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Darwen's fatal flood

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

• 4 mins

"They were just young men"

Paul O’Gorman uncovers the story behind a monument on the moors above Chorley.

• 3 mins

Turton's weird turrets

Paul O'Gorman visits a Lancashire landmark tower with a distinctive turreted bridge.

• 3 mins

Stone by Stone

When the reservoirs were built, the congregation moved away St Stephen’s moved too

• 3 mins

Sir Edmund Arrowsmith’s ‘Holy Hand’

Claire Ashmore hears about the Catholic martyr’s lasting Lancashire legacy

• 4 mins

The unsung stargazer

Claire hears how Jeremiah Horrocks’ observations were light years ahead of his time

• 4 mins

Dressed for display

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

• 3 mins

How modern giving came out of tragedy

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

• 3 mins

Not all fun at the fair

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

• 5 mins

Demise of a thriving community

Historian Stephen Oldfield explores what’s left of Lancashire’s lost village of Grane

• 3 mins

An illicit past time

The expert illegal whisky maker of Haslingden

• 4 mins

A beautiful ‘hellhole’

Stephen Oldfield visits an idyllic spot in Rossendale, believed to be home to the devil

• 3 mins

Preserving the pears

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

• 3 mins