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At one time Bardsea was part of Lancashire, and could only be reached by boat or by a dangerous route over the shifting sands of Morecombe Bay.

The building nearest to us is in fact the West Lancashire Bank, which opened in 1879; it was later acquired for an extension to the library.

In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants to build a canal; they saw it as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and transporting other goods out into towns in the heart of Lancashire.

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

The park is overlooked by the Park Hotel, and is close to a main line railway (in those days the East Lancashire Railway) which ran between two parks.

In Lancashire, man-made stretches of water to serve mills were often called lodges.

In common with most of ecclesiastical sites on the Wirral Peninsula, St Peter's can trace its origins to the original Viking settlers who established a base in West Lancashire and North Cheshire after

The principal import was Lancashire and North Staffordshire coal from Runcorn.

The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway brought cheap coal for the textile trade from 1863, passing Shaw`s own Jubilee Colliery.

The parish chest containing Poor Law accounts turned up at The Sun Inn, and its contents were sent to Lancashire Record Office - unfortunately, the chest was lost.

The arches around the veranda carry the shields of the Lancashire towns who supported the movement.

, Bramhall Grammar School, the consulting rooms of two physicians and surgeons, a post office, fishmonger and fruiterers, a confectioner, a grocers, a boot maker and cycle dealer, and a branch of the Lancashire

This is perhaps the largest village green in Lancashire, although the duck pond seems to be diminishing.

It was built by the Norman Montbegon family just after they arrived in Lancashire.

In the 18th century this waterway was busy transporting coal, and possibly large cheeses too, for Tom Rowe the Lancashire cheese factor lived in Bilsborrow.

But the village of Waddington has won the 'Best Kept Village in Lancashire' title on many occasions for being just that little bit more beautiful.

Few people think of Tarleton as a port, but in the 15th century ships from here sailed to small ports along the Lancashire coast and even to Europe.

China Street, St Leonard's Gate, Penny Street, Church Street and Market Street formed the original layout of the town from 1610, as we can see from Speed's map of Lancashire, which had an inset showing

It has not got the towering Gothic grandeur of some of Lancashire's other town halls, but it does have a certain splendour.

Acorns were the main source of food for pigs in Norman England, and pigs were an important source of food for many Lancashire villages.