2027 Plans

In 2027 we have plans to bring our archive of local photos out to the community. Please check our Facebook page for details of our exhibitions where we will have photos and documents on display – plus of course tea and cake.

So far we are planning exhibitions at Forton and Scorton and we hope you will be able to join us to see what your area used to look like in years gone by.

We are also planning for talks about the history and heritage of the area – watch this space!

Our photo archive

We recently received a wonderful donation of a photo scanner which is enabling us to scan our huge collection of photos so much quicker. We have already scanned over 2000 in a couple of hours which is fantastic. The scanner provides an original scan, an enhanced scan and a scan of the back of the photo if there is anything written on it.

The scanner will also allow us to scan documents up to A4 size, for example we can put a stack of pages into the scanner and it will automatically scan them all, both sides at a time.

We are immensely grateful to Bill Gornall for his very kind donation, it really is proving so useful to us, and it will help us bring more of our photos out to the community.

Civic Sunday 2026

We created a small display in St. Thomas’s Church Hall for people who had been to the Civic Service at the church. The display reflected on local government in Garstang from the Garstang Union Board of Guardians through Garstang Rural District Council and to Mayors of Garstang since 1974.

Display Panels are shown below:

Heritage artwork in Thomas’s Weind

We were really pleased to provide historical information and old photos of the town for an artwork in Thomas’s Weind by artist Lisa Wigham, together with the Greater Garstang Partnership Board.

This year’s guests:

Lancaster Family History Group

Bleasdale Heritage Centre

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Fylde & Wyre Country Life Preservation Society

Wyre Archaeology

Wyre Natural heritage

Shaun Corkerry (local war graves historian)

Garstang Town Trust

Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Museum

Winmarleigh Church

Friends of Lancashire Archives

Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society

80th Anniversary of VJ Day exhibition Saturday 16th August 2025 at Garstang URC Hall

If you missed our VJ Day exhibition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day don’t worry!  

Exhibits from the day are shown below:

Tea and homemade cake will be on sale

 

Courtesy Lynn Harter

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