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'Worcester News' newspaper archives-Berrows Journals-photographs & negatives illustrated talk
Heritage Open Day: The Civic Society saved from landfill the archives of the Worcester News, containing over a million press cuttings, negatives and photographs.
These are being catalogued by volunteers in a secure room below the History & Heritage POD. The Worcester News archives consists of 100 boxes of cuttings & photographs, 250 bound volumes of Berrows Journals dated from 1805 to the 1990s, 1,500 Glass plate negatives from 1947 to the mid 1960s, over a million black & white and colour negatives 1968 to 1993 and 500 discs of approx 500 images per disc – come along to find out more with an illustrated talk by archivist Chris Wilkinson
These are being catalogued by volunteers in a secure room below the History & Heritage POD. The Worcester News archives consists of 100 boxes of cuttings & photographs, 250 bound volumes of Berrows Journals dated from 1805 to the 1990s, 1,500 Glass plate negatives from 1947 to the mid 1960s, over a million black & white and colour negatives 1968 to 1993 and 500 discs of approx 500 images per disc – come along to find out more with an illustrated talk by archivist Chris Wilkinson
Saturday 20 September
The Pod Heritage Centre, Friary walk shopping centre, Friary Walk, Worcester, Worcestershire WR1 3LE
Sat 20 Sep:1030; Free Entry.
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