Record Office services

At West Sussex Record Office we provide a number of services for the public. We can copy and enhance your family photographs; we provide a family and local history research service; we can provide advice on the care and preservation of your family papers and photographs; and we offer a limited number of talks on the archives and related subjects.

For more information, click on the links below.

• Conservation Workshop
  Pages to introduce what the conservation workshop does and how we can help you.

• Photographic restoration
  In despair over that prized family photograph which has been torn or scratched and is fading away before your eyes? Fear not, using our very latest photographic software we can copy, restore and enhance your cherished photographs

• Record Office leaflets and mini-guides
  We have a produced a number of leaflets to help you with research, using our archives, safe handling of documents and how to use our online catalogues.

• Record Office publications and shop
  At the Record Office we produce a variety of products for sale to the public including very affordable mini guides to sources on a variety of different subjects and locations throughout West Sussex

• Research Service
  Are you interested in your ancestry? Does your family come from Sussex? Would you like to find out more about them? If the answer is 'Yes' to these questions, but you don't have the time to do it yourself then our Research Service is for you!

• Research Service application form
  On-line application for research.

• Resources for schools
  The Education Service of the Record Office plays an important part in supporting National Curriculum History in West Sussex Schools. History in schools must be underpinned by the use of original sources across the whole age range.

• Speaker Service
  Members of Record Office staff may occasionally be available to give talks to groups and societies. Anyone wishing to book one of the speakers listed below is advised that they should contact them as early as possible.

• West Sussex Archives Society
  West Sussex Archives Society (WSAS) acts as a 'friends' organisation and aims to support the work of the Record Office. You don't have to be an historian or expert to join.