Rail go-slow shadow over great get-away

3:35pm Thursday 10th July 2008

A RAIL go-slow cast a cloud over a sunshine send off for Burnley and Pendle holidaymakers during the annual wakes fortnight 40 years ago.

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Drivers’ lives would never be the same!

10:34am Thursday 10th July 2008

MEET one of the new traffic wardens who had been appointed to patrol the roads of Blackburn, back in 1966.

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Musical maestro JB

10:34am Thursday 10th July 2008

TO sing a song properly Great Harwood Male Voice Choir used to rehearse it for 10 hours.

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26 cakes to celebrate founding of Walshaw

4:01pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

FOUNDERS Day at Walshaw Secondary School, Burnley, usually meant food – and in the summer of 1970 that came in the form of 26 specially-baked cakes.

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The day locos steamed into history 40 years ago

4:00pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

A RECENT Looking Back feature on the last days of steam at Rosegrove proved a sentimental journey back in time for many engine enthusiasts.

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Day pupils joined the high Rollers...

3:04pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

EIGHT youngsters all looking pristine in their uniforms, knock at the door for a lift to school.

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After 42 years, we’re really going to Miss you!

3:03pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

IN 1924 Miss Elizabeth Gardner returned to her old school, where she had been a pupil before World War I — and stayed for 42 years, 30 of them as headmistress.

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We do love to be beside the seaside

11:35am Thursday 26th June 2008

THROUGH the years, the warm days of summer have usually signalled day trips to the seaside for East Lancashire folk.

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Tail of cat nap 60ft up had happy ending

3:49pm Wednesday 18th June 2008

THIS is the tail of the black and white cat who found the purr-fect' place for a nap - unfortunately it was 60 feet up a tree!

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Families who joined the front line

3:13pm Wednesday 18th June 2008

Proud of their father's and grandfather's achievements, Looking Back has also been sent these two pictures of men from Darwen who served in the First World War.

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‘Killed in action’, but war hero fought on!

3:11pm Wednesday 18th June 2008

THE exploits - and bravery - of his big brother Jim, a former Haslingden butcher, during the last war was unknown to Tom Woods until very recently.

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Blackburn is in our blood

5:07pm Thursday 12th June 2008

THEY may be living away from Blackburn today - some on the other side of the world - but for many people their home town is never far from their thoughts.

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Bran-new way to raise cash!

3:36pm Thursday 12th June 2008

FORTY years ago, long summer holidays were often referred to as the street jumble season, as kids set up stalls on street corners.

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1968 storm brought two-inch ice stones

3:34pm Thursday 12th June 2008

IT was supposed to be summer, but hailstones the size of golf balls bombarded Burnley during a freak thunderstorm in July 1968.

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140 mills in Burnley's cotton heyday

3:13pm Thursday 5th June 2008

COTTON weaving and spinning was Burnley's staple industry for almost 200 years.

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Amazing Grace of Glenside band

2:48pm Thursday 5th June 2008

FOR 20 years, or more, the pipes and drums were a familiar sound and sight in Blackburn, thanks to Glenside Pipe Band.

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Honoured by scouts

6:17pm Thursday 29th May 2008

A SOCIAL evening to mark the silver jubilee of the 20th Calder Valley scouts and cub pack was staged in April 1968.

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Burnley’s twinning with Vitry clocks up 50 years

6:15pm Thursday 29th May 2008

THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of Burnley's twinning with the town of Vitry-sur-Seine, near Paris.

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Dream of building library came close to disaster

5:09pm Thursday 29th May 2008

DARWEN Library is celebrating the centenary of its official opening this week, with a host of events.

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YMCA game to help unemployed

5:06pm Thursday 29th May 2008

YOUNG people from Blackburn YMCA have completed a two-year project researching the history of the organisation.

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Beauty queens on the line

3:47pm Thursday 22nd May 2008

JUST 40 years ago, a couple of local GPO phone girls found themselves on winning lines.

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In-house tussle for the cup

10:44am Thursday 22nd May 2008

IT'S now 50 years since two teams from the giant Northrop works at Blackburn battled it out for the Orphanage Cup.

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Blackburn soldier was a true hero

10:22am Thursday 22nd May 2008

THE story of the Accrington Pals, the battalion raised from volunteers in Accrington, Burnley and Chorley and destroyed by German artillery, rifle and machine gun fire on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, is well-known.

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Tories blast waste collection plans

Updated 10:42pm Friday 18th July 2008

Councils may refuse to collect rubbish from households which ignore written instructions on how it should be put out, a minister said.

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