Knowing all this I ventured to ask Geoff Walker if he would consider having his film copied to video professionally. What with the technological wizardry we have now days I knew that we had a good chance of getting the sound added in synch later on. Understandably Geoff has grown to be very protective of his film but after a conversation with Diggy he became more comfortable with the idea. I have in the past made crude copies of old club films by using a camcorder but there is always a tendency to show signs of flicker and a hot spot or darkening around the edges of the frame.

Nevertheless this was a substantial amount and would weigh heavily on club funds. With the agreement of Geoff, I approached Jeremy Harte of Bourne Hall and Jon Cotton of The Museum of London and asked if they would be willing to split the cost three ways so that copies could be made for archive purposes. The response was positive and a meeting was arranged that was convenient to all parties. The meeting took place at Bourne Hall on Thursday morning 29th May with David Brooks, Jeremy Harte, Jon Cotton and his line Manager Roy Stephenson, Ron Everitt and myself in attendance. We were soon to be very pleasantly surprised to learn that Roy Stephenson was happy for The Museum of London to pay for the whole process. The conversation lead onto the fact next year would be the anniversary of the dig and talk of how to celebrate the fact. Several ideas were put forward but the film was to be one of the major features. We didn't hang about much as on the following Monday Ron, Barbara Gollop and myself (with a Freedom pass in hand) took a trip by train and underground to Baker Street. Barbara also wanted a film copied which coincidentally was a 400 footer as well but in colour and on Super 8mm. The charge for this one was about two thirds the price of the standard 8 format you might be interested to learn. Whilst at the Widescreen Centre we were given a demonstration of how to erect a Stumpfl portable screen which we had our eye on for the club but the price at £720 seemed a little hot for our budget. Back home I emailed the Museum of London and very soon got one back saying that payment had been made. Later that same afternoon I received a call to say the two films had been copied and were ready to be picked up. I can now report that Geoff has now been returned his original copies of Film and magnetic tape and after viewing the processed and sound synched video version, is very pleased with the result.