The digitally-restored Roll being unveiled

Farnhill Methodist WW1 Roll of Honour – conservation & restoration

Restoration, to return the Roll to something like its original condition, was a multi-stage process.

  • A high-resolution photograph was taken of the conserved Roll.
  • A good-quality Roll of the same design was identified in the North Yorkshire county archive – originally from Snape, near Leeming.
  • A high-resolution photograph was taken of this Roll.
  • Using digital image manipulation software, the names were removed from the Snape Roll and replaced with the names from the Farnhill Roll.
  • Photographs of other archived Rolls were also used to achieve exact colour and pattern matches.
  • The composite was printed, full-size, onto acid-free paper.

This digitally-restored Roll was unveiled during the project’s exhibition “From Farnhill to the Front” on 10th November 2018.
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Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project

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