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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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
President Mrs Jolly, lighting the international candle, watched by Mrs Heys, Mrs Spink, Mrs Holt and Miss Bradley.
About 300,000 women, all members of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, unite at this time of the year when clubs hold candle ceremonies throughout the world on International Night. Burnley club held the ceremony last week at the Talbot Hotel, and welcomed guests from other clubs in the North West. They included presidents of Nelson and Colne Club, Blackburn and Todmorden.
The Burnley president, Mrs Mary Jolly, opened the meeting, and asked immediate past president Mrs Vera Heys to conduct the ceremony. Mrs Heys is an international representative. She gave a brief history of the origin of the ceremony, and the clubs in the United States, before introducing two fairly new members, Mrs S. J. Holt and Mrs E. Spink, to light candles, as she read out the names of the countries in the federation, represented by white candles, and the associated clubs, represented by blue candles.
