The list below summarises the most frequently used resources. The trade directories listing takes you to pages of scanned, original directories.
- Bury Council minutes, Committee reports and Council Proceedings
- School archives: admission registers, log books, and administration records
- Cemetery interment registers. Information on when and where people have been buried
- Church records and registers. Including baptisms, marriages and burials for many Catholic and Anglican churches and some records for nonconformist churches
- Records of various businesses including some architects, solicitors, brewers, and cotton manufacturers, for example
- Hospital records. Admission registers, discharges and administration records
- Workhouse records including registers of admissions and creed registers
- Coroners' inquest reports
- Maps and plans of the town including Ordnance Survey maps
- Architectural drawings and plans of some Bury buildings
- Personal papers. Diaries and letters of Bury people
- Photographs and small prints of streets, churches, buildings and people
- Voters lists & electoral registers
- Rate Books and Valuation Lists
- Trade (and street) directories which include details of residents and businesses
- Local newspapers dating from the Eighteenth century onwards
- An extensive collection of local studies and printed material relating to all aspects of the town's history and relating to Bury and parts of Lancashire in general