Archive digitisation
Vintage Rally
We have added another 313 records to our online collection since the last newsletter, all of which you can view on our website anytime!
You can search these records by checking out this Vintage Rally collection search: Click here
Records include photos and more from the Vintage Rallies which took place in Bishopsteignton throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s to support local good causes.
Research
Celebrating Bishopsteignton Women
Following the success of Natalia’s International Women’s Day 2022 poster campaign to spread the word about women’s contribution to the Bishopsteignton Story, she has been researching the Bishopsteignton Modern Wives group. Delving through the archives and minutes. ofthe group, our eyes have been opened to the forward-thinking, intrepidity of the Modern Wives, founded in the 1960s.
We would, therefore, love to speak to any former members of this group so if that is you, please get in touch!
Were you a
Bishopsteignton “Modern Wife”?
Join the team
Want to gain experience in graphic design or exhibitions?
Want to use your skills to contribute to heritage preservation and access?
You can get involved and help us reach more Bishopsteignton people, digitise and catalogue more amazing material, run events and create great web content! Check out Join the Team for more details or email us at [email protected]
Hub Team Workshop
Handling museum objects and archive material
Our newest recruited volunteers and other Hub Team members enjoyed a short training session on Friday 9th September all about how to handle collection material. Archivist Imogen introduced the training by explaining what ‘handling’ is as well as the ‘agents of deterioration’ which threaten the collection.
Imogen continued with a demonstration of some of the types of collection material included in the collection and how best to handle them to ensure their preservation. Examples included Philip Coombe’s ‘Vimy Cane’, a carved walking stick with brass ‘trench art’ shell case end probably produced in 1917 while Philip was serving in France with the 20th Canadian Battalion.
After watching a video courtesy of the Exeter University collections team all about how to handle paper and other archive material, attendees demonstrated what they learned by handling some important documents from the BH collection.
Items included the amazing 1775 Clanage Street Indenture inherited by Molly Coombe.
Finally, the team learned a quick lesson about packaging fragile items and made some ‘puffs’ out of acid-free tissue before proving their effectiveness with the ultimate test. The puffs were used to line small boxes in which an egg was ‘stored’ as a collection item. Packed with a few more puffs, the boxes were nervously dropped on the floor from various heights and, impressively, all survived without a crack!
“I was extremely proud of the whole team, they all demonstrated the greatest care when handling vulnerable material such as delicate First World War letters”
– Imogen
The volunteers can now be confident while they are helping you, our visitors, view archive material or while digitising important items that their handling will have as little effect as possible. This will help keep the collection preserved and accessible for as long as possible!
We will soon be benefitting from an Oral History workshop with local OHS South Regional Networker John Burgess. Hopefully it will be an even more enjoyable session for the whole team!
The last newsletter we shared celebrated the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Bishopsteignton, among other achievements of the community and our organisation. This one therefore includes a look at the meaning for us all of her recent passing.
Queen Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
A message from the Archivist
Our great loss as a nation is made greater when we realise that Her Majesty’s passing draws us all a little further from the past. This has extra significance to organisations like ours who are responsible for preserving and sharing our local, regional and national history.
As with the passing of any village elder, great-grandmother or venerable matriarch, the pain is almost matched by the sudden awareness of a new, unknown future and the feeling of undermining and ripping-up of distant roots. Every day we lose our closest human links to the past and with them disappears an untold accumulation of memories, leaving us an even weightier duty to seek out, hear, preserve and share our stories.
With the passing of our most accomplished Queen, we lose a globally acknowledged link with the earth-shifting moments of the 20th century which, without her, will fade faster into darkness. With grief therefore, I thank all those who support our organisation as volunteers, staff, or users and invite you all to find and send us a Bishopsteignton story which we can preserve before it is gone forever.
Twinning Project
We are working with the Bishopsteignton Twinning Association to celebrate an upcoming anniversary. We have been. busily cataloguing and digitising a huge amount of photographs and other archive material, collected by Association members and leadership over the last 20 years.
While the catalogued collection grows, we are also putting together a brand new exhibition of photographs and more! See ‘Upcoming Events’ for details…
We welcome further collaboration and memories from any previous Twinners as we continue to catalogue the archive. Bishopsteignton Heritage looks forward to strengthening this valuable partnership now and in the future with exhibitions, collaborations and events.
Upcoming Events
Twinning Exhibition: open 10am – 2pm Fridays and Saturdays from 7th October at the Heritage Hub, in the Community Centre, Bishopsteignton
Christmas: we may be organising a Christmas social, stay up to date by subscribing to our mailing list, click here to sign up
Regular office hours Fridays 11am – 3pm
Your next newsletter update will be in January
Archive digitisation
Vintage Rally
We have added another 313 records to our online collection since the last newsletter, all of which you can view on our website anytime!
You can search these records by checking out this Vintage Rally collection search: Click here
Records include photos and more from the Vintage Rallies which took place in Bishopsteignton throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s to support local good causes.
Research
Celebrating Bishopsteignton Women
Following the success of Natalia’s International Women’s Day 2022 poster campaign to spread the word about women’s contribution to the Bishopsteignton Story, she has been researching the Bishopsteignton Modern Wives group. Delving through the archives and minutes. ofthe group, our eyes have been opened to the forward-thinking, intrepidity of the Modern Wives, founded in the 1960s.
We would, therefore, love to speak to any former members of this group so if that is you, please get in touch!
Were you a
Bishopsteignton “Modern Wife”?
Join the team
Want to gain experience in graphic design or exhibitions?
Want to use your skills to contribute to heritage preservation and access?
You can get involved and help us reach more Bishopsteignton people, digitise and catalogue more amazing material, run events and create great web content! Check out Join the Team for more details or email us at [email protected]
Hub Team Workshop
Handling museum objects and archive material
Our newest recruited volunteers and other Hub Team members enjoyed a short training session on Friday 9th September all about how to handle collection material. Archivist Imogen introduced the training by explaining what ‘handling’ is as well as the ‘agents of deterioration’ which threaten the collection.
Imogen continued with a demonstration of some of the types of collection material included in the collection and how best to handle them to ensure their preservation. Examples included Philip Coombe’s ‘Vimy Cane’, a carved walking stick with brass ‘trench art’ shell case end probably produced in 1917 while Philip was serving in France with the 20th Canadian Battalion.
After watching a video courtesy of the Exeter University collections team all about how to handle paper and other archive material, attendees demonstrated what they learned by handling some important documents from the BH collection.
Items included the amazing 1775 Clanage Street Indenture inherited by Molly Coombe.
Finally, the team learned a quick lesson about packaging fragile items and made some ‘puffs’ out of acid-free tissue before proving their effectiveness with the ultimate test. The puffs were used to line small boxes in which an egg was ‘stored’ as a collection item. Packed with a few more puffs, the boxes were nervously dropped on the floor from various heights and, impressively, all survived without a crack!
“I was extremely proud of the whole team, they all demonstrated the greatest care when handling vulnerable material such as delicate First World War letters”
– Imogen
The volunteers can now be confident while they are helping you, our visitors, view archive material or while digitising important items that their handling will have as little effect as possible. This will help keep the collection preserved and accessible for as long as possible!
We will soon be benefitting from an Oral History workshop with local OHS South Regional Networker John Burgess. Hopefully it will be an even more enjoyable session for the whole team!
The last newsletter we shared celebrated the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Bishopsteignton, among other achievements of the community and our organisation. This one therefore includes a look at the meaning for us all of her recent passing.
Queen Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
A message from the Archivist
Our great loss as a nation is made greater when we realise that Her Majesty’s passing draws us all a little further from the past. This has extra significance to organisations like ours who are responsible for preserving and sharing our local, regional and national history.
As with the passing of any village elder, great-grandmother or venerable matriarch, the pain is almost matched by the sudden awareness of a new, unknown future and the feeling of undermining and ripping-up of distant roots. Every day we lose our closest human links to the past and with them disappears an untold accumulation of memories, leaving us an even weightier duty to seek out, hear, preserve and share our stories.
With the passing of our most accomplished Queen, we lose a globally acknowledged link with the earth-shifting moments of the 20th century which, without her, will fade faster into darkness. With grief therefore, I thank all those who support our organisation as volunteers, staff, or users and invite you all to find and send us a Bishopsteignton story which we can preserve before it is gone forever.
Twinning Project
We are working with the Bishopsteignton Twinning Association to celebrate an upcoming anniversary. We have been. busily cataloguing and digitising a huge amount of photographs and other archive material, collected by Association members and leadership over the last 20 years.
While the catalogued collection grows, we are also putting together a brand new exhibition of photographs and more! See ‘Upcoming Events’ for details…
We welcome further collaboration and memories from any previous Twinners as we continue to catalogue the archive. Bishopsteignton Heritage looks forward to strengthening this valuable partnership now and in the future with exhibitions, collaborations and events.
Upcoming Events
Twinning Exhibition: open 10am – 2pm Fridays and Saturdays from 7th October at the Heritage Hub, in the Community Centre, Bishopsteignton
Christmas: we may be organising a Christmas social, stay up to date by subscribing to our mailing list, click here to sign up
Regular office hours Fridays 11am – 3pm
Your next newsletter update will be in January