A MEDIA and arts charity will be hosting an event analysing a rare collection of photographs of Barrow and the Furness region in the early twentieth century.
The Sankey family collection offers an archive of how Cumbria (then Lancashire) looked from the height of the industrial pre-war era and documents the development of tourism and culture in the region.
The 15,000 images were taken over a 70-year period by the father-son duo Raymond and Edward Sankey from 1900.
The Sankeys designed and patented a unique postcard-printing machine to mass-produce their photographs, which were then posted all over the world.
The collection is now housed in the Cumbria Archives.
The Morecambe Bay Partnership will put on an online lecture with Liz Critchley from Signal Film and Media, who will take an audience through the archive.
The event is on Tuesday, January 31 from 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm and costs £3.
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