Our very own authors

After the excitement of last week’s exhibition launch, we were celebrating again last night, as Brent Archives officially launched the new book written by two of the Archives team. The London Borough of Brent in Old Photographs, written by Rosamund King and Malcolm Barres Baker, uses just some of the many thousands of wonderful images held at Brent Archives to show the development of the London Borough of Brent from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s and documents the massive changes that occurred over that period.

Brent Archives holds many thousands of photographs and other images in its collections, which form a unique record of the local history of the borough and its residents, and in bringing together over 200 mostly unpublished historic photographs, Ros and Malcolm have written a book that documents the history of the borough and offers a glimpse of some of these wonderful pictures to a wider audience. As the first photographic book to cover Brent as a whole, The London Borough of Brent in Old Photographs offers readers the opportunity to find out more about their own neighbourhood and its place within the wider borough, through unpublished photographs and postcards from the Archives own collections.

Ros and Malcolm’s hard work has uncovered the story of long-forgotten events and documented the huge changes that the area has seen over the last century and a half.  The launch was a chance to celebrate their achievement as newly-published authors, and with a drink in hand, and food kindly donated by the Queensbury Deli in Willesden Green, we heard Ros and  Malcolm give an introduction to some of their favourite pictures after the book was officially launched by Sue McKenzie, Head of Libraries, Arts and Heritage. We’re all delighted with the new book, and we hope you will be too. You can borrow a copy from any of the libraries in Brent, or buy one from the Archives, or online at Amazon.

Posted by Kate.