Document and media preservation since 1961
We conserve, film, transfer and digitise records for local authorities, diocesan archives, solicitors and universities — and we count everything twice.
Aldermoor Conservation Services was founded in Nettlefold in 1961 as a reprographics bureau and has been a conservation studio since 1974. We are a small team. Most of our work arrives through people we have worked for before.
We do not rush work. A collection that has survived two hundred years can wait another fortnight for the right enclosure.
What we do
Paper conservation
Surface cleaning, tear repair, leaf casting, re-sewing, boxing.
Microfilm & reprographics
16mm and 35mm camera work to ISO standards, with target cards and density control.
Magnetic tape transfer
Quarter-inch open reel, cassette and video, transferred on serviced decks.
Digitisation & verification
Scanning with colour targets, checksum verification and a documented count.
Our six public collections
A selection of our own holdings and of client material we are permitted to show.
- Collection 01
Nettlefold Corporation Minute Books
Six volumes, 1874–1931, conserved and digitised for the Borough in 2015.
- Collection 02
Aldermoor Works: Photographic Survey
A survey of the former Aldermoor Works site made in 1979 at closure, comprising 84 plates with grid references keyed to the site plan.
- Collection 04
Diocesan Registers (sample)
A demonstration set of eight parchment leaves showing typical damage and treatment.
- Collection 05
Magnetic Tape Transfer: Demonstration Set
Four reels transferred in 1998 as part of our magnetic media service.
- Collection 06
Microfilm Target Cards: Reference Set
Forty target cards showing the standard head-of-reel identification format, including the two-weight typing convention used for machine field-finding.
Recent work
We have just finished re-boxing three hundred and eleven diocesan registers, and the strongroom monitoring in bay C has been replaced. More in News.