Research Guidance
4The Neil Lewis Stuart Archive herewith is extensively large in its content volume, as well as complex.
Over a period of some 26 years, it comprises the equivalent of more than 100 Lever Arch binders of documents plus ephemera, as originally stored by the late Neil Stuart (1937-2016).
We have since Neil’s untimely passing and the subsequent de-registration of The Friends (incorporated association), re-sorted the contents of the archive (over a 7-year period (2017-2023) and also organised the documented records with a content Archive Directory (104 pages).
This is the same mostly for three data storage versions:
(1) ‘The Physical Archive Version’
(2) ‘The Digital Archive Version’
(3) ‘The Internet Archive Version’ (being of this website, serving as a data backup to (1) and (2)
By way of introduction, this Archive Directory at the high-level of the sub-levels breakdown hierarchical dichotomy, is structured in alphabetical ID in logical order of ‘Topic Group‘, as follows at the high-level:
A. The Friends – Organisation
B. The Friends – Membership
C. The Valley’s Values
D. The Friends Committee Ordinary Business
E. The Valley’s Rehabilitation
F. Environmental Threats to The Valley
G. The Gully Guardians
H. Blue Mountains Council’s Mismanagement of The Valley
I. Laws, Plans & Reports relevant to The Valley
J. The Valley – Maps
K. Photos of The Valley
L. The Valley – References
M. Audio and Digital Records
N. The Friends Ephemera
O. Gully Traditional Owners (GTO) Usurpation of The Valley
P. Non-Valley Records (as kept by Neil Stuart in his archive)
Q. Coalition of Residents For the Environment
R. Archive Manual
S. Usurpation by GBMWHI
Work In Progress:
As at 2026, this website and this particulr webpage with its hierarchical dichotomy is currently remains a work-in-progress.
The scale of this ‘Archive Digitisation Project 5‘ is substantial. It will involve many years of voluntary scanning of the Physical Archive (for the most part) which contains more than 100 Marbig Lever Archive binders of A4 paper documents into PDF format and then organising eahc and posting them of this website.
Fun! But worthy.