About the website

Cumbria image bank is a collection of digital images created using original material from Cumbria County Council Libraries and Archives Service.

This website enables users to view 3,500 images, dating back to the mid-eighteenth century, covering the whole of Cumbria.

This digitisation project was undertaken for a number of reasons:

  To ensure our original material is preserved

  To raise awareness and understanding of the material we hold

  To provide better access to unknown or little used material

  To create resources useful for learning and teaching

  To make available part of our photographic and archive collections for users from all over the world to view via the Internet

Images on this website can be downloaded for personal use and photographic quality prints may be ordered online.