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From the Royal Museums Greenwich website

Caird Library temporary closure due to Olympics
Royal Museums Greenwich
As you may have seen on the Museum’s website, the Caird Library will close to all visitors from Monday 2 July until Tuesday 4 September 2012 inclusive for the preparation and holding of the Olympics and Paralympics in Greenwich Park.

During this period there will be no access to the Library as the reading room will be in use by LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games). Written and telephone enquiries and the remote reprographics service will also be unavailable from this date.

The last order date for the consultation of offsite items is 12.30 on Thursday 21 June, for consultation on Tuesday 26 June. The last day that the Library will be open is Saturday 30 June.

The Caird Library will reopen to the public at 10.00 on Wednesday 5 September 2012. Written and telephone enquiries and the remote reprographics service will also resume from this time. For full opening times from 5 September, see Visiting the Library.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused to our users. The Archive & Library staff will be using the closure period to rehouse offsite collections to bring them onsite, and to reorganise stores to make future retrievals more efficient.

Oh well isn't that just typical. Hope you get some joy after your wait!
Ann

Hi Shane, thanks again. 

Yes it's a great little map that - I've been looking at it from your earlier post the other week. I'm just trying to get a feel for the place and try to figure out why my lot might have left when they did (somewhere between Jan 1849 when Thomas and Mary married in Clifden, and May 1850 when their first child was born in Liverpool).  Had a little look into Rev D'arcy and his family the other day and it seems the D'arcy's pretty much owned the entire district for decades - the Rev's father was the man who founded Clifden. The Rev inherited it all from him, then lost it all after the famine - sold the lot c1850. So wondering if he may have got rid of all the tenants before selling up to pay his debts.   I think the other Reverend was tenant at the  property, as Hyacinth D'arcy lived at Clifden Castle - wonder if he had to go too.

Perhaps my lot living on the Revs land explains why Mary's 1st marriage to Stephen Darcy (doubt he's a relation of the Rev) was in the CoI - she was Catholic.  I wonder if he or the other Rev actually married them? 

Thanks for explaining what a glebe is - I didn't have a clue!  And I did wonder if there were other properties hiding in those hills on streetview. Will just have to wait till I can get over there and take a proper look!

Ann

Yes, I'm trying to trace a former employee. He could be alive, you're right, which is why I haven't posted his name. I've also looked at the salvation army site for tracing living relatives. But it's a birth parent I'm looking for, for a friend of mine. And they don't do that.

I've looked in phone books for the area at the time (via Ancestry) and may have narrowed him down to a couple of people. But nothing concrete. Have googled what I know about him in the hopes that something may have come up too, but nothing has so far.

Any other suggestions?

Ann

And replace wiiiiithhhhh...nowt! Typical! 

Ann

Think I'm going to go mad!

Trying to track down someone who worked at the former High Wood (Highwood) hospital in Brentwood during the 1950s.  But it's recently been turned into a housing development, so I can't just call them and ask!

Seems pre 1948 staff records went to the LMA. Fine. But according the the Nat ARch, post 1948, records stayed with the local PCT in Essex. Contacted them the other day but they said they don't hold them, and gave me a number for a contracting service whom they thought could help.  Just rang them. No use whatsoever.  They don't hold them either, they said.  They  put me in touch with the NHS research place near Southport, which was of no use either, but they mentioned a government appointed body called Traceline - whom I couldn't find a trace of at all!

Getting dizzy now. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks.

Ann