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
The High Sheriff of Lancashire, Mr. G. P. Bowring presents the Bugle Test piece award to Stuart Townend.
Burnley Scout Band made a tremendous impression at the 25th Annual Youth Band Contest at St Theodore's School on Saturday, 19th June 1976, providing the strongest challenge for years to the big Yorkshire bands. Their successes in the open championship included bugle test piece, solo bugle and solo drum, and they were also awarded the Burnley Express Cup for the best local band, and the special awards for the top soloist and top local drummer.
But in spite of their tremendous efforts, their overall marks fell below those awarded to Elland Boys' Brigade, who won the Northern Youth Championship, and the title of the best band of the day.. The standard of the Elland band may be judged by the fact that they won the National Boys' Brigade championships at the Royal Albert Hall a few weeks ago. The 1st Burnley Boys' Brigade (Rosegrove) who changed from bugles to trumpets only a few months ago, gained a solitary success, but an important one, winning the title of the best drum major, while the Burnley Girl's Brigade had the best girl drummer and the best girls' band.
