Volunteers snap up archive award

THE way volunteers have been working for 20 years carefully to preserve a photographic record of the Pennine area has been given formal recognition.
By The Newsroom
Published 26th Sep 2011, 11:40 BST

The Pennine Horizons Digital Archive is now accredited by the West Yorkshire Archive Service.

The success is an important boost for the group which was recently awarded a £525,000 Lottery grant to research and explain the history and heritage of Halifax and the Upper Calder Valley. Pennine Horizons is based at the Birchcliffe Centre, in Hebden Bridge.

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Members care for collections deposited by keen photographers, societies, individuals and businesses. They include images from the archives of two successful, locally based magazines, Milltown Memories and Pennine Magazine.

“The Bill Marsden Collection and Alice Longstaff Gallery Collection also form part of the archive which contains several thousand images, giving an unrivalled foundation for future growth,” said chairman Frank Woolrych.

“In addition, we also hold at least 500 oral history recordings which were produced in the early 1980s. This is a wonderful resource to help explain the history of our area and assist in preserving local dialects.”

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