Today’s blog is guest authored by the wonderful team who have been carrying out conservation work on our glass plates. The conservation of this kind of material is specialist work and we have been really lucky to secure the skills of Sarah Allen and Emma Bonson, who have worked really hard to conserve close to…
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Today’s post is a wonderful piece of research by our dedicated project volunteer Kathy Nichols, who has an aptitude for historical research and always seems able to find a good story among our plates. Again, it is an example of how sometimes something which has a seemingly quite indirect connection to the subject of your research, leads you down…
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Today’s post is written for us by Sue James, History teacher and keeper of the Sutton High School archive which dates from 1884 to the present. Sue has a particular interest in the contribution of women to the Great War and the effects of the War on their lives. She has also written a talk entitled…
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Today’s post follows on from a well researched piece about the Ainger family by project volunteer Clive Orton a few weeks ago. It is a light-hearted look at an interesting pattern he noticed in the course of his research (can anyone guess that Clive has a background in statistical data?). But this piece gives a…
Today’s post feels both celebratory, and incredibly sad for those of us here at the project. Regular followers of this blog, and visitors to the Local Studies Centre at Sutton will be familiar with Kath Shawcross, our amazing archivist, who has been central to the project from it’s inception, and worked tirelessly alongside Jane Allen, our…
Today’s blog was written by one of our project volunteers, Clive Orton. Clive has been volunteering for the project for a little while now, cleaning, cataloguing and scanning the plates but The Ainger Brothers have been the first sitters he has attempted to research for us. It can be a little demoralising when you first begin, to hit brick…
Today’s blog comes to us from James Crouch of the Banstead War Memorial Project. James’ work featured on the blog just after Christmas and we are pleased to have found additional cross-overs between our work. James contacted us having recognised the faces of two brothers among our Flickr feed. Using Flickr as a platform for displaying…
Today’s post comes from one of our regular contributors. Kathy Nichols has been volunteering with the project since we started in 2014. As well as being an integral part of the team that scans and catalogues the collection, she has also successfully researched many of our sitters and subjects and has also acted as a…
Today’s post is an epic piece of research which was undertaken by James Crouch as part of the Banstead War Memorial Project. As well as researching names on the Memorial, the project aims to commemorate the individuals who lost their lives in WW1 by ringing the church bells on the date they fell. Hugh Forster is commemorated…
Today’s post comes courtesy of Ruth Feather, a remote volunteer who came to us through a family connection with one of our regular hands-on team. Ruth has a particular interest in fashion history having studied the subject for her Masters degree and was fascinated by the examples of fancy dress within the collection. Today she…
As we wind down for the Christmas break, we send our best wishes to all our supporters and followers. And we give heartfelt thanks to all our dedicated volunteers who have amassed a whopping total of close to 3000 hours since our start in 2014. The success of our summer exhibition and the award of further Heritage…
We often find that our volunteers have overlapping interests. It was a coincidence but not a surprise to find that two of our number also volunteer for a local National Trust property, Polesden Lacey was originally a Regency property but was extensively remodelled in 1906 by Margaret Greville, a well-known Edwardian hostess. It enjoyed a heyday…
