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Please add those from whom you have received written, scanned or typed certificates. Thank you.

Hand-written, scanned, typed BMD certificates received from register offices or GRO

Bournemouth
written

Bromley
scanned
typed

Lambeth
written

Lewes
written

Lewisham
written

Maidstone
written

Poole
typed

Portsmouth
typed

Ramsgate
written

Tower Hamlets
typed

Wandsworth
written

Woodbridge
scanned
typed
written

Wycombe
typed
written

Galway
scanned

GRO
scanned
written

Glasgow
typed---------marriage

Sunderland
written----------Births/deaths/marriage

Wandsworth
written-----------marriage

GRO NI
Scanned------marriage

Chorley
written------marriage

Newcastle Under Lyme Staffs
Scanned. Staff Brill very helpful.
Stoke on Trent.
Most Scanned but some early birth are written.A bit slow sometimes.
Wolverhampton.
Typed. Staff Helpful

Thank you for adding these. If you had a feeling of deja vu, yes, the thread had been here before with several posts, but a glitch must have whooshed it in error :-)

Bridgend, South Wales

Death cert...... very clear,hand written....

Ordered by phone, received within 48 hours...cost £9.

Staff really helpful.

Birmingham.
Scanned.
Very quick response. Staff very helpful.
Give your phone number and they will always contact you for additional information if there are any doubts.

Newbury.
Written.
Quick response considering it is a part-time office

nudged tip

Just received from NORWICH a typed cert. Took the 5 days they quoted. Cost £9 + £1 post. Paid over phone.

Leicester Typed
Took about a week

Julia (in Cambs)

This is a useful website

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/regoff.html#L

Bugle Street Southampton.
I used to go in, give details, have a pint in the local pub and go back and collect it. (written), normal price.

My mum has to apply for a copy of her own birth certificate.
I suggested she tried the local office in Bugle Street (she lives abroad but was born in Southampton)
They charge a fortune online - but are (apparently) quicker than the GRO

I,m sorry .....I think as I,m still new to this I,m lost!!

I live in a town where we can go in ask for a certificate and get it 10 mins later ..it still cost £9.00 ...is this unusual??????

I only use GRO coz I dont live near where my rellies did!!

Derby handwritten.

Can collect 2 days after ordering but if posted takes 4-5 days. Staff are very helpful.

Chris

:-)

Leeds, cheeky so and so's charge £15.00 for an over the counter certificate.

Huddersfield offer a great service, same price as GRO, can be ordered by phone and they will search a few years either side, typed copy. Very quick.

Huddersfield, ordered in Sept 2006. Handwritten, dispatched the following day.

Exeter, and Hull, prompt delivery by both.

by phone,
OLDHAM LANCASHIRE.
it was hand written,they also phoned me as i had the wrong d o b it was sorted by father's name &occupation,it arrived 2 day's later,
it was before it went up to £9,
i was very happy with the service,

sue

Not sure but this might be of interest-jl

From April 1st there are indeed a couple of revisions kicking in to the statutory legislation for local certificates.

If you register a birth, marriage or death at a local registrar's office, the cost to obtain a certificate at the time of registration is to rise from the current £3.50 to £4.



For historic certificates - i.e. those that we use for our genealogical research - the price is to rise from £9 to £10.

There is to be no change for the cost of certificates obtained from the national GRO for England and Wales at Southport, which remains at £9.25.



Apparently these changes are due to the Registration of Births Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2012, laid before Parliament on 9th March.