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.
We are now operating without the benefit of Heritage Lottery Funding and welcome donations to enable us to continue scanning negatives and making them available on the website. Donations can be made directly to us or via JUSTGIVING
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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.
We have produced a short history about the project which you can download.
50 Years Ago
Atarah spotlights one of the brass men.
From a review by Norman Clark:
Lunchtime concerts, a new venture this autumn, were launched with resounding success on Wednesday, 8th October 1975, at the Central Library, with a concert by the Northern Brass Ensemble. Under the general heading for the series "Atarah's Guided Tour of the World of Music," Atarah Ben-Tovin's first focus of attention was brass. Informality is the keynote, with explanations of the range and mechanics of the instruments interspersed among the pieces of music. The Northern Brass Ensemble is composed of six members of the Manchester based BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.
