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West Yorkshire History Centre

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in Wakefield in 1704. This was the first such registry in England. In 1932, the records were transferred to a new building on Newstead Road in the city, later becoming the West Yorkshire Archive Service. It moved to its current building, back on Kirkgate, in 2016, by which time it held more than
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The building was designed by Broadway Malyan. It includes a local history centre on the ground floor, and the archives on the upper floors. These are surrounded by a metal mesh wrap, which is lit with changing colours in the evenings.
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In addition to the 7 million deeds, the centre holds surviving records of the
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collection of records relating to the local area, and the records of
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The centre evolved from the West Riding Registry of Deeds, opened on
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The Wharncliffe Companion to Wakefield & District
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Wakefield
West Yorkshire
Kirkgate
West Yorkshire Joint Services
West Riding of Yorkshire
National Coal Board
Stanley Royd Hospital
ISBN
9781783408405
"Rehousing the county's historic archives"
"West Yorkshire History Centre - Wakefield Archive Service Opening Times and Information"


"Work begins on new home for the Registry of Deeds"
"Inside West Yorkshire History Centre and Archive: Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit's author's deeds to Anne Lister's diary"
Official website
53°40′47″N 1°29′30″W / 53.6796°N 1.4916°W / 53.6796; -1.4916
Categories
Buildings and structures in Wakefield
Buildings and structures completed in 2016
Archives in West Yorkshire

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