Exploding tins of treacle and baked beans plus 150,000 negatives !

Charles Davis writes “From
guardian.co.uk.
Nothing, not even years of experience with the National Trust, can prepare a conservation expert for the challenge presented by
exploding tins of treacle and baked beans.

A few tins, some more than 50 years old, have gone bang as the trust prepares to open to the public the cluttered home and studio
of one Britain’s greatest photographers.”