Cheshire Archives and Local Studies is a shared service of Cheshire East Council and Cheshire West and Chester Council. It looks after the county’s unique and irreplaceable written and pictorial history, which dates back more than 900 years.
The service’s current base, the Record Office in Chester, will soon be replaced with a new dedicated Chester History Centre with work commencing in late 2024 on the site of the former Enterprise Centre, in Lightfoot Street, Chester and is included in the wider Chester City Gateway Masterplan.
The project, called ‘Cheshire’s archives: a story shared’, will transform the way the archives service works and open up the collections to a whole new audience. The centre will feature new exhibition and event spaces, new research rooms, workspace for staff and volunteers, as well as environmentally stable storage for the archives. A sister centre in Crewe will also be built as part of the project.
More information: Cheshire’s archives: a story shared | Cheshire West and Chester Council
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