THE JOHN LINGARD PAPERS

For Members asking about archive material.

The Liskeard Grammar School Archives

In 2002 a large quantity of diaries, documents and photographs were handed to me by John Lingard.  He asked the L.g.s.a. Committee to decide what to do with this archive material and the decision taken was to ask the County Records Office whether the material could be stored in their archives.  The County Records Office agreed to accept the archive once it had been weeded and fully listed in preparation for inclusion as a County and National resource.

In February 2003 the bulk of the material was handed over to County Records with an additional deposit of Pupil record cards in July 2003.  The archive is now securely stored in acid free folders and under temperature controlled conditions.  Duplicate material, removed in the weeding process, has been retained by Lgsa.

Following enquiries as to how the archive may be viewed; I spent a day at County Records with Maggie Willan where we were able to select files of our choice and view those files within a few minutes.  The archive has been given the Reference No. AD1546 under which there are listed a total of 84 records.  Internet access, to the list, is possible and a route to the list is shown below:-

• In your browser enter – Cornwall Record Office

• On the Record Office home page find ‘External Links’ box and click – CRO online catalogue

• On catalogue page click on – Search Catalogue

• In Ref. No. box enter – AD1546 and click Search

This will bring up the list of 84 Records and details of the contents in each record can be seen by clicking on the number of the required record. 

Alan Richards
L.g.s.a. Archivist