Lancashire Past

In 1786 William Bancroft, a baker, grocer and Methodist preacher brought Methodism to the tiny hamlet of Mereclough.

Around three and a half thousand years ago, at a place now known as Mosley Height, a group of Bronze Age people came together to build a funeral monument.

Broughton Toll Bar Cottage stands today on the now quiet Garstang Road, which was once a section of the busy A6.

Sometime during the first couple of decades of the 1800s, William Spencer set up a factory in an area of Edgworth known locally as Old Russia.

Hog Lowe Pike- an intriguing name for an intriguing place.

Quarrying at Musbury Heights was an industry that lasted a hundred years.

Ashurst’s Beacon stands atop Ashurst Hill in the parish of Dalton, West Lancashire.

Hidden amongst the trees, just off the path by Calf Hey Reservoir, lies the well preserved ruin of Bentley House.

Rivington Pike stands high on the moors over Horwich, easily recognisable with its familiar short tower.

In July of 1845, the River Improvement Committee for the Lune requested the construction of two new lighthouses on the Lancashire Coast.

Sudley House dates from 1821 and was originally the home of merchant Nicholas Robinson.

Standing on Railway Road in Clitheroe is a larger-than-life sculpture of a black dog.