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01/02/2023

Sat next to an insurance salesman at the Robbie Williams concert last night. A big mistake, for the whole show he kept on with his sales pitch and offered me protection.

14/10/2022

As of today, our business phone number (0333 011 8514) will no longer work. Please contact me via Facebook or privately if I have provided my number to you.

18/11/2021

After the two years, we have just had, with zero support from the Government, we have reluctantly decided to close the business at the end of the year. I will continue to do any work that comes in on an one2one basis but the Limited company will be set to dormant and I will look to sell the name and website.

14/04/2021

Hi, if you have used my services, can I ask that you leave a review for me here on Google? It will help spread the word. Many thanks David

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01/04/2021

Working on some old Super 8 Cine film that has warped and twisted and to add difficulty has been wound too tight onto the reels. No matter I've had to re do the work three times but finally I've managed to scan it by inverting the film and bending it back into shape to get it to scan properly. Sellotaped splices don't help the situation but I think I might finally have won the battle! At four hours per reel scanning time, it's been a long hard slog :-)

A personal touch and attention to detail - I doubt a film lab would have persevered to get the customers images back.

17/03/2021

Some very sad looking film cleaned and scanned - at least we were able to save the majority of it.

Recently a customer brought in a batch of films and unfortunately a number of them had suffered water damage and some had mould on them which, as you can imagine, has ruined the images. Whilst we were able to get some scanned images from them, the mould had left scars along the edges of some …

19/02/2021

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14/01/2021

https://blog.history.ac.uk/2020/03/british-history-online-makes-all-research-content-free-to-individual-users/?s=03

We've added 200 extra volumes of primary research content to the free access area of British History Online. All 1280 volumes in the BHO collection are now available free for personal users.

10/11/2020

It's taken over 10 months to arrive (due to you know what) but finally, my new scanner is here. It allows me to scan books, magazines and pamphlets and it automatically adjusts for the curvature meaning you don't have to strain the spine, flattening the pages to scan it all. It is very rapid and it creates a searchable PDF from the scanned images.

I can now scan up to A3 (and larger if I divide the object up). I'm learning how to use it at the moment and have already archived a club's minutes and accounts going back around 40 years. I have also just scanned a 300-page book which took less than an hour.

At last, I will be able to rapidly scan documents and photograph objects too.