CRPY2/1

File re. new record office as part of the proposed new Shire Hall.

1936-May 1940

From: 1936 To: 1940

Includes: Dr Fowler’s notes including calculation of area and indication of growth of records and need for a new office to be built before the old is pulled down ‘I am seriously worried about the question of priority of building. I understand that on any scheme the County Record Office will be pulled down. Mr Whitbread has often compared it to a submarine; I should compare it to an unopened sardine tin. There is so much stuff, and it is so tightly packed that, when emptied out, it would just about take up the whole floor space of the Main hall; I calculate that there are over 20 tons of County Council documents alone; it is absolutely necessary therefore that the new Record office should be ready before the old one is touched. This Committee will probably think me merely fussy and greedy in urging that the new Office should be among the first to be built…’ Memorandum by the Sub-Committee [S H Whitbread, Howard Spenslee, G H Fowler] appointed to consider a new County Record Office; Report to the County Council of the special committee appointed 25 March 1937, letter regarding the final layout of furniture ‘accomodation [sic] only has been given in the conditions, but I will keep your Chairman’s Dr.Fowler’s plans in my mind when I come to assess the competition.’ In forwarding this letter to Fowler the Clerk of the County Council remarked ‘I am sure you will agree, is quite satisfactory, except that the typist requires further attendance at a Night school!’

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Fowler, George Herbert,
Whitbread, S Howard,
Spenslee, Howard