Journey back to pupils’ first holiday abroad

11:28am Thursday 27th March 2008

FORTY years ago the Easter break meant an exodus to Europe in organised school parties.

	Parade ‘Romed’ around streets
	11:26am Thu 27 Mar 08
	PARADES, galas and shows have played a big part in Lancashire life over the years.

	can you shed light on ‘blackwites’?
	2:02pm Thu 20 Mar 08
	THIS 83-year-old photograph was found by a Looking Back reader in the back of a picture frame.

Hand-made dolls fit for Queen

1:56pm Thursday 20th March 2008

THE first arts and crafts exhibition staged in Haslingden, back in 1965, was said to have exceeded all hopes in the quality and quantity of entries'.

	£10,000 grant to help salute 'Pals’ heroes
	1:53pm Thu 20 Mar 08
	THE Chorley Pals Memorial has been awarded a grant of £10,000 from the National Lottery.

	Fingers of fate pointed the way for young Tony
	10:41am Thu 20 Mar 08
	THE story of Les Skifflettes, with their wash boards and tea chest bass, proved a big hit with Looking Back readers.

	Author recalls tough days of war
	9:40am Sat 15 Mar 08
	A NELSON pensioner has chronicled the trials and tribulations of being a child evacuee.
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	These boys were bart and soul of old school
	2:55pm Thu 13 Mar 08
	MEMORIES and photographs will soon be all that's left of St Bartholomew's at Ewood, Blackburn.

Search is on for Peter as RAF reunion gets lift off

2:54pm Thursday 13th March 2008

EX-RAF St Eval personnel have been put on high alert this week for a reunion later in the year.

	Battling blizzard was s-now joke for bride
	2:52pm Thu 13 Mar 08
	THE surprise 'April Fool' blizzard of 1966 certainly wasn't funny for one young East Lancashire couple, whose wedding day was ruined by the weather.

	Beauty crown kept in family
	1:58pm Thu 13 Mar 08
	MODEL Gillian Woodcock won the Miss Nelson Beauty contest back in 1965 -taking the same trophy her sister Vicky won three years earlier.

200 years of worship

1:57pm Thursday 13th March 2008

IN the early part of the 19th century, Congregationalism was growing apace throughout the country - and it was no different in Burnley.

	Future Hollies star among young skiffle group
	1:51pm Thu 13 Mar 08
	MEET Les Skifflettes, a rhythm group from Nelson, which had a certain Tony Hicks in its ranks.

	Rounding up memories of clean milk cup
	3:12pm Thu 6 Mar 08
	THANKS to all the readers who were moo-ved (sorry!) to contact Looking Back to tell us about the clean milk cup in the 1930s and 40s.

	Brides dug out of snowdrifts
	3:11pm Thu 6 Mar 08
	BACK in 1966, the weather which hit East Lancashire on April Fool's Day made a mockery of springtime.

Reunion invite to ex-RAF personnel

2:10pm Thursday 6th March 2008

EX-RAF St Eval personnel are being put on high alert this week for a reunion later in the year.

Tot’s dangerous game

2:08pm Thursday 6th March 2008

NEIGHBOURS on a new Burnley housing estate played a desperate game of turn the key and let us in', with a little toddler who locked himself in the house with a pan of boiling fat.

	Groomed for dog stardom
	2:05pm Thu 6 Mar 08
	TURN the clock back 41 years and it was all bustle and brushing in more than 50 homes around Burnley, Pendle, and Rossendale, as last-minute grooming was completed for that supreme canine contest, Crufts, 1967.

	An art to looking sharp in sixties
	11:21am Thu 28 Feb 08
	Here's a photograph from October 1965 of Burnley Art School dance at Bank Hall Miners' Club, in Burnley.

	Brenda recalls all her pals
	11:19am Thu 28 Feb 08
	THE old photo from Coal Clough Secondary School, Burnley, which appeared on our page last week, chalked up much comment among former pupils.
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Contest to crack safes killed child

11:06am Thursday 28th February 2008

TODAY Looking Back unpicks the tale of the great safe contest in Burnley.

Calling Redcoat Sue

9:28am Thursday 28th February 2008

PLANS are now being put in place for what is hoped will be the largest-ever gathering of former Butlins' Redcoats.

The milk cup conundrum...

9:28am Thursday 28th February 2008

A COUPLE have come across an old trophy, which originated in Blackburn, while browsing in an antiques shop in Cumbria.

	Collapsing girls riddle
	9:26am Thu 28 Feb 08
	TURN the clock back 43 years and the story of how a mystery illness struck 94 pupils of a Blackburn school made front page headlines.

	Laying ghost of soldier to rest in France
	3:01pm Thu 21 Feb 08
	ACCRINGTON grandmother Joan Walmsley hopes to be the first in the family to stand at her own grandfather's First World War grave.
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	Top Marks for charm
	3:00pm Thu 21 Feb 08
	A LITTLE-seen 1960 film starring Norman Wisdom had people packing into Darwen Library Theatre this week.
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	Tribute to Pals killed on Somme
	2:29pm Thu 21 Feb 08
	WORLD War I historian Steve Williams, of Brindle, who is also secretary and co-founder of the Chorley Pals Memorial Appeal, is organising a coach trip to the Somme battlefield.

Coffins ordered in bulk at workhouse

9:47am Thursday 21st February 2008

HISTORIAN Steve Chapples, of Burnley, tells the story of the workhouse - institutions which became prisons for those whose only crime was infirmity, or poverty.

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	Band’s blast from the past
	9:46am Thu 21 Feb 08
	Huge crowds lined the streets of Nelson on May 16, 1948 for the Whit Sunday procession, led by The Nelson Silver Band.

40, or more, in classrooms of the sixties

9:45am Thursday 21st February 2008

AS education bosses put the price of planned comprehensive schools for the Rossendale Valley at £2million, the area's primary pupils were being taught in surroundings that had changed little in more than 100 years.

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