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Accessions

Adding to the archives
Do you have a piece of the Borough's history? The archive service is always ready, and ever willing, to complete the patchwork of stories that is our collective past. We accept anything from vast business collections and fascinating school records to small individual archives filled with personal detail.
 
Everybody has a story to tell and we encourage you to deposit your records for posterity. Depositing couldn't be easier: you can email the archives, deposit online, telephone or just bring your records along to the archive to take your place in history!
 
Featured Record
Each month we will be bringing our new accessions to you in greater detail than before through our Featured Records. This month the spotlight falls on the records of C. E. Lloyd, former Chairman of Noah Hingley & Sons.
 
Archive Accessions
A wide variety of records are consistently added to the archive collections from anywhere and everywhere. Our records span eight centuries (from 1189 to the present day), cover every aspect of society (from the Workhouse to the Public house) and are from as far afield as Constantinople (a letter written to Mrs Anne Foley by her brother from Constantinople, reference DOH/I/6/5). The one thing they all have in common is they all tell the story of our Dudley Borough, and they are all here waiting for you to come and find it out.
 
Each month we will be updating this page with a list of the most recent accessions to have been deposited here at DALHS. So far this month you can:
 
  • Trace the history of a school with the Brockmoor Primary School Logbooks (Acc 9626 – subject to the Data Protection Act)
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  • Investigate the records of Mr. Roger Deeley, an active member of Halesowen Township Council, Cradley Trinity Church and Cradley Liberal Club throughout the 70s and 80s (Acc 9627).
 
But that's not all ... below you can find lists of every accession we have recieved in the last two years, so why not have a visit and see it all for yourself.