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We currently have no centre, but we have submitted a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund to utilise a space in the expanded Ramsbottom Library .  Read more ...

Please come along on the third Wednesday of each month at 7.30p.m. in the Ramsbottom Civic Hall   

The programme up to May 2010 is now available  Read more ...

 

 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   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    

Callender Street 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.

The Society has been converting the archive of photographs into a digital format for viewing on the website  Read more ....

The Heritage Society publishes a wide variety of books, leaflets, walking maps and a twice-yearly magazine.

 

A new CD is available for £6.50 plus £1 postage    Read more ....

 

Ramsbottom’s Heritage’  73 min Video or DVD

 

Celebrating Ramsbottom’s industrial, commercial and domestic past. Focuses on the history of Ramsbottom up to 1846

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The Ramsbottom Heritage Society have produced a 12 page newssheet documenting the news at the start of World War 2 in 1939. The paper was on sale during the Ramsbottom War Weekend on the 29th, 30th and 31st May and was a great success with over 1,300 copies sold. Click Here to view pictures of the weekend and also an appeal for news from 1940. We can also supply a copy by post priced at £1.50 to include postage - request a copy via e-mail

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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.

We are a busy society with a wide variety of interests   Read more ....

 

 

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Scout Moor.

Crow Lane.

Heritage Day.

Millennium.

Kibboth Crew Dig.

Archived Pages.
Conservation Working Group.

Current Projects.

                Blue plaques and Interpretation boards erected

Planning applications monitored

                     Preservation of historic buildings

                       Historical Research

Audio-taping of memories of local residents

Ramsbottom Heritage Society.

Last Updated  12th May 2010

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Magazines.

The first 25 members’ magazines are now available for viewing online.  Read more ...