About the Collection

Running to almost 800 boxes of documents, 1000 volumes and hundreds of maps and plans, the Worcester City Archives is one of the largest collections held by Worcestershire Record Office, and a huge source of virtually untapped information.

The Corporation that ran Worcester was the forerunner to today’s modern City Council,

There are two distinct types of records:

Those relating to the to the running of the council:

Those relating to the running of the city:

The project will run until May 2011 to catalogue and clean the collection. Although it will be possible to view the documents using the basic paper inventory in the County Hall branch searchroom, some documents may be temporarily unavailable whilst we work with them. We will respond to your queries as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

Most of the collection will be fully accessible once the project is completed. A small number of records, however, will have access restrictions either due to their fragile condition, or under the Data Protection Act.