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Cumbria Archive Service Cumbria Record Office The Castle Carlisle Cumbria CA3 8UR Fax 01228 227270 Tel 01228 227285 Email [email protected] 25 March 2010 Dear Researchers NEW CUMBRIA ARCHIVES CENTRE (CARLISLE) TEMPORARY CLOSURE FOR RELOCATION During the summer and autumn 2010, the Carlisle Record Office will move from The Castle to new purpose- built premises at Petteril Bank in south Carlisle. To facilitate the move, the Record Office in The Castle will shortly close to the public, and we will be making alternative service arrangements elsewhere for the duration of the move. Building work is scheduled for completion in April 2010. We expect that it will take approximately 7 months to commission the new building, prepare the collections for the move, relocate to the new site, and set up the new service delivery. The Record Office in The Castle will close on 29th April 2010 and we will reopen the new Cumbria Archives Centre (Carlisle) in January 2011. We will be setting up alternative arrangements for service delivery from 4th May 2010: Cumberland parish registers, Cumberland Nonconformist church registers, and probate records from Carlisle Diocese 1564-1941 will be available on microfilm at the Local Studies Library in Carlisle Library in The Lanes (01228 227321) Microfilms of all Cumberland parish registers, and probate records 1858-1941 are available in the Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library in Whitehaven (01946 506420); Microfilms of all Cumberland bishops transcripts and probate records 1564-1941 are available at the Cumbria Record Office in Kendal (01539 713540) We have a Historical Research Service, and our experts will carry out your research for a fee (01228 227285) The archive offices in Barrow, Kendal and Whitehaven will be open as usual Website enquiry facilities are available – www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives if you have an urgent need to consult records for official reasons (eg magistrates’ court records) - please contact us to discuss this. We will do our best to find a way of helping you. We understand that the temporary closure of the Record Office in The Castle will inconvenience researchers, and we are sorry about that. However, we are sure you will appreciate that moving an archives office is a huge task, and we need to have all our staff available to help with it. Moving the Carlisle archive collections is the equivalent of moving 85 houses simultaneously! Please be patient with us whilst we move. The new Cumbria Archives Centre (Carlisle) will provide first class facilities for researchers, much better than we can currently offer in The Castle. Updates about the move are regularly available on our website - http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives/newrecoff/CROClatest_news.asp. Alternatively, if you would like us to contact you directly when we reopen, please email us to register your contact details. We look forward to welcoming you to our new premises at Petteril Bank in Carlisle in January 2011 Yours faithfully Anne Rowe Archive Service Manager .

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