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Appeal for connections with Callis family tree

4:35pm Thursday 14th May 2009

IF you walk on the pavement outside St John’s Church, in Blackburn, you step on two gravestones.

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Can you solve Darwen picture puzzle?

4:03pm Thursday 2nd April 2009

80-year-old reader Irene Guy has found this photograph at her Darwen home and needs some answers about it.

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Historian keen to find Blackburn address

4:02pm Thursday 2nd April 2009

FAMILY historian Stanley Cosgrove, of Blackburn, has asked readers for their help in tracing an address.

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Darwen history group’s member appeal

4:13pm Wednesday 11th March 2009

DARWEN Civic Society is appealing for new members.

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Salon web search

3:54pm Tuesday 10th March 2009

HAIR salon, Antony and Patricia, is using the social networking site Facebook to contact members of staff from the past 40 years.

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Bowls club history project help

1:36pm Tuesday 10th March 2009

This year marks the centenery of Whitehall Bowling Green and Darwen Local History Society member.

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Plea to seek pal Brian

11:41am Thursday 5th March 2009

AN old boy of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, is seeking his best friend from his classroom days.

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Looking for Simpsons

11:41am Thursday 5th March 2009

READER Peter Wrigley is trying to trace members of the Simpson family of Blackburn.

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Blackburn author seeks photos

11:23am Thursday 5th March 2009

AN author, writing about her childhood in Blackburn, is seeking photographs from the 1940s and 50s.

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Plea for memories of Gandhi’s visit to Darwen

2:50pm Tuesday 3rd March 2009

AN appeal has been made for the local community to come forward with any artefacts they may have for a local history exhibition.

BILLY MARTIN

2:04pm Monday 19th March 2007

Looking for Glen Price or anyone who has information on him.

NICHOLAS KENYON, Foulridge

2:03pm Monday 19th March 2007

I am trying to trace my mother who I have not seen seince the age of 7 - I am 33 years old.

RUTH ASLETT, USA

1:53pm Monday 19th March 2007

Tuning in from Florida. I was born and bought up in Guernsey, but as a young child was evacuated to Burnley at the start of WWII.

FRANCES HOWARTH

1:52pm Monday 19th March 2007

I am looking for information on my great grandfather whose last name was Whittaker.

IAN BEARE, Blackburn

1:51pm Monday 19th March 2007

I am looking for anybody who knows the Beare family in Blackburn or Lancaster.

STEWART ODGERS, Australia

1:49pm Monday 19th March 2007

Anyone know my dad, born in Nelson around 1929?

WYN CALLARD, Carmarthenshire

1:47pm Monday 19th March 2007

I'm wanting to find out more about my ancestors Edward Rostron and his wife Betsy nee Waterhouse.

GAIL PIKE, Charleston, SC

1:46pm Monday 19th March 2007

I have been writing to Keith Digby of Accrington since 1974.

PAMELA SUE MARTIN, Trout Lake, USA

1:43pm Monday 19th March 2007

Looking for a pen-pal from 1964-1968.

JIM MURPHY, France

1:40pm Monday 19th March 2007

I am researching my family history.

ENZA DAVIES

1:39pm Monday 19th March 2007

I'm looking for any info about Sheila Willen.

MAUREEN BARTON, Freetown, USA

1:37pm Monday 19th March 2007

Looking to contact the family of John Walsh, died 12/25/89.

VAL COPE, Middlesbrough

1:33pm Monday 19th March 2007

I am still looking for relatives living in Colne / Nelson / Burnley area.

KIRSTY BEWICK

7:00pm Monday 4th December 2006

MY name is Kirsty, I was born on October 2, 1969 at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn.

MRS J BARRATT, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

2:55pm Friday 27th October 2006

I AM tracing the life of my uncle Sidney Harvey who worked in the Star Paper Mill, Feniscowles, Blackburn, as a wireworker from 1913 to 1916 when he was called up to the East Lancs Regiment, later to be transferred to the Loyal North Lancs Regiment.