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The first in a series of Stamford borough records has been published by the Stamford Survey Group, in association with Stamford Town Council, Stamford Civic Society and Stamford Museum. William Brownes Town: The Stamford Hall Book Vol 1 1465 1492 edited by Alan Rogers, is the town councils minute book, and covers the period when the town was run by William Browne a marchaunt of a very wonderfull richnenesse. 15th century Stamford was a major urban centre whose wealth from wool financed many fine new buildings. At the heart of this prosperity were the Browne family. The medieval archives of Stamford have never before been made available in this way; and the Group plans to finance subsequent volumes with sales of the previous one. Copies may be obtained from the Stamford Survey Group c/o 2 Kings Rd, Stamford PE9 1HD price £10 incl p & p. Town jewels old and new: on 14 May Hertfordshire Archives will be holding an Open Day that will feature some of the most exciting documents for the countys oldest towns, and an exhibition will feature New Towns and Garden Cities. There will be tours, displays, talks and family activities. Visit the website for more details www.hertsdirect.org./hals, email hertsdirect@hertscc.gov.uk, or phone 01438 737333 The architectural drawings from Berkshire County Councils Architects Department, 1947-1976, have recently been catalogued. They include site plans, plans, sections and elevations of various buildings in the ownership of the council, including schools, and colleges, police stations, and fire and ambulance stations. The earliest are for Hungerford Police Station, 1863, and the latest are from 1972 of youth facilities at Grove School, Wantage. Plans for extensions to secondary schools marks the raising of the school leaving age. A site plan of 1909 shows the location of the water supply at Harwell primary school some distance from the school building. Welford and Wickham primary school did not get indoor toilets until 1966. Berkshire Echo: Newsletter of Berkshire Record Office issue 34.www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk Kent Archives Service have set up a new loan facility of books for local history societies and family history societies. At present there is one box of 20 general books for each, available to any society in Kent. They are particularly suitable for societies that do not have their own library or for new societies whose members would enjoy some background reading. Enquiries number for Centre for Kentish Studies is 01622 69463. Work is beginning on a new project at the National Railway Museum in York. Known as Search Engine (!) the aim is to provide access to the 180 tons of material including 1.5 million photographic negatives, 9,000 railway posters, 350,000 railway tickets, 2,000 recordings of oral history and sound effects, and much more at present stored in the establishments vaults. By the autumn of 2007 this will all be available to the public. Daily Telegraph 28 December 2005 Oswestry Town Council and Friends of Shropshire Archives are holding an Oswestry Archives Workshop on 1 April. After an introductory session on the borough and town archives, participants will have the opportunity to examine some of Oswestrys archival secrets. c/o 11 Lime Tree Way, Wellington, Telford TF1 3PJ. Northamptonshire Black History Project has launched a new website, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Home Office. The website offers access to a specially created database that records over 800 years of black history in the county. Information relates to historical records, oral history interviews and community archives recorded and collated by project staff over the past three years. The project was led by Northamptonshire Racial Equality Council, supported by 13 black community organisations, and with important partnership involvement from the county record office, libraries and information service, University of Northampton, and Northampton Museums and Art Gallery. As well as the website there is a touring exhibition of some of the findings. The excellent work of the project is being continued by a membership organisation Northamptonshire Black History Association. www.northants-black-history.org.uk The complete archive of Winterbourne Monkton school in Wiltshire was recently rescued from a skip in Cumbria by an alert neighbour, and returned to its home county. Presumably it had been removed by a member of staff on the closure of the school in 1972 and was thrown out during a house clearance. Amongst the records are logbooks 1875 1957 and an admission register 1902 1971. Past Matters if the newsletter of Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office www.wiltshire.gov.uk/archives Disaster management advises safe storage of vital documents away from an organisations main premises. In 1938 W H Allen, Sons & Co Ltd of Bedford created a new fire-proof records store separate from their works. As part of Air Raid Precautions they subsequently undertook a major duplicating scheme for their records. This photograph shows the set up used for taking photographs of engineering drawings. Others in the series, currently being catalogued by Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, follow the processing and storage of the films. The centenary of the Great Revival in Welsh religion in the early 20th century has been marked by a major recording project, begun ten years ago, by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales with Capel: the Chapels Heritage Society. The aim was to photograph and record every nonconformist chapel in Wales. In some cases this was urgent as, with declining populations, many were being lost to dereliction or demolition each year. 6200 have been identified, and their details are being made available online. The fervour for chapel building in 1904-5 led to 198 being built over two years, but the revival came to an abrupt end after the charismatic young preacher Evan Roberts retired in his late twenties following a nervous breakdown. Chapel building fell to 27 in 1908, and settled at about 10 a year. www.rcahmw.gov.uk
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