The archive is extensive and we aim to make many of these images available online.
*SEPTEMBER 2025 UPDATE*
There are now more than 17,553 images on the website including those on our Other Collections section. There are more images to see if you View our Articles section to read longer articles written by our volunteers on a range of historical subjects.
We have received a donation of Burco Dean archive material which has not yet been digitised for the website but you will find information about Burco Dean and a small selection of images on our Articles page.
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We WELCOME NEW VOLUNTEERS and have vacancies on our Wednesday and Thursday afternoon sessions. If you can spare a couple of hours why not contact us and arrange a visit to the archive. All that is needed are some basic computer skills and an interest in local history. PENDLE AND WEST CRAVEN images can be found in the Surrounding Districts pages and we would welcome volunteers from the Pendle area to digitise images and stories about this area as we have no volunteers working on this area at the moment.
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50 Years Ago
Paul proudly displays the cup he won at Burnley Writers' Circle.
Budding young Burnley writer Paul Abbott had quite a pleasant and unexpected surprise recently when he opened his mail. He found a card from script editor Simon Masters, now working on the BBC series "Poldark." Paul of Healey Wood Road, won a special award for the most promising new comer at Burnley Writers' Circle two weeks ago. "I don't know how Mr Masters could have found out about my writing unless someone from the circle sent him some of my work. But I received a really nice card congratulating me on the work I had done," said Paul.
A pupil at Barden School, Paul, who is 15 joined the writers' Circle a year ago, and has written several thrillers and romantic stories. "My teachers encouraged me to concentrate on writing because I always had good marks for essays" he said. Paul is the first to realise that writing is a very competitive field where only the very best can succeed, and this is one of the reasons he has decided not to make a career of writing. "I've written to publishers and had some very encouraging and helpful advice from them, but I am still hoping to be a medical technician in the Royal Navy when I leave school."
