The Met's Historical Collection is about to move into its sixth site since its foundation in 1949, but all but one of our team started their Met archives journey here at our 2009-2020 West Brompton site. #WhereYouStarted #Archive30

Back in the 1930s when Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN began collecting archives and rare books, we were part of the only library on campus, this grand room in the Trent Building with its gorgeous high ceilings, book-lined walls and, uh, ... tiger skin table mat??? #WhereYouStarted #Archive30

The first collection that I catalogued was a series of letters sent by a family who had emigrated to America #WhereYouStarted #Archive30

#Archive30 #WhereYouStarted in the BBC Reference Library, 1989. No books left now, but I long since moved to Sound Archives and still at the BBC 32 years later now looking after documents, records mgt, sheet music, grams and photos. What a lucky librarian-turned-archivist!

Picture this: you’re going out, you fancy a few drinks – you go to a local – the Sandeman. Can you imagine it as a library? Well, it was! The Sandeman Public Library is where it all started for us in 1978. What would you have used the Sandeman for?

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#Archive30 The Ballast Trust was established as an independent business records rescue agency by Bill Lind in 1988. Our first offices were set up in the vast space of the Kingston Yard Joiners’ Shop in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde. #WhereYouStarted

The Archive was established in 1978 and space was found in the basement of Perth's Sandeman Library for the records. In c1981 a search room was added in the former men’s loos! 😮
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We have a double origin story - the Crime Museum side of our paper archive began in the Prisoners' Property Office in 1875 (150th birthday next year!) and the Police Museum side at Bow Street in 1949 to mark the Runners' 200th anniversary. #WhereYouStarted #Archive30

#Archive30 #Whereyoustarted #archives #britishlibrary #britishmuseum Building the Round Reading Room British Museum in 1855, photo by William Lake Price. This space inspired me when I was student to pursue a career in archives (some years later...)

The 'archives' of Irish Railways began to be gathered in Dublin at society meetings in Hynes Restaurant (Dame St) in 1946, then stored at CIÉ Point Depot (now 3Arena) followed by Drumcondra Station in 1970, and now Heuston Station. Thanks ARA Scotland for #WhereYouStarted #Archive30 !

#Archives30 #WhereYouStarted Recordkeeping in Bristol dates back to an ordinance of 1381 to keep the city’s important documents under lock & key at the Guildhall on Broad Street. In 1924 the Bristol Archives Office was created in the Council House around the corner on Corn St ^gt

We miss our Maps Reading Room. Hopefully we'll be able to welcome you back there soon.🤞
For #Archive30 we'd like to share #WhereYouStarted .

Day 2 of #Archive30 !
Started in the Military Archive, finding myself alone in the stacks and I kind of lost my way. But it got better. #WhereYouStarted

#Archive30 #WhereYouStarted it could be argued that we 'started' whenever a document of our region was kept locally & preserved as evidence. Our oldest item is this charter ref 158/1 - Chart of H[ugh] [Puiset], Bishop of Durham to the Brethren of the Hospital of Newcastle c1183

These pictures show the construction of one of our stores within the Caird Hall in January 1916. When the first archivist was hired in 1969 our collection on filled 1 and half of these rooms. We now have about at least 6 times that much
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We first started as Wolverhampton Archives in 1978, on the balcony of the Central Library, and have been growing ever since! # #WhereYouStarted #Archive30

Ours is a double answer to #WhereYouStarted - the Crime Museum opened in 1875 at the original Scotland Yard, whilst the Police Museum arose in 1949 at Bow Street from its Chief Superintendent's The Times and The Sunday Times appeal for objects to mark the Bow Street Runners' bicentenary. #Archive30

#Archive30 . #Whereyoustarted is as varied as the staff members. My first paid job as a librarian was in a school library - Queen Mary’s Library where she once slept in a room that can still be visited. And it has resident ghosts, creaky floorboards and butcher’s hooks. And books.

Here's a look at Verdant Works over the years - from 1967 (widening of West Henderson Wynd),1974,1992 and present day. Dundee Heritage Trust bought the site in 1991 and the museum opened in 1996. The restored High Mill opened in 2015 #WhereYouStarted #Archive30 #verdantdundee