Berkshire Record Office

The Berkshire Record Office is the county record office for Berkshire, England. It is located in Reading.[1] The Berkshire Record Office opened on 10 August 1948 in The Forbury, Reading.[2][3] It moved to the new Berkshire Shire Hall, beside the M4, in 1981, and to its present home in Coley Avenue, Reading, in 2000.[4]

References
  1. "Location". Berkshire Record Office. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  2. "Special Birthday Party for Berkshire Record Office". Reading Borough Council. 4 August 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  3. Berkshire Record Office website: The Forbury, 1948-1980
  4. Berkshire Record Office website: Shire Hall, 1981-2000

Further reading
  • Flynn, Sarah & Stevens, Mark. 'Petty criminals, publicans and sinners : petty sessions records in the Berkshire Record Office', Journal of the Society of Archivists 16 (1995), 41-53.
  • Green, Angela. 'The Berkshire Record Office', Berkshire Archaeological Journal 68 (1975-6), 89-95.
  • Hull, Felix. 'The Berkshire Record Office', Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 51 (1949 for 1948-9), 10-16.
  • Walne, Peter. 'Local archives of Great Britain, 18: the Berkshire Record Office', Archives 4:22 (1959), 65-74.


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