Northumberland County Council established a Records Committee in 1957 to address the requirements of the
Public Records Act 1958. At that time, the Council had a store of records in the basement of the
Moothall in
Newcastle in the custody of the Clerk to the County Council, E. P. Harvey. The first County Archivist, H. A. Taylor, took up the post in 1958 and started working on processing the records at the Moothall. The borough collection for the town is one of the largest archives that the record office preserves. Until 1978 the borough records were kept at
Berwick Town Hall, they were then moved to council premises at Wallace Green, which had been Berwick gaol. A newspaper article from 1988 states that records were held in three former police cells. The record office temporarily moved to the Workspace on Marygate in 2015 and then to Berwick Library in June 2016. The county council opened a further repository in 1989. The Modern Records Centre on the Kylins estate in Morpeth was seen as something of an innovation, with Deputy County Archivist Bob Stewart, proudly announcing that their new computer would aid "...stricter control of records." In 2007 the Morpeth and Gosforth offices of Northumberland Archives merged and relocated to new premises at
Woodhorn Museum. ==References==