Celebrating our collections dating from 780AD to the present day
By Victoria Evans, Searchroom Archivist SSW 16 - Storrington: St Mary's Church, 18 Sep 1927. Walk: Steyning - Storrington - Pulborough With our recent push to digitise glass plate negatives to further increase accessibility while ensuring the long-term preservation of the originals, the Society of Sussex Wealdmen collection (catalogued as SSW) is now available on…
By Katherine Slay, Archive Assistant The biggest collection of black and white railway photographs held at the Record Office is now available to search via our online catalogue. Bill Sumner was a very keen photographer, taking thousands of images, all of which came to the Record Office in 2009. William George 'Bill' Sumner was born…
My name is Lucy Maguire, and I worked on the Queen Victoria Hospital Archive Project as a Preservation and Digitisation Assistant between August 2016 and September 2017. As the title suggests, my job was broken up into two main parts but within each there was a wealth of surprises, which made every day its own unique…
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