Costume cards from the BBC

[Alan Jeffries]

Hi All,
I have, in my possession loads of index file cards for various BBC shows. When the Costune Aquisitions department moved from TVC to Acton they were being thrown out and I scooped them up. They don't have a lot of information on them, just stuff like what production, number, director, designer. On the reverse it lists how long the costumes were worked on. The majority - I think - are from the mid 80's. There are some - again I think - that are from the 60's which have an actual price on them per episode.
I have been looking to seel some of these on E-bay but have had little success having sold only a few.
My question is this. Is there somewhere where these kind of thing are stored and/or recorded? It's original documentation, but I don't know if it is of any kind of value to archivists.
Maybe there's someone out there who has an idea.

Alan

[emitron]

One place well suited for these is the Victoria and Albert Museum.

[Andrew Martin]

alanj said:

Hi All,
I have, in my possession loads of index file cards for various BBC shows. When the Costune Aquisitions department moved from TVC to Acton they were being thrown out and I scooped them up. They don't have a lot of information on them, just stuff like what production, number, director, designer. On the reverse it lists how long the costumes were worked on. The majority - I think - are from the mid 80's. There are some - again I think - that are from the 60's which have an actual price on them per episode.
I have been looking to seel some of these on E-bay but have had little success having sold only a few.
My question is this. Is there somewhere where these kind of thing are stored and/or recorded? It's original documentation, but I don't know if it is of any kind of value to archivists.
Maybe there's someone out there who has an idea.

Alan

Try BBC Heritage here -

www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/donate.shtml

But I can't guarantee it's something they would want - similar information may be on the programme files in the BBC's Written Archives.

[Stuart Huggett]

Just a bit of random info: There's a rented property here in Hastings, that a few of my friends have taken flats in over the years, and decorating the stairwell are framed costume-department sketches from that BBC production of 'The Six Wives Of Henry VIII' with Keith Mitchell - Even if I've got the title wrong, I'm sure you know the one I mean. Just shows how this ephemra can turn up in the most unexpected places.