Lots more lists online
We always say it’s worth checking our online catalogue frequently as we constantly add new material. This is true now more than ever.
We have finally transferred onto our website all the remaining catalogues, previously only available as paper lists on our search room shelves or online as part of the National Archives website, Discovery
These were initially part of the “Access to Archives (A2A)” national initiative to get paper records online, started back in the early 2000s. Volunteers began the process of converting and editing the catalogues so that they could be searched through our website. However, due to various technical difficulties, over 60 catalogues remained frustratingly impossible to transfer and add to our own online catalogue. Due in part to recent developments of the Discovery website allowing more flexible exporting, as well the opportunity afforded by lockdown, we were finally able to work out how to export, convert and edit these remaining lists into a format suitable for importing onto our own archive database.
This means that almost all the Shropshire Archive catalogues available on the National Archives website are now also available on our own website. We think the only significant exception is our large series of education records (ED) but we have been working on these and are hoping to complete this shortly, so watch this space.
The catalogues cover a wide range of topics – from schools to landed estates, railways and mines as well records of local businesses, clubs, societies and churches.
We’ve summarised the collections added to our website. Those in bold have been added this month. We’ll be featuring more detail on some of these collections in later blog posts but do follow the links to explore the catalogues.
X3974 A & A Peate, Maesbury Mills, Oswestry
X1123 Alberbury, The Black Abbey
X5179 Atcham Female Benefit Society and Withington Benefit Society
X5104 Charity of Elizabeth Turton and others
X2604 Church plans from office of Hodgson Fowler, architect, Durham
X3694 Colonel Payne of Pentre Uchaf
X3878 Deeds – Broome Estate
X4233 Deeds – property in Annscroft
X4797 Deeds – Rodington and Withington
X4457 Deeds – Swan Hill House and adjoining property
X3650 Deeds for 68 and 69 Broad Street, Ludlow
X4842 Deeds of Copyhold Properties, Dodington Manor, Whitchurch
X3990 Deeds relating to Newport
X4106 Diddlebury and Holdgate School and Diddlebury Working Mens Club
X5310 Family papers of George Higley
X5415 Foxall Collection
X1578 Hall Collection
X1298 Hinckesman Collection
X3886 J O Pointon & Sons, decorators and plumbers of Wellington
X1787 Kinnerley Farm Hall and Mill, Kinnerley
X3950 Marcy, Hemmingway, solicitors
X1044 Mellington Deeds
X5010 Miscellaneous Deeds (Brignorth, Ditton Priors, Morville and Oldbury)
X4680 Miscellaneous Deeds, Shropshire estates
X3441 Montford Estate Deeds
X783 Morgan Solicitors, Ludlow
XMOR Morgans of Ludlow, solicitors
X3787 Nereus Jones Papers
X4734 Offa Field Club and Offa Antiquarian Society
X4002 Oswestry Boys’ High School
XPAL Palin Papers
X4155 Mining Research Papers of Reg Morton
X2756 Papers of S Morley Tonkin
X3607 Papers of the late J. R. W. Whitfield
X5409 Papers relating to the Garn and Spoad, Clun
X3693 Payne Family Papers
X677 Pontesbury Portions
X3891 Records of E A Wilson of Ellesmere
X2339 Records of E Payne
X587 Records of the Whitfield Family
X1913 Reverend J C Hill
X5360 Richards, (Solicitors) Llangollen
XSFO Salop Fire Office
XSAN Sandford Collection
X2287 Severn House, Coalbrookdale
X4212 Shrewsbury United Reformed Church
X4534 Shropshire Association of Women’s Clubs
X4531 Shropshire County Branch of the National Farmers’ Union
X4406 Shropshire Deeds
X5165 Shropshire Imperial Service Fund
X4386 Shropshire Ladies County Club
X4839 Shropshire Nursing Association Welfare Fund
X436 Shropshire Provident Society
X4962 Shropshire Technical School for Girls (Radbrook College)
X4470 Shropshire volumes, prints and maps
X5381 Snailbeach Lead Mining Company
X1067 Stokes family of Roughton, Worfield
X5169 Title Deeds of 1 Bailey Street, Oswestry
X5194 Tunstall Old Court
X4140 Upton Collection
X2496 Valentine Vickers, land agents and surveyors
XWIN Windler Collection
X231 Woodcote Hall