FRIENDS OF THE
WARWICKSHIRE
COUNTY RECORD OFFICE
We invite you to join the Friends of Warwickshire County Record Office!
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| About the Friends |  | |
The Friends were founded in 1988 and charitable status was granted a year later.
Our aims are:
- to support the work of our County Record Office
- to promote the education of the public through the use of historical records
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The Friends are a vital part of the work of the Record Office and have:
- supported successful bids for funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund
- raised approximately £42,000 since 1988
This has helped the County Record Office to buy archival material of all types relating to Warwickshire’s history over the past one thousand years. This has included manuscripts, printed books, photographs, maps and ephemera, as well as machine-readable databases for family historians.
Essential equipment provided by the Friends includes document weighing machines, a map cabinet, display screens, and a slide projector. We have also given:
- £3,000 towards the furnishing of the Readers’ Tea Room in the renovated Record Office
- £4,000 towards the purchase of Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths from the General Register Office.
- £1,500 towards a leaf casting machine for the Conservation department
- £2,000 towards the purchase of the estate records of Waller of Woodcote
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| Membership | | |
Everyone is welcome to join the Friends.
Membership entitles you to:
- invitations to a wide range of Friends’ meetings and social events
- visits to historic sites in Warwickshire and beyond
- our Newsletter which is published three times a year
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| 2009 programme | | |
AGM |
Saturday 7th March, 2.00pm
Venue - Warwick Record Office.
Talk - 'The Pleasures and Perils of Living in a Fourteenth-century Castle in the Twenty-first Century'
Speaker Michael Fetherston-Dilke.
Refreshments
Non-members welcome £3. |
Forum |
Saturday 18th April, 2.00pm
Venue - Warwick County Record Office.
Speakers - Rosemary Booth - 'Elephants at Eastgate: Photographs by Frank Augustus Brandish Holte'
John Willock and Peter Cools ' An Engineering Legacy - Willans and Robinson'
Refreshments
Non-members welcome £3. |
Members Only Visit
Summer Buffet |
Visit to Henley-in-Arden Heritage Centre
Monday 11th May, 2.00pm
Voluntary Contribution
Refreshments
Contact Mrs B. Sunley (01926 853574) to reserve a place.
Coughton Court - by kind permission of Mrs McLaren-Throckmorton
Thursday, 18th June - evening visit
Contact Mrs Sunley for details and tickets. |
Autumn luncheon |
Friends Autumn Luncheon
Sunday, 11th October 1.00pm
Contact Mrs Sunley for tickets.. |
To become a Friend please print out and complete the membership form and send it, with your remittance, to: |
Honorary Treasurer,
FWCRO,
10a Barrow Road,
Kenilworth,
Warwickshire
CV8 1EH
 Membership form
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Annual subscriptions
Individual £ 8.00
Family/joint £12.00
Group/corporate £10.00 |
You will need a copy of the Adobe Acrobat reader to view the application form. If you do not already have this installed on your computer click here to visit the web site from which it can be downloaded. |
There are now more than 200 Friends. Why not join us and enjoy these activities with like-minded companions? We look forward to meeting you.
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