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Welcome to the pages of the Ramsbottom Heritage Society Photographic Database.
The society has over 3000 photographs that are currently being converted to digital format so that they can be viewed on this web site
The photographs include over 2000 photographs taken as part of the annual photographic competition which started in 1987
There are also nearly 1000 photographs in Bury Archives, some of which have already been converted for the publication ‘Around Ramsbottom’
The photographs are placed in albums, which are assigned a category. The photographs can thus be viewed by selecting a category.
The current categories are Bury Archives, Photographic Competition and Miscellaneous. The images can also be searched using ‘ Search the Database’ button on the Photographic Archive menu
How to search the images
Each photograph has a description, an owner and a start and end date. For the photographic competition, the start and end date are the same, as the photographs were taken in the year of the competition.
All other photographs either have a known date, or a date range, where the date of the photograph is unknown.
All photographs are therefore in one of more of 3 date bands,
0 -
1946 -
1986 -
These date ranges, plus the known dates are in keywords, which can be selected from the search menu.
The description can also be searched -
e.g. Entering ‘Bridge’ will return all photographs that have Bridge in the description
Entering ‘Bridge Street’ and Match all words (AND) will return all photographs that have Bridge AND Street in the description
Entering ‘Bridge Street’ and Match all words (OR) will return all photographs that have Bridge OR Street in the description
If the owner is known, this can also be searched for. Alternatively, once a photograph is displayed, this is an option to see all other photographs by the owner
if you have any information about the photographs, i.e. the description or date is wrong, then leave a comment and the details will be updated
