In the Conservation Studio at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies the project to stabilise the Bishop’s Stortford Police Archives documents for digitisation is well under way ! Some items have only needed appraisal (to confirm their condition) and surface cleaning with a very soft dry brush to remove any surface dirt and loose materials. Volumes in ...
Read more What was it like to be a Constable in Bishop's Stortford in the middle of the First World War? The first volume of the Bishop's Stortford Archive has been prepared for digitisation (The logbook of Pc Elberton from July 1915 to April 1916)
Read more The volumes from the Bishop’s Stortford Police Archives that I have recently worked on are from the period of roughly March 1915 – June 1916, and they give a unique insight into war-time rural life. Interspersed with entries about lost property, petty crimes, and straying cattle are details of dropped bombs in neighbouring counties, Zeppelin ...
Read more This daybook, the second Constable’s Journal to be stabilised for digitisation, covers sixteen months during the later part of WW1, from June 1917 to October 1918.
Read more Now that the conservation work has been ongoing for over six months I thought it would be a good idea to keep readers up to date with our progress. The project is proceeding well and many interesting stories are coming to light, hopefully these will form the basis of further articles. Although much of the ...
Read more Police Records Update – 30/7/12 Volunteer cleaning continues apace and all of the items in the collections categorised as either 0 or 1 have been treated. Categories 0 and 1 were those that had the least damage and for the most part need little or no further interventive treatment. Category “0” required only minor cleaning with a ...
Read more The Project Conservation Team Jeff Cargill Jeff has been the Archives Conservator at HALS since 2007. He started his career at the National Library of Wales and has since worked at Cheshire and Buckinghamshire Record Offices and was a visiting lecturer at Camberwell for three years. He has given talks, lectures and tutorials all over the UK. ...
Read more INTRODUCTION The Bishop’s Stortford police documents were acquired by HALS in 1992 (Acc 2744) from Harlow Museum. They had been left on the museum doorstep in plastic bags and suffered from water damage, severe mould and pest infestation. They consist of 37 volumes and one bundle of loose papers (1841-2; 1889-1918) and include Constables’ journals, Occurrence Books, ...
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