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cases long-separated parts of an original collection can at last be studied together, for example the series of minute books of the Neath Turnpike Trust, 1793-1844. The Glamorgan Archive Service has taken advantage of the government's Job Creation Programme to recruit eleven temporary members of staff, who will be financed by the Manpower Services Commission. Their work will benefit the Record Office and the community at large, by enabling urgently needed work to be under- taken during the next few months which the Record Office could not have contemplated, with its present staff and resources, for many years ahead. The main part of the project, supervised by Mr. Clive Burch, the Assistant Glamorgan Archivist, concentrates upon a survey of records, historic, non-current and current, held by industrial and business firms throughout the three counties of Glamorgan. It is hoped to discover what documentation has survived, and to dis- courage firms from destroying records, a policy which has characterised recent years, as businesses become more reluctant to allocate finance for the storage of their non-current records. In a county as industrialised as Glamorgan the records of these firms illustrate not only the history of their own enterprise in the nine- teenth and twentieth centuries, but also the economic and social history of their immediate area and its communities. Another part of the Job Creation Project is supervised by Mrs. Madeleine Gray, the Record Office's Assistant Archivist whose time is currently devoted to the Cardiff collection. Several thousand parchments and papers, previously unlisted, will be scheduled, and the Project also includes administrative assistants and typists whose work will prepare the schedules for the handlists in the search room. RECENT ACCESSIONS [Some items will not be available for consultation until scheduling has been completed] FAMILY AND ESTATE. Wenvoe estate ledgers and correspondence, 19th and 20th century; Crawshay family papers