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We've recently acquired the earliest surviving aerial images of England. Taken from an air balloon by photographer and balloonist Cecil Shadbolt from 1882-1892, this essential collection of 76 Victorian glass lantern slides has now been conserved, digitised, catalogued and researched. The collection was miraculously found at a car boot sale and was bought by the Archive at auction in 2015.

Archives Conservator Jenny Harvey shows how to stabilise and restore broken lantern slides.

Find out more about the Shadbolt Collection and view the photographic and decorative slides here: http://bit.ly/Shadbolt

We hold more than 4 million aerial photographs from the early 20th century to the present day: http://bit.ly/AerialPhotographs