise the sheer volume of photos.
We are serious about history and we hope you too find it important. If you recognise any faces in the photos, let us know in the comments section below or head to the Lost Wollongong Facebook album where you can view more images.
“But there are a lot of photos even now that we don’t know what the history of it is and that’s what we’d like to find out.” Getting information about the found photos could also be the first step in returning them to the rightful owners. Residents from all over the Illawarra were dusting off their old photo albums to scan and upload private Kodak moments, flooding the Lost Wollongong page with faded images of a time long gone.As never-before-seen shots of the region went viral and the group's following exploded, Mr Bottin knew he’d tapped into something bigger than himself.From the outset, Lost Wollongong belonged to neither him nor Mr Brain but a devoted community of nostalgia lovers who called themselves ‘’Losties’’.Last week the group celebrated its fifth anniversary with a 26,000-strong following on Facebook and another 5000 on Instagram. Mr Bottin said the group has had some luck identifying images but others have been really tricky. Online Discussion Terms & Conditions.
David Bottin helped launch Lost Wollongong on Facebook back in May 2013. "When Brenden and I launched it on the 18th May, 2013, we could never have imagined how much of an impact it would have," Mr Bottin said. "There were only a few history-orientated Facebook groups back then, but since then the numbers have exploded. Online Discussion Terms & Conditions. Today it has more than 26,000 followers.
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