If you aren't having any luck with GOONS members living close enough to take the photo, you might want to try a request on somewhere like the rootschat forum. http://www.rootschat.com/forum/surrey/ perhaps in their lookup requests section. Corinne Curtis #5579 >> >>> On 1 Feb 2015, at 15:11, Tony Harris via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >>> >>> I am intending to write an article for JOONS and I would like to include a >>> photograph of a house in Upper Hale, Farnham, Surrey in the article. I do >>> have a photo taken from Google Street View but there are difficulties in >>> publishing a picture from that source. Is there a GOON living close to Upper >>> Hale who would be prepared to take a digital photograph for me of the house >>> for me? Full credit to the photographer will of course be given in the >>> article. >>> >>> Tony Harris >>> #5904 >>> PHILO ONS

Taking photographs of other people's houses should be done with care and consideration - many people object strongly to this. I was engaged in an ill-advised effort to photograph a complete village's houses and was approached by two uncooperative individuals wielding large hammers. I subsequently had an interesting conversation with a local history society member who had taken part in an effort to photograph all the buildings in a nearby town, and was given the following advice: Always ask for permission first; if you can't locate the owner at the time, try to get permission later before using any photograph you have taken; Never enter the property without permission, such as trying to get a better view from the garden; As a general rule, never photograph the back of a house because people see this as giving information to potential burglars; It is a good move to stand as far away as possible to avoid antagonising people; a wide-angle street view can be used to show several houses rather than photograph each one; Be aware of CCTV and avoid photographing if you are going to be in the field of its view, to avoid possible later problems. I have photographed several houses lived in by ancestors and found that knocking on the door first and explaining the reason has always produced a very friendly response. Adrian