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A square of squares

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

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A blueprint for fingerprints

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

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The "proud and mighty" Woodend

Paul O'Gorman digs into Burnley's mining history where miners walked down to 700ft.

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The jealous Doctor Ruxton

Historian Peter Wade visits Lancaster to tell the true story of murderer Dr. Buck Ruxton.

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The lost farms of Brinscall

Paul O'Gorman hears about a number of farms that have gone missing from Brinscall Moors.

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Brinscall's wartime secret

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

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Fleetwood's The Goth "just disappeared"

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

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Fleetwood's American tragedy

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

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Finding Fleetwood's famous point

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

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Whittle-le-Woods wayside weeping stone

The hidden story behind some of Lancashire roadside stones.

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Where is Hoghton Tower's tower?

Paul O'Gorman wonders why there is apparently no tower at Hoghton Tower.

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Venetian strings on Blackburn's streets

Paul O'Gorman hears how classical violinist Niccol貌 Paganini wowed east Lancashire.

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Empire of the fun

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

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Handcuffs in Handbags!

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

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Where is the Brinscall waterfall?

Does the Brinscall waterfall exist or has it disappeared?

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The Battle of Bamber Bridge

Over 80 years ago, tragedy struck on a wartime summer night in a Lancashire town.

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The "proud and mighty" Woodend

Paul O'Gorman digs into Burnley's mining history where miners walked down to 700ft.

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Inside a Lancashire nuclear bunker

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

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Brindle's field of broken dreams

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

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The village built in a year

Local historian Boyd Harris tells us the remarkable story of Withnell Fold.

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"A little vim and tonic"

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

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The mysterious mark in the well house

Hoghton Tower's recently discovered marking that is meant to hold evil spirits at bay.

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The Birdman of Feniscowles

Paul O'Gorman reports on a Blackburn man and the early days of flying.

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"They didn't know what would happen"

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

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The Whittle-le-Woods benchmark

Paul O'Gorman visits an easily missed marking that changed the way we view the world.

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"They'd never seen a barge before"

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

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Anglezarke's Wedgwood link

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

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Queen Victoria's Darwen legacy

How celebrating Queen Victoria's Jubilee inspired the building of Darwen Tower.

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Cow Well Steps

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

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Did Charles Dickens save Hoghton Tower?

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

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