THE fact that the only one document about Ludlow employer McConnel Limited was held by Ludlow Museum Resource Centre prompted me to collect my memorabilia and deliver it there last week.

I delivered a car load because, during my employment as publicity manager, one of my tasks was to make 16mm sales films. The equipment I used, camera, projectors, editing equipment and reels of finished film, had been given to me after I left the business because it had become obsolete with the introduction of videotape and was occupying office space.

I would like to suggest to any Advertiser reader who may have leaflets, manuals, drawings, photographs, negatives and cuttings, or tools of their trade such as mine from their time with the company, should consider donating their stuff to the museum, thereby adding to the history of an internationally recognised agricultural engineering business, and employer in Ludlow for, I recall, more than 50 years.

What readers may have languished in their lofts and sheds could be Ludlow's future history. A wealth of information has been published on the earlier history of the town. Had residents chucked their papers on the tip in past centuries there would be a far less interesting tale to tell now.

Howard Cheese at the museum will tell readers if their collection is of interest. He can be contacted by calling 01584 813665.

If anyone knows of the whereabouts of a collection of photographs of the earliest McConnel machines which were recovered, indexed and kept in the former Temeside sales office, the museum would like to hear from you.

Patrick E A Campbell, High Street, Leintwardine.