The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office

The Manchester Room, City Library, holds wide range of local history books, microfilm/microfiche and computer sources. 

Access Arrangements

The sources available include:

• Lending and reference books and maps
• Church register microfilms (including Manchester Cathedral parish registers)
• Cemetery register microfilms
• Manchester newspaper microfilms (including Manchester Evening News)
• Withington Workhouse / New Bridge Street Workhouse registers microfilms
• Electoral register microfilms
• Pre-1900 rate books
• Census microfilms / microfiche
• National probate index on microfiche
• General Register Office microfiche indexes of births, marriages and deaths (previously held by Greater Manchester County Record Office in Marshall Street)
• Electronic resources including the local image collection, access to Ancestry.com, and CD-ROMs.

The Local Studies Broadsides collection, and the printed set of Council and committee minutes, are available at Greater Manchester County Record Office (by appointment).

Some of our local studies collections are stored off-site, with no access until Central Library reopens in 2013; these include the Miscellaneous Collection, non-digitised images and maps or newspapers not specifically covering the City of Manchester area (for example, newspapers published for the Ashton, Oldham and Salford areas).

The Local Images Collection is unaffected.