Old Mechanics Institute, Burnley

iBase ID

332620

Reference identifier

EBU-U01-S51-2-1

Title

Old Mechanics Institute, Burnley

Place

Burnley

Personal names

Thomas Grimshaw, Peregrine Towneley, Mr Wood, Thomas Booth

General notes

King St -Canal Street Corner

At one period, more than forty years ago the Mechanics' Institution Library was housed in the small room facing St James's Street, now attached to The Swan (now Eastwood's Office. Ed), which was let to them at five guineas a year by Mr Thomas Grimshaw of Fulledge. At that time Mr Peregrine Towneley was President, the late Mr Wood, of Burnley Wood, was Treasurer, and Mr Thomas Booth of Crow Nest, acted as Librarian.

This image was digitised and made available online by volunteers as part of the Keeping East Lancashire in the Picture project. If you want to tell us anything about it, or share it more widely, please use the Comment and Share buttons above. We make historic images from our collections freely available online for people to enjoy and use in personal research. We are also committed to protecting people's privacy and complying with copyright legislation.

• When most historic photographs of people were taken, consent to publish online was not explicitly granted by them.

• The copyright status of photographs is often hard to establish, particularly when the photographer is not known and there is uncertainty about when the photograph was taken.

If you have concerns about this image being published online, please contact us via the Enquire button above

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Year of image

1848

Enter year in yyyy format

Subjects

Place Names > Burnley

This item includes these files

Image