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India Mill's chimney is built on the style of an Italian bell-tower or campanile
India Mill still standing tall
Journalist Harold Heys tells us more about the history of Darwen's famous landmark ahead of a talk he'll be giving in November...

Joan with her father during the war In pictures: A Blackburn childhood
Joan Potter had such a happy childhood growing up in Blackburn in the 1940s and 50s, that she wrote a book about it!

Illustration of Pendle Witch Follow the Pendle Witches trail
You can follow in the footsteps of the Pendle Witches from their homes to Lancaster Castle, where they stood trial in 1612.


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Winton's train: Milena's story
Unforgettable remembers the war
Freckleton air disaster of 1944

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