Shropshire Archives to close for essential behind the scenes work

Shropshire Council’s Shropshire Archives is to close from Saturday 23 November 2019 until Tuesday 3 December 2019 inclusive, for essential behind the scenes work.

Shropshire Archives in Shrewsbury

Like many archive services across the country, Shropshire Archives closes for a period to allow for time to do essential behind the scenes work which can only be done during a closed period.

Mary McKenzie, Archives Manager, said:

Our annual closure allows staff to work on projects that require the space and capacity of a closed period. We hope our customers will understand the need for us to do this work. This year we will be working on several projects to improve the storage and cataloguing of a variety of collections. All this work improves the service we can provide in future to our customers.

The service will close at 4pm on Friday 22 November 2019 and reopen at 10am on Wednesday 4 December 2019. This period has been chosen as it is typically a quiet one for the service.

During the closed period, you can still access over 500,000 records about the history of the county on the Shropshire Archives website.

You can also still telephone and email the service, though detailed enquiries will generally only be responded to once the service is fully open.

For further information telephone,0345 678 096, email archives@shropshire.gov.uk, or visit the website www.shropshirearchives.org.uk.