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Page last updated at 12:33 GMT, Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Edward Stocks Massey was prepared to see most of his fortune go to the town of Burnley

Massey's: Burnley's famous brewers

Alan Gall tells us more about the history of the famous Burnley brewing family, Massey's.

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.

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!

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Follow the Pendle Witches trail

India Mill still standing tall

Handless corpse case uncovered

Solving the Witton Park rape

Families Reunited: The Rimmers

100 years of flying from Blackpool

Detectives uncover Allen Clarke

Where's Thomas Pollard's diary?

Winton's train: Milena's story

Freckleton air disaster of 1944

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Cotton Town

Friends of Real Lancashire

Hoghton Tower

Lancashire Museums

The History of Lancashire

The Accrington Pals

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