Articles

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 […]

This building was captured on several photographs and had been painted on a number of occasions. It was referred to by one of the artists, […]

In late June 1905, a tragic drowning occurred in the River Ribble at Walton-le-Dale. On the afternoon of Wednesday 28th June, two men—John Mahoney, aged […]

BRAVE DEEDS REWARDED. Among recent recipients of the medal of the Royal Humane society none more richly deserved it than Edward Briggs, of Ribbleside farm, […]