doogal Posted 9 June , 2005 Share Posted 9 June , 2005 Just wondering - now that the Burnt Records have been scanned, what has happened to the originals? regards doogal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eviltaxman Posted 9 June , 2005 Share Posted 9 June , 2005 Good question - I haven't got a clue, but it would be interesting to find out when we can gain access to them. If they were burnt, how can they be scanned - surely they'd only be singed? Les. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Nixon Posted 9 June , 2005 Share Posted 9 June , 2005 We'll never have access to them. They were in a very fragile state. The poor old war diaries get a rough enough handling at The National Archive. The burnt docs, if they survive, would not last long. They were both burned and damaged by water from firemen's hoses. Some remain pretty intact but others really are very badly burnt. So, ET, many a true word spoken in jest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogal Posted 9 June , 2005 Author Share Posted 9 June , 2005 (edited) but it would be interesting to find out when we can gain access to them I would guess at never - as they've been scanned for use at the NA. Unless some radical and unforseen preservation technique is invented. The Burnt Records - weren't they a late 1970's new wave group doogal just got your post in before me Paul. Edited 9 June , 2005 by doogal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogal Posted 9 June , 2005 Author Share Posted 9 June , 2005 However.... where is the question Perhaps they are at Hayes in Middlesex? doogal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eviltaxman Posted 9 June , 2005 Share Posted 9 June , 2005 Paul, I was more wondering if the scanned versions may be online in the future, along the lines of the MICs & diaries. They must have scanned them for some reason other than for storage - which the NA is often saying it hasn't got. Les. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boreenatra Posted 9 June , 2005 Share Posted 9 June , 2005 Do you think Engelbert will be doing a selection from our If Curries were Songs thread.!! Regards Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 9 June , 2005 Share Posted 9 June , 2005 As far as I know they were not scanned - they were microfilmed. So no electronic copy. Far sighted, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogal Posted 9 June , 2005 Author Share Posted 9 June , 2005 As far as I know they were not scanned - they were microfilmed. So no electronic copy. Far sighted, eh? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It is microfilm if they are on microfilm, couldn't they be captured to disk in a similar fashion to the film capture process? A bespoke machine would be expensive in the first instance, but once you got the film spinning, I'd say it would take a year at the most. doogal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 9 June , 2005 Share Posted 9 June , 2005 In 2004 the NA moved all their little used documents, including those remaining at Hayes to an underground storage facility in a converted salt mine in Winsford, Cheshire. You can still request documents stored there [if they are fit to travel] and they guarantee to produce them withing 3 working days. So presumably the burnt records are also down the salt mine but, of course, their travelling days are over. A Google search using a strange combination of 'National Archives,' 'salt mine' and 'Cheshire' will even produce pictures! Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogal Posted 10 June , 2005 Author Share Posted 10 June , 2005 Hi Sue Followed your advice: here's the link Saltmine where the records probably are today Winsford, Cheshire - Minosus Ltd are the company. It looks fairly safe to me - no chance of grabbing any sly photocopies in this place regards doogal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Nixon Posted 10 June , 2005 Share Posted 10 June , 2005 Very relieved to see that it's safe from fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopkins1418 Posted 16 November , 2005 Share Posted 16 November , 2005 Just imagin what could have been! without the fire millions of documents in pristine order all available at the click of a button. Absolute researchers paradise!!!! what could we of done...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Hesketh Posted 16 November , 2005 Share Posted 16 November , 2005 Very relieved to see that it's safe from fire <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Let's just hope that somebody checks the roof supports every now and again..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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