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New 2010 Army List Now Available – In Electronic Format

TownsWeb Archiving Ltd are proud to announce that we are the new publishers of the Official Army List. The 2010 Army List (Part 1) has now been published in to a new searchable Electronic format and is available to purchase on CD-Rom. Army List in Book Format The ‘Official Army List’ in printed book format, [...]

Brunel University: Digitising a photographic record…

TownsWeb Archiving has recently completed a digitisation project with Brunel University to create an exhibition and catalogue of the University’s historical photographic collection. The collection of 350 photographic prints illustrate the history of the Borough Road College, a predecessor college to the University, showing officers and sporting teams over a period from 1895 to 1948. [...]

Green Tigers Let Loose: A unique online archive

The Royal Leicestershire Regiment was founded in 1688 and served with distinction around the world until being merged into The Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964. The Regimental Trustees wanted to make some major changes to the management of  their existing databases of soldier and medal records, which could not be updated by themselves. Therefore it [...]

Revisiting old jobs: Kingston Cemetery

We have recently added our Kingston Cemetery case study to our Clients & Case Studies page. After scanning the Cemeteries records, TownsWeb, working with Kingston’s IT team, designed and developed the burial records search pages, providing remote public access online to search records and download pages. Re-visit this project, and see how TownsWeb can help [...]

Wigan Archives: add more online photos for purchase…

An additional set of more than 200 aerial photographs have now been added to the Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust (WLCT) online photographic library. This fascinating set of old aerial images were found within the archives of the Councils Planning Department. They show striking redevelopment images of the town centre and the outskirts of Wigan in [...]

TownsWeb project features on ‘Museums, Libraries & Archives’ website

One  of our recent projects is featured on the MLA website. It’s a project that we undertook for Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust where we: Digitised a collection of photographs Placed the collection online for members of the public to view and to order photographic print copies Provided WLCT with an administration system for them to [...]

People and places in the Isle of Man: a photo digitisation project

Manx National Heritage is the Isle of Man government agency responsible for the Museums, Archives & Heritage of an island with a unique history. TownsWeb Archiving Ltd won the contract to digitise a large proportion of their photographic archive showing people and places of the Isle of Man. Click below to read the full Case [...]

Stamp of approval: Digitising the British Postal Museum image collection

The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) required professionally produced digital images delivered in a short space of time, which TownsWeb Archiving were able to achieve by allocating its own team to work onsite over a ten-day period. The BMPA are now looking at ways to make the collection publicly accessible and the possibilities of [...]

Spennymoor Council use TWA Chronicle Lite to administer funerals

Spennymoor Town Council purchased the TWA Chronicle Lite system to administer their funerals. This software is accessed online and offers a very simple way of recording records that would normally be entered in to Index, Burial Registers and Grave Registers.  Our Chronicle Pro system also offers a full diary and memorial inspections module too. If you [...]

Spennymoor Council – Members of the public can now search deceased records online

Spennymoor Town Council is responsible for two cemeteries and for providing public access to cemetery records. Plots are marked on cemetery maps and burial records have been handwritten into bound registers since the mid-nineteenth century. The Council decided  to digitise the maps and registers to safeguard them.  In order to provide an easier way of [...]