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.
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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
Cameras roll. BBC2's Open University camera takes the first shot of their film on the progress of Lucas workers' Corporate Plan. From left to right, Mr J. Simpson, chairman of North-East Lancashire Development Association; Mr Brian Salisbury, chairman of the Birmingham Combine Liaison Committee; Mr Michael Cooney, Lucas works convenor in Burnley and Mr Mike Cooley, past president of AUEW - TASS section, with the camera crew.
The film crew headed by Mr David Elliot, of the Open University's Facility of Technology, filmed a meeting of local Lucas workers and representatives of other local associations at Padiham Town Hall on Wednesday, 28th July 1976. For many people the meeting was the first in-depth look at the Corporate Plan, an alternative strategy to recession and redundancies. Also at the meeting was a Swedish radio recording crew, sent to Britain specially for the meeting to record the progress of the plan, which has already been adopted by one Swedish firm.
