Your family's memories, made permanent.
We digitise your photographs, slides, negatives, tapes and cine film by hand here in the UK — and return every original safely by tracked post.
No obligation. You only pay for what we successfully digitise. Typical turnaround 2–3 weeks.
That box under the bed won't last forever — but the memories inside it can.
10,000+
Items preserved
2–3 wks
Typical turnaround
600 dpi
Photo scan resolution
100%
Originals returned
What we digitise
Six of the family archive's usual suspects. Rates start from the volume-tier price.
Three ways to preserve
From straightforward digitising to a fully catalogued, researched family archive.
Digitise
You pack your own box — we digitise and return everything.
From £15.00
- • Pack your own box, print your slip
- • Everything digitised by hand
- • Free cloud download link
- • Originals returned tracked
Preserve
Send us your originals — we re-house them in archival acid-free sleeves and return them in a rigid Preservation Kit. Sleeve cost is included in the per-photo price.
Kit included
- • Originals returned in a rigid Preservation Kit
- • Archival acid-free sleeves & dividers
- • Originals returned re-housed & protected
- • Sleeves are yours to keep
Archive
Preserve plus a bespoke research goal and a written Family Findings Document.
From £250.00
- • Every item individually named & catalogued
- • People matched across your collection
- • Research shaped around one question you set us
- • Written Family Findings Document
How it works
Pack & post your box
Order online, print your slip, and send us your memories — pack them in any sturdy box you have to hand.
We digitise by hand
Every photo checked and cropped individually; tapes captured in real time on professional decks.
Download your files
A secure cloud link lands in your inbox — and your originals come home by tracked post.
Time is the quiet enemy
Magnetic tape sheds a little of its signal every year — a VHS recording loses noticeable quality decade by decade, and working VCRs are quietly disappearing. Colour photographs fade, negatives curl, and slides grow mould in lofts and garages.
None of this is a reason to panic. It's simply a reason not to wait another ten years. Digitise once, properly, and the memories are safe for good.
Everything scanned by hand
Originals returned tracked & insured
UK-based — never leaves the country
Free cloud download with every order
Simple, honest pricing
Photos from £0.20 each, tapes from £8.00, cine film at £0.25 per foot — with volume discounts applied automatically.
Kind words
"Dad's cine films from the 1960s, on my telly at Christmas. The whole family was in tears — happy ones."
"Every photo came back re-housed in proper archival sleeves. They arrived home in better shape than they left."
"The Family Findings Document answered a question my mum had carried for fifty years. Worth every penny."