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Looking Back
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E Lancs family put stamp on smallest Post Office in US
IN the late 1880s, adverts in the newspapers of Burnley would highlight ‘10,000 acres for sale in the Blue Ridge Mountains’, or ‘for sale, as good a plantation as there is in the United States, of 4,100 acres’. read more
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Group who enjoyed good walks
IN the first half of the last century a group of ramblers were a breath of fresh air in Darwen. read more
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Hospital caterers serve up a reunion
MILLIONS of meals have been prepared over the decades by the catering department at the old Queen’s Park Hospital – now the Royal Blackburn. read more
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Insight into lives of 50s housewives
IN the 1950s a housewife ensured the house was clean, a tasty meal was waiting, and she looked her best, when her husband came home from work. read more
