Other Archives & Information Sources

ARCHIVES The National Archives, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU Tel: 020 8876 3444 Email: — Website: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk LDS Church Family Search Centre (Romford) 64 Butts Green Road, Hornchurch, Essex, RM11 2JN. Tel: 01708 620727 Email: — Website: www.familysearch.org

LIBRARIES Information sheet 3 The British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB Tel: 020 7724 7676 Email: — Website: www.bl.uk RESEARCH GUIDE British Newspaper Library, currently relocating from Collindale to Boston Spa. Future access will be via a dedicated newspaper reading room at the British Library. Tel: — Email: — Website: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Bishopsgate Institute Library, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH Tel: 020 7392 9270 Email: [email protected] Website: www.bishopsgate.org.uk/content/968/Library Library, 39 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7BB Tel: 020 7565 7280 Email: — Website: www.ltmuseum.co.uk

MUSEUMS , 150 , London EC2Y 5HN Tel: 020 7001 9844 Email: [email protected] Website: www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/ Museum of London Docklands, No.1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL Tel: — Email: — Website: www.museumoflondon.org.uk/docklands/

SOCIETIES Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London The information in this guide is believed to be correct at the time of publication. EC1M 7BA We recommend that you contact a centre before making a journey as opening Tel: 020 7251 8799 Email: [email protected] times are subject to change. Website: www.sog.org.uk The East of London Family History Society www.eolfs.org.uk Registered Charity № 1094419 The EoLFHS Area of Interest Local Archives & Study Centres

BARKING & DAGENHAM Local Studies Centre, , Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, Essex, RM8 3HT. Tel: 020 8270 6896 Email: [email protected] Website: www.lbbd.gov.uk/archives

HACKNEY Hackney Archives, Dalston CLR James Library, Dalston Square, London E8 3BZ Tel: 020 8356 8925 Email: [email protected] Website: www.hackney.gov.uk/ca-archives.htm

HAVERING Havering Local Studies, St Edwards Way, Romford, Essex, RM1 3AR Tel: 01708 432392 Email: [email protected] Website: —

NEWHAM Newham Archives & Local Studies, Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, London E15 1EL The area covered by the EoLFHS is defined by the London boroughs to the east of the City Tel: 020 8430 6881 Email: [email protected] of London. These boroughs were historically parts of the counties of Middlesex or Essex Website: — with the River Lea forming the boundary between the two counties. Boroughs to the west, Hackney and Tower Hamlets were part of Middlesex, those to the east, Newham, Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham and Havering were part of Essex. This split is reflected REDRIDGE in the historic records which are to be found in a wide variety of locations. Local Studies & Archives, Central Library, Clements Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1EA Tel: 020 8708 2417 Email: [email protected] County Archives Website: — TOWER HAMLETS MIDDLESEX Local History & Archives Library, 277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB Tel: 020 7364 1290 Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 7332 3851 Email: [email protected] Web: www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgsl/1001-1050/1034_local_history__archives.aspx Website: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma WALTHAM FOREST ESSEX Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library, Vestry House Museum, Vestry Essex Record Office, Wharf Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6YT. Road, , London E17 9NH Tel: 01245 244644 Email:[email protected] Tel: 020 8496 4391 Email: [email protected] Website: www.essex.gov.uk/libraries-archives/record-office/ Website: www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house

CITY OF LONDON WOOLWICH (North Woolwich was formerly part of Woolwich, Kent) Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London EC2V Greenwich Heritage Centre, Artillery Square, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, SE18 4DX Tel: 020 7332 1868 Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 8854 2452 Email: [email protected] Website: Website: www.greenwichheritage.org www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/archives-and-city-history/guildhall-library/