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Made in GM

@MadeInGM

HLF project to catalogue, digitise and transcribe a range of business archives from across Greater Manchester.

 Wigan, England
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Joined June 2016
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Volunteers @archivesplus have made an incredible contribution to the MIGM project. You can read all about it here! madeingm.wordpress.com/2017/…

Made in Manchester

Volunteers at Archives+ in Manchester have made an incredible contribution to the Made in Greater Manchester project. Sarah Hobbs, archivist at Archives+, reveals all here! “Business archives…

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Team of volunteers: Made in Greater Manchester Unboxing Oldham - well done! @OldhamArchives @MadeInGM
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The #MadeInGM exhibition @archivesplus is starting to take shape! #HLFSupported
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Fantastic new blog post from #MIGM volunteer Paul, all about the Leigh & South Central Lancs Railway! #HLFsupported madeingm.wordpress.com/2017/…

Leigh and South Central Lancashire Railway

I volunteered as part of the Made in Greater Manchester Project and some of the first maps I viewed at Archives+ in Manchester from the Bridgewater Estates Archive featured the Leigh and South Cent…

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Make sure you put your X on the paper, people! #Vote2017 #GeneralElection2017
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Do you think someone walked past at the wrong moment? The two lads on the left managed to stay still! #Manchester in 1896.
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#ManchesterBee from the archive. MGS celebrated Manchester Civic Week, 1926 by contributing an episode on H. Oldham to a celebratory pageant
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#OTD 1907 new Pendleton Ragged School opened West George Street, #Windsor, #Salford. @VisitSalford @SalfordMuseum @SalfordCouncil #History
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The Race for Westminster - political cartoons from #GE1874 (original blog post published in 2015) rylandscollections.wordpress… #Vote2017 #GE2017
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Happy birthday to the wonderful @NWfilmarchive! Here's to another 40 years (at least!) of cinematic history 🎥🎬📽📺📼
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Our #volunteers researching #ChapelStreet & #Passchendaele - thanks for all your hard work! Were your relatives involved? - let us know
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New blog alert! Read about @ZoeBamford1's experience of #volunteering for #MadeInGM @Touchstones! madeingm.wordpress.com/2017/…

Made in Rochdale

As part of our involvement in The Made in Greater Manchester Project, Rochdale Local Studies has chosen to focus on The Rochdale Electric Company (REC).  REC was incorporated on 31st January 1898 b…

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I love MCR theatre collection handling set going out to neighbourhood libraries this week @archivesplus @MancLibraries @HLFNorthWest – at Manchester, England
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When a winged man with two faces and an egg timer on his head asks you to go outside with him, you don't argue.
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Another school photograph today. Leigh Grammar School, April 1963. Headmaster is K Bruce #halfterm #school
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Presentations now online from #ICASBA17 @_BusinessArch @CfN_historia
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#OTD 1843 the birth of the remarkable Enriqueta #Rylands - a fascinating booklet & a sample of her handwriting - both at #LocalStudies
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#OTD 1838 Zoological Gardens, Higher #Broughton, #Salford opened on Bury New Rd - it closed in 1842. @VisitSalford @SalfordMuseum #History
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#Archivists! #IAD17 is coming up! askarchivists.wordpress.com/… Found some touristical treasures in your depots to join #archivestourism on June9?
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Armitage Street Baths and Wash-Houses after modernisation #Manchester, 1946.
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In 1950, we provided chain to the Blackburn G.A.L. 60. At the time, Britain's largest military transport aircraft #engineeringheritage
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