Gwent Archives Now open.

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Gwent Archives (the new posh name for Gwent Record Office) is on course and on budget to open its new doors to the researching public on October 24th. The move from County Hall to The Works in Ebbw Vale will be completed by then, so we are told in an article in the South Wales Argus.
We are also told that a new website is due to go live at the same time. If you intend going there by train, because the pictures that were bandied about when they were convincing us this was a good thing showed the station just outside the door, be prepared for a bit of a walk. The new station has not materialised, there is no link to Ebbw Vale from the Rail station at Newport and the Welsh Assembly seems to be avoiding making one.

However, we should be able to get back to the serious work of researching and transcribing from the end of October and this time it will be in the state of the art (or technology) new premises.

[Ladkyis]

Gwent Archives has now reopened at its new location in Ebbw Vale.

Our new contact details are:

Gwent Archives
Steelworks Road
Ebbw Vale
Blaenau Gwent
NP23 6DN

tel. 01495 353363
enquiries@gwentarchives.gov.uk

OPENING HOURS

Monday – Friday 9.30 – 5.00

As part of the new service, opening hours have been extended and, for a trial period, will include one Saturday opening a month.

We will open on the following Saturdays from 10.00 – 4.00:

• 12 November 2011
• 10 December 2011
• 14 January 2012
• 11 February 2012
• 10 March 2012
• 14 April 2012

For more information about the new office and our services, please see our website:
www.gwentarchives.gov.uk
www.archifaugwent.gov.uk