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Essex Record Office Behind-the-Scenes Tours

Wharf Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6YT

  • 14 Sep 2024
  • In person
  • Pre-booking required

The Essex Record Office is the county archive service for Essex and holds primary sources including written archives, maps and drawings, photographs, and recorded sound and video. Find out about the work of the ERO and its collections.

As part of Chelmsford’s Heritage Open Day, the Essex Record Office will be offering free, bookable tours of the Searchroom which include a look inside one of the repositories. Throughout the day there will be the opportunity to see artworks from the Essex County Council collection, a show reel of historic films from the Essex Sound and Video Archive, and the Essex Society for Family History will be onsite to give advice on family history research and launch their new website.

The Searchroom will be open 09:00 to 16:00 should you wish to stay and do some research. You need a free Archives Card to use the Searchroom and you can find information about applying for one here: www.essexrecordoffice.co.uk/research/visit-the-searchroom. You will need to bring ID for the card; the ID we can accept is outlined on the Archives Card website. An Archives Card is not required for the Heritage Open Day activities.

The ERO is the county archive service for Essex and holds primary sources for Essex history, including written archives, maps, pictorial material and recorded sound and video. It also has a library of books and pamphlets related to local history and archival research. The Essex Record Office was founded in 1938 and moved into a state-of-the-art archive building in Chelmsford town centre in 2000. The documents held by the Essex Record Office cover almost 1,000 years of Essex history.

Timings & Tours

Saturday 14 September:
9am - 4pm Tours 10am, 11.30am, 1pm & 2.30pm

Location & directions

Wharf Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6YT

Directions:
The Essex Record Office is located on Wharf Road, a short walk from Chelmsford High Street. Building work to create a new road bridge has started next to the Record Office meaning that access to the building is only via Wharf Road and not along the river path. More information about travelling to us and parking can be found at www.essexrecordoffice.co.uk/visit-us/

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:
Pre-booking required
Booking conditions:
Please advise if you need to cancel to enable us to give the space to another.
Booking website:
https://www.chelmsfordhod.co.uk

Additional information

Max no of people per tour:
15
Est. tour duration:
1 hour(s) 30 minute(s)

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