Our Welcome Page will reside here until the system is further developed  THE WEBSITE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION and TESTING....., PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES. SOME AREAS ARE NOT YET COMPLETE,

. population of the database will continue towards the end of 2012 when funding is secured

OCTOBER 2012 the WEBSITE suffered a major server problem mid October and has lost most of its image data, please bear with us until we manage to retrieve or re input it.

The 'Virtual' Heritage Centre is intended to be utilized by those researching our the ever growing number of items of Heritage we have in our care, either as evidence for dissertations; or for those interested as a hobby or pass time in developing their own understanding of the history of the area; hopefully for some this may lead to helping preserve the Heritage of Chorley Borough. Please familiarize yourself with our TERMS and CONDITIONS page and the ABOUT US page. 

We are currently concentrating on the archiving  heritage items relating to the decades 1800 to the current date. The data will be built up over a period of time and added to, or corrected, whenever new collections come to hand and when further appropriate information is researched by the members of the CVHC supporters group, the public, or from school projects. In addition to the listing of items, the relationships and inter-relationships to events, places and people can be estsblished to each other with links and tags can be built up within the system

If you know any other details about the items archived, or names of people and places in the photographs please let us know, we would be most grateful.

The Chorley Virtual Heritage Centre Supporters Group recognizes the value; and warmly welcomes any input from the excellent work achieved by other like minded bodies within the Borough of Chorley; and we offer to Showcase current achievements, or to provide for amicable Links to and from these websites, providing they complement the CVHC website aims. 

Preserving, displaying and cataloging of the heritage items into the CVHC database will be done to meet established and recognized best practice under the support of professionals, CHC members, and volunteers, who will all be trained in our methods and standards, which will meet those prescribed both by Lancashire County Council Archive Service and in the West Yorkshire Archive Service 'Community Archive Accreditation Scheme'.

Use of the Chorley 'Virtual'  Heritage Centre is free, but some links to other websites in associated subjects may charge you for their service.

Once we get established in somewhere we can work as a team to accomplish more of our aims: and to call our Home, we will then operate a CHEAT THE SKIP campaign to take in more collections or single heritage items to add to the collection. If however you have, or hear of, any items which may otherwise be lost to the skip, please let us know and we will do our upmost to save them.