WEST YORKSHIRE ARCHIVE SERVICE
LEEDS
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WYAS, Leeds Chapeltown Road Sheepscar Leeds LS7 3AP Tel: +44 (0)113 214 5814 Email: leeds@wyjs.org.uk
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Closure Week for Collections Work
All five offices of the West Yorkshire Archive Service will be closed for collections work from Monday 1st March to Friday 5 th March 2010.
During this time staff will be working on improving access to the local authority collections in our care.
Staff will continue to respond to urgent written and telephone enquiries during this period.
Reader Registration.
We are now members of the County Archive Research Network (CARN) readers? ticket scheme. Please bring your CARN readers? ticket with you when you visit. If you do not have a ticket please bring official proof of ID which includes your name, address and signature.
Click here for more information.
Update on Leeds Visitor Services
Due to reduced staffing levels at WYAS, Leeds from November 2009
we have regretfully had to make the following changes to Visitor Services:
Retrieval of archives.
We will be unable to retrieve documents from the stores between 12noon and 2pm.
Reduction in visitors we can accommodate in the searchroom.
We will be restricting the number of visitors in the searchroom in line with staffing levels.
Opening Hours
Monday 9.30am to 5pm
Tuesday 9.30am to 5pm
Thursday 9.30am to 5pm
Appointments recommended
Some archives are held offsite and our searchroom may be subject to unplanned closure because of staffing difficulties.
Harewood Cataloguing Project
Changes in Access to Family & Estate Archives at WYAS Leeds
How to find WYAS, Leeds? (External website)
| We are approximately 2.5km from Leeds City Centre | |
| Car | If heading North on the A61 there is no right turn onto Roundhay Road. Access is via Chapeltown Road. If using Sat Nav to locate this office you are advised to enter Roscoe Street not the postcode. |
| Car Parking | On street parking is available locally |
| Train | We are approximately 2.5km from the Leeds Railway Station |
| Bus | Bus numbers 12 13 13A all from New Market Street in the city centre. Also number 36 from Harrogate |