Dear all,
We have recently done substantial new work on updating the
Trust's website, so do please take a look at it again. Please note the new URL
and update any of your bookmarks as the address has changed.
There are several pages now available about the Trust and
our facilities for readers:
There is also a series of pages about the Trust’s diverse
collections, including the family archives:
The family collection overviews have
been updated where appropriate, and are now all available on this page. There
are also new overviews for collections recently arrived or catalogued,
particularly the Clothier papers and some of the major object collections.
Of course, there are also pages about the Trust's large
shoe collection:
Of all the collection pages recently created, the shoe
section will change substantially over time as the shoe digitisation project
progresses (1940s done, now well into the 1950s!). So please keep an eye on
this in the weeks to come. We hope that a more detailed overview of our
shoe holdings will be added very shortly. The collection pages are aimed at a generalist
audience, so I hope you agree that they offer an attractive and very visual
introduction to our holdings.
The Trust learned yesterday that our funding from Clarks
to digitise the entire shoe collection (Clarks and non Clarks), the Clarks
Point of Sale, Clarks shoe catalogues and Clarks in-house publications has been
significantly extended. The project will now run until early 2020, with the
in-house photographic studio carrying on its work on the shoes in Street and
the other collections being digitised off-site. We are already reaping the
benefits of having catalogued the Clarks POS collection and digitised the film
collection as part of the early stages of the project, so watch this space!
Please do circulate widely to any individual or
associations who might be interested.
Best wishes
Charlotte Berry
Tel: +44 1458 842557 or 444060 or direct dial 444064Website: http://alfredgilletttrust.wordpress.com
