Help needed to rescue UK's old rainfall records

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52040822
"...The UK has rainfall records dating back 200 years or so, but the vast majority of these are in handwritten form and can't easily be used to analyse past periods of flooding and drought... It's looking to fill the yawning gap in UK digital rain gauge records between the 1820s and 1950s... "

Perhaps they should consult this :- http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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I've just done my bit to help by filling a small dent in that rainfall record backlog.