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Hidden Lancashire Episodes

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    Inside a Lancashire nuclear bunker

    Michael Prescott is currently restoring a nuclear bunker underneath a Lancashire field..

  2. In the shadow of a Tockholes church

    Historian Debbie Pope visits a distinctive grave near St. Stephen's Church in Tockholes.

  3. Hidden Lancashire: Bretherton's Bank Hall gem

    Paul O'Gorman hears the history of Bretherton's Grade II listed Jacobean mansion.

  4. Handcuffs in Handbags!

    How the role of Lancashire's women police officers has developed through the years

  5. Fleetwood's The Goth "just disappeared"

    Historian Dave Pearce remembers how twenty one men died aboard a Fleetwood trawler.

  6. Fleetwood's American tragedy

    The tragedy of Captain Arthur Sinclair and the crew of the Leila that capsized in 1865.

  7. Finding Fleetwood's famous point

    Paul O'Gorman heads off to the Wyre coast to discover the historic Rossall Point

  8. Empire of the fun

    Claire Ashmore hears about the Burnley Empire's glory days and its ongoing restoration.

  9. Did Charles Dickens save Hoghton Tower?

    Paul O'Gorman discovers the famous novelist found inspiration in the Lancashire landmark.

  10. Darwen's fatal flood

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

  11. Cow Well Steps

    The Whittle-le-Woods relic of the past that is a pathway to history.

  12. Brinscall's wartime secret

    Local historian Debbie Pope climbs the West Pennine moors to show us a wartime decoy.

  13. Brindle's field of broken dreams

    Historian Boyd Harris surveys a Brindle field that has a shocking history.

  14. Blackpool's vintage cinema

    Paul O'Gorman explores the secrets behind Blackpool's century old Regent Cinema.

  15. Blackburn hero's "no surrender"

    Simon Entwistle remembers Private James Pitts who was awarded the Victoria Cross.

  16. Anglezarke's Wedgwood link

    How Lead Mines Clough played a formative role in the creation of Wedgwood pottery.

  17. A Whittle-le-Woods disaster

    Historian Boyd Harris visits the site of a former factory that was destroyed by fire.

  18. A Wheelton myth?

    Paul O'Gorman goes in search of an underground passage and a lost mill.

  19. A square of squares

    Steve Harrison explains how Preston's Winckley Square wasn't always one big square.

  20. A doodlebug for Christmas

    Paul O'Gorman explores why a mysterious plaque appeared in Gregson Lane.

  21. A blueprint for fingerprints

    Paul O'Gorman hears how mass fingerprinting of men in Blackburn solved a murder case.

  22. "They'd never seen a barge before"

    Paul O'Gorman investigates what happened to a missing piece of the Lancaster Canal.

  23. "They were just young men"

    Paul O鈥橤orman uncovers the story behind a monument on the moors above Chorley.

  24. "They didn't know what would happen"

    How Chapeltown village was a starting point for soldiers heading for the First World War.

  25. "A little vim and tonic"

    How a drink created in Lancashire has become a household name in over seventy countries.

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