| Archives are unique records with long -term value. They are records created by a person or an institution. They could be the records of a business, a club, a church, a council, a family. Archives are preserved because they have evidential value to their creator and can be used for legal or administrative purposes or because they have potential research value. Archives are the evidence of the past. | ![]() |
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Archival material includes, maps, plans, drawings, papers, correspondence, minutes, files, photographs, ledgers, films, microfilms and other micrographic records, sound recordings, pictorial records, magnetic tapes, magnetic discs, optical discs, video discs, any machine readable records. |
| Archival material can often be fragile and can deteriorate quite quickly unless it is stored and handled correctly. For more details on the archives we have in storage please see our Collections page. |
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