The dust has settled after the first stages of our building works and this has been another relatively quiet week, other than the removal of some air ducts. The lull is down to the discovery of some previously unidentified asbestos and we need to follow a proper process for removing this. But there’s always a bright side and the current waiting game presents an ideal opportunity for the site tours we were hoping to offer.
First in the queue for tours are our ‘For the Record’ project partners. And we began yesterday by showing a few key members of the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives around. The photo below shows us in what’s going to be the new Heritage Hub reception area, wearing our Mickey Mouse shoes and egg head hats, and looking at the architects plans to get a better idea of what the spaces are going to look like.
Left to right: Jill Shonk, Heather Forbes, Liz Jack, Stephen Haygarth and Hilary Haygarth.
We plan to offer bookable tours to anyone who’s interested later on in the building programme. If you come along we hope that you, like us, will be excited by what’s happening!
Jill Shonk
Access & Learning Leader
Gloucestershire Archives 