Corus Record Centre History

The Corus record centre started life in 1972 as a small warehouse with holding space for 10,000 cu ft of archive storage. At the time it was the North West regional record centre for British Steel, one of five regional record centres across the UK, with only a small staff of two. Over the following two decades the record centres activities changed very little, until 1989 when it was re-located to a larger purpose built storage facility on the Shotton site. As other regional record centres closed and re-allocated their archives Shotton record centre became the main centre of records management for the British Steel Corporation, mainly due to its centralised location and large storage facility.

Over the next twenty years a lot has changed for the record centre, Corus have taken over British Steel, and now from the original five regional record centres only two are left, Shotton and Teesside. Shotton covers the vast majority of the UK.

In 1993 the North East Wales NHS Trust approached Shotton record centre, to help with the storage of various forms of archiving and as such became the record centres first non British Steel/Corus customer. Since then it has been decided to expand and utilise the Shotton record centres capacity to the fullest by inviting other businesses to entrust us with the safe storage of their archives.