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Credits

This site is designed and maintained by myself Nigel Downs ( email ) on behalf of Burton Corps.
Other content providers include,
Major Jane Morris, Vic Wileman, John Ashworth, Major Pilsel, Major Shipp, Keith Adnams, Sue Grundy, Martyn Page, Barbara Savage & June Sharratt.

The source material for the corps history was researched by Barbara Savage, a lot of which comes from the 'Burton Mail' archive.

Source material for the news pages include the Salvationist, Burton Mail & Uttoxeter Advertiser

Change Log

22nd September 2014

 updated website

newnew Mosley Street Citadel page

Privacy & Cookie Policy

What information do we collect ?
We collect information from you when you register on our site or fill out a form

What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways
>  To personalize your experience
>  To improve our website
>  To administer user accounts (for the galley login)

Do we use cookies?
This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website and does NOT gather personal information.
Cookies are small files saved to the users computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the users interactions and usage of the website.
This allows the website, through it's server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and it's external serving vendors.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We respect your privacy and do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. Third party links Occasionally, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these links.

Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy

Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
This policy was last modified on 13/01/2013

Terms and Conditions of the Gallery & Guestbook

While the administrators of this website will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every post. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to this site express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators have the right to remove or edit any content at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database.
While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster and administrator cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

This site uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. The email address is used only for confirming your registration details and password.

Website History

April 1997 :-
First website was Created and hosted on Demon Internet.
Oct 1998 :-
1st Major redesign of the whole website - (now with a themed graphic layout throughout the whole site, instead of a mishmash of different graphic designs on each page.)
April 1999 :-
Guestbook from Guestworld added
January 2000 :-
Website moved from Demon Internet to Freeserve ISP.
February 2001 :-
The Domain name www.burton-citadel.org.uk was registered with netnames
April 2004 :-
2nd Major redesign of the whole website - (now with frames removed and completely new graphical themed layout.)
April 2004 :-
Website moved from Freeserve to Tiscali Internet.
May 2007 :-
Moved website from Tiscali onto 1and1.co.uk server, also added a second domain name of www.burton-corps.org.uk
March 2012 :-
3rd Major redesign of the whole website - (rewrite of the html code to bring the website up to 'XHTML 1.0 Transitional' standards, also now utilizing CSS sheets and incorporating some CSS3 features)
January 2013 :-
updated the 'light-box effect' scripts to the latest version
February 2013 :-
Installed a new interactive gallery, powered by Coppermine Gallery scripts
this also required a change to the Privacy Policy and additional T&C's

Technical Information

The site is maintained with Microsoft Expression Web 4.
The previous version was a rehash of old content and didn't correctly follow the HTML coding rules. This (4th version) site has a complete graphical design change and total rewrite of the XHTML source code, bringing it up to standard which should improve its download speed.
It has been designed to work best with Internet Explorer 8 and above, Firefox 8, Crome or Safrai 5. Using a minimum screen resolution of 1024*768. Also works on Android tablets with a mobile version for smart phones.
The Java scripts for the 'lightbox effect' are fancyBox - jQuery Plugin Version 2.1.4 - January 10, 2013
http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/ : www.fancyapps.com/fancybox/#license
Copyright 2013 Janis Skarnelis.
The interactive gallery is powered by Coppermine Gallery scripts version cpg1.5.20
If you do encounter any problems please let me know, so I can make the necessary adjustments.

Feedback Welcomed

I have tried to make this site informative, evangelistic and interesting. I really would appreciate your views, to help me develop this site in the direction it should go and the way our Lord wants me to take it.
Feel free to criticize, praise or suggest any changes or additions.