• [ 1 ] Teas on the Village Green

  Added 03 April 2022

• [ 2 ] Parade of Choristers on Main Street

  Added 03 April 2022

• [ 3 ] Villagers in Parade

  Added 02 April 2022

Each item in the archive, whether it's a picture, document, video or sound recording etc., is known as an archive record. All of the archive records are filed in the archive catalogue. You can browse the archive catalogue and see the archive records in various ways or you can search the catalogue for archive records that match your particular requirements.

The archive catalogue is made up of collections, categories, tags and records. These are known as the catalogue components.

Collections

Each record is part of a collection. A collection is a group archive materials, such as books, documents, pictures, videos or audio tapes etc., that can be seen as belonging to a particular organisation or person, or a group of records coming from a common source.

Select Archive Catalogue > Browse > Collections from the menu bar above and then select a collection from the gallery to browse all of the archive records in that collection. The number of archive records in each collection is displayed next to the collection name.

Categories

Each record is assigned to one or more categories. A category is the primary type of record classification, or the record's main subject(s). Categories are applied to records across collections, i.e. the same categories are used in all collections.

Categories are structured like a tree, with many branches and levels. An archive record may be assigned to any branch and level of the tree, although most records will be found at the lowest level of each branch. A record may appear in more than one branch of the category tree if it has more than one main subject.

Select Archive Catalogue > Browse > Categories from the menu bar above to see the top level categories gallery. Select a category from the gallery to drill down through that branch of the category tree and see its archive records. The number of archive records in each branch of the category tree is always displayed next to the category name.

Note that an archive record may appear more than once in different branches of the category tree.

Tags

Each archive record may also be assigned one or more tags. A tag is a characteristic or secondary type of record classification. It is a keyword or phrase that enables an archive record to be grouped with other archive records with the same or similar characteristics and for those archive records to be listed together.

Select Archive Catalogue > Browse > Tags from the menu bar above and then select a tag from the list to browse all of its archive records. The number of archive records with the tag is displayed next to the tag name.

Timeline

You can also browse the archive using our timeline. A timeline is a way of visually sequencing events in chronological order. Our timeline is presented as a visual display, with a line representing the passage of time and events being placed along the line depending on the order in which they happened.

Select Archive Catalogue > Browse > Timeline from the menu bar above to see the timeline and browse all of its archive records. Select an archive record to see the details.

Note that not all archive records may have a coverage year, so any such archive records will not be included in the timeline.

Full Catalogue Tree

The archive catalogue tree displays all the information and contents of the archive records in the category tree structure that enables the records to be easily located. The catalogue lists all the categories in alphabetical order and all of their sub categories, along with all of the archive records assigned to each category.

Select Archive Catalogue > Browse > Full Catalogue Tree from the menu bar above to browse the full catalogue. Select an archive record to see its details.

Searching the Catalogue

Select Archive Catalogue > Search from the menu bar above and then one of the search options according to the type of search you want to undertake. Then specify your search criteria.

Searches are carried out on the archive record attributes. An attribute is a piece of textual information in the catalogue about an archive record, such as its name, description, year or source etc.. The attributes are distinct from the actual content of any archive material, such as a picture or document.

PDF Documents

All of our archive records that are documents have been subjected to Optical Character Regognition (OCR) when scanning to a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file is made up of one or more images of the source document but there is also has an invisible text layer that may be searchable for keywords or phrases when viewed. The PDF reader embedded in your browser may not offer a search capability, in which case you will beed to download the PDF file and open it with your preferred PDF reader. There are examples of free PDF readers below in the page footer .

Note that handwritten or older typed documents may not return consistent or expected results when searched or played through a speech recognition process.

Exhibitions

We periodically showcase items in the archive through our exhibitions. Each exhibition has a specific theme and may run for a specified time period. Select Exhibitions from the menu bar above to see a list of our current exhibitions, then select one of the items in the list to see its exhibits.