As part of the National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland which is being launched tomorrow, the Ballast Trust has prepared a case study which you can read here.
This is the postcard version of the case study that has been created to give away at the launch (excuse the rubbish phone pictures):
There are seven other case studies featuring Tennent's, G. L. Watson & Co. Ltd, the Scottish Business Archive, Lloyds, Diageo, the Sir Basil Spence Archive at RCAHMS and the Capturing the Energy project. You can read them all here.
This is the postcard version of the case study that has been created to give away at the launch (excuse the rubbish phone pictures):
There are seven other case studies featuring Tennent's, G. L. Watson & Co. Ltd, the Scottish Business Archive, Lloyds, Diageo, the Sir Basil Spence Archive at RCAHMS and the Capturing the Energy project. You can read them all here.
Still behind with the next lot of Dan McDonald photos, too busy organising the strategy launch for next week.
Instead I bring you a lovely image of a drawing office from Bill's miscellaneous collection.
I think this is beardmore's again.
Back in April, I uploaded a photo of HMS Candytuft to our flickr pages. The majority of the photos and images we have here at the Ballast Trust are of 'things', ships, locomotives, engines and it is rare to be able to make a personal connection to them.
So I was delighted to receive an email this week from Mr Hayes, the nephew of a Mr James Sullivan who served on the HMS Candytuft. He provided the following images of Jamie shown here on the left:
And with fellow members of HMS Pembroke
Sadly James Sullivan was just 22 when he along with nineteen other men were killed in a boiler explosion on 9th September 1941. He was born and raised in Rosscarbery, West Cork, Ireland.
Thank you to Mr Hayes for contacting us with this information and giving permission for me to post his photographs.
There's an interesting blog post on the BBC arts blog view from the south bank about the Riverside Museum. Read it here.
A slightly delayed Friday photo, things are a little hectic just now with preparations for the launch later this month of the National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland.
This is one of a series of photos I scanned in before Christmas to use for a leaflet about business archives in Scotland. This is an image of the William Beardmore & Co. works.
