The archive is extensive and we aim to make many of these images available online.
*JANUARY 2025 UPDATE*
There are now 16,100 images on the website and our Other Collections section is growing, with several new collections just published and others in the pipeline. We have also inherited many images from the late Brian Hall's estate and we are working hard scanning these with the aim of adding many of them to the existing Brian Hall collection.
Did you know that you can also View our Articles to read longer articles written by our volunteers on a range of historical subjects.
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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
Brian Trueman (second left), and John Fox (far right), of the Welfare State, discuss the filming with the cameramen.
The work and way of life of Burnley theatre group Welfare State is to be shown on Granada TV programme "Granada Reports." A film crew, and interviewer Brian Trueman, visited the group's Heasandford Quarry base yesterday, Thursday 16th January 1975, to film the group's preparations for their eight-day-event at Warrington next month. The event at Warrington, called "Explorer," which will include eight days of processions through the streets and a concert, will also be filmed.
When the film will be shown on television is not yet known, but it will be on a Friday between 5.20 pm and 6 pm.
