Latest news: New dates for Forgotten Flavours
Back by popular demand our Victorian cookery course Forgotten Flavours will be running again on 6 seperate dates this year. The course is free to residents of the borough who are over 50s and have not tried the course before. All courses start at 1pm and run for 3 hours on 4 June, 11 June, 17 September, 24 September, 3 December, 10 December.
To book your place contact Bury Adult Education Centre on 0161 253 5772/7501
Cotton Threads Website
The interactive website created as part of the HLF funded project tells the story of the Hutchinson family of Bury and contains education resources for schools. The story also features on the touchscreens at Bury Museum.
Cotton Threads website
Online Archives catalogue now available
It is now possible to search the collection at Bury Archives Catalogue online
Introduction
Bury Archives Service was established in 1986 to manage both the historical records of the local authorities amalgamated to form Bury Metropolitan Borough in 1974, and records from private local organisations deposited over many years with the local library and museum services.
The records deposited with the service have increasingly been made accessible to the public and thanks to the continued co-operation of council officers and the generosity of private owners a great deal of new material has been deposited over the years.
The Archives Service holds varied unique records, including written documents, maps, plans and photographs. The types of organisations that these records cover are detailed in brief on the holdings summaries section of this website and records are searchable through the online catalogue. The Archives Service is not combined with Local Studies, for which records can be found in the Reference and Information section of Bury Library. Holdings for Local Studies include many published sources and the main resources for family history.
Contact details
Bury Archives Service
Moss Street
Bury BL9 0DR
Tel 0161 253 6782
E-mail archives@bury.gov.uk
