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Working on Frank’s collection
- Volunteer workshops
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- A collaborative success!
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The huge amount of volunteer input that we have received for the Frank Gregory Online Project has helped to ensure its success.
The mammoth task of organising and identifying thousands of unidentified images was undertaken by the Archive's skilled volunteer team based in Reading and an expert panel formed by members of the Sussex Mills Group.
In Sussex, members and friends of the Sussex Mills Group established the Frank Gregory Expert Group to help identify and catalogue the many thousands of 35mm slides in Frank's collection. The group met regularly at West Blatchington Mill in Hove. With the aid of a digital projector, each slide was viewed in turn and a general consensus reached as to the subject and date of the slide and the location of the mill it depicted. Some of the slides presented more of a challenge than others!
Volunteer teams based near the Mills Archive's headquarters in Reading met at Watlington House on a weekly basis to push forward with the reorganisation, cataloguing, indexing and digitising of the photographic and documentary material. Ken Kirsopp and Elizabeth Trout - two of the Archive's longstanding volunteer cataloguers - organised and produced finding aids for all the documents in the collection.
Working on Frank’s collection: gallery
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TransportTrustee Derek Stidder, aided by Colin Smith, loading the collection at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum. -
CataloguingMills Archive volunteers scan, index and catalogue the material at Watlington House. -
OrganisationSome of the 120 boxes, of all shapes and sizes, that housed the collection before we started -
StorageThe Collection was gradually repackaged after sorting. This process always increases the amount of shelf space needed . -
StorageLarge drawings need even more space and are difficult to handle without damage.
