Gwent Archives
In 2011 the doors will open on the Gwent Record Office's new home in Ebbw Vale. This exciting development on the site of the old steelworks will provide the GRO with the facilities it needs to continue collecting, preserving and making its unique collection of archives available to the public.
Part of the new Office will be in the Steelworks General Office, a Grade 2* listed building. This will provide a large new public Searchroom, a Group/Education Room and staff offices.
Click here to see the latest layout plan of the ground floor| of the new building.
Work is almost completed on a new extension to house the GRO Collection. This will provide around 10km of shelves in the controlled environment needed to ensure that the Collection is accessible now and hundreds of years into the future.
The Councils of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen have all agreed to the funding for this development. Completion of the new extension is expected to be in late July 2011, ready for the GRO to relaunch the service as Gwent Archives in October 2011. It is hoped that the extensive work involved in getting the Collection ready to move will cause as little disruption to our service as possible but it will be necessary to close the office for a few weeks. See our Opening Times |page for more details.
If you would like to know anything more about this exciting project please feel free to contact Gary Tuson, the County Archivist.
More images of the new Office| can be viewed here.