USEFUL LINKS

On this page you will find links to a number of other useful websites, which include other local history groups and museums, family history and research organisations which can help you with your searches, and also links to a number of other useful sites which we think you might find of interest. If your organisation is not shown here and you think it ought to be then please do let us know.

Local history groups and museums:

• Bacup Natural History Society • Burnley Historical Society • Bury and District Local History Society • Hyndburn Heritage Centre Museum, Accrington • Keighley & District Local History Society • Lancashire Local History Federation • Littleborough Historical and Archaeological Society • Norden & District Local History Society • Padiham Archive Rooms • Pennine Heritage - Hebden Bridge • Ramsbottom Heritage Society • Rochdale Pioneers Museum • Rooley Moor Neighbourhood Forum • Rossendale Civic Trust • Touchstones Rochdale • The Historic Society for Lancashire & Cheshire • Wardle & Smallbridge History Group • Westhoughton Local History Group

Useful family history research websites:

• Ancestry.co.uk • Birth, Marriage & Death Records • Billiongraves • Cemsearch - St. Bartholomew’s Headstones • Family Search • Find My Past • Forces War Records • GENUKI Lancashire • Government Register Office • How to travel to find your roots • Lancashire BMD • Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society • Names.org • Online Parish Clerks for the county of Lancashire • Rochdale Cemetary Gravestones • Rossendale Family History Society • The National Archives

Other interesting websites:

• 41st Whitworth (Rochdale Scout Group • Bacup Times • Beautiful Britain - Whitworth! • Britannia Coconut Dancers of Bacup • Crawshawbooth Quakers • East Lancashire Railway • Ellenroad Steam Museum • Friends of Real Lancashire • Fireground - The Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum • Healey Dell Tea Rooms & Heritage Centre • Heritage Open Days • Heritage Trust for the North West • Irwell Sculpture Trail • Lancashire Archaeology Society • Lancashire County Council Archives • National Library of Scotland Maps: - Note:- Also has some historical maps of Whitworth too! • Lancashire Mining Museum • Rossendale Borough Council • Spodden Valley Revealed • Visit Rossendale • Whitworth Town Council • Whitworth Vale and Healey Brass Band • Whitworth Library