Advance Order Collections
RECORDS RELOCATED OR REQUIRING PRIOR ORDERING (list updated 24 August 2026)
Please note the following collections or part collections require users to contact us and order in advance. This is because they are either stored at our Carlisle outstore or temporarily at another of our archive centres. Further details on individual records can be found on our online catalogue CASCAT.
Contact Barrow Archives: 1 week's advance notice. These records will be produced at Carlisle Archives
BTCC/4: Barrow-in-Furness County Court bankruptcy case files
Contact Carlisle Archives: 24 hours' advance notice required for items kept in cold store. These records will be produced at Carlisle Archives:
Original photographs, glass plate negatives and sound recordings. Items which require advance notice will be indicated in the relevant catalogue record on CASCAT. Some items, such as glass plate negatives, will not be produced where we can provide a digital or hard copy surrogate.
Kendal Archives: most collections require at least 3 weeks' advance notice and will be produced at Kendal Archives. The following collections have separate arrangements:
Contact Barrow Archives: These records will be produced at Barrow Archives - temporary relocation of Kendal collections
WDAW: Alfred Wainwright
WDMDS: Mike Davies-Shiel papers
WDRY: Le Fleming of Rydal Hall
WDTE: Browne family of Townend, Troutbeck (Westmorland)
Contact Kendal Archives: 1 week's advance notice. These records will be produced at Carlisle Archives:
WC/H: Health Department
WC/P/6: BNFL Windscale enquiry
WC/W/A1568: Westmorland County Council administrative files
WDAS: Anne and Alec Swailes papers
WDCFH: Cumbria Family History Society
WDGH: Gatey, Heelis and Co., Solicitors
WDHAL: Hallam, Solicitors of Kirkby Stephen
WDHEW: Hewetson and Bunney Family of Ravenstonedale
WDSTAN: Stanley Family of Witherslack (Halecat)
WDTGF: Dr. Terence G. Fahy of Shaw End
WDVAS: Josefina de Vasconcellos
WDWHP: Prof. W.H. Pearsall
WDB 21/9/2-3: Provincial Insurance (part)
WDB 25: Gill, Dockray, Rhodes and Moore, Architects, Kendal (BOOKS ONLY)
WDB 60: Mrs. E. Forsyth, Hosiery etc., Kirkby Lonsdale
WDB 84: Ellwood, Carriers of Ayside
WDB 87: J. Nicholson, Estate Agent and Auctioneer, Windermere
WDB 95: Arthur Egglestone, Ironmonger, Appleby
WDB 100: Raymond Jay, Architect of Colthouse, Hawkshead
WDB 101: Messrs Woolley, Ladies and Gents Outfitters, Kendal
WDB 102: Windermere and District Electricity Supply Co. Ltd.
WDB 103: John Croft, Blacksmith of Grayrigg
WDB 116: F.W. Boon, Chemist, Kendal
WDB 117: John West and Sons, Coal Merchants, Windermere
WDB 121: W.A. Fell Ltd., Woodwork Machine Makers, Kendal, including Glass Negatives
WDB 124/3: Lakeland publishing Co.
WDB 147: Peter Birchall, Acountant
WDB 157: Tebay Co-Operative
WDB 158: Joseph Sarginson Ltd., Joiner and Builder, Eamont Bridge
WDB 161: Haigh Architects, Kendal
WDB 162: Castle Head Field Studies Centre, Near Grange-Over-Sands
WDSO 2: Kendal and District Guild of Service
WDSO 13: Folk Dance Society
WDSO 108: Cumbrian Railways Association
WDSO 211: Cumbria Industrial History Society
WDSO 263: Ambleside Civic Trust
WDSO 370: Lake District Summer Music Festival
WDX 277/1: Windermere Speed Limit Public Enquiry papers
WDX 724: Eric James Whitfield Tapsell papers
WDX 786: F W Parrot
WDX 1144: Lake District CHA and HF Rambling Club
WDX 1121: W A R Denison
WDX 1215: Papers re local history of Dentdale
WDX 1226: Lloyds papers (additional)
WDX 1264: Councillor Walker of Kendal
WDX 1408: Clare Fell, archaeologist
WDX 1709: Lattin papers
WDX 1780: Robinson Library
WDX 1884: R G Thwaites Transcripts
WDX 1886: Whineray Family papers
WDX 1891: Gibson and Jones Family genealogy (G. Godwin)
WDX 1993: John Wyatt
WSDCSL: Treasurers deposit
WSMBK: Rate books (1854-1914) A417
WSUDW: Windermere Urban District Council
WTCRNW: Coroners Records: North Westmorland
Contact Whitehaven Archives: 1 week's advance notice. These records will be produced at Carlisle Archives
CQPWC: West Cumbria Petty Sessional Divisional Records, 1976-2005
DA: Allison, solicitors of Whitehaven
DBEN: Benson, solicitors of Cockermouth
DBT/1-2: Brockbank and Tyson letter books and bill books, 1880s-1940s
DCU/5/VOUCHERS: Curwen estate vouchers, 1770-1953
DCU/15: Curwen, modern estate conveyances, 1930s-1970s
DWM/166-247, 625-755: bill books, drafts, miscellaneous
SDA: Allerdale Borough Council
SMBWO/2/1/1/16-48 general ledgers, 1892-1930 and SMBWO/2/4/173-191, Workington rate books, 1970-1974
SRDE/1/5: Ennerdale RDC contracts and SRDE/2/1, general ledgers
SRDM/2/1: Millom RDC general ledgers
SUDC/3/11-12: Cockermouth UDC building plans and applications
TNCB/OPENCAST: opencast mining plans and files
YDB 61: Mitchell's Auction Company Limited
YDB 79: Wardell-Armstrong Archaeology
YDS 60/1/5 and YDS 60/1/8: St Bees School general correspondence/headmaster's reports
YDSO 39/1-51: Oxford Archaeology North / Lancaster University Archaeological Unit
YDX 441: Papers of John Irwin
YSPC 3/6: Bootle tithe plan
YTCR 3: West Cumbria Coroner
YTHOS 1: West Cumberland Hospital Management Committee
YTHOS 2/5 and YTHOS 2/9: West Cumberland Hospital, patients' and births registers