*JULY 2024 UPDATE*
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We have a new set of images entitled 'In the Paper: Clarets Fans and the Burnley Express' produced by Lancashire Archives as part of the Clarets Collective Archive in Burnley Central Library basement. Find more details about this from this Upcoming Events link.
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There are now 15,000 images on the website. Our archive rooms are now fully operational although we continue to take a cautious approach. 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 help digitise images of this area.
We have produced a short history about the project which you can download.
At the Burnley Rotoract dinner on Friday (from the left) Mr P. Haworth (president), Miss E. Baines (secretary), Rotarian G. Cannon, Miss E. Knowles, Miss K. Bray and Mr O. Porter - with the club's new "Charter".
Burnley Rotoract Club which has raised money to help "worthy causes" since it was formed enjoyed its first annual charter dinner at the Moorcock Hotel Waddington, on Friday, 1st November 1974. The toast to the club was proposed by Rotarian Geoffrey Cannon, representing the Rotary Club of Burnley, which sponsored the new club for young people interested in giving social service; who wished them well.
Responding, the president, Mr Peter Haworth, thanked everyone who had helped in the formation of the club. In addition to several projects already completed, he said, they had taken pensioners for a trip to Blackpool, deprived young people on a weekend in the Lake District, and for other deprived people they planned a bonfire night party in Burnley.