The Trust has been successful in obtaining a grant from the Lough Fund to allow the recruitment of Cameron Robertson to work 15 hours a week for a year, starting on 20 April 2022. Cameron will be working on the scanning and digitisation of the huge collection of photographic images acquired by the Archive Service.

The Collection exists as glass plates or negatives which means providing access to it is labour intensive as preservation standard digital images must be created.

The collection covers the period from 1951 when David Smith founded his photojournalism business in Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed, until 2012 when his son, Ian retired.

The image shows Berwick-upon-Tweed May Fair 1959