Progress Bulletin - 12th May 2003
Around 10000 images indexed.
More than 9000 images digitised.
Unnetie web pages updated.
Six storylines now completed.

Progress Bulletin - 21st March 2003
More than 9000 images indexed.
More than 6000 images digitised.
Unnetie listed on NOF EnrichUK portal – see www.enrichuk.net
Almost all Unné images selected for use on the site.

EnrichUK Launch - 12th March 2003
The project website was considered satisfactory enough to be included in the New Opportunities Fund EnrichUK web-portal www.enrichuk.net in time for the launch of the UK NOF programme at the I-MAX theatre in London on the 12th March 2003. This was despite the fact that the County Council content management system, which will give the site a search facility, is not yet available.

At the launch Deborah Martin and James Paul met up with their regional Consortium colleagues from Wakefield, York and Leeds. They were also introduced to Baroness Pitkeathley, Chair of the New Opportunities Fund and Stephen Dunmore, NOF Chief Executive, who chaired the event in the unavoidable absence of Jon Snow, called away to New York for the United Nations meeting on Iraq.

Return of the Digitised Images - 20th January 2003
Images are now being returned from Hamilton Data Imaging after being scanned. Here Julie Blaisdale, Head of Libraries, Archives and Arts, is taking a look at some of the digitised images that have been returned.

Progress Bulletin - 7th January 2003
Preliminary project site now online.
4500 images digitised.
5250 Harrogate images indexed and conserved.
All Harrogate images indexed and conserved.
Scarborough indexing underway.

Digitisation of Harrogate Images - 8th November 2002
Harrogate Library is contributing 1300 images from their collection to the project. Indexing and conservation were completed so these images made up the second batch to be digitised. The images were handed over to Hamilton Data Imaging on 8th November and return of the digitised images is expected early in December.

Progress Bulletin - 1st November 2002
First 1500 Unné images digitised.
4000 Unné images indexed and 2000 conserved.
1300 Harrogate images indexed and conserved.
Scarborough indexing in progress.
Rural Crafts Storyline drafted.
Farming Life in the Dales and the Spa at Harrogate Storylines in progress.

Royal Visit - 24th October 2002
Prince Charles visited the new County Council Library and Information Centre in Ripon on 24 October 2002 and met members of staff and library users. The Prince was presented with a framed set of prints of Ripon taken by the photographer, Bertram Unné.

First Preview Image - 22nd October 2002
The first digitised image was received from our scanning bureau, Hamilton Data Imaging. It is of the U.S Memorial in Valley Gardens, Harrogate.

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Digitisation Starts - 15th October 2002
The first batch of 1500 Unné negatives was handed over to Stuart Haines of Hamilton Data Imaging for digitisation. Here is Stuart pictured with Deborah Martin during the hand over.

Progress Bulletin - 3rd October 2002
2500 Unné images have been indexed.
1000 Unné images have been conserved.
First draft of the Unnetie site has been developed.
Work on selection and indexing of partners’ material well underway.
Working on selection of material for Storylines.

Project Underway - 12th September 2002
The Unnetie Project, funded by the New Opportunities Fund, is now up and running. Over the next six months, 10000 images of work and leisure in the rural and urban communities of North Yorkshire will be made available on the Internet.

The site will include images produced by the Harrogate photographer Bertram Unné, who recorded the way of life in the Dales and the Yorkshire countryside between 1940 and 1979, along with material from the collections of Harrogate and Scarborough Libraries, the Dales Countryside Museum, the County Record Office and the Northallerton and District Local History Society.

The first phase of the project is expected to be online at Christmas 2002.

North Yorkshire Photographs On The Web!
The New Opportunities Fund (NOF) has awarded North Yorkshire County Library Service £78,800 of lottery funding to conserve and promote several unique photographic archives stored at the County Library Headquarters, Harrogate and Scarborough libraries.

Chief of these is the collection of negatives and prints produced by the Harrogate photographer Bertram Unné, who recorded the way of life in the Dales and the Yorkshire countryside between 1940 and 1979.

As part of the successful bid, the Library Service aims to use the photographic collections to create a searchable archive of 10000 images and several themed storylines showing connections with material held by the Dales Countryside Museum, the County Record Office and the Northallerton and District Local History Society - demonstrating aspects of rural crafts, holidays at the seaside, days out and the spa at Harrogate.

The project is part of a co-operative regional Consortium, ’Yorkshire: a sense of place’, funded by NOF, which will promote a photographic archive of Yorkshire images held by the library services of Leeds, York City, Wakefield and North Yorkshire.