Merry Christmas from Worcestershire Record Office

23rd December 2011

Staff at Worcestershire Record Office would like to wish all our users a very Merry Christmas and very best wishes for the New Year; 2012 looks set to be a year of many changes and we hope they will all be very positive.

We will be back in the new year with our Number One most frequently accessed collection!

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