paul barltrop, bbc points west, avonmouth.rs. the negatives, dating from the 1940s to the 60s were rescued from a skip and belong to press photographer arthur cooper. they've been released online by coventry university. the first i heard of the arthur cooper find was when i visited coventry digital�*s office, and when i saw it ijust couldn't believe that there were over 8000 photographs, none of which had been identified. arthur was a freelance photographer and he worked the coventry patch for birmingham post and mail, midland daily news. arthur passed away quite a few years ago. the coventry telegraph archivist walked past arthur's house, outside of which was a skip, and the negatives were being put into the skip. and so they were rescued and they went to mirrorpix down in watford and they have cleaned them up and given them back to coventry. so what we did was go to a variety of coventry organisations that know a fair bit about coventry history and they were able to identify people, places, events. i have helped to identify