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• British Library
• British Library Newspaper Library
  Colindale Ave, NW9 5HE Telephone (020) 7412 7353
• Chelmsford and Essex Museum, Essex Regiment Museum
  Oaklands Park, Moulsham Street, Chelmsford CM2 9AQ
  >Telephone (01245) 353066/260614
• City of Westminster Archives Centre
  10 St Ann's Street, SW1P 2D2 Telephone (020) 7641 5179
• Essex Police Museum
  Police Headquarters, PO Box 2, Springfield CM2 6DA
  Telephone (01245) 491491 Ext 50771
• Essex Record Office Follow the links for Archives and museums
  • Wharf Road, Chelmsford CM12 6YT. Telephone (01245) 244644
     ero.enquiry@essexcc.gov.uk
• Guildhall Library
  Aldermanbury, London EC2P 2EJ
• Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies
  Northgate, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1BA
• London Metropolitan Archives
  40 Northampton Rd, London EC1R 0HB Telephone (020) 7332 3820
• Principal Registry of the Family Division
  First Avenue House, 42-49 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6NP Telephone (020) 79367000
• Public Record Office
  Is split into two parts what was at Chancery Lane is now at The Family Records Centre the rest is at Kew.
  • Family Records Centre
    1 Myddelton Street, London, EC1R 1UW Telephone (020) 8392 5300
  • Kew Repository.
    The Public Record Office, Ruskin Ave, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU,
    Telephone (020) 8876 3444; Enquiries, (020) 8392 5261
    There is a division of documents between Family Records centre and Kew, but there is no rule of thumb for deciding. There is a published guide to the location of documents in the PRO, which I would strongly advise researchers to read before planning a visit, and confirm the details before they go
• Society of Genealogists
  14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA Telephone (020) 7251 8799
• Westminster (Romam Catholic) Diocesan Archives
  16A Abingdon Road, Kensington, W8 6AF Telephone (020) 7938 3580

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