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Mary Burgess
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Local history author and researcher. Works in the Cambridgeshire Collection local studies library. Bit deaf🦻. She/they.
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Groan.... You're always welcome to volunteer identifying our slide collections if that's more to your liking. I've far too many pictures of every format.

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Our volunteers are working hard to sort and index our negative collections - here's Herbert Charles Pollitt, also known as Diane de Rougy. Herbert was part of the Footlights from 1892 until 1897 and Diane was a popular performer in Cambridge.

Diane de Rougy, a Victorian lady with dark brown hair in an up do, pictured sitting down from the waist up. She has a dress with see-through sleeves and a white scarf around her neck.
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Better OCR and better ability to correct bad OCR would be my top pick.

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Early start this morning - off to Wisbech. Greggs wasn't even open yet!

View from a train on platform 6 at Cambridge station, with platforms and another train. It's cloudy and wet.
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Back at work after a week off and the first job is to find out how old a post box is and how long there's been one on that site. Always something different to do.

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The local area is having an art trail at the mo and I've got one of the exhibits in my front garden. This is "Contained" by Sue Baker Kenton.

A square wooden white box with a glass front in a front garden. There is a very closed cropped painting of somebody with their head leaning on their hands inside.
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Just handed in the first full draft of my dissertation to my supervisor. Think that calls for cake!

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Patrons assaulting staff (and each other), book trolleys falling over onto people, cleaning up bodily fluids (mostly blood, sometimes there's poop too), getting squashed in the rolling stacks, people falling down the escalators, trapping fingers in filing cabinets, children running into things

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Happy Sunday morning. The Vertue of the COFFEE-Drink’ - the first advert for coffee, London, 1642.

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Mary Burgess
@cambliblife.bsky.social
Local history author and researcher. Works in the Cambridgeshire Collection local studies library. Bit deaf🦻. She/they.
145 followers147 following52 posts