- 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...
- 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...
- 19th December 2011
We’re almost at the top spot in our countdown of the Top 10 most frequently requested documents at the Record Office. In at Number 2 are our Parish Collections, otherwise known amongst staff as the ‘850s’; because this is the reference number the collections are given. Anything with the class mark 850 represents aspecific parish within...
- 16th December 2011
In February the removal trucks will arrive and our collections will finally start making the move to their new home at The Hive. We have an awful lot of work to do before then to make sure that everything is ready so that it all goes off without a hitch (we’ll keep our fingers crossed...
- 12th December 2011
Maps (of all varieties and shapes and sizes!) Maps show what a place looked like in years gone by and make it possible to track how the land has developed over time; helping to bring the history of the area to life. The Record Office has a large variety of maps for you to look at including: Map of...
- 7th December 2011
Number four in our Top 10 most accessed collection is the Worcester City collection, which has recently been catalogued thanks to a Heritage Lottery Funded project. The archives of the City Corporation (now the Council) stretch from the fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. At almost 1,500 boxes, volumes and rolled maps,...