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He held directorships with the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, the Manchester & County Bank, and the Thames & Mersey Insurance Co, but is remembered for his active role in winning shorter factory working

New sections of waterway were linked to the River Mersey to enable ocean-going vessels to reach the new inland port of Manchester and the neighbouring Lancashire cotton towns.

Townley Hall really is a gem in the history of Lancashire. Some council-run great houses have an air of poverty about them; but not so Townley.

Lindale is close to the River Winster, the old Lancashire and Westmorland border. John Wilkinson, the ironmaster, is buried in the churchyard in an unmarked grave; it was his fifth burial.

Many refer to this village as the most perfect in Lancashire, with its village green next to the church, and old inn.

Rising on Lamb Hill Fell, the river now runs into the Stock Reservoir and then resumes its wandering in North Lancashire.

The building has been added to and rebuilt, and is now part of the University of Central Lancashire.

Belthorn was one of the last villages in Lancashire to honour Collop Monday, and Poulton-le-Fylde was the last to answer the call of the Pancake Bell.

In 1844, railway surveyors came to this agricultural village with the aim of linking two main lines to provide a route from West Yorkshire to Lancashire and Cumbria.

This is a wonderfully patriotic photograph of the monument to Lancashire lad Sir Robert Peel, standing in the park named after him.

Amongst the companies operating services to Belfast were the IOMSPCo, the Barrow Steam Navigation Co, controlled by the Midland Railway with sailings from Barrow and Morecambe, and a joint Lancashire

Road, river and rail run within twenty yards of Thrutch (a dialect Lancashire word synonymous with great effort).

In this huge hall, cotton merchants from all over Lancashire did their bartering, and many a fortune was made or lost.

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

There were many Lancashire towns going through the same revitalisation, but in the frenzy of change many of the grand Victorian buildings were lost.

The latest adornment to Lowther Gardens is a statue of a Lytham shrimper sculpted by Colin Spoforth, a Lancashire man.

It was built soon after the American Civil War - at that time the industry prospered, since Lancashire was starved of cotton.

Her restoration transformed the grounds into one of Lancashire's best gardens, and she also became Mayor of the City of Lancaster in 1938. In August 1961 she died, quite suddenly.

The relics of St Cuthbert are alleged to have rested in twelve places, in what is now Lancashire, during the 9th century.

Many refer to this village as the most perfect in Lancashire; with its village green next to the church, and an old inn across the road, it is just how we all imagine an old English village ought to look

To the right is the site of the Lancashire and Yorkshire line Market Place railway station, which was here from 1867 to 1930.

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

OPENED in 1904, Caldecott Park was designed by Mr Edward Thomas of Aughton, Lancashire, who won £20 for his plan (a triangular park with a large clump of trees in the centre) in a newspaper competition

After the livestock market on Monday (the sheep market), Tuesday and Friday, animals would head out all over Lancashire. The origin of the name Clitheroe is surrounded by doubts and mystery.