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Hidden Lancashire Episodes

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    Preserving the pears

    Claire Ashmore hears how a Lancashire orchard is home to the last trees of their kind

  2. Preserving the pears

    Claire Ashmore hears how a Lancashire orchard is home to the last trees of their kind

  3. Pilling's most famous pig

    Historian Dave Pearce traces the tracks of the Pilling Pig.

  4. Not all fun at the fair

    Padiham archivist Kieron Ridehalgh explains how a travelling show turned to tragedy

  5. Not all fun at the fair

    Padiham archivist Kieron Ridehalgh explains how a travelling show turned to tragedy

  6. Morecambe's Poulton le Sands

    Historian Peter Wade explains why an area of Morecambe is really Poulton-le-Sands.

  7. Morecambe's empty gateway

    The entrance to Poulton Hall stands proudly in Morecambe, but where is the hall?

  8. Inside a Lancashire nuclear bunker

    Michael Prescott is currently restoring a nuclear bunker underneath a Lancashire field..

  9. In the shadow of a Tockholes church

    Historian Debbie Pope visits a distinctive grave near St. Stephen's Church in Tockholes.

  10. How modern giving came out of tragedy

    Remembering the lives lost in the 1886 Southport and St Anne鈥檚 lifeboat disaster

  11. Hidden Lancashire: Bretherton's Bank Hall gem

    Paul O'Gorman hears the history of Bretherton's Grade II listed Jacobean mansion.

  12. Handcuffs in Handbags!

    How the role of Lancashire's women police officers has developed through the years

  13. Fleetwood's The Goth "just disappeared"

    Historian Dave Pearce remembers how twenty one men died aboard a Fleetwood trawler.

  14. Fleetwood's American tragedy

    The tragedy of Captain Arthur Sinclair and the crew of the Leila that capsized in 1865.

  15. Finding Fleetwood's famous point

    Paul O'Gorman heads off to the Wyre coast to discover the historic Rossall Point

  16. Empire of the fun

    Claire Ashmore hears about the Burnley Empire's glory days and its ongoing restoration.

  17. Dressed for display

    Claire Ashmore takes us to Padiham to uncover the mystery of two, century old costumes

  18. Did Charles Dickens save Hoghton Tower?

    Paul O'Gorman discovers the famous novelist found inspiration in the Lancashire landmark.

  19. Demise of a thriving community

    Historian Stephen Oldfield explores what鈥檚 left of Lancashire鈥檚 lost village of Grane

  20. Demise of a thriving community

    Historian Stephen Oldfield explores what鈥檚 left of Lancashire鈥檚 lost village of Grane

  21. Darwen's fatal flood

    In 1848, a Darwen dam overflowed killing twelve people in the town centre.

  22. Cow Well Steps

    The Whittle-le-Woods relic of the past that is a pathway to history.

  23. Brinscall's wartime secret

    Local historian Debbie Pope climbs the West Pennine moors to show us a wartime decoy.

  24. Brindle's field of broken dreams

    Historian Boyd Harris surveys a Brindle field that has a shocking history.

  25. Blackpool's vintage cinema

    Paul O'Gorman explores the secrets behind Blackpool's century old Regent Cinema.

  26. Blackburn hero's "no surrender"

    Simon Entwistle remembers Private James Pitts who was awarded the Victoria Cross.

  27. Anglezarke's Wedgwood link

    How Lead Mines Clough played a formative role in the creation of Wedgwood pottery.

  28. An illicit past time

    The expert illegal whisky maker of Haslingden

  29. An illicit past time

    The expert illegal whisky maker of Haslingden

  30. A Whittle-le-Woods disaster

    Historian Boyd Harris visits the site of a former factory that was destroyed by fire.

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