What do I need to do to get them ready for you?

We can only scan loose photographs, so please remove them from albums and also try to make sure there’s nothing stuck to them. Glue, tape, photo corners, staples, paperclips, post-it notes etc will all cause a problem for our scanning machine so we need you to remove them from your pictures.

Put your photographs into envelopes and then if you have a lot of envelopes, put them in a cardboard box to stop them from being damaged. If you want your pictures scanning in a certain order, organise them into the order that you require them to be sorted in the file folder on your USB memory stick/DVD.

Write on the envelope what you would like that file folder to be called (eg. May 1989 – Holiday in Majorca)

Read our Preparing your photos page for detailed information about getting your pictures ready for us to scan.