Expert digitisation consultants
Inhouse collection & delivery service
Accredited digitisation studio team
Highly accurate results
Instantaneous digital content searches
Capture data from any material type
Showcase your collections online
Improve access & discoverability 
Fully immersive virtual experiences
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Digitisation.
Liberate your archive with a move from physical to digital with the expert scanning and indexing of all material formats.
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Protect and harness the data within your archive by capturing the very content that will make your collection 100% searchable.
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Secure and captivate audiences by showcasing your archive material through a range of diverse and uniquely creative platforms and methods.
Learn MoreWhy use TownsWeb Archiving?
Expert Digitisation Consultants
A wealth of experience in working together to develop the right plan to reach your goals for preservation.
Trusted By Archives Throughout The UK
Working with some of the largest organisations in the UK, we understand the long-term risks to your archive.
In-House Collection and Delivery Service
To guarantee secure collection and delivery, your valuable material never leaves our sight.
Accredited Digitisation Studio Team
Fully trained and experienced in the handling and digitisation of your most delicate artefacts.
Unique Web Publishing Platform
Publish your archive online with PastView. Full control to manage, provide access and even generate revenue from your digital archive
HSBC History: Sharing over 150 years of story, culture and brand heritage
Managed and shared by TownsWeb Archiving’s PastView Platform.The unique HSBC ‘History Website’ contains over 150 years of heritage and acts as a single point of reference for internal and external stakeholders, such as employees and customers. Facilitating access, research, exploration and discovery, the HSBC archive has amassed a diverse range of material reaching right back to their early foundation in 1865.
We are thrilled that HSBC visitors can enjoy a wealth of born-digital and digitised assets in a whole host of new and immerse ways.
Recent digitisation news and advice
- Leaving no angle unturned with Object Viewer (Preview)By Jess Sturman-Coombs on 01 Aug 2021
Institution of Mechanical Engineers kindly talked to us about 360 Object Viewer. Learn how IMechE have opened up accessibility, and engaged users with their virtual archive.
Continue Reading - HSBC History: Sharing over 150 years of story, culture and brand heritage (Preview)By Jess Sturman-Coombs on 12 Jul 2021
With over 150 years of unique heritage, HSBC launched their new History Website on 6th July 2021, acting as a single point of reference for stakeholders
Continue Reading - In-House vs. Outsourcing Your Digitisation Project – What’s the Pros and Cons?By Jess Sturman-Coombs on 20 Apr 2021
The pros and cons of digitising your physical archive inhouse, at your own premises, or through outsourcing to an expert digitisation provider.
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