Wow, finally some proof of culture in Swindon!

On Thursday 28 November 2002 18:45, Cotty wrote:
> I've landed an interesting job in the morning -
>
> (from my news editor)
>
> NB Oxford, England, UK
>
> **
>
> BRIEF:  Victorian photographer Henry Taunt took 60,000 pix of Oxford up
> to his death at eighty in 1922.. he began working as a photographer aged
> 14 in 1856!  Some are going onto the web in a new site launched in
> February.  The prints are in Oxford, plates at the National Monuments
> Records Office in Swindon.  This is first phase of plan to digitise and
> make available for viewing the NMRO's enormous stock of pix of GB.  Also
> need to go to get shots of Canterbury House (behind Post Office on
> Glanville Road at corner with Cowley Road) which was Taunt's home.  After
> years as Oxford Bus depot is soon to be redeveloped by Berkley Homes -
> city council has asked them not to knock it down but they still might.
>
> **
>
> Should be interesting!
>
> Cotty
>
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