Re: The British Library's race to save old audio recordings
The BL paper archives are at Boston Spa (wherever that is). It usually takes a few days to get stuff sent to London. At any rate, that was the case when I had to make use of their facilities for work a few years ago.
In the 1990's I found that the sound archives were based in London when I made enquiries about some "Harry Champion" and other Edwardian music hall records that I used to have as a child, but they didn't have them. If they had had them, and copies were not available commercially, they would have copied them onto a cassette for me for a fixed fee per cassette. I don't know what the present arrangements are. (I later managed to get most of them on CD from "Windyridge", and some others are on Youtube).
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