"Couldn't agree more ~ every archive should have and encourage volunteers. I'm engaged as such from time-to-time with an archive group at a centre holding therapeutic community archives that has a residential attached block allowing for volunteers to…"

"Fascinating ~ with that detail, in reading the article, of vulnerable humanity alonside domestic struggle while Sims endeavoured to take his photographic experiments forward ~ and with his difficulties in commercial success. Never knowing of…"

"Let's be reminded Magdalene Keaney's phrase within the book about the exhibition's two women photographers Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron "Not either enjoyed significant critical or popular success in their lifetimes" sadly speaks of…"

"One doubs that auctioneers will divulge, in inquiring, who buyer was. BBC Radio Cornwall or Cornwall Council may know. "

"Clips from BBC Radio Cornwall: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gt2bf2?fbclid=IwAR2F01TeS194CMZO...
and
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=680472270729692"

"A significant collection of shipwreck slides sold at a Cornwall auction too recent to have alerted this blog.
https://www.facebook.com/BBCCornwall/videos/680472270729692
And
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gt2bf2?fbclid=IwAR2F01TeS194CMZO..."

""Album fillers"? An appropriate if dismaying descripter of what commercial photographers then and later saw the opportunity of churning out cartes de visites, postcards and photos for the voracious appetite of indifidual folk and families…"

"What a wonderful thing ~ and, with surviving intriguing comprehensive story to go with this four lens 'Noakes Quad' lantern? Should go to a museum preferably English and be operated occassionally at public events once again. "