Founder Members
These were
- K Nightingdale (Chairman) - Burnley Express
- F Ashcroft (Treasurer) - Retired Director Borough Building Society
- H Schofield (Secretary)
- Colin Sanderson - Solicitor
- T A Hall - Coal Clough House
- Hector Thornton - Curator, Towneley Hall
- T Maddocks - Parks Superintendant
- K Walmsley - Surveyor
- J Redhead - Headmaster, Technical School, Towneley
- R Blundell - Historical Society
- John Grey - Insurance Broker
- C Horsefall - Newsagent
- L Stanworth
- J Taylor - Architect
- Alec Johnson - President, Rotary Club
- Mrs G Simpson - Inner Wheel Club
- Miss C Hamilton Birch - Bus & Professional Womens' Society
- N Riley - Mullen & Durkin
- Alan Halstead - Burnley Express
- Miss Sutcliffe - Soroptimists' Club
- J W Sharrocks - Healey lodge
- Ald T W Gallagher
- H Thornton - Burnley School of Art
- Mrs David Waddington
- K Spencer - NE Lancs Ornithologists & Historical Society
- R Jackson - NE Lancs Ornithologists & Historical Society
