Introduction

If we are unable to provide a photo copy of a particular document or photograph, or if you require a photograph of a document or a duplicate photographic print for your own personal use, then you can take a photograph of the document in the search-room yourself, or else use the services of a professional photographer.

Our photographing policy

Photography of documents and reproduction of photographic prints is, like other forms of copying,  subject to copyright regulations.  Photographs of original documents or of photographic prints may generally be taken provided the photograph is for personal use - that is, not for exhibition, reproduction, or  publication in printed form or on a website.  A copyright form, available from staff in the search-room, should be completed whenever photographs are taken, and a copyright card may have to be placed within the area photographed.

There is no charge for taking your own photographs.

If you require a photograph of a document or a photographic print for exhibition, reproduction or publication in printed form or on a web-site, please inform us.  We can then identify and contact the document/photograph and copyright owners for permission, or assist you to do so yourself.   If you do not inform us that you are intending to reproduce or publish a photograph of a document or a photographic print held in our record office to which copyright applies, you will be infringing the laws of copyright.

Further information on our copyright policy

Professional Photographers

We would be pleased to recommend suitable local firms of professional photographers if needed.