User:DowneOPC

Kent Online Parish Clerk for Downe, Kent and transcription team leader for the parish.

Extensive research and transcription experience at The National Archives, London Metropolitan Archives, The British Library, Northumberland Archives and Libraries Cheshire Archives and Libraries Durham University Library and Durham Archives and Libraries Derbyshire Archives and Libraries Kent Archives and most London Boroughs Archives,Herefordshire Archives and Libraries Lincolnshire Archives and LibrariesLancashire Record Office,Leicester and Rutland Record Office, Manchester Archive, Norfolk Archives and Libraries Northamptonshire Record Office ( both old and new), Surrey History Centre, East and West Sussex Record offices Hampshire Archives and Libraries Warwickshire Archives and Libraries Wiltshire Archives and Libraries.

I have also transcribed at the House of Lords Library and Lambeth Palace Library and have a research interest in The Royal Bethlem Hospital and the history of London Asylums their staff and inmates, and the work of  Victorian reformers involved in chaplaincy of the London, Kent, Surrey and Colney Hatch institutions.

I am no stranger to the Special Hospitals and the Broadmoor collection at Berkshire Archives and Libraries

With the exception of three west Country Record Archives I seem to have worked throughout England and National Library of Wales over the years.