Working in partnership for the people of Herefordshire
Herefordshire Record Office
Harold Street
Hereford
HR1 2QX
Office Tel No: 01432 260750
Email: archives@herefordshire.gov.uk
Record Office News and Events
Welcome to our website. We hope you find it informative and interesting.Please use the Diary or Events link on the left to discover the dates or further details of any extra activities, events or closures.
Important Notices
Lost property check
The items listed below have been left behind by visitors to the Herefordshire Record Office and are still unclaimed:
If you recognise any items as your own please contact us so that they can be returned to you.
- A brown leather spectacle case
- A pair of spectacles
- An engraved propelling pencil
- An A4 notepad – research includes the surnames Watkins, Williams, Prosser, Holmans, Powles, Martin, Merrick, etc.
- An A5 sheet of paper with notes concerning surnames Henner and Winney
- An A5 booklet about Monmouthshire Boards of Guardians
- An A5 notebook with notes including the surname Nichols, Bane, Weston, Phillips, Sanders, etc
From Monday 1st June Herefordshire Record Office will change its opening hours to:
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 9.15 a.m. - 4.45 p.m. |
| Wednesday | 10.00 a.m. - 4.45 p.m. |
| Thursday | 9.15 a.m. - 4.45 p.m. |
| Friday | 9.15 a.m. - 4.45 p.m. |
| Saturday (2nd of the month) | 9.15 a.m. - 4.45 p.m. |
The telephone will continue to be answered and e-mails picked up on the closed Mondays. These 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.
Stop Press
- Due to current staffing levels, would all those visiting us on a Saturday please note that we will not be producing original documents between 11.45 a.m. and 1.15 p.m. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
We welcome comments and suggestions, which enable us to improve our service in ways our visitors find most useful. To this effect we have re-instated our feedback page on this site as a means of keeping you up to date with any changes. Use the link on the left for an update.
Please also feel free to e-mail archives@herefordshire.gov.uk to let us know your views. Compliments, complaints or suggestions - we will always pay heed.
Inspired by our 'Tales from the Archives' event, we have produced 5 new postcard designs. This one shows a not very romantic Valentine printed early 19th century.
This postcard shows a passage from document reference BG11/17/4/76 (5) where a man is being rather rude about the Mayor and the Justices of the Peace.
This postcard shows a section of a letter from a Solicitor to the man who he blames for his being in prison. The document reference is N44/25. We haven't shown all of the five new designs, but the other two feature a verse of a love letter and a small part of a will. Together they light up a tiny section of the lives of some of the people who lived in Herefordshire in times past.
The price of the postcards is 50p, or you can buy a set of all five designs for £2.00.