An exhibition of Colne photos by local photographer Colin Bean is on display in Colne Library from Wednesday 8th February. It will be well worth a visit.
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This is a taster for a Heritage Lottery funded project described here:-
Can you help keep Lancashire in the picture?
Lancashire County Council's archives,
museums and libraries take care of
hundreds of thousands of historic
photographs of our county. You can look at
many thousands of them online. However,
many more are not available online so the
collections need to be brought up to date.
Gone are the days when some people
printed their photographs and handed a
copy in at their local library. Digital cameras
and smart phones are capturing images of
Lancashire every minute of the day, but few are being added to our collections.
(See
https://redrosecollections.lancashire.gov.uk/ for the current collections.)
A project is being developed, ahead of an application to the National Lottery Heritage
Fund, to digitise and catalogue more photographs in the existing collections so
everyone can enjoy them. People will also be asked to donate more recent images
and help further by taking photographs that show what Lancashire is like now. It will
be important to ensure that the images in the collections reflect the diversity of
Lancashire's communities.
If you are interested in lending a hand - by helping with digitisation, donating images
or taking photographs – just drop a line to
archives@lancashire.gov.uk and we will
keep you updated as the project takes shape.