Durham’s record office closes for relocation
Durham County Record O ce’s searchroom closed to visitors in January 2022 because the collections are moving to a new home.
Roughly six miles of archives will be transferred from Durham’s County Hall to the site of the new History Centre in the 19th-century Mount Oswald Manor House on the outskirts of the city.
The History Centre is scheduled to open in 2023 and will bring together archive, heritage and registration services, alongside a café and exhibition space.
In the meantime the archive service will continue to respond to public inquiries by email and process online requests, in addition to delivering education programmes, online history talks and courses, and digitisation projects. Find out more at durhamrecordoffice.org.uk.
Councillor Richard Bell, Durham County Council’s cabinet member responsible for the record office, commented, “While the move to the new History Centre is massively exciting, it is also a huge undertaking which requires a lot of preparation to ensure the new History Centre can open on time.”