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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
Ancestral Photo Shoot: WW1 Soldier with descendants
We talked about Private Albert Carter from Bury (who lost his life during a raid on enemy trenches in July 1916) in a previous posting. Now we want to share some of the images of Albert and his descendants taken … Continue reading
Posted in Ancestor Project, Image Gallery, Images
Tagged Albert Carter, ancestor photographs, archive work, archives, Bury and WW1, Bury Archives, Bury at War, Bury Greater Manchester, Bury Remembers the First World War, composite photograph, family history, First World War, frame within a frame, Great War, Lancashire Fusiliers, Sepia Photograph, shooting the past, war medals, WW1 medals
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Explore Archives Week: The Rate Books
Bury Archives have signed up to an exciting campaign which will take place over the next seven days (18th – 26th November). Led by The National Archives, ‘Explore your Archive’ aims to create awareness of the essential role archives play … Continue reading
Oral History: David Swithenbank
Listening to memories is something we’re very good at doing here in the search room. We hear so many of them during the course of our working day – from all you genealogists, local historians, volunteers, artists and general enquirers! … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries of an Archive Assistant
Tagged archives, Artist, Bury Archives, Bury Art Museum, Bury Art Society, david Swithenbank, Film making, Folk art, Folk dancing, Folk Music, Hill Norway, Hill walking, Holcombe, Hoopoe, India, local history, Memories, Norway, oral history tips, Oral history training, Painting, Portrait of an artist, Ramsbottom, Recording equipment, Reminiscence, Reminiscenses, Royal Colne Morris Dancers, Sculpture, Travel, Vox pops, Wildlife
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Bury Town Centre 1960s: Photograph of the Month
This month’s photograph is of an unspecified area of Bury Town Centre taken in 1963. As many of the photographs within this set are marked as ‘Central Dereliction Area’, it is possible that the houses shown in the image were … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the Month
Tagged 1960s, angry young men, archives, back to back streets, backstreets Lancashire, Black and White Photography, Bury Archives, Bury Greater Manchester, Bury Lancashire, Bury Libraries, Bury Times, Bury Times 1960s, Bury Town Centre 1960s, grim up North, Kitchen Sink Drama, Rag and Bone Man, Slum Clearance, Terraced houses
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Springwater Mill: Photography Project
It’s always satisfying to assist visitors with their research and we were more than happy to help photography student, Andrew Carson, with his university degree project on Springwater Works in Whitefield. Up until Andrew visited the Archives he could find … Continue reading
Posted in Display Cabinets, Image Gallery
Tagged Andrew Carson Photographer, archives, Black and White Photography, Black and White Prints, Bury Archives, Bury Libraries, Industrial Heritage, Landscape Photography, Local History of Whitefield, Nature and Photography, oxford archaeology north, Photography, Photography Exhibition, Springwater Mill, Springwater Works, Whitefield
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The Day The Circus Came To Town.
You can smell the grease paint; hear the band and the animals, and feel the crowds excitement! The following extracts from the article sum up the Circus’s impact on Bury beautifully.. Continue reading
Back to the 1990s – Images from the Bury Times on Display
Archives preservation is not just about caring for records from long ago! Yes it’s always exciting to handle photographs from a far distant era but it can be just as fascinating to study and preserve images from more recent times: … Continue reading
Bury Postcards
As you are probably aware we are really proud of our image archive and take every opportunity to show off what we have!! To celebrate the New Year we have two exciting projects coming your way! A fabulous new display … Continue reading
Love Dickens at Christmas!
We always look forward to the Christmas decorations going up here at Bury Libraries! And Library Staff have really made this year’s display look especially festive by creating strings of beautifully crafted snowflakes to drape across the Children’s library; lovely … Continue reading
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