Tim Day

Archive Technician


When did you join HAT?

May 2013

What do you do there?

Monitoring archive environmental conditions. Using vintage machines for digitising past commercials. Scanning material. Cataloguing

What did you want to be when you were younger?

A bounty hunter (alternatively and perhaps more realistically.. A crystallised tangerine floating on a soundwave in the deepest cosmos)

What is your favourite ad?

A comical Windolene ad from 1960, featuring a window cleaning race between Mrs Mopp and Mrs Modern. It makes me smile every time

Tell us something we don’t know about you?

I dabble in making electronic music (look out for me performing in your local pub as ‘Baron Meatpeas and the Globules’)