Blog at the Ballast

Back in October we organised and shifted close to 10 tonnes of engineering plans. These were drawings relating to about 8 different engineering companies based in the North-East of England. They had come to the Ballast Trust along with other material for the Kincaid’s collection that had been cleared out of the premises of Clark Kincaids in the early 1990s. Following discussions with...

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To celebrate Burns Night, we have these lovely Burns Supper menus taken from the Stewarts Rambling Club book (Ref SL247/3/1/1) that is part of the George Stewart & Co. Ltd collection.  The example I've scanned is from 1903 and the menu has an illustration of Burns' cottage on the front. The club seemed to have held regular Burns suppers as well as going...

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On the 16th December 1987 the Trust deed which created the Ballast Trust was executed. To celebrate this, in 2012 we prepared a history of the Ballast Trust which is currently at the printers and will be distributed early this year. However, the real practical work of the official Ballast Trust started in 1988 as Bill and his team processed records from their...

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