Well apparently the guys on here have said photobucket is now charging $400/$450US for third party hosting of images which is crazy! But they have also mentioned some other sites that are similar to PB.
I tried and used ImgBB to download a couple of pictures here and as luck has it, I had copies of all my photobucket pictures on USB drive
and transferred them over, now have to to cancel my PB account.
so far found ImgBB very quick to use, lot better than PB at it's best.