Haringey’s historic oil paintings go online

Your Paintings, a new national online art archive, is bringing Haringey’s paintings to a wider audience for the first time.

Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country.

Currently, a total of 2,700 paintings displayed or archived in public buildings in north and east London are displayed on the Your Paintings website.

Almost 250 paintings held by Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning at Bruce Castle Museum have been photographed and uploaded as part of a project. Although none of Harringay are included at eth moment, there are some of nearby:

• Duckett's Manor House
• View of the 'Three Compasses' Inn and St Mary's Church, Hornsey Hig...
• First Fire Station, Wood Green, 1873
• Wood Green Common and Moat House, 1895
• The Seven Sisters Trees

There's also an area of the website where users can tag paintings. The idea is to get the public to help users find paintings they are interested in by ‘tagging’ what they see in them. Unfortunately, you can only tage what you're given, rather than being able to choose the pictures you want to tag.

To explore the collection and try tagging, visit bbc.co.uk/yourpaintings