Assessing attachments to a page of racing colour designs

Recent preservation projects

The preservation team are always working on new projects to restore the condition of our historical documents.

Catalogue reference: BT 356/1335

This series of reverse blueprints of a pier and pavilion at Dover dated 1889 have been stored rolled and have become very brittle.

As the roll was opened the plans have split and crumbled into hundreds of fragments.

The plans were humidified to flatten them and then reassembled and lined with a paper fibre tissue. They were then encapsulated in 75-micron polyester sleeves.

And sewn into a portfolio made from 500-micron polypropylene.