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34 unusual facts about Lancashire


Baron Clitheroe

Baron Clitheroe of Downham in the County of Lancaster is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Born and Bred

The exterior shots of the early series were filmed in and around East Lancashire, predominantly in the village of Downham, Lancashire, with some at Helmshore.

Castercliff

Castercliff is an Iron Age hillfort situated close to the towns of Nelson and Colne in Lancashire, Northern England.

Charles Edward Cawley

He was the only son of Samuel Cawley of Goodden House, Middleton, Lancashire and his wife Mary Jones of Packington, Warwickshire.

City of Preston

City of Preston, Lancashire, a city and non-metropolitan district in Lancashire, England

Crossens

The second-half of the 20th century saw the area becoming home to some light industry (including the Vulcan motor works), but apart from some small industrial units the area is now primarily a commuter suburb for Southport, Preston and Ormskirk.

Entwistle

Entwistle, Lancashire, a village in Turton, England or its local railway station

Fred Dewhurst

Fred Dewhurst (born Fulwood, Lancashire, 16 December 1863 — died 21 April 1895) was a professional footballer, who played as an inside forward for Preston North End in the late 19th century.

Frederick Newton Gisborne

Born in Broughton, Preston, Lancashire, England, he left England in 1842 for a trip around the world, finally settling in Canada in 1845.

George Robert Broadbent

Broadbent was born in Ashby, Victoria, the son of George Adam Broadbent, (who migrated from Lancashire), and his wife Elizabeth, née Ruffhead.

Georgina Battiscombe

She was born Esther Georgina Harwood, the elder daughter of George Harwood, a former clergyman, Liberal Member of Parliament for his home town of Bolton, Lancashire, master cotton spinner, and an author and barrister.

Healey, Greater Manchester

It covers Shawclough, Syke and Nook Farm, as well as the rest of the land known as Healey on the right hand side of Whitworth Road (A671) after Gale Street up to Healey Corner (Whitworth/Rochdale boundary).

History of Lancashire

Although the county town of Lancashire is considered to be Lancaster, the county council is seated at the city of Preston.

James Lawrence Isherwood

James Lawrence Isherwood (7 April 1917 – 9 June 1989) was an English artist, born in Wigan, Lancashire.

Jean Robinson

Jean Robinson, CBE (8 December 1899 - 5 November 1986) was the first female mayor of Blackpool, Lancashire from 1968-1969.

Jo Appleby

Jo Appleby (born 7 April 1978) is an English soprano from Thornton, Lancashire.

John Edmund Sharrock Moore

Born in Higher Booths, Swinshaw, Rossendale, Lancashire, John was the son of Henry Moore, Cotton Manufacturer and Mary Elizabeth Moore (née Margerison).

Kennessee Green

And the A59 is situated to the west of the village, connecting Maghull and Kennessee Green with Liverpool, Aintree, Litherland, Preston and Ormskirk.

Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway

William Arkwright had settled at Sutton Scarsdale Hall near Chesterfield and with the land came extensive deposits of coal.

National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973

This was encapsulated by scandals about the care provided to the elderly and mentally ill at Ely Hospital in Cardiff, Farleigh Hospital in Bristol and Whittingham Hospital near Preston.

Padiham railway station

It links to the River Calder Greenway and the towpath of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to form a circular route and also has a branch to Gawthorpe Hall a National Trust property in Padiham.

Pendle Council election, 2003

Issues in the election included the proposed redevelopment of Nelson town centre, plans for an A56 bypass and the proposed demolition of houses in Nelson West.

Penwortham Priory

The Lodge was taken down in 1912 and rebuilt in Moss Lane, Hutton.

Penwortham, South Australia

He was born at his family home of Penwortham Hall, near Preston, Lancashire.

Preston Council election, 1999

This expanse of rural villages and farming communities includes the Broughton and Goosnargh.

Roses Match

The very first "Roses Match" was played in 1867 at the Station Road Cricket Ground, Whalley near Blackburn and was won by Yorkshire by 5 wickets.

Rossendale United F.C.

Rossendale United F.C. was an English football club based in Newchurch, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire.

Seedhill

Seedhill is the name of two sports venues in the town of Nelson, Lancashire.

Shard Bridge

It spans the River Wyre, connecting Singleton, on the southern side of the river, to Hambleton, on its northern side (known locally as "Over Wyre"), carrying both automotive and pedestrian traffic of Shard Road (the A588).

Tommy Trafford

He lived his early life in Blacko, near Nelson, where he performed in church productions alongside Jimmy Clitheroe, "The Clitheroe Kid", with whom he went to school.

Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth

He moved to another home, Leck Hall at Leck, Lancashire, on his estates, which was more convenient to his disability, leaving Gawthorpe Hall to his aunt, Rachel, who lived on at Gawthorpe Hall until her death in 1967.

Utterley

fictional town in Lancashire, England that was the main setting for the 1980s and 1990s Granada TV series Brass.

William Brooks of Blackburn

William Brooks (1762–1846) was a supplier of cotton to spinners around Whalley and Blackburn.

World Pie Eating Championship

A similar situation arose in 2009, with pies being sourced from Adlington.


1905 English cricket season

Lancashire went unbeaten until July, their fifteenth game, when Surrey overcame them at Aigburth, but Yorkshire were behind on the table with three losses before their match with Yorkshire at Bramall Lane.

1916–17 Blackpool F.C. season

Staff and recovering patients from the King's Lancashire Medical Convalescent Hospital (KLMCH) and staff from the Royal Army Medical Corps Depot (RAMC), both based at Squires Gate, provided players throughout the season.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Meiklejohn was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England of Scottish descent, being the youngest of eight sons.

Alkincoats Hall

It passed down through Parker family from father to son via Thomas, Robert (1720–1758), Thomas (1754–1819), a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) and Deputy Lieutenant {D.L.} of Lancashire, to Thomas Parker (died 1832), an Army captain, J.P. and D.L. who also bought Browsholme Hall from his cousin.

Altham

Altham, Lancashire, a village and a civil parish in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England

Anne Langton

She was born to Thomas and Ellen Langton in the Yorkshire Dales, but within a few months, they moved to Lancashire, where she was raised in a mansion named Blythe Hall, near Ormskirk.

Bartholomew Binns

Before becoming hangman, Binns was employed as foreman platelayer at Dewsbury by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, but after he got the post he no longer worked anywhere.

Bondax

Bondax gained prominence primarily as a result of BBC Radio, initially through BBC Introducing Lancashire before receiving BBC Radio 1 airtime from the a range of DJs including Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac.

Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers

The son of Reverend Harold Joseph Flowers and Mrs Marian Flowers, Brian Hilton Flowers was born in Blackburn, Lancashire; but he was educated in Swansea at the Bishop Gore School, where Mr Foukes encouraged his interest in physics.

Brockhall

Brockhall Village, Lancashire, England, home to the training ground of Blackburn Rovers FC

Carl Myerscough

Carl Myerscough (pronounced Myers/co) (born 21 October 1979 in Hambleton, Lancashire) is an English athlete.

Chris Sulley

Bankrolled by Jack Walker, new manager Kenny Dalglish took the Lancashire outfit into the top-flight via the play-offs, as Rovers defeated Leicester City 1–0 in the final.

Colin Stansfield Smith

His county cricket was played for Lancashire, who capped him in 1957, but he also appeared for Cambridge University (for whom he gained his blue) among a number of other teams.

Craven and District Football League

The league is essentially based on Craven and so includes several teams from the main Craven centres such as Skipton, Settle, Cross Hills and Cononley, but its catchment extends into nearby districts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire with, for example, teams from Bradford, Colne, Ilkley, Keighley and Pendle also taking part.

Dorning

Dorning Rasbotham (c. 1730 – 1791), English writer, antiquarian, artist and High Sheriff of Lancashire

Far right in the United Kingdom

They have never achieved representation in the House of Commons, although they have had a number of local councillors in some inner-city areas of east London, and towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire, such as Burnley and Keighley.

First Battle of Middlewich

Sir Thomas obviously conducted himself satisfactorily in the campaign culminating in the Battle of Edgehill because an order from Prince Rupert in January 1643 refers to him as a colonel of a regiment of cuirassiers, and two days later on 19 January the King announced that he was sending Aston as a Major-General to Cheshire and Lancashire.

Footsee

By late 1974, the Northern soul music and dance scene centered on the Wigan Casino club in Lancashire, England, was attracting increasing attention from mainstream media in the UK, at the same time as original American R&B recordings which met the musical criteria of its fans, and which were new to listeners, were becoming more difficult to find.

Geoffrey Lancashire

Lancashire began his career as a journalist with the Oldham Evening Chronicle newspaper before joining Granada Television as a scriptwriter.

Gerald Bardswell

In 1898, Bardswell played only in a couple of first-class matches for MCC against the Universities, but at the start of the 1899 season he reappeared for Lancashire, playing as captain in the first six games of the season, but standing aside when Archie MacLaren resumed his cricket career in June.

Gordon Wilcock

He retained his place for the County Championship game against Lancashire that followed, in which he achieved his first stumping, accounting for Farokh Engineer off the bowling of Norman Gifford.

Holly Lam-Moores

Born in Burnley, Lancashire, Lam-Moores started playing handball aged 12 at Alder Grange High School in Rawtenstall after it had been introduced by coach Bill Baillie.

Indian locomotive class XC

The 72 members of the class were built in the United Kingdom between 1928 and 1931, some of them by William Beardmore & Co in Glasgow, Scotland, and the rest by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England.

John O'Gaunt

John O'Gaunt Rowing Club for the rowing club in Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Jonathan Clare

Jonathan Clare's grandfather, John Clare, played Lancashire League cricket for Burnley for seven years, grandson having played sporadically in the competition since the age of fourteen, having made his debut in the competition as an opener in 2001, alongside professional representative, Dale Benkenstein.

Joseph Stanley Snowden

He was the eldest son of Joseph Snowden and Fanny Ruth Snowden of Morecambe and Heysham, Lancashire.

Juvenile Liaison

Juvenile Liaison 1 (1975) and Juvenile Liaison 2 (1990) are documentary films by Nick Broomfield about a juvenile liaison project in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Ken Higgs

After two years in the Lancashire League, the Leicestershire captain, Ray Illingworth called Higgs out of first-class cricket retirement because of Graham McKenzie's expected unavailability with the 1972 Australians.

Leslie Banks

Leslie Banks was born in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, to George and Emily (née Dalby) Banks.

Markland Hill

Historically within Lancashire, it is about 2.5 miles to the north west of the town centre.

Miles Gerard

Descended perhaps from the Gerards of Ince, he was, about 1576, tutor to the children of Squire Edward Tyldesley, at Morleys Hall, near Astley, Lancashire.

Milford railway station

The station has the same name as the fictional station in the film Brief Encounter (1945) starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, although the scenes were filmed at Carnforth station in Lancashire.

Murder of April Jones

On 8 October 2012, a 19-year-old male from Chorley in Lancashire was sentenced to 12 weeks' imprisonment in a Young Offender Institution for posting comments about Jones and Madeleine McCann on his Facebook page, after pleading guilty to sending a grossly offensive message, an offence under section 127 (1)a of the Communications Act 2003.

Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker

In 1994 he accepted a life peerage and became Baron Blaker, of Blackpool in the County of Lancaster and of Lindfield in the county of West Sussex.

Preston Plucknett

The village is included in The Meaning of Liff (defined as "a very large string bag made of thin strong cord into which feathers from freshly killed ducks and chickens were stuffed, from Preston in Lancashire".

Richard Mather

Mather was born in Lowton, in the parish of Winwick, Lancashire, England, of a family which was in reduced circumstances but entitled to bear a coat-of-arms.

Samuel Bury

In 1696, Bury was engaged in collecting a list of the nonconforming ministers; Oliver Heywood supplied him (14 August) with the names in Yorkshire and Lancashire, through Samuel Angier.

Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet

His son, Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (1844–1939), the eldest, became a well-known Liberal politician, sitting in parliament for Hastings from 1869 to 1880 and for the Clitheroe division of Lancashire from 1885 till 1902, when he was created Baron Shuttleworth.

Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet

(This volume covers the area of the modern administrative county of Cumbria: i.e. the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, and the Furness region, historically part of Lancashire.)

Smith and Snipes Hall Farm Ltd v River Douglas Catchment Board

The River Douglas Catchment Board agreed with a number of landowners between the River Douglas and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal) to carry out some work if some contribution to the cost was given.

Susan Sutherland Isaacs

Isaacs was born in 1885 in Turton, Lancashire, the daughter of William Fairhurst, a journalist and Methodist lay preacher, and his wife, Miriam Sutherland.

Tania Mallet

Tania Mallet, born on 19 May 1941 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, is an English model and actress who is best known for her appearance as Tilly Masterson in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964).

The Riff Raff Element

The ancestral home of the Tundishes was actually Stonyhurst College, a Roman Catholic public school near Clitheroe, Lancashire.

The Sparagus Garden

Tom and his servant Coulter are from "Zumerzetshire," and inject into the play the kind of dialect humour typical of Brome's drama (Yorkshire dialect in The Northern Lass, Lancashire dialect in The Late Lancashire Witches).

Thomas Gardner Horridge

He was the only son of John Horridge, chemist, of Tonge with Haulgh, and Margaret Barlow of Bolton, Lancashire.

Tony Leavey

He went to Mill Hill School and then Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge before returning to east Lancashire where he became a director of companies involved in the weaving and matchmaking industries in Colne and Rawtenstall.

He was insistent that he knew there had been flying saucers over Lancashire, and wanted girls who went topless to be arrested.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.

Watcyn Thomas

A teacher by profession, he moved to St Helens to teach at Cowley Grammar School in 1929, and played rugby for Waterloo and Lancashire, captaining Lancashire to the championship in 1934-35.

West Indian cricket team in England in 1933

Constantine's Lancashire League employer Nelson refused to release him for the match, but Francis, contracted to Radcliffe in the Bolton League, played.