The Demise of The FRC
On 21 June 2006, it was announced that The National Archives' staff and residual services at the FRC would be relocating to The National Archives at Kew by the end of 2008. Official press releases were curiously vague about plans for the births, marriages and deaths indexes housed on the ground floor. During October 2007 the index volumes in question were progressively removed from public access to a closed archive in Christchurch, Dorset, however.
The closure date was later brought forward to 'early 2008'.
The ground floor (GRO section) of the FRC closed on Saturday 27 October 2007, and the rest of the FRC closed on Saturday 15 March 2008.
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