This national facility is a prominent landmark and rendezvous, owing to its centrality within the city centre and distinctive architecture.

Thousands of city dwellers converge on the facility daily, to wait for dates and to meet friends. With multitudes coming here every day, the location is a rich hunting ground for street preachers, gamblers, hawkers and even cons.

It a wonder, then, that most of the people who meet the National Archives gates have entered the building nor do they know what goes on behind its walls.