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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BCTHIC is most thankful for the generous donations made by:
Burnley Rotary, Burnley Pendleside Rotary, Stocks Massey Bequest Fund, Celeste & Kevin (in Canada) and other donors who have contributed to our funds to enable this project to continue after our Heritage Lottery funding ceased.
All funding contributions are gratefully accepted
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
Mrs Cole being helped out of the boat by 13-year-old ordinary seaman Duncan Nuttall.
Six Burnley mums stuck in their oars to help Burnley Sea Cadets row towards their one-hundred-pound goal. The lads and their mums rowed from Gargrave to Burnley during the holiday weekend in the Corps's fourth annual sponsored row to raise funds for its activities.
The final stage of the 25-mile row was completed by the mums' crew which arrived at the Finsley Gate marina just in time for tea on Sunday afternoon, 31st May 1976. Mrs Enid Cole, whose 15-year-old son Andrew and husband Lt. Ted Cole took part in the row, said: "The ladies caused quite a stir dressed up in their Sea Cadet outfits. We rowed the last mile of the route. It was pretty hard going."
