For many years Maurice ‘Jan’ Larcombe was our archivist. Jan collected and stored the archive for the RNPA and used an external 'free' website using the Waitrose platform. Despite Jan’s best efforts, maintaining the archive elsewhere didn’t make maintaining the archive easy.
The committee decided that having the archive inside our own website would be preferable. Work was undertaken to do this and we’re almost there, but not quite.
Unfortunately the link to Jan's original Waitrose website where he placed all of the RNPA documentation and photographs has stopped being supported by plusnet, the internet provider that Waitrose used. This means that all of the work that Jan did has now been taken down and is no longer accessible.
All of the photographs/documents from the Waitrose archive have now been imported into our Media Library, and it's now completed after a lot of work.
The next stage is to build a 'searchable' database so that members can find more easily particular pictures/documents.
Please bear with us while we do this work.