The Bernard Bradbury Collection - Hidden at Kirkgate Centre

Bernard Bradbury was an enthusiastic and knowledgeable Cockermouth local historian and he accumulated 1,500 photo slides, and hundreds of pages of documents, some of which are listed below. Mr Bradbury wrote the definitive book “Bradbury’s History of Cockermouth” available from The New Bookshop on Main Street. Mr Bradbury died and his widow, Mrs Bradbury holds the copyright to the book.

Mrs Bradbury wanted the Bradbury collection of photos and documents to be freely available to the public. Listed below are the thousands of items in the Bradbury collection which Mrs Bradbury expected to be made freely available to the public when it was placed at Kirkgate Arts & Heritage Ltd in August 2001.

Do you want Kirkgate to let us see the Bradbury collection online for free and with our own memories and our own comments – Kirkgate Arts & Heritage Ltd are reluctant to allow us to make these photos available to you with our own comments and memories, why?

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Sources and thanks and permissions and copyright are shown on appropriate pages and/or in the About section. If someone can prove they have sole copyright and ownership of all rights to the negative and positive prints of a photo and its digital copy, and if they then want to have their name acknowledged after providing their clear evidence of ownership of sole copyright then I will acknowledge that right. Otherwise this personal project, made at my own expense, is my voluntary, free to access website made with goodwill to the community, so that the site gives free access to our community’s historic information. For those who desire to stop some photos being seen, review your motives; some photos were given to the local history centre and have been hidden for 20 years – why? I don’t have access to them. Surely when the community give photos to a local centre for free, the photos should be available to the public to view with free access and free sharing by digital reproduction on which we can add our own descriptions on our own websites and Facebook pages and other sharing sites? Please read the acknowledgements and thanks on the About section – there are some astounding links including the National Library of Scotland’s (NLS) zoomable historic maps, and sites of rail and coal historic sites and … see About. Perhaps the links will stimulate you to do your own research for your own personal education like this site that I made for personal research and education.