Archive Contents – Introduction

Readers/Researchers to this website please note that this Internet Archive version represents a duplicate of most of the original Physical Archive version of The Neil Lewis Stuart Archive.  The archive was established in late 2016 around the time soon of the voluntary winding up of The Friends of Katoomba Falls Creek Valley Incorporated of that same year.

It is important to point out that The Friends were always a local resident group of volunteers, and this included the Working Group (committee) and the various roles and functions performed such as campaigning, ‘bush regen’ (bushcare weeding) and fundraising, etc.

The original Physical Archive version contains the equivalent of more than 100 Marbig Lever Archive Binders of A4 paper documents filed in the same sort order, plus ephemera as per our ‘Archive Re-Sort Project 2’ (by two former Working Group members of The Friends – Steven Ridd and Desmond Barrett).

Similiarly, alll archival project work subsequently is being undertaken by volunteers, former members of The Friends and its Working Group.

It is intended that in due course that a third ‘Digital Archive‘ version will be created as a exact copy of the Internet Archive version.  The aim is to eventually find a safe, secure  and trusted permanent depository (such as a university) for the original Physical Archive version and at the same time that ‘Digital Archive‘ version will accompany the Physical Archive version.

So ultimately the plan is to provide three almost identical versions of The Neil Lewis Stuart Archive for backup purposes and to facilitate public access to the archival content, as follows:

1. The original Physical Archive version (paper based)
2. An abridged Internet Archive version (this website)
3. A Digital Archive version (being an exact duplicate of the Internet Archive version)

 

All archival documentation on this website is provided in an Adobe PDF format, so as to facilitate each document to be publicly and freely read online, as well as downloadable and printable freely.  The information is public for public use with no conditions.

Note that the Internet Archive contents is comprised of a link to a webpost for every single archived document.

To access the content of this document, simply click the link below – it only takes you to the saved digital document stored on this website.  We do not monitor who accesses this website in any way.  We do not use any software monitoring nor any artificial intelligence.  This website is a not-for-profit venture and exists to be purley a free public service to absolutely anyone.

It is what Neil would have wanted and frankly would have expected.

This is our Archive Digitisation Project and thus far it remains a work in progress to date.  Once completed in years to come, we shall happily notify readers on this website’s front page (and on this webpage) – digital balloons and streamers included!

The volume of The Neil Lewis Stuart Archival is very large; its physical content amounts to over a hundred Lever Arch full binders of mostly A4 paper documents, as well as additional associated material – large maps, many photos and various ephemera.  It is publicly available because the subject Valley is public land and always has been and deserves to remain to in perpetuity.

This sizeable archive volume also means that the full Archive Contents is similarly substantial (almost encyclopaedic!), yet serves to provide any researcher with a useful overview and ready shortcut linkable access to one’s topics of interest.

This Archive Digitisation Project is a massive manual exercise in scanning the sorted Archive Digitisation Project and being undertaken in tandem with its publishing as an Internet Archive version on this website – we term our Archive Internet Project.

This is because at the time of writing, the future perpetual depository of the Physical Archive (approximating a quarter of a 20-foot shipping container in volume to duly be accompanied by the duplicate Digital Archive) and is not yet known.