Heritage Recording Services UK

Preserving heritage the professional way

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Heritage Recording Services - the heritage recording and preservation specialists.
 
 About Us
 Heritage Recording Services was set up by Ken Howarth a leading heritage professional specialising in recording and preserving heritage.  He has worked extensively photographing, filming and recording heritage for over 30 years.  Brought up in the north west of England, his career first as a Local History Librarian and later as a qualified professional Museum Curator (AMA) led to the pioneering development of  the unique oral history based North West Sound Archive (UK).  
 
Heritage Recording Services was launched in 1995 to fulfil a need for professional services in the heritage market.  HRS has worked both at home and abroad including India, Greenland, Malta, Ireland and The Netherlands.

 

He has worked extensively in the UK for museums, heritage centres, archives, community projects, planning departments, national parks, tourism and many other areas.

 

Company history  Ken Comments:
 
"I set up Heritage Recording Services not just to offer a service but to assist with support, informal advice and training.  I have a passion for heritage, it is vitally important it is properly recorded preserved and understood."
 
What have you enjoyed the most in your work?
 
"Meeting people and sharing their fascination with heritage.  There have been scary moments too like recording in a forgotten canal tunnel.  We discovered what we thought was a body.  However, the body was very much alive and appeared from under a pile of newspapers.  I don't know who was more frightened!
 
 
There are moments of great excitement as well like the discovery of First World War grafitti left by soldiers in disused farm buildings on the moors miles from anywhere!"
 
 
Current and recent projects:
 
  • Wrexham Coalmining Oral History Project 2010

 

  • Wireless in Wales project.  Popeth Cymraeg.  A Welsh language oral history project
 
  •  Training members of staff in advanced oral history work at the National Library for Wales (CultureNetCymru)

 

  • Archival preservation of rare oral history recordings for the National Trust.

 

  • Digital Presentations and Podcasts, Audio trails -  for Pendle Council on the history of a former cotton textile town.

 

  • Geological record photography for an on-going project on quarrying in Rossendale. (See images below)

 

Modern snail trail on beach

 

 

 

Animal trail on 350 million year old sandstone