Feb 7, 2018 | Our Cataloguers
Heritage Volunteers are working on cataloguing an historic set of early local Photographs, known as the Edmondson Buck collection. This is a very important part of this area’s heritage. There is also a plan to work on the records of the former Blackburn...
Feb 7, 2018 | Our Diarists
Heritage Volunteers are working on a project to transcribe the hand-written Diaries of James Hargreaves, a merchant and philanthropist who lived in Blackburn and who took to writing diaries of important and personal events around the turn of the 19th Century. They...
Feb 7, 2018 | Our Stitchers
Running over a number of years is a project of canvas work kneelers for a Stonyhurst College Chapel. The Stonyhurst Association provide funding for this extensive project. Volunteers from four different societies are working separately on canvas designs; sewing groups...
Feb 7, 2018 | Church Trails
Church Trails volunteers have been busy compiling a Trail for the parish church of St Peter & St Paul in Bolton-by-Bowland. It is a very attractive ancient church rebuilt during the 15th century by the lord of the manor, Sir Ralph Pudsay. His tomb is to be...
