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Greater Manchester Pastfinder
Welcome to the Greater Manchester Pastfinder
| The Greater Manchester Pastfinder project is a consortium of the archive services of the ten metropolitan councils in Greater Manchester. They are Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan councils - together with the Greater Manchester County Record Office (GMCRO) which is run jointly by the councils. The archive services collect, preserve and make accessible to the public important records of the life and history of their areas. The GMCRO cares for archives relating to the conurbation as a whole. |
| Pastfinder is a catalogue listing over 4,000 archive collections held by local government archive services in Greater Manchester. It includes the full archives catalogue for Manchester Archives and brief descriptions of the contents of collections for the other archive services. Please note that at present it does not include Trafford. |
| The archive collections illuminate the history of Britain's second largest conurbation and the world's first industrial city. They describe the explosive growth of its industries, canals and railways during the Industrial Revolution They record the work of social institutions such as trades unions, co-operatives, hospitals and Nonconformist congregations, and the development of political parties and local government. |
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