Archiving

I have recently begun volunteering at Tattershall, I'm helping to archive some of the castles paper work and books, strangly, letters written mostly by the 1960's castle committee. Maybe the fact that these letters survived and others havent is because the head of the committee owned a post office so was fastidious about keeping documents, even down to the price of toilet rolls!! many of the letters seem to echo problems that continue today at the castle, such as sagging beams (gravity isnt kind to castles either), keeping the moat topped up and reigning in the wayward peacocks (which have now been got rid of, due to their apparent adventures in other people gardens and green houses!).

As shown in the pictures above (from left to right) Clive, myself and Lee have also been going around the castle making sure all the objects, pictures and furniture have been catalogued, photographed and measured. coming up with descriptions for objects and not always knowing the technical word for a particular type of decoration leads to some imaginative results.

It turns out that my efforts to not come accross too girly when working with two burley men in a castle weren't neccessarily needed, as Lee appears to be scared of spiders and Clive of mice!! Two tiny mice trapped in the bird seed bin, had Clive calling me brave to go any where near! (blimey are mice fast and can really jump when they want to!)