The Project Purley Archive

Project Purley is building an electronic archive in an attempt both to preserve the information gathered over the years and to make it more available to members.

It is divided up into a number of sections (see below) and material filed away is kept in a format which we hope will be both usable to the present generation and which will be readily copied for future generations as technology develops. Thus only material in .txt, .pdf, .jpg or .gif formats is included.

As each item is added a short description is included in an index which is searchable so that information may be retrieved.

Several members are contributing, either by scanning images and press cuttings, writing articles or transcribing old documents.

We are always happy to accept electronic documents which would fit into one other of the categories below. E-mail then as attachments to chairman@project-purley.eu

The complete archive is now too big to be distributed on most memory sticks or by e-mail. However the index can be made available on request and individual items can be e-mailed to members or genuine researchers from other societies.

The sections of the archive are:-

A – articles published in various journals or publications which are primarily about Purley.

B- books with extracts relating to Purley

C – cuttings from newspapers and magazines

E – text and images relating to display boards for Project Purley exhibitions.

G – summaries of Project Purley meetings

J – copies of Project Purley Newsletters and Journals

M – images (photographs, maps  and drawings)

P- publications (of Project Purley) to enable reprints only.

Q – copies of Purley Parish News

R- registers – tables of names from parish registers

S – sources – information about sources for Purley history

T – transcripts of old documents about Purley

V- interviews – notes taken from interviews and oral history tapes with people who have Purley connections

W – copies of complete works relating to Purley

X – themes – composites of information on  a variety of themes relating to Purley