[actionfromafar]

I was going to say that the cost of just the tapes would be up to a million of todays dollars. But then I read:

"going back to when Monkhouse first bought a home video recorder in 1966"

Wow... if he started that early, the costs must have been astronomical in the beginning.

[kerrsclyde]

There was a BBC Four documentary about his archive. I think in that it reported that he was one of the first people in the UK to own a VHS device with the facility to record.