the victor silvester archive - which includes his obe and first world war medals and related original documents and correspondence, his many other accolades such as his four carl alan awards for services to dancing and his bbc radio golden microphone award, the complete archive of programme sheets for his orchestra's bbc broadcasts, platinum and silver discs for his orchestra's record sales and the orchestra's entire archive of original hand-scored strict tempo sheet music - was sold at auction in london in march 2000 and is now held in a private collection in northern england.