04/09/2026
Museum monthly focus:
Our fantastic volunteer Mick Ford has spent the last few months converting a large stock of slides (over 1000) to positive images for our museum database. The slides were originally obtained by museum founder Roger Pickett. During a visit to our old HQ in Hutton, Roger spotted a cache of glass negatives and asked if he could have them for the museum. He later discovered that they contained a large number of incident photos from the 1950's and early 1960's. It really was a fantastic find.
Mick has spent many hours cataloguing the photographs so that we can find images easily. We now have a great museum resource to help us illustrate story of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service.
Great work from the museum team!!
