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Discovering 'lost' treasures...

Posted by: Blog Administrator on Sep 9, 2011

Preservation goes hand in hand with conservation and, as part of the Archive Conservation team’s overview and collections care, a box survey was implemented in 1991. Still ongoing twenty years later, we are gradually surveying the contents of every box in the county archive. This enables us to monitor the condition of the archive, discard or replace unsuitable packaging, pins and staples, to make sure the contents are not packed incorrectly and to check that boxes are not over full.

 

Besides the important preservation and conservation aspect of the survey, it is also a wonderful opportunity to discover ‘lost’ treasures and to investigate collections unopened for many years, and in some cases perhaps decades. Some are yet to be fully catalogued.

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And a Wiltshire New Year to You!

Posted by: Blog Administrator on Jan 4, 2011

Tagged in: Wiltshire , William Henry Tucker , wedding , wages , Trowbridge , treat , trade unions , Swindon , Sunday school , snow storm , Sir Edward Bayntun , schoolmasters , schoolboys , reverends , railway accident , polka , plague , New Year’s Eve , New Year , Lords , Lord Methuen , locomotive superintendent , Langley House , Langley Burrell , Kington St. Michael , Keren Wood , John Couzens , Jeffery Whitaker , Jackson’s Lane , Isambard Kingdon Brunel , inhabitants , Herbert Spackman , GWR , Graham Awdry , gauge , gardener , Francis Kilvert , flooded , experiences , Edwad Awdry , diary , Daniel Gooch , dances , Corsham Court , Corsham , Commonplace Book , clothier , Bromham , Bristol , Bratton , Bella Dixon , ball , authors , architect

 As the New Year is now upon us, I thought to take a look at how some of our previous Wiltshire inhabitants spent their New Years’ Day by taking a look at their diary entries. The authors’ backgrounds range from lords to schoolboys, schoolmasters to reverends, and how different their experiences of New Year were…

 Advert from the Wiltshire Times, 1st January, 1910, p.7

Advert from the Wiltshire Times, 1st January, 1910, p.7

It was the plague that was the main concern at the beginning of January in 1666 when Sir Edward Bayntun of Bromham noted in his Commonplace Book on January 6th  :




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So, just what Do our visitors come to see?

Posted by: Blog Administrator on Oct 1, 2010

Tagged in: wool , Wiltshire Wills Project , Wiltshire , wills , William Small , Walter Long , wages account books , visitors , Victoria County History , Urban District Council Committee Minutes , trade , tithe awards , Swindon New Town , survey , student , strong rooms , servant , search rooms , samples , Salisbury , road , resignation , researchers , requests , records , quest , Quaker Meeting House , publication , production team , pre-order , pattern book , parish , papers , painter , original , ordnance survey , ordination , order , Methuen , material , marriage , maps , manorial , Maiden Bradley , Long family , Local Studies Assistant , letter , Julie Davis , Japanese , inventory , interest , household , history group , Helpdesk Team , glazier , genealogists , estate , Edward Seymour , documents , diary , curate , Corsham Court , correspondence , cloth , church goods , church , catalogues , Archivists , Archives , admissions registers

I thought it may be of interest to take a look on your behalf at the kind of original documents visitors order out when they visit our search rooms, to give you an idea of the wide range of requests we receive for documents each day. I chose a day last week at random, and got peeking!

 
Pattern Book, Ref: 947/1802

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