Repository:Staffordshire Record Office

By email: staffordshire.record.office@staffordshire.gov.uk

Opening Hours can be subject to change. It is best to consult the website for current details.

There are three centres for the Staffordshire Record Office: Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, and Lichfield.

The online catalogue entitled Gateway to the Past covers all three centres. The contents are divided into topic catalogues and are found at [1].

"Gateway to the Past currently contains over 90% of the Archive Service’s paper-based catalogues. We are working to make the remaining catalogues available online. Catalogues currently available include:

• Diocese of Lichfield : administrative records, and some cause papers of the Consistory Court
• Dean and Chapter of Lichfield
• Anglican parishes
• Nonconformist churches
• Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
• Burton County Borough Council
• Lichfield City Council
• District councils
• Parish councils
• Poor Law Unions
• Hospitals
• Landed families, including : Sutherland (Leveson-Gower); Anglesey (Paget); Stafford (Stafford, Stafford-Howard, Jerningham and Fitzherbert)
• Businesses including : Pottery industry (companies, trade unions and employers' organisations); Evode Ltd.; Leek and Manifold Valley Railway; Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal; Leek silk manufacturers
• National Coal Board and its pre-vesting colliery companies
• Lichfield city charities, etc.

In addition, catalogues of collections received since January 2001 are included in the catalogue.