Currently reading
The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Volume I: Spenser to Crabbe
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Lord Jim
Aesop's Fables
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Yosemite and the High Sierra
Transcendent
The Official Highway Code
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
The Nation's Favourite: Poems
One Day for Life
Photos from pre-digital camera days (the 1980s). They vary wildly in quality, and I don't think the book is of much interest today, even to historians, unless you were personally connected with producing it or took one of the photos. In these days of vast online archives, we only need a little bit of motivation and patience to find much more illuminating data.Having said all that, it's still a good idea that would be worth repeating in some form, perhaps on a local level to encourage communities to get together, or perhaps by a club or group of people to provide a visual impression of a day in the life from a certain point of view.
It would be interesting to find out the origins of this idea and how many times it has been carried out.