Essex Record Office

The Essex Record Office is the county archive for Essex, UK. We look after documents, maps, images, and sound and video recordings covering years of history. We care for these records for present and future generations, and provide ways for everyone to engage with them, both physically and online. We offer a whole range of commercial services to the heritage sector, local authorities, and the wider commercial market:# Conference Centre # The ERO Conference Centre, in the centre of Chelmsford, offers an excellent range of rooms. Whether you need a meeting room for confidential off-site interviews, training / workshops, or are planning a major conference in a fully functional lecture theatre seating 130, we can accommodate you. We are also licensed for weddings.# Digitisation Services # We offer secure, state-of-the-art facilities for digitising archives, books, artefacts, works of art and audio-visual records. We have years of experience in digitising our own collections, and can use this expertise to produce high quality, professional digital images of your collections. Whether you are a heritage organisation requiring digitisation of a whole collection, or a business with documents & photographs covering your company history, we offer a range of digitisation services to suit your needs. Sound and Video - if you have precious material stored on vinyl records, open reel tapes, or cassette / video tapes or other outdated media, we can digitise this material for future preservation.# Archive Services # We have the expertise you need to manage all kinds of archiving tasks, from sorting individual elements to running / storing your entire archive.# Conservation # We have been caring for our own collections since 1938. Today we have a large Conservation Studio with specialist equipment that means we can tackle nearly every kind of archive conservation challenge.