Month: January 2026

Over the last couple of years, I started noticing a number of Manhole Covers in the local area. The interest was probably piqued by a […]

Last year I was looking at the Turnpike Road that came to Walton le Dale from the east. It was known as the ‘Balderston to […]

Little Walton Hall in Walton-le-Dale was a seventeenth century building, which stood on the site of Bamber Bridge Co-operative Stores in Station Road. It was […]

Walton le Dale | A History of the Village by Frank Coupe(under the patronage of the Walton-le-Dale Urban District Council) Publication date: 1954 | Publisher: […]

I witnessed an unusual ‘phenomenon’ (…well to me at least) on the River Ribble at Fishwick in Preston, looking back towards Walton le Dale, in […]