More than 40,000 historic photographs can be accessed on a new computer database thanks to images stored in the archives of the Huddersfield Examiner.

The newspaper has teamed up with Kirklees Council to give people immediate access to history – by simply touching a computer screen.

More than 200,000 other photos are still to be added to the system.

Computer screens to give access will be installed at three local libraries and people can also visit the Examiner offices in Huddersfield.

The council won lottery cash in 1997 for the project, in a bid backed by the Examiner.

About 12,000 pictures are from the council archives with 28,000 coming from the Examiner’s records from 1947 to the late 1960s.

Editor John Williams said: “We are proud at the Examiner to have played our part in creating an archive that must be the envy of many towns and cities across the country.”

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