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- 10th April 2012
We’re back with another of our video tours. This time we are taking you around the new strongrooms at The Hive. You will see that the shelves have now been filled, although there is still plenty of work for us to do to get them all in order and ready for when we open in...
- 26th March 2012
We have now finished moving all of the archive collections out of our County Hall branch that were due to come straight to The Hive. There are still a few things left to be collected by the specialist document treatment company we are using, but for now our hard-working removal company have completed the first...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 19th October 2011
In July 2012 we will be ready to welcome you to our new home at the Hive, in the centre of Worcester. Some of you may be wondering what on earth the Hive is, so here we will let you know a little bit more about it. Staff visiting the Hive for a tour of...