Reports for the year ending 31 July 2011
Item
5.
Committee report (PDF, 14Kb)
Item
6.
Treasurer's report (PDF, 12Kb)
Item
7.
Record Office report (PDF, 88Kb)
The Friends are people who use the Record Office, or who wish to
help in its work of preserving Suffolk's incomparable archival
heritage. We are a Registered Charity No 288042. Formed in
1983, we promote the service and lobby on its behalf,
providing details of archives which may be in danger of loss or
dispersal. Our AGM is held every September and we also publish
a newsletter and lists of the new accessions.
How can I become a member of the Friends of the Record
Office? Please complete the
application form and send it to the Secretary, or hand it in at
any of the
Record Office branches.
Membership: minimum subscription £12 per year (although many
members contribute more). Anyone can become a Friend of the
Suffolk Record Office, you do not have to live in
Suffolk
Are you a Friend and a regular eBay user? The
Suffolk Record Office is notified of auction lots by The National
Archives but material is also sold on auction sites such as
eBay. As a result we are looking for any Friends who
could help us to monitor eBay. Please
contact
Judith
Stephenson for more information.
How have the Friends helped? We have purchased for
the Record Office many fine collections of archives, which might
otherwise have been lost to the county or lost completely.
Below is an example:
HD1538_174_1 held at
Ipswich Record Office
Grant of land to Campsea Ash Priory purchased by the County Council
in 1987 with financial assistance from the Friends. William de
Saham gives his land in Bredfield to the nuns of Campsea Priory,
‘for the salvation of his soul and those of his
ancestors'. The deed is not dated, but was written around
1200, making it one of the oldest documents in the Record Office.
It forms part of the extensive Iveagh collection of medieval
manuscripts.
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