Suffolk Record Office collections

We collect records from all kinds of sources including businesses, churches and individuals. The records consist of many different types including accounts, diaries, photographs etc and come in a variety of formats including tapes, digital files, film, paper and parchment. What we collect and preserve is based on the guidelines set out in our archive collecting policy (PDF, 45Kb) and local studies collecting policy (PDF, 47Kb).

Local Studies Collection The Local Studies collections (PDF 50Kb) consists of books, newspapers, oral history tapes, pamphlets, periodicals, press cuttings, printed maps and sale catalogues. The County Oral History collection (PDF 47Kb) and the Corder Collection (PDF, 603Kb) are held at the Ipswich Record Office. The Cullum library collection is held at the Bury St Edmunds Record Office and the Benjamin Britten collection is held at the Lowestoft Record Office. If you would like to make a suggestion for a title of a local book, that we do not already have please email Ruth Silburn with details. Many of our local studies titles are catalogued on the library catalogue

Military collection The Suffolk Regiment archives (PDF, 79Kb) is a comprehensive list of  sources relating to Suffolk and the 1939-1945 War (PDF, 247Kb) and is divided into three sections: records in the Suffolk Regiment archive; records in all other archive collections; a selection of books from the Local Studies collection. You can search the full catalogue of this collection at Access to Archives. Also the Suffolk Great War Roll of Honour, compiled in 1930, is on display at Endeavour House, Russell Road, Ipswich. The virtual copy allows the Roll to be searched by person, military unit or parish of origin.

Business archives The business archives document (PDF, 49Kb) details the business archives held at the three Record Office branches. All the collections are catalogued and the catalogues from the Bury and Ipswich offices can be accessed from Access to Archives. You can also view an introduction to the archives of Richard Garrett and Sons Ltd  (PDF, 50Kb), engineers, of Leiston.

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