For day 26 of #Archive30 we are getting to know some of the amazing #ArchivePeople at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub. Learn more about some of our staff and volunteers below!
John Putley, Community Heritage Officer
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? Work with the public and do outreach
What is the best thing about working at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? The collections: we have stuff on more or less everything & you learn something new every day!
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? Item: the Gloucester Castle accounts roll from the second Barons War 1264-5 (D4431/2/56/1) Collection: Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Works (especially the photograph albums)
Favourite tearoom snack? Sainsbury’s jam doughnuts but homemade cakes & cookies come a close second!
Sue Webb, Gloucestershire Constabulary Archives
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? Rummage around in police personnel files, documents and photographs
What is the best thing about working at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? The expertise of people around you
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? The birch in the Chester Master Room
Favourite tearoom snack? Chocolate hobnobs
Ally McConnell, Senior Archivist
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? I catalogue, accession and package records at the Heritage Hub
What is the best thing about working at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? The other lovely people! It’s a fun place to work
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? A map of Long Newnton (Wiltshire) drawn by Stephen Jefferys of Minchinhampton, aged 68, in 1748. He’s drawn himself surveying the area on the map and signed it, I see it as a very early selfie! (PC/905)
Favourite tearoom snack? Sue Webb’s ginger cakes
Laura, Graduate Trainee Archivist
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? Looks at cool stuff to organise and write descriptions of
What is the best thing about working at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? Sharing our stories and findings with people
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? Elizabeth I seal – it’s so big and feels very important holding it!
Favourite tearoom snack? Homemade chocolate brownies that appear in a tin every so often…
Helen B, Senior Archivist and Customer Services Manager
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? Oversee Customer Services, answer queries, accept deposits, plan new ventures.
What is the best thing about working at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? The documents which are unique, interesting and normally quite well-behaved.
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? Map of Thornbury with pen and ink drawings of ships sailing down the River Severn, 1716 (D1655)
Favourite tearoom snack? Banana
Kate O’Keefe, Archives Assistant
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? Meeter and greeter, document orderer and search room guide
What is the best thing about working at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? Without a doubt my wonderful colleagues
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? There are some tiny weeny little recipes in the Dodington Park collections which I absolutely love (D1245/F64)
Favourite tearoom snack? Tricky. We have a lot of talented bakers in the team and often have wonderful home-made cakes
Sal, Cheltenham Local History Society volunteer
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? We [CLHS] catalogue deposits that have not yet been catalogued in detail.
What is the best thing about volunteering at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? Meeting a wider circle of friends, socially and engagement in a worthwhile activity.
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? Mostly enjoy the deposit we are working on at the time.
Favourite breaktime snack? The cakes I make for the CLHS gang and the ‘extras’ from the GFHS!!
Brenda, Archives Team Administrator
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? Finance, Customer Service, Room Bookings general all-rounder!
What is the best thing about working at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? The team of course!
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? The Seals – (who would have had the opportunity to see them when they were first made/used ?– only a privileged few and now I have looked upon something that a Royal would have seen)
Favourite tearoom snack? anything that appears! It is great to celebrate the team’s birthdays and holidays
Kate Maisey, Archives Development Manager
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? I look for ways to connect people with archives
What is the best thing about working at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? My brilliant colleagues and the wider Heritage Hub community
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? A beautiful, manuscript history of Denmark Road girls school, Gloucester written and illustrated by teacher Miss Emily Middleton in 1958 (D9374/1)
Favourite tearoom snack? Fruit cake especially home made
Rhianna Watson, Community Cataloguing Archivist
Explain what you do in 10 words or less? Support and work with volunteers and catalogue cool archival stuff!
What is the best thing about working at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub? As cheesy as it sounds, the amazing people I work with!
Do you have a favourite item or collection from Gloucestershire Archives? That’s a hard question! I do quite like the random assortments of buttons that can be found in the Erinoid Ltd (earlier Syrolit Ltd) of Rodborough collection (D4251). They are just so colourful and pretty!
Favourite tearoom snack? Brownies or any kind of cake someone is kind enough to bring in!
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