The Glamorgan Archives ( cy, Archifau Morgannwg), previously known as the Glamorgan Record Office, is a

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and repository based in

Leckwith Leckwith ( cy, Lecwydd) is a small village in the Vale of Glamorgan, just west of Cardiff. Historically, the parish of Leckwith also included land on the east side of the river Ely that is now part of Cardiff itself. This area is also commonly kn ...

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, Wales. It holds records for the whole of the historic county of

Glamorgan , HQ = Cardiff , Government = Glamorgan County Council (1889–1974) , Origin= , Code = GLA , CodeName = Chapman code , Replace = * West Glamorgan * Mid Glamorgan * South Glamorgan , Mot ...

but primarily for the post-1974 counties of Mid and

South Glamorgan , Government= South Glamorgan County Council , Status= Non-metropolitan county (1974–1996) Preserved county (1996–) , Start= 1974 , End= 1996 , Arms= , HQ= ...

Background

Glamorgan County Council created Glamorgan Record Office in 1939 (the second county archive in Wales) with Emyr Gwynne Jones becoming Wales' first full-time archivist. The Record Office was based in the Glamorgan County Hall in

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, Cardiff. Following the local government reorganisation in 1974 Glamorgan was split into three (

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, Mid and South) and in 1982 the records for the West Glamorgan area were moved to Swansea. In 1989 severe problems with damp were discovered in the Glamorgan Record Office strongrooms, leading to the public search room being closed for 4 months. In the 2000s plans were made to move the archives to a new site. A proposed move to a new building near

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fell through in 2006. In 2007 a site was found off Sloper Road, part of the new

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which included the new

Cardiff City Stadium The Cardiff City Stadium ( cy, Stadiwm Dinas Caerdydd) is a stadium in the Leckwith area of Cardiff, Wales. It is the home of Cardiff City Football Club and the Wales national football team. Following expansion of the Ninian Stand in July 2 ...

. The new Glamorgan Archives building was completed in 2009 and officially opened in Spring 2010. An appeal against Glamorgan Archives'

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backfired in 2010, resulting in the rates bill increasing from £150,000 to £400,000 per year. Glamorgan Archives were forced to reduce from 17 to 14 staff to be able to pay the extra cost. Since April 2020, the current Glamorgan Archivist is Laura Cotton who took over from Susan Edwards after 24 years of service.

Services

Glamorgan Archives currently provides archive services for

Bridgend Bridgend (; cy, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the medieval bridge over the River Og ...

Caerphilly Caerphilly (, ; cy, Caerffili, ) is a town and community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley. It is north of Cardiff and northwest of Newport. It is the largest town in Caerphilly County Borough, and lies wi ...

, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, Rhondda Cynon Taf and the Vale of Glamorgan Council, Vale of Glamorgan councils. In late 2015 material from Carmarthenshire Archives were transferred to Cardiff, following a severe outbreak of mould at Carmarthenshire's Parc Myrddin building.

Glamorgan Archivists

The following list shows the tenures of each Glamorgan Archivist since its inception in 1939. *1939: Emyr Gwynne Jones (tenure disrupted by World War II) *1946-1973: Madeline Elsas *1973-1993: Patricia Moore *1993-1996: Annette Burton *1996-2020: Susan Edwards *2020–present: Laura Cotton

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* * {{Authority control Archives in Wales Buildings and structures in Cardiff Government buildings completed in 2009 Glamorgan

Background

Services

Glamorgan Archivists

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