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Typing up the register, one box at a time

07 June 2026Museum of the built and made, Kingston

Typing up the register, one box at a time

The register is eleven thousand four hundred entries written by hand across seventy-seven years, in eight different hands, in books that are themselves now objects. Getting it onto this website is a matter of typing.

We do a bay at a time and photograph as we go, which is slower than typing alone but means the record is worth something when it is done. The entries on this site are the ones typed so far.

If what you want is not listed, that does not mean we do not hold it. Describe it in a request and we will look in the books.

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