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Did you know the entire legacy 'lancs-fus' website is still online?

It's accessible via this link

Not all of it will work however, and some links and images will not appear (they're online, but the link to them is broken) - this is down to the design of the original site, where some of the links to pages and images are 'relative' (good practice) and some are 'absolute' (bad practice)

Absolute links require the entire link to remain intact in order to work - so for example when you click to enter the legacy website you see a broken page because it looks for the entire string which no longer exists, so returns a broken page.

Relative links are relative to the path you're already on, so navigation will typically work fine even if the root or website url changes - the new website uses all relative links, so even if the base url ever changes we will never get this issue.

If you have a bookmark from the legacy site, you should be able to view that online today by making changes to the url - I can help with that, just post them here and I'll show you how to change them to get them working - it's basically just adding '/legacy/lanc-fus/' to the url.

For the main landing page of the legacy site, you can visit here; https://lancashire-fusiliers.co.uk/lega ... x_Page.htm

A side project of preserving the website is to fix the links on this legacy site, but not essential during migration of the new site.

Small update on the legacy site.

I spent some time today tweaking links to get them working again, and I may have cracked the majority of it.

If you visit the main page I've put a new link directing you to the legacy site as it was August 2026. If you can't see it, refresh a few times in case of caching.

The legacy site is hosted purely for preservation purposes and will not be updated further. It'll largely remain the same, however there will be some things that will be removed from the legacy pages over time, such as;

- Finance - no longer relevant.
- Any database(s) of people - as the new website no longer offers this service.
- Email addresses - Emails should ideally not just be free text online, as it'll attract spam in those inboxes.

Note that the fixes I put in place is not a guaranteed fix for all pages, some you may find not working still on the legacy site. If you come across those, you can copy the URL's here and we can solve them, but for now hopefully this may help people find things quicker than I can migrate them.

Migration of all the legacy site is ongoing, smooth but slow

Brilliant Sam
The majority of the links (buttons) work.
I'm particularly pleased that full access to the features page is still possible whilst the migration is ongoing.
Great stuff.
Geoff