Bannion
The reason I have so many photo's is simple, I have a keen interest in local history and I have found that I am able absorb this topographical information better if I have an image to associate it with. I have thousands of photo's on file and I think at the last count 720 of them were pubs some are duplicated but in different years.
All my photo's are local to Birmingham, if I'm out I take a camera with me, If I read a newspaper, magazine or book and I see something that interests me I make a copy. I know this probably infringes copyright regulation, but I do not do it for profit and I would not dream of trying to sell one. So I can't see that it does any harm.
Phil