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  AFTER a wait of more than 60 years, the people of Padiham finally got their own swimming baths in 1969.
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           <title>Book records the changing face of Chorley</title>
           
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  ONCE a major cotton town, more than 20 mills once weaved their work in Chorley.
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           <title>Hoddlesden weavers stepped up to crease</title>
           
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  IT’S almost 60 years since mill workers in Hoddlesden challenged each other to a cricket match.
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           <title>Celebrations as Blackburn church tower clocks up 100 years</title>
           
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  MEMBERS of St Silas’s, in Blackburn, will celebrate the centenary of the church’s 100ft tower this weekend.
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           <title>Burnley airstrip plan was ready for take-off</title>
           
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  AN official airstrip for light aircraft was being planned for Burnley back in 1969.
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           <title>Book reveals sacrifice of Bacup's war heroes</title>
           
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  BACUP Cemetery, officially known as Fairwell, gives testimony to many brave soldiers from the Valley, who perished in the First World War.
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           <title>Grateful evacuee seeks Saltersforth pal</title>
           
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  MEMORIES of his wartime evacuation came to Ian Phillips following our story about families forced to flee Guernsey during the Second World War.
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           <title>East Lancashire mill worker showed working class women the write way forward</title>
           
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  MILL worker Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, who lived in East Lancashire from 1886 to 1962, is believed to be the first working-class woman to publish a novel.
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           <title>Fifty years since The Beatles played in East Lancashire</title>
           
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  IT’S 50 years since The Beatles first appeared at The Imp, Nelson’s cult pop venue – and Steve Chapples recalls the time Beatlemania hit East Lancashire.
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           <title>Memories of glory for the Colne Dynamoes</title>
           
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  NEXT Tuesday, April 23, marks the 25th anniversary of Colne Dynamoes’ victory in the FA Vase at Wembley.
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           <title>Lancashire cycle tourers pass major milestone</title>
           
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  LOCAL cyclists are celebrating a special anniversary this year.
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           <title>Burnley actor became first Briton to honour Abraham Lincoln's grave</title>
           
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  HISTORIAN Ken Spencer tells the story of how an actor from his home town of Burnley became the first Englishman invited to lay a wreath on the grave of Abraham Lincoln.
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           <title>Burnley kids out to box clever</title>
           
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  IT was Boxing Day, 1969 and Hammerton Street, in Burnley, was closed to traffic for a different kind of vehicle – for that one day, it became a race track for the town’s annual soap box derby.
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           <title>Blackburn Rovers heroes from the 1930s</title>
           
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  PENSIONER Kathleen Shorrock remembers many of the faces on this old Blackburn Rovers team from the 1930s.
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           <title>Book looks back at the life of Darwen artist</title>
           
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  The Friends of Darwen Library have published a book on the life and times of artist James Hargreaves Morton, who was killed five days before the end of the Great War.
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           <title>Blackburn sailor's deadly encounters on Arctic convoys</title>
           
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  IT’S 68 years this month since Blackburn accountant, 90-year-old Peter Smith set off on his first ‘harrowing’ Arctic convoy to Russia during the Second World War.
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           <title>East Lancashire man bitten by the bugs of war</title>
           
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  GREAT grandad Clifford Palliser knows all about bugs and creepy crawlies, after he served in the Far East during the Second World War.
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           <title>Carefree Good Friday in Blackburn</title>
           
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  IT was Good Friday, April 7, 1939, five months before war cast its cloud over Europe, when these young people grouped together to smile for the camera.
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           <title>Celebration for Earby man of brass</title>
           
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  ARTHUR Walmsley, who was the conductor of Earby Brass Band in 1969, celebrated 50 years in the brass band movement.
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           <title>Historian looks back at childhood in Burnley</title>
           
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  HISTORIAN Jack Nadin has recalled his days growing up in Burnley in the late fifties and early sixties.
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