The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office

The Greater Manchester County Record Office holds archive collections for the region. It also houses the archive collections for Manchester City Archives.

It also If you would like to see archive materials, it is essential to book a place in advance.

Access Arrangements

The most important and regularly-used original archive collections from the two services are stored on-site - these include:

• Church records
• Court records
• Hospital records
• Manchester City Council and Committee minutes
• Local Studies Broadside collection

Some archive collections are stored in special off-site archive storage, but are available for customers to access upon giving two weeks' notice. 

The Greater Manchester County Record Office's key non-original sources are now available in the Manchester Room@City Library, rather than at Greater Manchester County Record Office.

These include:

• Electronic resources including access to Ancestry.com, Find My Past, Manchester Burials Online and CD-ROMs
• General Register Office microfiche of births, marriages and deaths
• the microfiche Adoptions Index

• the microfiche Overseas Index

Please note that we are unable to accept any new accessions to our collections until we re-open at Central Library in 2014.