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The new memorial was unveiled on Sunday 4 July 2004; it commemorates the granting of the Freedom of the Borough of Hyndburn to the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.

Todmorden Town Hall, built in 1870, once stood on the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire, a fact reflected in the carvings in the pediment frieze on its classical front, shown here: there are bales

Built around 1840 to carry the London and North Western railway line north through Lancashire, this splendid six-arch bridge strides across the River Wyre just below Scorton Lakes.

Until 1974, the River Ribble here formed the boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire, with the bridge carrying the lane between Lancashire's Chatburn and Yorkshire's Grindleton.

It has been in Yorkshire longer than in Lancashire, but Lancashire is where it is now - so we can include it.

It has been in Yorkshire longer than in Lancashire, but Lancashire is where it is now—so we can include it.

It was the production of soap and alkali that became the most important industry here resulting from the proximity of salt from Cheshire and coal from Lancashire.

Here in the main street, a policeman stands on traffic duty at the junction with Accrington Road outside the Whalley Arms.The church here was once the mother church for half of Lancashire (47 townships

It was the production of soap and alkali that became the most important industry here resulting from the proximity of salt from Cheshire and coal from Lancashire.

It was the home of the Lancashire Quarter Sessions, and has always been the poor relation of the buildings around it.

Motor vehicles dominate the scene in this market day picture, and at least one trader has crossed over the border from Lancashire to sell his wares.

Lancashire's rough humour, along with Lancashire's 'thrutchin' (jostling and elbowing), was rife on Market Street on Sundays and Fair Days.

The summer of 1914 was long and hot; the hottest day of the year in Lancashire was 28 June.

The church here was once the mother church for half of Lancashire (47 townships and three large villages).

This picture shows the rear of the property, a very fine example of an East Lancashire house of the later 16th century.

This 19th-century terrace is typical of Lancashire villages in this region backed by long ridges of Pennine hills.

Here we see the stand of the Lancashire Cricket Ground, called Old Trafford, as it looked just over a century ago.

Canvas-sailed boats are tied up at the pier; this was the time when Grange was becoming a popular seaside resort, famed as an escape from industrial Lancashire and for its bracing air and equable climate

When the railway came to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 it signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.

The Lancashire Congregational Union founded the congregation in Grange in 1889.

Over on the left is the Lancashire & Yorkshire and London & North Western joint railway station, which was conveniently built next to the steamer berths.

The Royal Exchange was where the Lancashire cotton industry did business with the world.

By the mid-1890s, most Lancashire cotton towns enjoyed a full Wakes Week.

By this date Southport's reliance on the holiday trade was already declining; its location made it an attractive proposition as a residential area not only for Lancashire businessmen and their families