Thanks Simon
There may well be other sites compatible with Photobucket ( which as you know was recommended for this Forum by Keith " Boss ", when it was free ) - I don't have experience of them.
Even if such a site exists which doesn't charge for " third party hosting ", that would only be useful for FUTURE uploading of images. Personally I can't imagine uploading all my hundreds of photos, complete with explanatory texts, for a second time.
My only consolation is that the relevant threads have been viewed thousands of times before Photobucket deleted the images without warning. Thank you to all members for your support and interest
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