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The factory was kept very busy, especially at Christmas, when besides Lancashire cheese, sage and cheddar cheeses were produced; but it was demolished in 1991, and houses were built on the site.

week-enders and in-comers now make up a large part of the old village.The village was once nicknamed 'the goose village', because it was said that geese from Pendleton tasted better than any others in Lancashire

Like Shepton Mallet and other southern cloth towns, it prospered until the woollen industry moved to Lancashire and Yorkshire's new mills after 1800 - thus in effect preserving the town for us architecturally

In 1893, a study by a German sociologist found that six out of every seven working-class families in the mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire managed to save enough money to spend on a holiday.

Ellesmere Port was developed primarily to serve the canal that linked the towns in the region with the Mersey and Severn rivers and ultimately with the industrial heartlands of Lancashire and the Midlands

The great residences which the Peels built in Hyndburn have been swept away, but this Tudor cottage, now lovingly restored, remains as a monument to one of Lancashire's great families.

High up above Todmorden, half of which used to be in Lancashire, we find this small Pennine village with a surprising number of mills for its size.

This church may have the oldest foundations of any in Lancashire, dating from Saxon times. Norman traces remain in the rounded doorway (right) with its massive oak door.

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.

Besides having good window displays, the shop would place blackboards outside: 'Danish prize dairy butter, Lancashire and Cheddar cheese, noted teas and coffees and unequalled Wiltshire and Danish bacon

Tom Rowe, the Lancashire cheese factor, lived at York House in Bilsborrow.

This is Chorley's main street, the A6, Lancashire's main north to south road; it used to get very busy in the summer.

Before clean air acts and the decline of the cotton industry, the only time people could see the Lancashire hills across the Mersey Basin was during Wakes week.

On the left, a striped post bearing the red torch of Lancashire County Council denotes a school ahead.

It is also the last resting place of Sir Thomas Tyldesley, who had accompanied the Earl of Derby's 1651 invasion of Lancashire from the Isle of Man in support of Charles II.

This Lancashire-style Indian Pavilion burnt out in a fire in 1933; it was rebuilt in 1935, but it was not as grand as the original.

A toll bridge was erected 1864-65 to connect the village with Lancashire. The original toll bridge still stands over the old course of the Mersey.

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.

In 1893, a study by a German sociologist found that six out of every seven working-class families in the mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire managed to save enough money to spend on a holiday.

Freshfield is situated between Formby and Ainsdale on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway route between Liverpool and Southport.

At the time these photographs were taken, Warrington was still part of Lancashire but, after the boundaries were changed in the 1970s, it became part of Cheshire.

Morecambe is much frequented by trippers from the busy towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, for whose recreation are provided abundant entertainments of distinctly popular order.

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 village was once nicknamed 'the goose village', because it was said that geese from Pendleton tasted better than any others in Lancashire.