New series next week on the Beeb of Who Do You Think You Are?

[candleflame]

I loved the Copenhagen National Archive and it’s posh crane type thing that they went up in to get the archive material out as well as the whole story.

[rosie17]

I loved the Copenhagen National Archive and it’s posh crane type thing that they went up in to get the archive material out as well as the whole story.

That was amazing but I don't think I would like to be on it 

Rosie

[Treetotal]

I couldn't believe how high it went  you wouldn't get me up there either.
Carol

[Musicman]

An excellent, and very interesting programme was Dame Judi’s!  It was so interesting - and, for a change, I didn’t nod off once - for a change!    But I do record the programme as a back up.

[andrewalston]

That was amazing but I don't think I would like to be on it 

There is only a drop on one side. Shelves on two sides, retrieval mechanism on the third.

Normally, it's all automated. Zooms up, extracts the shelf contents (they showed the extraction mechanism running), then returns to ground level for the staff to extract the relevant box. The rest of the shelf contents can then be put back by the robot.

The personnel platform is normally only used for maintenance such as cleaning the shelves, and I bet the robot runs at a lower speed when that is in use. 

[candleflame]

That was amazing but I don't think I would like to be on it 

There is only a drop on one side. Shelves on two sides, retrieval mechanism on the third.

Normally, it's all automated. Zooms up, extracts the shelf contents (they showed the extraction mechanism running), then returns to ground level for the staff to extract the relevant box. The rest of the shelf contents can then be put back by the robot.

The personnel platform is normally only used for maintenance such as cleaning the shelves, and I bet the robot runs at a lower speed when that is in use. 

Wow thanks for that explanation.

[loobylooayr]

Anyone watched Alex Scott's episode?
Were we overwhelmed? Or underwhelmed?

Certainly didn't have the wow factor of the first two of the series - but it was always going to be impossible to keep that standard up.
However I enjoyed Alex's journey into her Jewish East End Roots - although the research didn't definitively link events to her family and the story of her great uncle in the asylum was sad but unfotunately not unusual.
Alex's Jamaican ancestry was interesting too. A lot of information for her to absorb.

Looby 

[Ruskie]

I’m coming a bit late to this, but just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed Judi Dench’s episode.

[KGarrad]

The Alex Scott episode was very interesting - such a diverse family history.

But not quite up to the standard of the first two episodes.