Project
Staff

Project Manager
Mrs Carolynne Cotton
Carolynne studied Librarianship at the Polytechnic of North London and Local History at Leicester University before beginning work at Hillingdon as Assistant Local Studies Librarian. She subsequently also qualified as an archivist. She has worked at Hillingdon for over 27 years and is now the Local Studies, Archives and Museum Manager. She has also published books on the history of Uxbridge. She has been involved with the project from its’ inception, spending over two years, with Mandy Mordue, to write the initial bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund. She now manages the project

Project Manager
Ms Mandy Mordue
Mandy has been working in the archival field for over 10 years. She has been based at Brunel University for the last five years and has been responsible for the development and implementation of their Corporate Records Management System.

Museum Curator
Clara Pereira
Clara has been working in museums for the last 4 years after having completed an MA in Museum Studies at University College London. At the British Museum she did research on ethnographic and photographic material for exhibitions as well as cataloguing, valuation and object research of a small ethnographic collection given to the British Museum. For the last 3 years she has been completing documentation projects related to improving information levels, and assisting with decisions on setting data standards as part of the overall collections management at the National Maritime Museum.

Assistant Archivist
Helen Betteridge
Helen has been working in the archival field for 3 years and comes to the project from Nottinghamshire Archives. At Nottingham, her responsibilities included participation in reader enquiry services and the cataloguing of the County's collections. She previously worked at the University of Sussex as an Archive Assistant before taking the archive MA qualification at University College London and has worked as a volunteer at the York Minster Archive. Prior to her decision to become an archivist, she worked for many years in a local government Housing and Health office.

Assistant Archivist
Paul Davidson
Paul has been working in this field for over 15 years, 10 of them in the North Devon Record Office as Assistant Archivist. Since leaving there he's worked on the cataloguing and digitisation of the Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection, one of the countries largest collection of theatre ephemera. He has also been involved in a one year project to transfer records of the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House onto the Archives Hub.

Photographer & Web Designer
Fen Oswin
Fen has been working in the web/photography industry since the mid-eighties and has a wide range of experience in design and production of websites. He has worked on projects for Business, Banking, Teaching, Military and Government clients producing award winning software. A published photographer (Fenris Photography), and experienced photographic restorer his job on this project is to digitise and restore the archive photographs within the collection as well as photograph the many artifacts. He is also responsible for the design and maintenance of this website.

Local Studies Team Librarian
Gwyn Jones
After training as a Primary School Teacher and working within the profession for six years, Gwyn decided on a change of career. This turned out to be librarianship, which he studied at Manchester Polytechnic. After qualifying he returned to Hillingdon to take up his first professional post as a children's librarian at Oak Farm Library. He then worked at various branch libraries before taking up the role of Local Studies Team Librarian in the new Central Library. His contribution to the project has been supervising the work of some of the volunteers as well as helping out the Archivists with his in-depth knowledge of the local area and its history.