Alfred Gillett Trust Digitisation Category
Footwear in Focus for Heritage Open Days in Street
Do something new and join the FREE exhibitions being held at the Grange in Street, specially curated by the Alfred Gillett Trust for Heritage Open Days, England’s largest annual festival of history and culture. Put your best foot forward and let your eyes delight at our ‘Footwear in Focus’ photography exhibition. Charting the evolution and […]
Shoe Digitisation Project Update 4
Over the last week we documented, cleaned, photographed and repacked over 90 shoes for the Shoe Digitisation Project. These were men’s and women’s shoes dating from 1953-1969. Here’s a small selection of the ones which caught our eye! Click on the images to see the full slideshow.
Shoe Digitisation Project Update 3
Between 2-13 March we documented, cleaned, photographed and repacked over 160 shoes for the Shoe Digitisation Project. These were men’s and women’s shoes dating from 1960-1969. Here’s a small selection of the ones which caught our eye! Click on the images to see the full slideshow.
Shoe Digitisation Project Update 2
Between 23-27 February, we documented, cleaned, photographed and repacked over 70 shoes for the Shoe Digitisation Project. These were all men’s shoes from different companies from around the world which dated to 1950-1959. Here’s a small selection of the ones which caught our eye!
Shoe Digitisation Project Update 1
Between 16-20 February, we documented, cleaned, photographed and repacked 80 shoes for the Shoe Digitisation Project. These mostly date to the 1950s. Here’s a small selection of the ones which have caught our eye!
1,000th Digitised Shoe Milestone Reached!
The Shoe Digitisation Project reached a major milestone this week; the 1,000th shoe was photographed, cleaned, documented and safely packed away by the team at the Alfred Gillett Trust. The striking sandal which claims the title of 1,000th shoe is a 1955 Clarks leather T-bar sandal from the Wessex range. It was donated to the […]
Footwear Digitisation Project Update
The Alfred Gillett Trust’s footwear digitisation project has now been running for 10 weeks, so it seems a good time to publish an update on our progress. We have encountered our fair share of teething problems, but to date we have photographed 224 shoes, producing 1,602 high quality digital images. The process of preparing the […]
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