Claire Ashmore hears about the Catholic martyr’s lasting Lancashire legacy
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Sir Edmund Arrowsmith’s ‘Holy Hand’
The unsung stargazer
Claire hears how Jeremiah Horrocks’ observations were light years ahead of his time
Dressed for display
Claire Ashmore takes us to Padiham to uncover the mystery of two, century old costumes
How modern giving came out of tragedy
Remembering the lives lost in the 1886 Southport and St Anne’s lifeboat disaster
Not all fun at the fair
Padiham archivist Kieron Ridehalgh explains how a travelling show turned to tragedy
Demise of a thriving community
Historian Stephen Oldfield explores what’s left of Lancashire’s lost village of Grane
An illicit past time
The expert illegal whisky maker of Haslingden
A beautiful ‘hellhole’
Stephen Oldfield visits an idyllic spot in Rossendale, believed to be home to the devil
Preserving the pears
Claire Ashmore hears how a Lancashire orchard is home to the last trees of their kind