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Bernard Fielding Archive: a work in progress
We’re well under way with our scanning and cataloguing of the Bernard Fielding Image collection. We’ve had grateful help with this project from many volunteers in recent years, but for the past 12 months or so, Daniel (who is on … Continue reading
The Holiday “Spirit”
With all this rain drenching our holidays we thought we’d give August’s Photo Donation of the Month a special holiday flavour! There’s sun hats and picnics, a pebble beach and somewhere off in the distance, the sitters’ eyes take us … Continue reading
Posted in Donations, Photograph of the Month
Tagged archive, Archive collections, Archive Donations, archive work, Bury, Bury Archives, Bury Council, Bury Greater Manchester, Bury Lancashire, Bury Photographic Society, family history, holiday photographs, local history, nostalgia, Sidmouth
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Joseph Buckley & Sons of Radcliffe: Herbal Brewery
Tom Keighley is a collector of old bottles, glassware and demijohns from the local area. His latest find is a large stoneware flagon bearing the name Joseph Buckley of Radcliffe and dated 1936. Most of the pots he collects belonged … Continue reading
Cheers to Crown Ales: Crown Brewing Company Ltd archive
We were recently contacted by the archivist from Cumbria Archive Service to ask if we would be able to take in a hefty couple of share members’ ledgers relating to the Crown Brewing Company of Bury; they were duly delivered … Continue reading
Posted in Company Archives
Tagged Archive collections, Archive Donations, breweries, Brewing history, Bury breweries, Bury Greater Manchester, Bury Lancashire, Bury Times 1866, Crown Brewing Company Bury, local history, Radcliffe, Richard Seed and Company Radcliffe, tied houses, Whitbread archives
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Unknown Photograph Donation
We are always pleased to receive donations of images and photographs but we do ask that the donor supplies as much information as to the identity of persons, location and dates to make these fully accessible as a resource and … Continue reading
Posted in Donations, Image Gallery
Tagged ancestor photographs, family album, family photographs, photograph donations
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Lost Treasure: Missing WW1 Medal has found its soldier’s Archive
Last November we marked the Armistice Centenary of WW1; it was an intense and emotional time for everyone who helped the borough remember local military personnel who had lost their lives during the conflict. For us it really felt like … Continue reading
Posted in Bury Remembers the First World War, Donations
Tagged archive, Archive collections, Archive Donations, archive work, British World War One Medal, Bury Archives, Bury Lancashire, Bury Remembers the First World War, Bury Times, family history, First World War, Great War, Rifleman Edmund Kaye, Royal Irish Rifles, World War One, WW1, WW1 medals
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Your House Through Time: A guide for tracing your house history
The return of the BBC’s hugely popular series, A House through Time, has generated lots of enquiries from the local community asking how they go about tracing the history of their house. As a result we thought we’d put together … Continue reading
Posted in family history, house history, Local History, Uncategorized
Tagged 1939 register, a house through time, ancestry, building plans, Bury Archives, Bury Council, Bury Times, house history, OS maps, planning records, Rate Books, rochdale old road bury, tracing your house history, valuation lists
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Donation of the Month: Keep Moving! Arthur Murray Removals
We always get excited when we receive donations! And photographs, especially, almost make us jump up and down with delight. All those moments caught on camera! When you donate your images to archive services what you are doing is preserving … Continue reading
A Victorian Wedding Dress Revisited
In March 1844 Sarah Fletcher and James W. Kenyon were married in Bury Parish Church. 120 years later, in 1964, Sarah’s wedding dress and James’s waistcoat were donated to the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection at Gawthorpe Hall, near Burnley. Over the … Continue reading
