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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.

• 3 mins

Anglezarke's Wedgwood link

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

• 3 mins

Queen Victoria's Darwen legacy

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

• 4 mins

Cow Well Steps

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

• 3 mins

Did Charles Dickens save Hoghton Tower?

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

• 4 mins

Turton's unexpected guest

Some recollections of Turton Tower have a hint of the supernatural,

• 3 mins

The Whittle Millstones

Paul O'Gorman hears how Whittle-le-Woods and bread making have a shared history.

• 3 mins

A Whittle-le-Woods disaster

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

• 4 mins

The Blackburn Giant

Frederick Kempster stood out head and shoulders above the rest.

• 4 mins

Blackburn hero's "no surrender"

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

• 4 mins

The Woodplumpton Witch

In the 17th century, Prestonian Meg Shelton was accused of witchcraft.

• 3 mins

Whittle鈥檚 Community Past

The long history behind the site which is now home to a surgery.

• 4 mins

Darwen's fatal flood

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

• 4 mins

"They were just young men"

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

• 3 mins

Turton's weird turrets

Paul O'Gorman visits a Lancashire landmark tower with a distinctive turreted bridge.

• 3 mins