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Burnley Civic Trust A Voluntary group whose aim is to make Burnley a better place to live & work, concerned about the built environment and civic amenities, & planning matters

60 years ago
09/10/2026

60 years ago

In this, the National Year of Reading, a story from 50 years ago: when Burnley Central Library held a huge sale of unwa...
25/09/2026

In this, the National Year of Reading, a story from 50 years ago: when Burnley Central Library held a huge sale of unwanted books and music for pennies, this was the unexpected and staggering response, an estimated one to two thousand turned up, queuing right round the building! Follow the link for the story on our website https://www.bcthic.org/Archive/Search?SearchText=library+queue Burnley Central Library

13/09/2026

Burnley Civic Trust have THREE events for this Heritage week commencing Monday 14th September:FIRST a walking heritage tour around Padiham from the Library (2.00pm) with long time resident Carol Stinton leading- going from Burnley Road, Church St and other streets via Memorial park and returning via the riverside. SECOND: a Talk by Local Historian and Towneley hall Society Chairman Tony Mitchell at the Town Hall 6.30pm to 8.00pm –‘15 Fascinating Facts About Your Town’, THIRD: An illustrated talk by Historian and writer Dr Stephen Tate on a ‘FOOTBALL TOWN TRAIL’ tracing the footprint of the Burnley Football Clubs people, places and buildings across the town area.

As the Lancashire League enters its final weekend of the season, congratulations to Burnley Cricket Club on becoming cha...
11/09/2026

As the Lancashire League enters its final weekend of the season, congratulations to Burnley Cricket Club on becoming champions for the 20th time. Here a group of supporters celebrate their 12th title in 1978, now the subject of a book "A Special Season" by Tony Lister to which we were happy to contribute images. This one was not published so the fans are unnamed. https://www.bcthic.org/Archive/Search?SearchText=burnley+cricket+toast+of+the+town

It has been announced that Burnley Leisure & Culture have been successful in a bid for funds to the Esmée Fairbairn Foun...
22/07/2026

It has been announced that Burnley Leisure & Culture have been successful in a bid for funds to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation for £198k to deliver the Culture Makers volunteer and community engagement programme over the next two years as part of the 2027 Year of Culture. There is a nice link from Burnley's past: Esmee Fairbairn was the daughter of Gerald Arbuthnot, (see photo) briefly Conservative MP for Burnley in 1910, and wife of Ian Fairbairn, unsuccessful Unionist candidate for Burnley in the 1924 and 1929 elections. She was killed in an air raid in 1944, her husband set up the foundation in her memory.

A NOW&THEN of the route down to the Bridleway Bridge, but was down to the stepping stones across the River Calder-I thin...
04/07/2026

A NOW&THEN of the route down to the Bridleway Bridge, but was down to the stepping stones across the River Calder-I think till around 1924- when the Burnley Rural District Council built the first bridge.

We are heading into what would have been the Burnley Fair fortnight, so here is an image of the 1925 fair from our Roger...
03/07/2026

We are heading into what would have been the Burnley Fair fortnight, so here is an image of the 1925 fair from our Roger Frost Collection. Zooming in reveals a Ceci's ice cream stall in the foreground, and possibly a photographer plying his trade far right?

It had become an annual tradition to have an organ concert and community hymn singing on the Sunday of the fair, using the fairground organ courtesy of Pat Collins. On 18th July the Express printed a photo from the concert, showing a slightly wider view of the highly decorated ride including the name sign : "Pat Collins' Whales"

The concerts were organised by Hartley Dyson, a shopkeeper and local musician of Rectory Road, who was known for organising concerts for charitable causes. He died in early September 1929, aged 57, when his obituary said the 1929 Burnley Fair concert had been his sixteenth, which he had organised despite being seriously ill.

Over the Bank holiday weekend 6-8th May, 1995, in Burnley, Padiham and district, as nationwide, there was universal cele...
16/05/2026

Over the Bank holiday weekend 6-8th May, 1995, in Burnley, Padiham and district, as nationwide, there was universal celebration of the 50th anniversary of VE Day with services, parties and wartime themed knees-ups! Over their next couple of issues the Express printed lots of photos, and took more than they printed. We have now uploaded a good selection in the Events, Celebration page https://www.bcthic.org/Archive/Events/Celebrations; like these street parties of Parkinson St., Burnley and Station Rd., Padiham:

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