The Unnetie Digitisation Project
The New Opportunities Fund (NOF) has awarded North Yorkshire County Library Service £78,800 of lottery funding to conserve and promote several unique photographic archives stored at the County Library Headquarters, Harrogate and Scarborough libraries.

Chief of these is the collection of negatives and prints produced by the Harrogate photographer Bertram Unné, who recorded the way of life in the Dales and the Yorkshire countryside between 1940 and 1979.

As part of the successful bid, the Library Service aims to use the photographic collections to create a searchable archive of 10,000 images of North Yorkshire life and several themed storylines showing connections with material held by the Dales Countryside Museum, the County Record Office and the Northallerton and District Local History Society - demonstrating aspects of rural crafts, holidays at the seaside, days out and the spa at Harrogate.

The project is part of a co-operative regional Consortium, ’Yorkshire: a sense of place’, funded by NOF, which will promote a photographic archive of Yorkshire images held by the library services of Leeds, York City, Wakefield, and North Yorkshire.

For more information contact:

Margaret Boustead
Tel: 01609 767800
email: archives@northyorks.gov.uk