... the first offer may not necessarily be the best.
... I would suggest that ideally they should be passed to ... archives where they will be accessible to the maximum number of people, rather than kept in private hands.
It might be worth contacting the Imperial War Museum ...
We are finding that some War Memorials are now lost, vandalised, stolen, or damaged.
A building or chapel closes, is demolished, set on fire, or is refurbished/converted, sometimes without any regard for those who died for their country, or names contained on any Memorial within and for that matter headstones outside.
I enquired about the paperwork that I felt the CWGC should hold, after reading our family's correspondence with their predecessor the IWGC and it seems they have disposed of much information. The MoD say they only keep about 5% of the records that were originally created. Which suggests to me that neither of them, would be the best.
The
County Record Office will often take photographic collections, but don't sign any part of a form (or strike it through) that authorises them to sell, dispose, or destroy part, or all of the accession.
I'm afraid I don't have much time for some official organisations.
The Ordnance Survey Archaeological section and their Archaeologists produced a Card Index of ancient monuments and deserted medieval village (DMV) sites, which I understand went to the
Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments and then
English Heritage.
A villager says that our local DMV was investigated, but when I enquired, I was told there were no archaeological index cards, when I pressed the matter further, I was told that part of the original OS Archaeological Card Index is now missing.
Mark
