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Unknown Photograph Donation

Posted on May 17, 2019

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 →

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Lost Treasure: Missing WW1 Medal has found its soldier’s Archive

Posted on May 7, 2019

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 →

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Your House Through Time: A guide for tracing your house history

Posted on May 1, 2019

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 →

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Bury Art Gallery and Public Library: laying of the foundation stone April 1899

Posted on April 25, 2019

April 29th 2019 is the 120th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone for Bury Art Gallery and Public Library; using items from our archive we want to explore the origins of this beautiful building – why it was … Continue reading →

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Donation of the Month: Keep Moving! Arthur Murray Removals

Posted on April 13, 2019

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 →

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A Victorian Wedding Dress Revisited

Posted on December 7, 2018

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 →

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Captain Charles Sydney Parsons 1891 – 1957

Posted on November 19, 2018

Ahead of the WW1 centenary over four years ago, we put a call out for donations of WW1 documents and photographs. What we aimed to do was gather together as many records as we could to preserve in our archive … Continue reading →

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Donation of the Month: Rifleman Edmund Kaye

Posted on November 1, 2018

Originally posted on Bury Archives & Local History:
Back in October last year we were contacted by Mr. Bernard Kaye who requested information on how to donate documents and photographs relating to his grandfather, Rifleman Edmund Kaye (from Radcliffe) who was…

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East Lancashire Railway Armistice Exhibition

Posted on October 19, 2018

We could never have imagined, when we began our WW1 project four years’ ago, just how far and deep the sentiment (Bury remembering the First World War) would spread into our community. The extracted newspaper images, obituaries and articles have … Continue reading →

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A letter for Ada

Posted on October 10, 2018

Our Heritage Lottery funded project, ‘Bury Remembers the First World War’ has enabled our volunteers to extract newspaper obituaries and images of upward of 3,000 local military personnel who died during the conflict. The published obituaries contain details of next … Continue reading →

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