About the catalogue
The online catalogue contains descriptions of a significant proportion of the Archive collections which we hold in Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, a proportion which is growing through frequent additions, but it does not include all our holdings yet. There is a wide variety of records from many sources, both public and private, relating to the modern or historic county of Worcestershire and to parts of the former county of Hereford and Worcester.
It includes:
- all records of the first Worcestershire County Council (existed 1889-1974)
- and records it inherited (such as Poor Law Unions)
- Worcestershire Quarter Sessions records except for the series of loose Sessions papers (for these see A2A below)
- records of various local and regional public bodies such as West Midlands Gas Board and Severn Trent Water Authority
- records of the departments of Hereford and Worcester County Council (existed 1974-1998)
- some records of the current Worcestershire County Council (established 1998), including schools
- part of the catalogue of the historic records of Worcester City Corporation resulting from the project to catalogue the Worcester City Collection
- part of the catalogue of the records of the Earls of Coventry of Croome Court resulting from the Croome Project
- some hospital records (more are in A2A – see below)
Since 2004 all newly catalogued records are entered directly into this catalogue.
In general it does not include those catalogues which the Archive Service contributed to the Access to Archives (A2A) website:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a
These are:
- most of our Church of England parish registers and records
- Worcester Diocesan records
- nonconformist church records
- the series of Worcestershire Quarter Sessions loose papers for the period 1591 to 1840
- some hospital records
- some of our main family and solicitors’ collections
Information about some of our other collections can be found elsewhere on Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service website:
PLEASE NOTE:
Sometimes records which are described in the catalogue may be closed to the public under the Data Protection Act or for other reasons. This will be
indicated in the AccessConditions field in the search results.