Part of my job at the Ballast Trust has involved me in the development and implementation of the National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland. To mark our first year of implementation I put together this annual review infographic and thought I'd share it here for today's image. More information about it is available on the blog and it can be downloaded here.
Today's image is of an A4 class locomotive called Silver Link built to pull a train called the Silver Jubilee built for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). It was made in the year of King George V's 'Silver Jubilee', and was painted silver throughout and it looks very futuristic.
It entered service on September 30, 1935, travelling between London King's Cross and Newcastle. More information about the A4 class and Silver Jubilee service is available here.
It entered service on September 30, 1935, travelling between London King's Cross and Newcastle. More information about the A4 class and Silver Jubilee service is available here.
Last week, I came to the end of the scans I had done of the prints from the Dan McDonald collection - we ended with Y for Yacht. I now need to think about what items from the collections we hold ourselves would make good Friday photos for the blog.
We have a lovely collection of headed note paper from a variety of businesses that Bill collected which is something of a curiosity with low archival value so probably not going to end up as a formal collection. This is an example of a letter from the British Motor Boat Manufacturing Company to Robert McAllister & Son, dated 28 May 1937.
The other option is the coloured glass plate negatives by Dan McDonald that we recently received to add to our Dan McDonald collection. Or we have drawers of ship postcards that Bill collected which could be scanned as well.
I'll be having a think and planning the project next week so by Friday I will have decided on a collection and have the first items scanned to share on flickr and here.
We have a lovely collection of headed note paper from a variety of businesses that Bill collected which is something of a curiosity with low archival value so probably not going to end up as a formal collection. This is an example of a letter from the British Motor Boat Manufacturing Company to Robert McAllister & Son, dated 28 May 1937.
The other option is the coloured glass plate negatives by Dan McDonald that we recently received to add to our Dan McDonald collection. Or we have drawers of ship postcards that Bill collected which could be scanned as well.
I'll be having a think and planning the project next week so by Friday I will have decided on a collection and have the first items scanned to share on flickr and here.
I'm very pleased to say that the Ballast Trust now has an official entry on the Archon Directory which is a list of UK archive repositories.
Although, we are very much not a traditional repository with collections and operating a public searchroom, we do have some collections that are part of the Trust and are not held by us for processing. Being part of Archon and the National Register of Archives means that we can make information about those few collections which will be staying with us permanently more easily available and improve the chances of people finding out about them.
Although, we are very much not a traditional repository with collections and operating a public searchroom, we do have some collections that are part of the Trust and are not held by us for processing. Being part of Archon and the National Register of Archives means that we can make information about those few collections which will be staying with us permanently more easily available and improve the chances of people finding out about them.
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As part of Celtic Connections there is a special commemorative concert being held to mark the 40th anniversary of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' work-in of 1971–2.
This commemorates the support that folk musicians gave to the work-in by holding benefit gigs.
Today's photograph is of an unknown yacht found in the Dan McDonald collection.
