Keeping the Past Safe

Spent most of the day walking from Totnes to Staverton, around the Dartington estate, and back to Totnes. It rained. Afterwards we wandered around Totnes, a favourite place. The following will be of interest to blippers.
The Totnes image bank is a volunteer run historic photographic archive. They recently put the entire archive of over 60,000 images online. The archive is staffed entirely by volunteers and funded by donations.
It has an interesting history. In 1988 Barrington Weekes retired from professional photography and inherited two collections of photographs from Nicholas and Faye Horne and Eric Morison, both High Street photographers from the 1950s. His responsibility to care for and conserve this work, along with his own collection of work, led to the formation of a photographic archive. The image bank is a charitable trust set up in 1999. The Totnes Trust provided space in a restored watermill at a very reasonable lease with no costs. It is open on Tuesdays and Fridays, and my next target is to visit it.

https://www.totnesimagebank.info/