The New Opportunities Fund 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.

The Library Service will use the photographs to create a searchable archive of 10000 images 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.