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Help plea to save historic hall in Tockholes
11:07am Friday 3rd July 2009
VOLUNTEERS are needed to form an action group to save Hollinshead Hall in Tockholes.
Have your say »Mills closures loom...
3:44pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
FOUR ‘elders’ from Worsthorne meet under the old ‘Gormless’ lamp in the village square in the spring of 1960 to mull over life.
Weavers flitted 5,000 miles
1:53pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
THE cotton industry was fraying in East Lancashire and the chance of new jobs in South Africa was a tempting offer for many local weavers.
Shotguns had a blast with Gerry and Pacemakers
11:20am Thursday 25th June 2009
OUR look back at the sound of The Shotguns at Darwen Co-op in the early sixties has brought a quick-fire response from their former leader Peter Yates.
Police killed in line of duty honoured
11:19am Thursday 25th June 2009
AT one time many boroughs had their own local police force and their own chief constable.
Class act of 48 pupils caught on camera
12:11pm Thursday 18th June 2009
IT’S 60 years since this photograph was taken, not too long after the war had finally ended.
The followers of fashion in 1963
11:23am Thursday 18th June 2009
LET’S take a step along the catwalk to see what all the best-dressed women of East Lancashire were wearing in 1963.
Odd jobs got done for bobs
2:03pm Thursday 11th June 2009
IT was usually spring when the cub scouts went out bob-a-jobbing.
A revolutionary cash flow scheme
2:02pm Thursday 11th June 2009
HISTORIAN Jack Nadin looks back at the 100 plus years of Padiham Building Society.
Darwen’s own fab 5
11:03am Thursday 11th June 2009
THE 1960s was a bright new era for music. New groups were appearing almost every day and dance halls were suddenly thumping to a new kind of beat.
Unbeaten for a year
11:04am Thursday 11th June 2009
MEET the young football team which did not lose a game in the whole of 1961.
Helmshore school celebrates 100th birthday
7:10pm Tuesday 9th June 2009
PUPILS took a step back in time as they helped an East Lancashire school celebrate its centenary. .
East Lancashire group honour the fallen of D-Day
6:20pm Friday 5th June 2009
A GROUP of regulars from an East Lancashire pub are in Normandy to honour the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
School swimmers left opposition in their wake
6:06pm Friday 5th June 2009
THIS quartet of schoolgirls from Blackburn were a talented pool of swimmers.
Custer muster for Chief Scout’s visit
6:05pm Friday 5th June 2009
IN May 1960, it was scouts, cubs, guides and brownies flooding through the turnstiles at Accrington Stanley’s football ground.
Queued all night for house
5:48pm Friday 5th June 2009
THE need for new housing was so great in the early 1960s in Burnley, that 20 people queued through the night to stake their claim for a dream home.
Mechanics hosted famed Tom Thumb
5:49pm Friday 5th June 2009
BURNLEY Mechanics has been a backbone of arts and entertainment in the town for more than 150 years.
Honour the fallen of D-Day
10:39am Tuesday 2nd June 2009
PEOPLE are being invited to honour those who died in the Normandy Landings.
Clarets' legend to be featured in new book
9:00pm Friday 29th May 2009
THE life of a Clarets’ legend who battled back from injuries sustained in the First World War to lift the League Championship for Burnley is to be featured in a new book.
Appeal to identify ‘Star’ soccer team
1:28pm Thursday 28th May 2009
AN Australian reader has asked if anyone can help identify this football team and any of the players.
New book on juke box rock which shocked Lancashire's older generation
10:46am Thursday 28th May 2009
WHEN the sound of rock’n’roll spread across the Atlantic in the 1950s, teenagers listened to the new sound on juke boxes made in Lancashire.
Ladies’ club with ‘wheel’ appeal
10:47am Thursday 28th May 2009
THE popularity of the Ladies’ Inner Wheel organisation is evident from this 1960s picture taken at the old Rose Room of the Locarno, in Burnley.
Walking days memories wanted
4:24pm Wednesday 27th May 2009
Chorley folk with memories or pictures of Walking Day events are being asked to help with the production of a book about the event.
BAE celebrates 70 years at Samlesbury
9:23am Friday 22nd May 2009
AN aerospace company is celebrating 70 years of flying high at its factory in Samlesbury.
The 'Peruvian vampire' - from East Lancashire
9:14am Thursday 21st May 2009
BLOOD-sucking vampire or a humble Blackburn cotton weaver?
Trying for scorer as rugby players switched to soccer
3:24pm Thursday 21st May 2009
WE told a tale of a charity fundraising rugby match in Rawtenstall in our columns a month ago.
Every Street has long history
3:23pm Thursday 21st May 2009
IN the sixties, Every Street was named Nelson’s longest street, stretching for one-and-a-half miles from one end to the other.
W-rung out by bell
11:40am Thursday 21st May 2009
IN May 1960 Arthur and Margaret Day finally escaped the ringing in their ears that inevitably followed them when they retired for the night.
Football took a pasting from schoolboy clogs
11:39am Thursday 21st May 2009
IT’S more than 60 years since this school class lined up for the camera, but we are only missing one name from the 23 youngsters!
Oswaldtwistle war dead list ‘is full of mistakes’
7:00pm Sunday 17th May 2009
AN HISTORIAN has claimed a preview list of Oswaldtwistle’s fallen is riddled with errors because information was taken from the internet.
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