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The Rossendale Coalfield
Coal mining is the second oldest industry in Britain after agriculture. As big coalmines developed to cope with the output to feed the Industrial Revolution, many small-scale …
Burnley Cotton Mills
In 1929, 63 per cent of the working population of Burnley was involved in the industry. This fascinating work, illustrated with over 90 images, explores the history of this …
Collieries of North East Lancashire
The last deep mine in the Burnley Coalfield, Hapton Valley Colliery, closed in 1982 and with its demise went a comradeship and companionship that few other industries have enjoyed. …
Oldham Coalfield
A collection of studies and statistics from mines in the Oldham area.
Lancashire Mining Disasters 1835-1910
Lancashire Mining Disasters chronicles the effects, death and grief of the local ming communities in Lancashire, through colliery accidents and explosions from the early 1830s …
A Grim Almanac of Lancashire
A Grim Almanac of Lancashire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of dreadful deeds, …
Burnley Inns and Taverns: Images of England
The Industrial Revolution borough tens of thousands of rural folk into Burnley from Yorkshire Dales and Derbyshire. In just a few decades, the town became the 'Cotton Capital of …
Burnley Then & Now
The industrial town of Burnley developed around coalmining and cotton weaving and spinning. In this absorbing new book local author Jack Nadin has gathered together ninety pairs of …
Horwich Then & Now
A history of Horwich
East Lancashire Mining Memories
With the closure of the coalmines around East Lancashire went a comradeship that few other industries could ever boast. Today the dry and dusty coal seams with death and danger …