Month: January 2026

Tho. Coupe, weaver, executed at Preston for high treason, 28th January. 1715. FOLLOWING the revolution of 1688, when James II fled to the continent, an […]

In one of my first forays into the Lancashire County Council’s Red Rose Collections, I came across an image of a pencil drawing that was […]

Particular attention is called to the following lots of very Valuable Timber. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MR. JOHN. THOMPSON, Auctioneer, at the Boar’s […]

On the first instant, a Boat laden with Coal was navigated on the Lancaster Canal, thro’ the Tunnel at Whittle Hills, and her cargo was […]

Date: Thursday, Aug. 6, 1936Publication: Aberdeen Journal (Aberdeen, Scotland) SAFETY DURING AIR RAIDS Elaborate Precautions in Lancashire Parish Elaborate precautions for the safety of human […]

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 | […]

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 […]