Daddy long-legs—a weird and wonderful railway
One of the most unusual photographic collections in the National Railway Museum’s archives which I’ve come across as a volunteer cataloguer is one by Ellis Kelsey, an amateur photographer who…
Can you help on Transcription Tuesday?
…weren’t suitable to include in Transcription Tuesday. We’re continuing our work with an onsite volunteer team at The National Archives in London. They’re working on accident records that the railway…
Conserving the Great Heck books of condolence
…paper and cardboard boxes were consolidated with Japanese tissue paper and wheat starch. The books are now stored in a controlled environment in the museum Archives, where they will be…
Work and Play on a First World War Ambulance Train
…experiences of a voluntary unit in France. 1915-1919 Archives held within Leeds University’s Liddle Collection, The Imperial War Museum and The Library of the Religious Society of Friends document horrific…
Poetry please!
…Poetry in the archives Below is the printed broadsheet of a poem entitled “A Dirge over the Broad Gauge”. It was written by A B Berry in May 1892, and…
Railway tourist guides: part 2
…specific destinations or events, and promoting cheap fares. We have a collection of such material within our archives, and have massively increased the amount of the modern publicity material that…
Displays & exhibitions in Search Engine
…Deltic Preservation Society. Our next planned display is for the Flying Scotsman Preview Weekend on 28-30 May. We will have a selection of 4472-related items from our archives, and visitors…
Can you read this letter? There’s a prize on offer if you can
…project has been made possible by The National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives. Update 5 December: Thank you for all the entries to the competition: the winner will be contacted…
The railway link to a 131-year-old shipwreck
…identify the plate. We do hold original records for various independent manufacturing companies in our archives and we also hold copies of some that are held elsewhere. Unfortunately, these don’t…
Boiled AND roasted? Rediscovering an 1870s turkey dinner
…hours to roast” Alongside the letter was a festive package that included ”a few sausages” and ”a few bones to make some good gravy”. Our archives contain more food-related documents…
Post-1950 family history resources
…(or the later British Railways Board). Once you know what section they worked in, it will make finding more employment records (held at the National Archives) easier. You would be…
Which Borough Market are we dealing with?
…the archives (that came from BR Southern region in 1976) it was built???? It does not say. In fact, the more you look, the more you find the information is…