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1 - Photograph of two shirehorses belonging to Whewell's Chemical Works at a show.
Expand 2 - Photographs from the Ramsbottom and Hall families showing local scenes & events2 - Photographs from the Ramsbottom and Hall families showing local scenes & events
3 - Earliest surviving photograph of Radcliffe Bridge (copy -original glass positive)
4 - 4 Photos - North St/ Horrocks Fold; catalogue - Parker Engine, Ashworth & Parker
Expand 5 - Bundle of 7 postcards relating to Walmersley, Seedfield, Bury Infirmary, Carr Woods & Ashworth Bridge. Also postcard of visit of George V & Queen Mary to Bury.5 - Bundle of 7 postcards relating to Walmersley, Seedfield, Bury Infirmary, Carr Woods & Ashworth Bridge. Also postcard of visit of George V & Queen Mary to Bury.
6 - H.M.S. Martin
7 - Unitarian Festival Rose Queen fete's at Bury & Ramsbottom
Expand 9 - Family photographs of the Grundy, Marriott, Lewis etc. families 9 - Family photographs of the Grundy, Marriott, Lewis etc. families
10 - Photographs relating to Bury
11 - Cromptons Almanack 1897 and "Some leading Bury Businesses" nd
12 - Photographs of Bury MBC Councillors
13 - Photographs of the construction of the M62
14 - Photographic negatives of armed forces personnel
15 - Photograph of Higgin Furniture Store, Crompton Street, Bury
16 - Photographs relating to Prestwich
17 - Photographs relating to Bury and Radcliffe
18 - Digital copies of Salvation Army (Bury Citidal) photographs
19 - Digital photographs of 2007 "The Rock" development demolition process
20 - 7 colour photographs relating to Princes Parade, Union Street, Ramsbottom
21 - Glass plate negatives relating to Robert Hall and Sons
22 - Photographs from Heritage Lottery Funded Prestwich Heritage Project photography competition 2007
23 - Photographs of Bury taken by Mr J. W. Holden
24 - Photographs relating to Prestwich taken by D. Warren
25 - Photographs belonging to George R. Norbury
26 - Radcliffe Public Library 1907 - 1974, Bury and Bolton Canal, Mayors of Radcliffe 1935-1974
27 - Photographic negatives relating to Bury
28 - Slides & digital copies of slides of Bury
29 - Photograph of Prestwich Mayor
30 - Photographs of St Thomas' Church Radcliffe
31 - Radcliffe E'Es excavation photographs
32 - Photographs relating to Edith Jones of Radcliffe
33 - Whitefield Retired Mens Club
34 - Outwood Trail photographs
35 - 17 board mounted photographs
36 - Photographs relating to Prestwich
37 - Photographs relating to Radcliffe
38 - Local History photographs
39 - Photographs of Archives Service, Edwin Street
40 - Photographs of Hoyle Family, relating to Bury and Bury Parish Church
41 - Photographs - museum donations
42 - Local photographers - miscellaneous images
43 - Prestwich Hospital photographs
45 - 78 photographs of local buildings - Unsworth, collected as part of a family history study
46 - Three photographs from Geoff Hall (Jpegs): Bankfield Farm and Greymare Hotel
47 - Slide Magazine including images of Summerseat
48 - 8 Digital Images of Bury including Fire Brigade, Brass Bands & Victoria's Jubilee
49 - Maxim's Fish & Chip Shop, Bury
50 - Grants Tower
51 - Photographs of 515 (Gun) Battery in which Corporal L. Healey (later Lily Cropper) served.
52 - Art Room, Technical School, Bury
53 - Images from various photographic studios in Bury & elsewhere
54 - Miscellaneous images of the Borough of Bury used by the Council Press Office for publicity.
55 - Bundle of unidentified postcards and photographs.
55 - Photographs from the studio of B.N. Satterthwaite, Bury
Collapse 57 - Tom Fish Collection: A Century of Public Transport - slide show, also available on CD.57 - Tom Fish Collection: A Century of Public Transport - slide show, also available on CD.
Expand 1 - A Century of Public Transport slides 1-251 - A Century of Public Transport slides 1-25
Collapse 2 - A Century of Public Transport slides 26-542 - A Century of Public Transport slides 26-54
1 - Slide: 26 no. 22 tram to Black Lane with open top and side steps.
2 - Slide: 27 possibly one of the last Bury Corporation trams to be built photographed in the tram depot just in front of the paintshop which closed in July 1985.
3 - Slide: 28 tram with tram staff, possibly maintenance crew inside the tram depot.
4 - Slide: 29 trams inside the depot and showing a scissor assembly in the roof which may have been used as a lifting device.
5 - Slide: 30 double decker tram with an enclosed upper deck inside the depot.
6 - Slide: 31 three trams lined up over the maintenance pits in the depot.
7 - Slide: 32 maintenance workshop, probably when it had just been installed. The machinery all runs on a belt system.
8 - Slide: 33 steam tram hauling a tram coach surrounded by a crowd.
9 - Slide: 34 first tram car to Black Lane. It was oviously a big event for the local comminity and many in the crowd are wearing caps, clogs and shawls.
10 - Slide: 35 pair of ornate silver scissors which may have been used at an opening ceremony.
11 - Slide: 36 Bolton Corporation illuminated tramcar decorated in 1907 to celebrate the opening of the line between Bury and Bolton.
12 - Slide: 36a first tram to Radcliffe passing through Spring Lane.
13 - Slide: 37 a view from the Three Arrows looking down Ainsworth Road towards Radcliffe showing the tram lines and a tram in the distance.
14 - Slide: 38 tram tracks down Ainsworth Road which reduce down to a single track to go through the busier part of the town.
15 - Slide: 39 one of the 1906 cars 36 - 41 being towed back to Bury following a fatal accident on 3rd January 1916. The car skidded into a horse drawn vehicle.
16 - Slide: 40 Radcliffe tram crash, photograph showing the horse drawn vehicle and building which the tram skidded into. See also MLP/57/2/16 for a photograph of the damaged tram.
17 - Slide: 41Radcliffe tram crashed into an opticians shop.
18 - Slide: 42 Black Lane tram in Radcliffe passing Timpsons shoe shop and the Radcliffe & Pilkington Co-op.
19 - Slide: 43 side view of a tram. Built in 1906 by Mountain and Gibson at their Elton Forge Bury works. Works car No 1 served as a water car / tool car / rail grinder using the equipment fitted between the wheels and following removal of the lifeguards, snowploughs were fitted in winter months. Surviving to the end of the system, No 1 was seen being driven around along Princess Street on the final day of tram operation in February 1949.
20 - Slide: 44 street cleaning tram on Dumers Lane, Radcliffe.
21 - Slide: 45 Bury Corporation Tramways horse & cart decked out with brasses and polished hooves for some occasion. The cart carries a minature tram and the full sized trams can be seen parked in the depot in the background.
22 - Slide: 46 laying tram tracks on Walmersley Road at junction with Walmersley Old Road or Nangreaves Road, Bury.
23 - Slide: 47 laying the tram tracks on Walmersley Road - the rails are laid.
24 - Slide: 48 laying the tram lines on Walmersley Road - the track bed is laid and the rails are in place but the sleepers are still to be put down.
25 - Slide: 49 laying the tram lines on Walmersley Road - the track bed waiting for the rails to be laid.
26 - Slide: 50 double decker tram on Walmersley Road opposite the New Inn.
27 - Slide: 51 tram at Jericho taken from what is now (2011) the entrance to Fairfield Hospital.
28 - Slide: 52 Corporation Tramways maintenence gang who looked after the wires & posts.
29 - Slide: 53 horse-drawn tramways maintenance tower.
30 - Slide: 54 a staged photogragh taken on a Sunday lunchtime with a tram at each terminus. The trams are left to right: 1. at Market Street, a Rochdale open-top tramcar bound for Heywood and Rochdale.(Rochdale open-top cars were not popular on this joint service.) 2. a Bury Bogie open-top car at the Whitfield stop. 3. the reverse working an open top car bound for Limefield. 4. a 4 wheel top-covered Bury car going to Stopes via Radcliffe. 5. a Tottington bound top-covered car. 6. a Bury 4 Wheel car on the joint Bolton service. 7. a 4 -wheel car on the Fairfield service. ( the extended routes to Walmersley and Jerico were not built until 1914)
Expand 3 - A Century of Public Transport slides 55-803 - A Century of Public Transport slides 55-80
Expand 4 - A Century of Public Transport slides 81-1054 - A Century of Public Transport slides 81-105
Expand 5 - A Century of Public Transport slides 106-1305 - A Century of Public Transport slides 106-130
Expand 6 - A Century of Public Transport slides 131-1456 - A Century of Public Transport slides 131-145
Expand 7 - A Century of Public Transport - CD's 1-6 & background papers.7 - A Century of Public Transport - CD's 1-6 & background papers.
Expand 58 - Photographs of pupils of Tottington Methodists Sunday School & St John's School, Tottington58 - Photographs of pupils of Tottington Methodists Sunday School & St John's School, Tottington
Expand 59 - St Mary's Prestwich - flower gardens & circus procession59 - St Mary's Prestwich - flower gardens & circus procession
60 - Family Photograph Album
Expand 61 - Sequences of photographs of relatives or friends of Beatrix Alcock of Huncar Mill, Bury61 - Sequences of photographs of relatives or friends of Beatrix Alcock of Huncar Mill, Bury
Expand 62 - Photographic slides of buildings in Bury in early 1970's62 - Photographic slides of buildings in Bury in early 1970's
63 - Photograph of the Wedding of Maggie Hoyle of Chesham Bank, Bury & James Hyslop.
Expand 64 - 4 x photographs - factory workers, RAF group photo, 2 x St Mary's School, Radcliffe.64 - 4 x photographs - factory workers, RAF group photo, 2 x St Mary's School, Radcliffe.
65 - Interior of East Ward Infants School, Bury
66 - 12a Church Lane, Prestwich - smallest house in Lancashire
Expand 67 - Collection of Photographs of Radcliffe67 - Collection of Photographs of Radcliffe
Expand 68 - 2 x Railway & Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal Photographs, Bury & Elton68 - 2 x Railway & Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal Photographs, Bury & Elton
Expand 69 - Bundle of 7 portrait photographs of unknown subjects69 - Bundle of 7 portrait photographs of unknown subjects
Expand 70 - 23 photographs of old public houses in the Bury area70 - 23 photographs of old public houses in the Bury area
Expand 71 - Photographs & newspaper article relating to Fred & Granville Haley and the work they were involved with during the building of the town hall71 - Photographs & newspaper article relating to Fred & Granville Haley and the work they were involved with during the building of the town hall
72 - Photograph of Unsworth North Wesleyan Procession
Expand 73 - Glass Photographic Portrait Plates taken by George Duckworth & Glass Plate of Wesley Day School Class73 - Glass Photographic Portrait Plates taken by George Duckworth & Glass Plate of Wesley Day School Class
74 - 43 photographs of people & places in the Bury area
75 - Mrs Margaret Withington with Pierrot troupe
76 - Betty Garvey
77 - Photograph Album which formerly belonged to the maternal grandmother of Mr Ian Pringle of Prestwich. Also, photograph of Philips Park 2010. Both uncatalogued.
78 - Walker sister postcard & photographs of Kay Gardens, Clarence Park, St Marks, Bury & Parker's slipperworks
79 - Photographs of WWI cartoons & signatures taken from an autograph album donated to Bury museum
80 - Aerial photographs of Greenmount taken from a kite. [uncatalogued]
81 - Box of local photographs taken from filing cabinets at the Schools' Library Service prior to closure. Uncatalogued.
82 - Unidentified photographs
83 - Old photographs of Bury taken from a 2008 calendar - uncatalogued
84 - William Chilcott - uncatalogued
85 - H. Greenwood of Radcliffe - uncatalogued
86 - Photographs of pubs & churches in Bury area - uncatalogued
87 - 6 x Photographic prints of streets in Bury c1890-1900 - uncatalogued
88 - Tom Jackson - Alderman & Mayor of Radcliffe - uncatalogued
89 - Miscellaneous Photographs Palais de Dance
90 - Photographs of Horne St, Bury
92 - Slides relating to Bury Metro Libraries and School Libraries
93 - Photographs of Woodbank House, Brandlesholme Rd
94 - Photograph and leaflet John Allen and Geoff Page
95 - Photographs from Just William Exhibition
96 - Photographs of The Rock under construction
97 - Photograph Album documenting the construction of Radcliffe Power Station
98 - Miscellaneous Photographs relating to Radcliffe
Expand 99 - Photographs of Radcliffe and surrounding areas from Frank Sunderland99 - Photographs of Radcliffe and surrounding areas from Frank Sunderland
100 - 3 postcards of local area and 2 photographs of machines
101 - Photographic negatives of Bury area
102 - Photographs of Walmsley's drawing office
103 - Photographs Springwater Park in Whitefield and photo book
104 - Digital Copies of Burrell Family Photographs
105 - Photographs of the demolition of Stand Grammar School, Whitefield
106 - Photograph of Philips Park, Whitefield
107 - Photograph of Mark Fletcher (cotton manufacturers) works
108 - Miscellaneous photographs relating to Prestwich and Whitefield
109 - Photographs of Mary Barton from Tottington
110 - Reproduction watercolours and photographs of Prestwich Hospital Asylum Buildings
111 - Photographs of Springs Estate, Bury
112 - Unidentified landscape view of a Bury scene
113 - Photographs of hearse and ambulance by Wilson and Stockall of Bury
114 - Photograph of Timpsons shoes, Dale Street
115 - Photographs of Bury Athenaeum Operatic Society members
116 - Photograph of Old Tower Pub Radcliffe
117 - Photograph Album relating to Summerseat
118 - Digital copies of Read and Shorrock family photographs
119 - Photograph Album recording the tenure of John James Harrison as Mayor of Whitefield
120 - Photographs of various buildings in Bury
121 - Digital copies of photographs of Bury Views taken by Leslie Priestley Digital copies of Bury Athletic Club Members Digital copies of Cyclists' Touring Club
122 - Digital photographs of trams compiled by David Packer
123 - Copy photographs of Ramsbottom
124 - Graham Cooper and Douglas Sargent photographic archive
125 - Miscellaneous photographs mainly of Radcliffe - uncatalogued
126 - Photographs from John Amos Taylor
127 - Carte de Visite of unknown woman
128 - Collection of photographs of Simister taken before the completion of M62 motorway
129 - Photographs of Bury Borough
130 - Photograph postcards of Unsworth and surrounding area
131 - Photographs of the demolition of the chimney of Woodhill Mill (Bury Boot & Shoe Co.)
132 - Photograph of St Chad's Violin Class
133 - Photographs relating to the Hull Family
134 - Large aerial view of Bury
135 - Collection of early photographs
136 - Photograph of horse and cart
137 - Slides of Summerseat and Ramsbottom
138 - Photograph of organ in Art Picture House and wedding photograph of organist
139 - Agecroft Hall, Prestwich
140 - School photographs
141 - Slides of Whit Walks, Kay Gardens area, Bury
142 - Photographs of Peel Hall, Summerseat
143 - Postcard of Bury Parish Church
144 - Photograph of Heap Bridge Cricket Team
145 - Studio photograph of young girl
146 - Postcard photograph of 5th Reserve Lancashire Fusiliers, Bury
147 - Local History Photographs
148 - Photographs of Bury town centre area
149 - Three monochrome photographs on card of unknown buildings
150 - Photograph of Town Hall Officials, Whitefield
151 - Miscellaneous photographs of Radcliffe - uncatalogued
152 - Photograph albums relating to Davenport and Ainsworth family of Elton, Bury
153 - Digital copies of photographs of Whitefield
154 - Postcards of Hawkshaw, Holcombe and Affetside
155 - Miscellaneous photographs, Bygone Bury postcards, Fishpool County Infant School
156 - Reproduction photograph of 'Peterloo' veterans
157 - Photograph of Brandwood Farm
158 - Photograph of Mount Sion Bleach Works?
159 - Photograph of Bonfire Night, Alfred Street, Bury
160 - Bury School of Arts and Crafts slides and photographs
161 - Miscellaneous photographs taken by A Siddall of Bury - uncatalogued
162 - Art exhibition in Radcliffe Library
163 - Ronald Irving Collection: Photographs of Radcliffe and surrounding area - uncatalogued
164 - Photographs of railway views in Ramsbottom and surrounding area
165 - Ceremonial gathering in the Market Place, Bury
166 - Monochrome photographs of Outwood Reclamation Area and tree planting
167 - Engravings of buildings in Bury
168 - Miscellaneous photographs relating to Radcliffe
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