Welcome to SVI Archives!
The archives are kept in one of the ground floor rooms at Guide House in Mason Street. This room used to be the Guide Shop! It is set up with lots of shelves for the boxes of archives, and a big table for us to work at.
The archives have been put into special boxes and envelopes made of acid-free paper. This means the paper will last a long time and won't damage the archives as it ages. Do you have yellowing newspapers or paperback books with brownish pages at your house? That discoloration comes from the acid in the paper. It's not good for archives!
The present Archives team is not the first to work in this archive - dedicated people have been keeping careful track of material deposited over the years. Any archivist will tell you: our work is never done! but we are very grateful for the organization and attention to detail our predecessors have given to their work. We hope they like what we do next.
Most of the archives are written or typed on regular sized paper, but there are also photographs, badges, pins, scrapbooks, slides, audio recordings, heritage uniforms, printed books and other objects that don't fit in standard size boxes. Storage is found for them too - archivists have to be inventive!
Some things, like uniforms, need big boxes, shown on the left. Others, like the Sea Ranger albums at the top of the photo above, may be better kept standing on shelves than lying in a box - this way, it's easy to identify and access each volume.
Stay tuned for a look inside the boxes...
Stay tuned for a look inside the boxes...
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