Folkiedave,

For what it is worth.

I live in the states. My son-in-law the archivist ruefully reports that for lack of funding archives have increasingly become black holes into which material disappears, never to be seen again. Until it is discarded. Assuming that the material is accepted in the first place. Not a non-brainer.

An archive cannot be made available until it has cataloged. Cataloging can involve multiple steps, is labor intensive, not cheap, and budgets are extremely tight.

I sincerely hope things are different in England in general and Halsway Manor Society in particular

Whatever PK's methods, the archive itself sounds like it should be a treasure.

By the way, I am working with a group that is making archived formerly material available that otherwise would never see the light of day, at least in my lifetime.

Russ (Permanent GUEST - this is all the ID you're going to get)