If you will venture across the Tamar..............
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From: "Curator" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:59 AM
Subject: Rant
> Dear list,
>
> My first rant and possibly my only rant, but we shall see; it does have a
> purpose though and has been building up over the years. Presumably it
> affects other list members to a greater or lesser extent.
>
> I'm just back from holiday, a tour of the North East with my partner. Part
> of her family stopped there on the way down from Scotland and worked at
> Dinnington Colliery (now Brunswick village). We eventually stopped at
> Woodhorn Colliery to look at the archive centre there, hoping for great
> things from an archive based at a former colliery. But to use the archive
we
> had to register, no problem for my partner but hard for me as I no longer
> drive; I didn't have a spare utility bill with me nor my passport despite
> being outside Cornwall. I had other identification with me that wasn't
> acceptable - Cornwall library card, Cornwall Record Office card, British
> Library card and National Archives card. All of these require the same
> identification to acquire of course, resulting in a very silly situation
in
> my eyes. Paul Brough, I know you're out there somewhere, why can't you and
> your archival buddies get together and organise a national scheme for our
> national archives (and National Archives?) and issue me, as a bona fide
> researcher, with one card that I can take to any library or archive, hold
up
> and be told "that will do nicely". I've been researching for 25 years now
> and have been the owner of a great many library or reader cards; in 25
years
> time, if I survive that long, I really don't want to be in the position
> where I have so many cards that I can play patience while waiting for my
> documents.
>
> End of rant. Sue didn't find any information and I caught a cold.
>
>
> Pete Joseph
>
>
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