Heritage for our future
ABV is a not for profit company established to harness the power of mixed media archive material to inspire the people of the United Kingdom to value, conserve, communicate and celebrate their historic and cultural heritage.
We are dedicated to enhancing people's lives by providing rich and exciting learning experiences, using the latest information technology to give easy access to top quality multi media knowledge bases and learning material.
We are committed to benefiting all the United Kingdoms communities, our partners, our employees and all other stakeholders through integrity, honesty and earnest endeavour.
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Key projects
Tree Archives - working with special trees




Epping Forest District Council is working on a local heritage project recording the many special trees in this district. More about this...
...visit 50 Favourite Trees web site
British Industry - the last 50 years - end of an era

Industry has played an important role in Britain and now with the demise of many of the industrial sites in Britain ABV is creating a database of these historical industries.
More information...
Our Images are for Sale in our Online Shop
We have a wide range of images in our library, they are all of a professional standard and available as high resolution (28-70mb 300dpi) or as low resolution for web and multi-media (72dpi). Click to go to image shop. These images can be downloaded directly from our shop with a safe secure e-commerce facility. Sales from our artists images are partly donated to ABV in order to carry out further projects.
PDF Files of some of our Publications
Over the next few months we will be producing local project information in PDF format. See our online shop These will be available free or at a small charge to cover our administrative costs.