what to do with old negatives

[Batman7070]

Does anyone know of somewhere or someone that takes old Black and white negatives? We have a storage wallet of negatives taken in the 60's by my deceased father in law. We dont want to throw them away.

[CheekyChops]

Why don't you want to throw them away? They will be of little use to anyone else. Just put them on a bonfire and get rid!

[vehelpfulguy]

I guess it depends what they are of. If it is just a load of pictures of the family there may be little interest.

If they show a lot of the life of England at that time they may be of great interest.

English Heritage do have a massive Public Archive of photographs and other material showing life in England through the years, they may be interested.

More info here:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show /nav.1505

If not try your local library as they nearly always have a history and archive section, and even if they dont want them they may suggest somewhere else.

[vehelpfulguy]

cheekychops, I find your attitude rather sad, particularly as you have no idea what is on the negatives.

They may be a facinating slice of life in the 1950s or 1960s.

As an example, have you ever heard of Mitchell and Kenyon?

These were two men who went round the North West of England in the early days of film making (1900s). They filmed ordinairy every day things to show in small cinemas or local vilage halls.

People paid money to see themselves on film for the first time.

When these men died the films sat in a basement for 70 years and nobody knew they were there. When they came to renovate the building someone found them and they have now been restored (at a cost of millions of pounds).

They now give a facinating look at life during that period, what people wore, how they lived and so on. It even includes they earliest clip of a football match in England (Manchester United I think)

You can see some clips from the films here:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/mk/

Supposing the person who found these films had done as you suggested and thrown them on the fire. We would have lost a slice of our history.

Maybe when you get a bit older you will understand.

[vehelpfulguy]

Here are couple of Michell and Kenyon film clips that just show you how facinating they are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjayCplGtZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKEKUR4HMys&fea ture=user

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8FLeQpeVT8

[Batman7070]

Thank you both for replying.

We had considered the bonfire option cheekychops but Very helpfull guy gave us the answer we wanted. English Heritage can decide whether they are worth keeping or not.