Month: March 2026

Ribble Rivers Trust have been working in partnership with the Environment Agency Preston City Council and local farmers to plant 8451 native trees in the […]

THE REVISION COURTS. Revision of the lists of voters in Walton-le-Dale district NORTH-EAST LANCASHIRE.WALTON-LE-DALE,—The revision of the lists of voters in Walton-le-Dale district was held […]

A WOMAN KILLED AT WHITTLE. – A carriage accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred at Whittle on Monday evening. It appears that on the morning […]

The former Grammar School SCHOOL LANE GRAMMARWALTON-LE-DALE.BUILT A.D.1672.REBUILT ON A NEW SITEAND ENLARGED A.D.1870FURTHER ENLARGED A.D.1879. School Before 1672 the children of Walton were taught […]

OPENING OF ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH, WALTON-LE-DALE.-To-morrow (Sunday) this church, which has been in course of erection a little over twelve months, and is now completed, […]

THE BOUNDARY OFTHE PARLIAMENTARYBOROUGH OF PRESTON. A meeting of the committee of the Corporation, appointed at the last Council meeting to prepare a scheme for […]

The REPORT OF THE Medical Officer of Health FOR THE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL OF WALTON-LE-DALE, FOR THE YEAR 1894 was compiled by Robert Trimble, M.D. […]

Reports by the Walton-le-Dale Urban District Council Reports by the Walton-le-Dale Urban District Council are available to view online for the years; 1894, 1895, 1897, […]

MR. FRANK COUPE undertook a labour of love when he set out to write “Walton-le-Dale, A History of the Village” published by the Guardian Press […]

Lancashire County Council, as part of their Lancashire Archives and Local History online collections catalogue, have Blackburn Diocese Tithe awards and plans from 1839 for […]

LANCASTER SUMMER ASSISES – August 1838 CIVIL COURT TUESDAY.(BEFORE MR. JUSTICE WILLIAMS.)RODGETT V. CALROW AND ANOTHER.Mr. J. ADDISON opened the pleadings in this cause, which […]