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Past Pieces
Smile ! We hope you enjoy this collection of articles - long and short - about or based on the wonderful collections at Lancashire Archives.
Some are new but many have been published before, particularly in the annual reports of Lancashire Record Office from the 1950s up to the 1970s. We want to pull together as many pieces as possible to create an online resource that helps describe Lancashire's archives and gives voice to some of the millions of stories from the county's past. If you have anything to share, be it a snippet of information about an interesting document or a full-length article, let us know. |
A Schoolboy's Diary, 1866
Included in the muniments of Blundells of Crosby Hall is the diary of William Blundell for the year 1866......
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Chew's Lunatic Asylum, Billington
For nearly a century the Chew family ran, at a high profit, an asylum, the building of which still stands at Billington, near Whalley......
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A Lancashire Manufacturer and the Cotton Famine
“The trade of cotton spinning and manufacturing will never die out so long as children are born stark naked. If they begin to tumble into the world clothed from head to foot and an umbrella a piece, a few spindles and looms may stop.”
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