wedding (2)

12201161292?profile=originalThe BBC website reports that... An American couple whose 1960s wedding album was destroyed by wildfire have rediscovered their photos in archives held by an English council. Chris and Lindy Date, who married in Cambridgeshire in 1963, lost their home when fires swept through California in August 2020.

Mr Date, who contacted Cambridgeshire's libraries service, said he was "pleased and amazed" they had been found. The council had been given the archive by a photographic company in the 1980s.

The Ramsey and Muspratt collection of negatives, given to Cambridgeshire Libraries' collection in the 1980s, comes to the rescue.

See the full story here: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-56401868

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V+A seeks weddings photographs

12200909292?profile=originalIn advance of an exhibition of Wedding Dresses in 2013 London's Victoria and Albert Museum is creating a database of photographs of clothes worn for weddings from all cultures between 1840 and the present. This includes civil partnerships. This database will provide a rich record and help people date their own photographs. The museum is inviting people with images to upload them.

To ensure it builds a useful historical record all entries will provide the year of the event and the names of the bride and groom or partners. The place and the religion of the wedding will be included if possible. More details and the site are here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/things-to-do/wedding-fashion/home
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