https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/homes-and-gardens/places-to-live/history-of-rspb-minsmere-7017822
This is a brief article published in 2018 about Minsmere in a countryside magazine in 2018 and does include the great Bert Axcell one of the great pioneers during the 1960’s and 1970’s in paticular as Bert Axell was the first full time warden at Minsmere and it was Bert Axell who’s idea about creating the scrape at Minsmere in the early 1960’s he actually received the MBE for his work in conservation. I can remember the days when Minsmere was just open 4 days a week and you had to apply months ahead for a permit and the deadline for applying for a permit wa siix months ahead and you weren’t guaranteed a permit even applying that far ahead as I found when applying well in advance for a permit at a reserve in Wales much more than 6 months ahead as all the permits had been taken up and so I had to try for another day of which I had success at Ynys-Hir in Wales.
Sadly no! It was long before mobile phone’s let alone iPhone’s appeared and i don't think computers where available to buy at that time although computers where used long before been available to the public such as on space missions, but certainly not available to the public to buy at that time and i didn't have a camera at that time. No doubt the RSPB will have records going that far back. But often the book by Herbert Axell as i mentioned is available to buy second hand on Amazon and Ebay. I know that the book i have with Bert Axell and Eric Hoskings signatures in that book was only available if you bought that book direct from the RSPB. If you bought that book at the many book shops during that era that book didn't have those signatures.. I didn't even know that the book i ordered direct from the RSPB had Bert Axell’s and Eric Hoskins signatures until it arrived by post which was a nice surprise., Also at that time Minsmere had a small Heronry. The unusual thing about that at Minsmere was that the Heron’s nested in the Reedbeds which is not common, but it's not unheard of and Bert Axell does mention that in that book and indeed when i visited Minsmere in the 1970’s, Minsmere did indeed have a small Heronry at that time with the Heron nesting in the reedbeds. But not now sadly. No doubt the records of that Heronry at Minsmere will be kept somewhere within the RSPB,.