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The Heritage Gallery is now open within the expanded Ramsbottom Library Read More ...
20th Anniversary Heritage Day on 15th July 2007
Heritage Day 5th March 2006
Millennium Festival 2000
Archaeological Dig Oldest known industrial site in Ramsbottom.
49 volunteers supervised by Univ. of Manchester Archaeology Unit
A Victorian Street in Ramsbottom which was researched in 2003 by the Crow Lane Project Team
Photographs of Scout Moor before the wind turbines are built
Conservation Working Group project
Date of Build Register - The Heritage Society has been researching the dates of building in Ramsbottom and surrounding villages. The register is available as a word document.
Blue plaques and Interpretation boards erected
Planning applications monitored
Preservation of historic buildings
Historical Research
Audio-taping of memories of local residents
The Society has been converting the archive of photographs into a digital format for viewing on the website
The Heritage Society publishes a wide variety of books, leaflets, walking maps and a twice-yearly magazine.
The Ramsbottom Heritage Society is based in Ramsbottom, Bury , Lancashire, England.
We were formed in 1987 to promote and protect the heritage of the town.
For help or information about the Ramsbottom or the Society
To offer information or photographs
To join the Heritage Society
Please start your subject with RHS so that it is not missed
The first 25 members’ magazines are now available for viewing online.
Please come along on the third Wednesday of each month at 7.30p.m. in the Ramsbottom Civic Hall. The programme up to May 2013 is now available
Questions sent in by visitors to the site concerning properties in Ramsbottom or the people who lived there. Why not check regularly to see if you could help answer the queries
Become a member of the Society Read more ....
The Society has a varied collection of over 6000 documents and 2000 photographs which are fully catalogued and packaged in archive-quality materials. Most of these documents and photographs are held at Bury Archives, where they can be viewed.
The Catalogue is fully searchable on-line at http://archives.bury.gov.uk
The archive catalogue and the Heritage Gallery were funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. For more information see www.hlf.org.uk
- Calendar of Ramsbottom Heritage Society events
- News last updated - 26th March 2013 - see latest news for more details
The next issue of Rambottom War News Issue 4 1942 ‘The end of the Beginning’ will be available for sale for £1 on the trains and station at the ELR War Weekend on May 25th - 27th - Issues 1 to 3 are still available - details on the shop page
The Heritage Society is applying for Church Fields to be registered as a town/village green.
Do you have any evidence of using Church Fields by St Andrew’s school for leisure and can fill in a questionnaire - click here for full details
- DICKENS RESEARCH - were the Cheeryble Brothers based on the Grants?
- Click here for the research that was displayed at the Extravaganza
- Results of 25 years of Photo Winners competition
- The Lost Names of Ramsbottom
Magbrook? Gutter? Grant’s Entry? Church Field? Gollinrod? Do you know where they are?
Click here for full details
- The photo database has nearly 4000 photos of old and present Ramsbottom
- The Annual Photographic Competition entry form is now available
