The Herald Digital Archive Project was first launched by the Farnham Herald in November 2019, but its progress was stalled by the Covid-19 lockdowns.

However, the lockdowns also prompted an increase in local interest for local newspaper archive material and the Herald has now got the project back on track.

With the help of volunteers over the past year, 80pc of the Tindle-owned Herald’s physical paper archives – totalling some 785 volumes of newsprint – have now been inventoried, while 99,000 photo negatives have been indexed.

You can read more at: https://tinyurl.com/y48j6xc6.