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- 28th February 2012
The removal men really are doing a great job in shifting the thousands of boxes we have to move to The Hive. We are very grateful to them – especially as they don’t seem to get fed up when we change our minds and ask them to move the items to a different strongroom (several...
- 24th February 2012
We’re here again to show you some more images from inside The Hive. This time we’re looking at the different areas of the library. The library shelves are all installed ready, awaiting the arrival of the book stock from the city library, University library and the History Centre. There will be places to relax and...
- 17th February 2012
We’re on our way! Hello and apologies that we have been away for a while, things have been very hectic here lately. We are now into the second week of physically moving our collections to The Hive and we are already ahead of schedule. We have removal men working with us everyday, and they are...
- 6th February 2012
Today we continue our tour of The Hive, bringing you photographs of the new workspace for the Archive and Archaeology Service: Our new searchroom desk is almost ready to receive the first enquirers at our new service! Our new original document searchroom, for consulting all of our original archives, is set out in an L-shape,...
- 2nd February 2012
This week we have begun our staff induction tours at The Hive, which are a chance for staff to see where they will be working soon. We have been taking lots of photographs so we can show you a sneak peek of what it looks like! As there are so many we will split them...
- 26th January 2012
Hello all. We thought it might be time we updated you with some of the things we are currently up to in our bid to get ready for the removal trucks (which arrive in less than two weeks time!). So, here are some photographs to show what we’re currently up to: Mould checking: perhaps one of...
- 16th January 2012
Over the ten years since opening the History Centre has had many volunteers working on various and numerous tasks. The volunteers have been a cross section of people, including retired, unemployed and students – some people just dropped in to see if they could help! The role of volunteers is hugely beneficial to us as it allows...
- 5th January 2012
The time has finally come to announce the collection which has made it to the number one spot in the countdown of our most frequently accessed collections. This means that more of our users request to see items from within our wills collections than from within any of our collections. So, the number one spot...
- 3rd January 2012
Happy New Year to all of our readers, we hope you enjoyed the festive season. We are starting 2012 with the announcement of our new service name. We will now be known as Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service as, effective as of now, we have become a joint service which brings together the Worcestershire Record Office...