Planning Your Visit to the Record Office

Opening Hours

The telephone will continue to be answered and e-mails picked up on the closed Mondays.  The altered hours will allow Archive Service staff to carry out further work on essential background tasks such as cataloguing and indexing, production of other finding aids, website development and conservation.

There will initially be a 6 month trial with a review in December 2009 - all comments are welcomed.

For further details re the new opening hours contact Elizabeth Semper O'Keefe on 01432 260750 or e-mail esemper@herefordshire.gov.uk.

Facilities and Some Points to Note

It may be necessary to book, and a reader ticket will be required. Please see the relevant sections to the left for more details.

• Please be aware that no bags/handbags are allowed in the searchroom, unless you need to bring them in with you initially, for the purposes of showing identification in order to obtain a reader ticket. We provide lockers on the ground floor in which you may then leave your bags and any other belongings you do not require for your research. A large clear plastic zip-up envelope can be found in each locker for your convenience, which you may bring up to the searchroom with you.
• We have a lift available for those people who cannot manage the stairs to our first floor searchroom.
• We have a car park, with spaces for blue badge holders immediately adjacent to our building. There is also a loop system installed in the searchroom for those using hearing aids.
• We do not have a refreshment room, but there is a vending machine in the entrance hall where you may obtain a hot drink and chairs where you may sit to eat sandwiches. (This machine does not take 50p or £1 coins however, so please be sure to bring enough change.) Alternatively, we are only 5 or 10 minutes from various cafes etc. in the city centre.
• We will close for 3 weeks this year for our stocktake. This will probably be the last week in November and the first weeks in December. Please see the diary page (there is a link on the right) for exact dates. Although you will be unable to visit the office in person during this time, we will still answer telephone, letter and e-mail enquiries.

If you have any queries please contact us, click on the link to the left for details or e-mail archives@herefordshire.gov.uk.