A CHILDREN’S charity has been given a funding boost to restore its family history archive.
Child Action Northwest in Wilpshire, one of Lancashire’s oldest established children’s charities, has been handed a £39,200 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The organisation will use the cash to preserve, digitise and catalogue its archives, which date back to its foundation as Blackburn Orphanage by James Dixon.
Lancashire Record Office were asked to survey the collection stored in the basement of the charities’ offices.
The collection includes architects’ plans, financial reports, family photographs and personal records going back to Adolphus Curran — the first orphan to be admitted.
Sara Hilton, head of heritage lottery fund in the North West said: “Conserving the story of the orphanage and the individuals associated with it and making this information available is important for the local community.”
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