The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland has great image collections of industrial sites available on their Canmore site and they've just uploaded more new images for February which include some of "international building projects from the Sir William Arrol Collection, including sites in Denmark, Egypt, Ghana and England, as well as photographs of John Brown’s shipyard in Clydebank in 1959."
Although the Pacesetter project isn't finished, I recently filled in the official evaluation questionnaire for the Pacesetter team.
This is because we were originally supposed to finish up in October, so my evaluation wasn't as comprehensive as it will be once we have completed a full collection, imported it and then seen it made available online but it did give me an opportunity to think about the project planning benefits and the current status of the project.
I do think that thinking properly about the work we have to do here and how we can parcel it up into 'projects' has been helpful for us and is something that I hope to do more of.
In terms of the actual project, I'm pleased to announce that all the additional information for the Montague Smith collection has been captured and the data entry stage has begun. We have one of our new volunteers working on it and she has been able to input over 250 items so far which makes it nearly 10% complete!!
Because its Friday and I've been too swamped to scan. This picture makes me want to stop everything for a pint.
Photo courtesy of GUAS
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.