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Your Name: |
Group Representative |
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Community Group Name |
Bowburn Local History Society |
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Focus of Community Group |
Our focus is on the history of Bowburn, in County Durham, and surrounding area. Bowburn is a former colliery village, whose pit (Bowburn Colliery) produced coal from 1908 till 1967. |
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Type of Records held |
Digital content which has been created via digitisation |
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Size of collections in GB |
Unknown at present |
How did you get involved with your community group?
Our focus is on the history of Bowburn, in County Durham, and surrounding area. Bowburn is a former colliery village, whose pit (Bowburn Colliery) produced coal from 1908 till 1967.
How do you collect material for your collections?
We have a dedicated room in the local Community Centre in which we have a collection of books, maps, photographs and memorabilia. We have tried to digitise photographs, maps and written information, using a laptop belonging to the group.
What processes are in place to manage and process your collections?
The biggest challenges are technical know-how and funding – lack of, in both cases! – but also time. We rely on the goodwill of our small number of active members to maintain a catalogue of what we have in our collection. We were recently (in 2023) helped by some volunteers from Durham University to restore order and update our catalogue, after a period of disorganisation during the pandemic. This help was greatly appreciated.
How do you preserve your collections?
We have no particular strategy in place – just a hope that new members will in due course be recruited to carry on our work.