Building work started

Hurrah!  Works to create the Heritage Hub facilities at our Alvin Street premises in Gloucester are now underway, ably led by Paul Lander, the Site Manager employed by our builder, Lakehouse, to oversee things.

Heather Forbes, Head of Archives and Paul Lander, Site Manager for Lakehouse

Paul and his team have until the end of this year to complete the planned works, which will be done in two phases.  All being well, we should have the new Archives research room and Gloucestershire Family History Centre facilities up and running by the summer.  Meanwhile, we’re doing our best to offer a service that’s pretty much ‘business as usual’ for everyone that wants to use the documents in our collections. So we’re running a temporary research room in the Frith Centre, which is next to our main building – it’s a bit smaller than we’re used to but we can assure you of the same warm welcome!  

If you'd like to see how the building works are going, click on the 'Blogging a Building' link in the 'In this section' box at the far right of this page.