Technical Stuff

These letters are best viewed with Firefox or any other standards compliant browser with javascript enabled. Internet Explorer 6 will do but not all features are available. There are a couple of techniques I've used that you should be aware of as they should enhance your journey.

Example of rolling your
mouse over an image

Mouse Over

When you put your mouse over most postcards and some photos you will see the reverse side of the image. Try it on the passport as an example.

Harry's Links Window

There are many links to other people's and organisation's sites in the letters. When you click on one, a new window will open. If you resize this window to the best size for your computer's display characteristics and then LEAVE IT OPEN, the next time you click on another link the same window will be reused (with the same size etc). To get back to the letter (while leaving this open) just click on the letter's window (which should still be visible) to resume your letter reading.

Example of a page and
photos from the album
(Click on a single photo for bigger image)

Photo album pages

Some web pages also contain one or more pages from Harry's photo album, as per this example. If you click on a single photo in the page, that photograph will be displayed in the "Harry's Links Window".

Regrettably many photos have been eaten away by time and the chemicals found in the album paper.

The following technique does not work in Internet Explorer: If you click on a larger section of the brown paper part of the page (eg. the spine) a larger version of the page will display.

By the way, this page from the album is the inside of the front cover. Regrettably, it is not known who these men are but I suspect one is Harry's father?

Auto resizing

If the photos are too large you may be able to switch on "auto-resizing of images" in your browser (unless you have a very old browser). Switching this on has the advantage of allowing you to toggle between shrunken images and bigger images (bigger images allowing you to see fine detail in the photos such as faces). If you need help switching this option on or off, or you want to know how to toggle between big images and shrunken images, click on either Firefox or Internet Explorer (depending on the browser you are using) or feel free to contact me if you're not sure.