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Page last updated at 10:40 GMT, Friday, 20 November 2009

Nick Dougherty was spotted at an early age by Nick Faldo
Lancashire's golfing history
Journalist David Birtill from Withnell Fold has spent the last three years writing the history of the Lancashire Union of Golf Clubs to mark its centenary in 2010.

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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In pictures: Victorian Society
Winton's train: Milena's story
Freckleton air disaster of 1944

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