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Keep the home fires burning...
10:52am Thursday 11th March 2010
READER Derek Peel has come across a family photo, taken in the days when it took more than a bit of snow and ice to postpone a football match.
Look in the loft for QEGS items
10:53am Thursday 11th March 2010
FORMER pupils of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Blackburn are being asked to look in their lofts for any memorabilia they may have from their schooldays.
Girls’ get-together for the class of ’51
10:51am Thursday 11th March 2010
PAY attention, the class of ’51 at Blackburn Girls High School.
Belmont archives to go online
12:20pm Monday 8th March 2010
THE LIVES and times of the people of Belmont over the last 150 years are being revealed in project by members of St Peter’s Church.
Memento of Gandhi's visit could go on display in Darwen
5:10pm Friday 5th March 2010
MEMENTOS from Gandhi’s visit to Darwen could soon go on display in the town after starring on the Antiques Roadshow.
Cliviger plaque tribute to One Man and His Dog star
9:50am Friday 5th March 2010
UPDATE: A heritage plaque has been unveiled in memory of countryman and author Eric Halsall, co-founder of the TV series ‘One Man and His Dog’.
Lean years of food rationing
4:48pm Thursday 4th March 2010
IT’S now 70 years since rationing was introduced – and older readers will have their own stories of how families coped during the lean, war years.
Jailed and deported – what a journey!
2:18pm Thursday 4th March 2010
IT took just a day for the telephone to ring following our story on four Burnley lads planning to hitchhike to Australia, back in the sixties.
Barnoldswick church unveils plans to mark 50th anniversary
3:40pm Saturday 27th February 2010
Holy Trinity Church in Barnoldswick is planning a procession through the town to mark its 50th anniversary.
Landmark Burnley mill set for a revival
1:23pm Friday 26th February 2010
A LANDMARK mill which was the hub of a community for many years is set to be given a new lease of life.
Burnley hitch-hikers in 18,000 trek
3:25pm Thursday 25th February 2010
FOUR Burnley men wanted the world at their feet back in 1962 — they were planning an 18,000 mile hitch hike to Australia!
True love story in book of Accrington soldier's letters
10:54am Thursday 25th February 2010
CONSCRIPTED into the forces at the outbreak of World War II, Jim Allen, a 23-year-old printer in Accrington, was anxious to ‘do his bit'.
GALLERY: Historic Slaidburn house set to become a home again after 100 years
11:00pm Wednesday 24th February 2010
AN historic Ribble Valley house which has not been lived in for more than 100 years is to be turned back into a family home.
Former DJ’s plea to help record Blackburn nightclub memories
6:03pm Friday 19th February 2010
ANYONE around on the club and live music scene in the mid eighties is likely to have a special place in their hearts for Blackburn’s C’est la Vie.
Former Lancashire miner remembers dialect words
9:13am Friday 19th February 2010
HISTORIAN Ken Spencer was born in 1928, and although his parents were not dialect speakers, they would have used a few themselves without thinking.
‘Eyesore’ Nelson theatre will be demolished
5:15pm Thursday 18th February 2010
AN ‘EYESORE’ former bingo hall is to be razed despite an eleventh hour bid to prevent its demolition.
Oswaldtwistle wartime evacuee says thank you in book
2:30pm Thursday 18th February 2010
AN AUTHOR has thanked Hyndburn for the warm welcome he experienced as a wartime evacuee in a newly published autobiography.
Best-selling novel about Blackburn childhood to become play
1:41pm Thursday 18th February 2010
THE best selling novel charting life in poverty-stricken Blackburn during the depression is to be turned into a stage play.
A snapshot of Blackburn school days 80 years ago
4:51pm Thursday 18th February 2010
IT’S 80 long years since these young fellows were pupils at St Mary’s Primary School, in Blackburn.
Nelson soldier's ‘life in trenches’ book unearthed
10:11am Tuesday 16th February 2010
A TRAINING manual belonging to a soldier from Nelson who served in the First World War has been discovered 300 miles away in Torquay.
Soccer team mystery unravelled
6:38pm Thursday 11th February 2010
OUR mystery football photograph featured last week is no puzzle any more.
50st bull no match for Mr Dean
6:37pm Thursday 11th February 2010
WHENEVER Looking Back asks a question, there are always readers with an answer.
Revised Nelson Imp book released
3:27pm Thursday 11th February 2010
A SECOND, revised edition of Steve Chapples’ look back at the days of Nelson’s Imperial Ballroom, is now out.
GALLERY: 1850s time capsule found on Blackburn building site
4:51pm Wednesday 10th February 2010
A TIME capsule uncovered at a Blackburn building site has been opened 160 years after it was buried.
New Burnley sorting office did a first class job
2:11pm Thursday 4th February 2010
BACK in the autumn of 1968, postmen in Burnley were delivering a new service from a new sorting office. For their revamped workplace coincided with the arrival of the first and second-class post. The cost of postage to the customer, then, was 5d and 4d respectively, and postmaster Alfred Tweedle said, despite widespread criticism, the ‘two-tier service’ was more streamlined and efficient.
Pre-school playgroup was a ‘first’ for Burnley
2:11pm Thursday 4th February 2010
BACK in 1967, a Burnley church pioneered a new form of public service – launching the town’s first pre-school playgroup.
In safe hands of Nelson Spartak girl goalie
2:12pm Thursday 4th February 2010
DO any of our readers remember, or have photographs of, a girls’ football team from the sixties named Nelson Spartak?
End of era for Nelson clog makers
2:13pm Thursday 4th February 2010
ONE of Nelson’s earliest family businesses came to an end after more than 130 years, back in 1962.
Women’s footy fun
11:57am Thursday 28th January 2010
BACK in the summer of 1953, residents in the Waterfall area of Blackburn had a party to mark the Queen’s coronation.
‘Scantily clad’ poster row went to No. 10
11:40am Thursday 28th January 2010
BACK in 1962, a row about ‘sexy’ posters outside a Blackburn cinema, went all the way to 10, Downing Street.
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