The North West Sound Archive, founded in

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in 1979, was the largest archive of sound recordings in the UK outside of London, with over 140,000 items. It was relocated to

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in 1982, where it occupied the third floor of the Clitheroe Castle Museum. It was closed in 2015 for financial reasons, and its materials relocated to the

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, and the Lancashire Archives, according to the location to which the material related.

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