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Major accessions to repositories in 2020 relating to Environment

Local

Bath Record Office

  • Pensford Local History Group: records concerning the Great Flood of 1968 1968-2018 (1335)

Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven

  • H Davis (fl1980-2011), photographer: photographs of Egremont and rel material incl drawings, newspaper articles, publications, corresp and notes, showing general commercial and residential development of the town c1980-2011 (YDX 699)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • High Peak Borough Council: pocket register for meteorological and climatological observations at Buxton Climate Station 1959-2008 (D6887)
  • Derbyshire County Council, County Surveyor: orders and plans rel to footpaths, administrative boundaries and the Carsington Reservoir 1963-1973 (DCC/SV)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • Edinburgh Biodiversity Partnership: The Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Plan 2000-2004, 2004-2009, incl information on terrain, wildlife, species and habitat 2000-2009 (1247)

Highland Archives

  • Lovat Estate, Inverness-shire: correspondence, papers and volumes, North of Scotland Hydro Board maps, and river flow records 18th-20th cent (FL add)

Lancashire Archives

  • Book of plans of the River Lune between Lancaster and Borrow Bridge 1859 (DDX 3588)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

  • Community Activist: various material incl fliers, pamphlets, minutes, posters, t-shirts and other items relating to activism in London and Manchester. Much of the material is feminist in nature, but also incl eco and green issues, anti racism, left wing, peace movement (access restrictions apply by request of the depositor) 2008-2019 (GB127.2020/5)

Oxfordshire History Centre

  • Summertown Infants School: log books, school managers' minute books 1872-1976 (6844)

Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

  • Colour slides, mainly rel to excavations made during the Somerset Levels Project, incl images used for publication purposes and images of local scenes such as peat cuttings and re-wilding of the sites c1970-1989 (A/ETY)
  • Survey of the tithings of Northwich, Dundry and Littleton 1684 (A/ESZ)
  • Bruton tithe map and apportionment 1842 (D/P/brut)

West Sussex Record Office

  • Account book of a survey of the West Sussex coast 1784-1785 (19752)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

  • Todmorden Moor Restoration Trust: records incl minutes of trustee meetings, accounts, memorandum of association, correspondence, photographs, leaflets and press cuttings, project and inquiry papers rel to the Todmorden Moor and surrounding areas 1991-2013 (WYC:1933)

National

Historic England Archive

  • Philip Kaplan (fl.1960-2020), author: photographs of airfields in the UK used by the United States of America Air Force c1960-1999 (KAP01)

Island Archives, Guernsey

  • Plan of the town of St Peter Port, showing buildings, roads, streams, the harbour and other features 1759 (2020-002)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

  • David Richard Hunt (1938-2019), botanist: material incl a pamphlet rel to the living collections records file, correspondence, reports on a survey and expedition to British Honduras, and a diary of a reconnaissance expedition to mid-west Brazil c1960-1995 (PrP 20-0001)