> Sampling has found soldiers' addresses on less > than two cards in three hundred and the resources required to identify and > extract that small percentage of cards from within the total collection > (5-6 million cards) So the Army and - presumably - the ONS are prepared to see around 37000 records of unknown quality, but some certain value, discarded without any attempt to save them. Quite apart from the near certainty that some of the filming has not been sufficiently good and/or more data could be extracted from the cards by direct examination. It would seem that /if/ the MOD can be persuaded to let them go, the firat requirement is to find somewhere to store them, even if only temporarily. After that the long term disposal can be assessed rationally once the emergency has died down. So - does anyone know of around 700sq ft of storage space (allowing double the actual floor area) in not impossibly bad conditions to store something like this? Practical considerations, not long winded discussion are what is needed here! In the long term I'd still be very opposed to destroying original documents - paper is still one of the safest long term archival media - and anyway, as I said above, who knows what the actual quality is of /every/ film image? Hugh Ainsley