We are delighted to welcome community historians Clare Wichbold MBE and Angela Williams as the Project Manager and Researcher for our Exploring Rotherwas Then and Now project.
Thanks to funding from the government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund, they will be working with volunteers and the staff at Herefordshire’s Archives to create a database of information about the people who worked at ROF Rotherwas and their lives in the county. The county archives holds the national munitions collection, the remaining paperwork of munitions workers.
“There’s a huge amount of interest in the munitions sites and the people who worked there,” said Angie Gibbs, the Chair of Rotherwas Together. “We know how keen people are to explore the site on foot or by bike and to find out how their family and friends worked and lived. We’ll be holding regular search days, talks and social events to help people to have fun as well as discovering more about where they live.”
If you’re keen to find out more about a relative or friend who worked at ROF Rotherwas or another munitions site, please email us at Rotherwas@hotmail.com or call into the Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre (HARC) at Rotherwas.