Good news!
Tony tells me that he has now retrieved all the remaining index volumes from
the museum and hope to start scanning them in a week or two.
That means that those of you who are twiddling your thumbs won't have too
long to wait!
However when trying to look up some negatives of the Duke of Edinburgh for
the Herald this week I discovered that they were on pages missing from the
1955 negatives book*. That reminded me that some of you had reported missing
pages.
Looking at the volume scan it looks like quite a large section of pages may
have dropped (or been pulled) from the binding over the years. What I'm
wondering is if the missing sections might just be languishing unloved in
the museum store. Next time I'm there I'll have a little furtle about and
see if I can turn them up (I've already got a large box of miscellaneous
unindexed negatives that I'm working through and there is some fascinating
and important stuff included amongst that which might easily have been
overlooked ).
Can I please ask you all therefore to check the volumes you have worked on
for missing pages/ranges of numbers? If you can let me have them as and
when, I'll then compile a list for when I go hunting.
Thanks,
Chris
* I found the DofE negatives because I noted the numbers from the
relevant newspaper issues in the days when they included neg numbers in the
captions. At worst we can eventually reverse built the missing index partly
once the papers have been scanned - but that is going to be a long while
away I suspect.
Chris Shepheard
Chris.shepheard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
