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Clarets Collected is up and running!
It’s been a busy first month for the Clarets Collected at Burnley Central Library When I took up my post as Engagement Officer on 9th October my main task was to start to get the huge amount of books, programmes, press cuttings, research papers and general memorabilia that had been so generously donated into at least some sort of shape ready for our official opening on Friday 3rd November. This we were able to achieve and the VIP opening day, att...
Pubs and Publicans
... A talk by archivist Keri Nicholson offering advice about how to research the history of local pubs and the licensed publicans who ran them. Pubs have always been at the centre of British communities, and the licensing laws which govern them mean that they are particularly well documented. Keri dips into Lancashire Archives’ court and police collections, brewery records and maps, plans and photographs to help tell their story. ...
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Archives Discovery - A World War One Letter
... Peter Newsham How fascinating to read the letter from Ben Carbis, showing such humanity despite the chaos, danger and - yes- the prevailing colonial mindset. All that - and legible handwriting!...
Preston Grammar School and The Park School
... M. Betts Fascinating article, thank you. Winckley Square is a beautiful part of Preston - it must have been such a busy place with all those schools. 'Mathematical Tables for the use of Practical Men' sounds interesting - alas, I was never practical with maths, so presumably I would have had to make do without....
Dorothy and Penny Chaloner – Mayor and Mayoress of Preston
‘Equality is still a myth – women have to do twice as well to get half as far’. Dorothy Chaloner, 1984 A fascinating set of scrapbooks and photographs covering the tenure of Mrs Dorothy Chaloner and Dr Penny Chaloner as Mayor and Mayoress of Preston in 1983–1984 has been deposited at the archive. Prior to her election as Mayor, Dorothy had represented Greyfriars Ward since 1970 and had been a member of Fulwood Unitary District Council and Preston...
Clarets Collected - a Football Town Archive
The Friends are excited about a brilliant new Lancashire Archives project bringing together a fan-led Burnley Football Club Archive at Burnley Library. The collection is a wonderful resource for everyone with an interest in the club and has huge potential in terms of community engagement. We’re leading the campaign to raise £70000 to make Clarets Collected happen. We have have got the ball rolling by contributing £20000, but we need your support ...
Barry's Backing Us!
We are delighted that former Burnley chairman Barry Kilby is supporting Clarets Collected. A life-long Claret, Barry joined the board in October 1998 and took on the top job at Turf Moor a couple of months later. He steered Burnley FC through the choppy waters of financial uncertainty into one of the most successful periods of the club’s history, including a return to top flight with promotion to the premier league in 2009. “Burnley is unique.” B...
A Turf Moor break-in, 1907
Staff from Lancashire Archives were delighted to visit Turf Moor recently to share a long-lost tale of crime and punishment with children from four local primary schools. On 10 September 1907, two young men had their photographs taken at Burnley Police Station. They had committed a crime. Their names were John Ryan, aged 18, and Albert Jackson, aged 19. The night before, they had broken into the dressing rooms and offices of Burnley Football Club...
Mike Garlick gets behind Clarets Collected
The great news is that another former Burnley Football Club chairman Mike Garlick is supporting Clarets Collected. Mike was born and brought up in Burnley where his family have lived since the 1850s moving from Glossop to work in the cotton mills. He was educated at Burnley Wood Infants and Burnley Grammar School and has always had a keen interest in the social and economic history in Burnley. During his teens he had the dream of becoming the cha...
Keith is on board
Clarets Collected will soon have an Engagement Officer in place who will take the lead on all the interesting and exciting things that are planned, from developing the collection to working with volunteers and running school sessions. Keith Burrows will start with Lancashire Archives and Local History on 9 Oct 2023, and has this to say by way of an introduction: After almost 37 years working for Lancashire County Council’s Library Service based a...
Spreading the word about Clarets Collected
I have been out of the Library twice in the last couple of weeks promoting the Clarets Collected and looking to recruit volunteers to work with the collection. The first of these was – appropriately enough! – held in one of the suites at Turf Moor on 5th December, and was a networking event with others from Cultural Services and the wider Education and Children’s Service Directorate, under who’s auspices the Archives Service sits. I was able to d...
Love, hate and the law in Tudor Lancashire
Professor Larry Poos of the Catholic University of America gave this talk online for the Friends of Lancashire Archives in 2022. Ralph Rishton (circa 1522-1573) was a member of an East Lancashire minor gentry family, who would have remained in obscurity if his matrimonial career had not left such a substantial trail in the records of courts of law. First married at the age of nine, to a wife who soon went insane while he was away at war, Ralph ...
Burnley Football Club’s first skipper: Tom Midgley – footballer, teacher, organiser and soccer pioneer
Burnley Football Club’s first skipper Tom Midgley played a crucial role in the at times bitter struggle to establish Association Football in the town . . . a struggle that was played out over more than seven years in the 1870s and 1880s. In later life he would be heralded as one of a handful of soccer pioneers in the borough whose efforts released a floodtide of football mania as hundreds of young men rushed to create the town’s first football te...
When the Longside at Turf Moor was the Star side
As club officials settled into their seats in the Brunshaw Road grandstand to see Burnley take on Everton at Turf Moor in March, 1891, the sight that greeted them on the opposite side of the playing field must have evoked mixed emotions. A new stand had been erected in little over a week as the third season of the Football League came to a close . . . and the story it told was one of football rivalry, failed ambition and financial jeopardy. When ...
A grand finish to a good first two months
Fifteen members of the Burnley Civic Society came to see the Collection and hear Keith give a talk about its origins and development on Wednesday 20th December. Even before the launch of Clarets Collected the Civic Society had graciously allowed free use of a couple of dozen of the football images from their archive, in turn inherited from the Burnley Express, for a photographic display along the walls of the corridor outside the Community Herita...
Burnley Belvedere FC
The players are pictured in a photographic studio in Abergavenny at Easter, 1904, on a three-match tour of South Wales. Belvedere played in the 10-club Lancashire Amateur League and had finished mid-table in the 1903-04 season. Judging by the prominence given to their match reports in the local press, the club were regarded as second in status to Burnley FC at the time and in fact played their home fixtures at Turf Moor. The arrangement was set t...
Burnley, Colne and Nelson Joint Transport
Variously known as ‘the Busmen’ and ‘the Trams’, the local authority transport team won the Burnley Hospital Cup at Turf Moor in late April, 1938. The photograph was probably taken before their 3-0 semi-final victory over Butterworth and Dickinson’s. In the final they defeated Greenhalgh’s 4-1, who had in turn seen off the challenge of Towneley Coal and Fireclay Co in their semi-final. The competition had attracted 56 entries and had raised £213 ...
Waterloo Hotel
The pub team were double winners in the 1921-22 season, lifting the Burnley and District Licensed House League championship and the associated knockout competition. It was the second season of the league, with Waterloo winners for a second successive season. Clubs wishing to compete in the proposed third season of the league were faced with a two shillings joining fee. In addition to the Waterloo Hotel, the 12-strong league included George and Dr...
Coal Clough School
For the fourth successive season Heasandford School and Coal Clough School had competed against each other in the Keighley Cup final at Turf Moor. After a hat-trick of victories for Heasandford it was the turn of Coal Clough to lift the trophy in May, 1935, following a 3-2 win. The winners’ line-up: From left, A Graham (reserve), A Smith, H Nutter, A Tomlinson, R Blackburn, C Watson, E Jackson, F Moore, R Woodcock, P Bracewell, J Coward, R Emmott...
Bank Hall Colliery
The pitmen are pictured with the Burnley Hospital Cup having won an all-colliery final against Towneley, played at the town’s Athletics Ground in Fulledge in late April, 1904. The final was decided in a replay after Towneley Colliery had held Bank Hall to a 1-1 draw in the first encounter watched by a crowd estimated at between 3,000 and 4,000. Skipper Edward Biggans led his men to a 1-0 victory. Bank Hall were no strangers to playing in front of...
Clarets Collected at Burnley FC's Community Day
On Saturday 17th February we were delighted to be part of Burnley FC in the Community’s 10 Year Anniversary celebrations at their annual Community Day before the Burnley vs Arsenal game, being part of the family fun and entertainment going on in the Fanzone. Ever since the launch of Clarets Collected we have been working closely with BFC in the Community, and when I approached them about doing something together to mark their annual Community Day...
Turf Talk group visit Clarets Collected
Burnley FC in the Community’s Turf Talk group visited us again at the library recently. Turf Talk is all about having a brew and telling stories about Burnley FC past and present. The group meet every Thursday afternoon but don’t have a regular meeting place as such, moving around different locations connected with Burnley FC, so coming to Clarets Collected in the Burnley Local History room is an ideal venue for them! This was their fifth visit t...
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