Updated 27th May Latest News
The Research section of the website has been redesigned with a home page of 12 areas of research, and a sub menu under Research Topics. Hopefully this will help the visitor to locate all our research articles in a simple way.
The new exhibition of the story of the Chatterton Catastrophe in 1826 is now in Ramsbottom Library.
There is a new website promoting events in Ramsbottom called visitramsbottom.co.uk The Heritage Society is in the Community Groups section.
The Heritage Society has produced many documents which are useful in research. These are available in the Research Documents section.
Due to increased postage costs, orders from the online shop can only be made online in the UK.
The programme for all the meetings in 2026 are on the Monthly Meetings Page
Introduction
The Ramsbottom Heritage Society is a registered charity which promotes the history of Ramsbottom, as well as recording the present through photographs. See About for further information.
We have public meetings at Christ Church Neigbourhood Centre, Great Eaves Road, once a month. The programme for 2026 is available here
Research We research the history of Ramsbottom and make the information available through the research section of this website, on Facebook, or through books and the News Magazines
Bury Archives
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 opening hours at the Archives which are on the bottom floor of Bury Library/Art Gallery are now Tuesday-Friday 10 - 3.30 p.m. and Saturday 10 - 1 p.m.
The online Catalogue can be found at http://archives.bury.gov.uk All of our documents are prefixed RHS
Magazines The Heritage Society produces a News Magazine twice a year with local news and research articles. The first 67 issues from 1990 - 2024 are available as PDFs
Oral Taping Over 80 recordings of memories of Ramsbottom residents recorded between 1988 and 2011.
Photograph Archive of over 9,300 photographs, including 6,300 photos taken since 1987 as part of the Annual Photographic competition that recorded Ramsbottom in that year. The competition is no longer running, but photographs are always welcome. To get a description of how to use the Photographic Database click here
Paintings A gallery of the paintings, posters and photographs which have been donated to, or bought by the Heritage Society, most of which were displayed at the exhibition on the 5th and 6th October 2019
Maps of Ramsbottom Over 100 maps, plans and drawings in the possession of the Ramsbottom Heritage Society are now available in PDF format for viewing
We also have an active conservation group who meet regularly to review planning applications and their impact on the conservation of Ramsbottom.
Online shop selling publications produced by the Heritage Society, as well as publications produced by local authors
Exhibition
Due to the library roof being replaced, there is current no exhibition.