The books are in PDF format. You will need Adobe Reader on your computer to view & print them. If you would like to purchase a book please email me: oldlancasteruk@gmail.com I will then send you a Paypal invoice and when this is paid will attach the PDF to an email for you. If the PDF file is too big to go by email, I will share the file with you via Google.
Blackburn, Burnley, Clitheroe & Accrington Directory 1868
The book is 259 pages long and the file size is 26MB
Cost £2 to download PDF file
It covers the following areas: Accrington Aighton Altham Alston-with-Hothersall Bacup Bailey Balderstone Barley-cum-Wheatley Barrowford Baxenden Blackburn Bowland-with-Leagram Briercliffe-with-Extwisle Brierfield Burnley Chaigley Chatburn Church Clayton-le-Dale Clayton-le-Moors Clitheroe Cliviger Colne Crawshawbooth Dilworth Dinckley Downham Dunnockshaw Dutton Eccleshill Foulridge Goldshaw Booth Goodshaw Great Harwood Green Howorth Hapton Haslingden Helmshore Henheads Heyhouses Higham-with-West Close Booth Huncoat Hurst Green Ighton Hill Park Knowle Green Little Harwood Livesey Lower Darwen Lumb Marsden Mearley Mellor Little Mitton Mitton Parish Nelson Newchurch Old Laund Booth Osbaldeston Oswaldtwistle Over Darwen Padiham Pendleton Pleasington Ramsgrave Rawtenstall Read Reedley Hallows Ribchester Rishton Rossendale Rough Lee Booth Sabden Bridge Salisbury Samlesbury Simonstone Stacksteads Stonyhusrt College Tockholes Trawden Forest Tunstead Twiston Waterbarn Waterfoot Whalley Abbey Wheatley Carr Wilpshire Wiswell Worston Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood Yate Pickup Bank
The last page in this directory was page 844 which meant that there were some districts missing (a publishing error). I have scanned the missing districts from a Directory dated 1855. The missing districts were Bacup, Wolfendon & New Church etc.
Clitheroe in the Old Coaching Days
The book is 58 pages long and the file is 26MB
Cost £1.50 to download PDF file
First published in 1897.
Chapters include:
The Old Coaching Days; An account of the Coaches; Notable accidents by road; Carriers, Postmen & Quaint Characters; Curious customs; Days of the hand loom; Electioneering Incidents; Chapels & Churches; Schools; Cholera in the Town; Decline of the Old Coaching Days.
Clitheroe in its Railway Days
The book is 340 pages long
The downloadable file is 34MB because of this I have split the book into 2 parts for easier dowloading.
Cost £1.50 to download PDF file.
It was published in 1900.
Download index for Clitheroe in it's Railway Days
It is a record of interesting and extraordinary events within and around the Ancient Borough from the opening of the Railway in 1850 to its Jubilee in 1900 together with humorous sketches of quaint characters & folk-lore etc.