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Celebration for Earby man of brass

1:56pm Thursday 28th March 2013

ARTHUR Walmsley, who was the conductor of Earby Brass Band in 1969, celebrated 50 years in the brass band movement.

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Historian looks back at childhood in Burnley

1:55pm Thursday 28th March 2013

HISTORIAN Jack Nadin has recalled his days growing up in Burnley in the late fifties and early sixties.

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Rawtenstall mill women were 'salt of the Earth'

3:25pm Thursday 14th March 2013

FOUR workers were described as the salt of the earth after a total of 185 years’ service for a Rawtenstall cotton mill.

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Eddie recalls childhood memories

1:51pm Thursday 14th March 2013

NINETY-year-old Eddie Hodgson was born in 1922 in a two-up two-down house in Enamel Street, Blackburn.

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Guild expert spurred to work by TV

1:52pm Thursday 14th March 2013

WHEN television was first screened, it was blamed for many things.

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Walkie-talkies enhanced Helmshore race

2:19pm Thursday 7th March 2013

THE best yet. That was the unanimous verdict of the crowds who watched the Musbury Tor mile event at Helmshore, back in 1964.

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Fund was set up for missing Rossendale dad and son

4:28pm Thursday 28th February 2013

AN appeal fund was launched to help pay for search parties when a Rossendale father and son went missing while mountaineering, in 1969.

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No need to get in a jam over village relations in Trawden

4:27pm Thursday 28th February 2013

BACK in the 1960s, there was only one road into Trawden and no other road out.

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Author in appeal for Locarno memories

11:28am Thursday 21st February 2013

HISTORIAN Steve Chapples is planning a new book which sets out the history of Burnley’s Locarno ballroom.

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Passing brass band baton after 63 years

11:29am Thursday 21st February 2013

BRASS band conductor Granville Eastwood retired in 1969 after a 63-year association with East Lancashire bands.

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Nuns took children for treats at corner shop

11:28am Thursday 21st February 2013

OUR look back last week at the centenary of the Sisters of Nazareth, who cared for the elderly and young at Beardwood Cliff, brought back memories for Blackburn pensioner Kathleen Shorrock.

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