Good evening, I'm hoping to be in Birmingham on Wednesday 4th August in order to access records of All Saints Mental Hospital, which I understand are held in the Archive & Heritage section of the Central Library. Are there any things I need to do before 4th August e..g. obtain a reader's ticket or let the staff know in advance what my targets are? I've downloaded the pdf produced by the Archive Service relating to the hospital and its records. Is there anything else I ought to look at prior to the visit? Any advice Listers can provide will be gratefully accepted. Best wishes Charles [email protected]

Hello Charles I accessed these records at the old Birmingham Archives. There are admission records, if I remember rightly, then the patient records were in various books which were male/female records & then various volumes according to dates. I believe the admission booklets were indexed & told you which volume you needed for your ancestor. You can get a Readers ticket when you are there, but will need ID. I was also able to photograph the records, so a camera could come in handy, if there is much info on your ancestor. Be prepared-the patient records can be quite upsetting. Hope this info is up-to-date, it is some years since my research into All Saints, and the records were in the old building. Might be worth a phone call to the Archives, in case you need to book a table etc Jan Ralph >List archives are at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WARWICK >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message