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Index of Subjects that have appeared in the Newsletters
         
Book Reviews Censuses Churches Families Health & Disease
         
History History 16th C. History 17th C. History 18th C. History 19th C.
         
History 20th C. History 21st C. Information Leisure Miscellaneous
         
Obituaries Out Visit Place Names Projects Quarter Sessions
         
Strays Surnames Talks Trade & Industry  
         
Book Reviews
    
Choppy Warburton: Hero or Villain Oct-2006  
David Whitehead of Rawtenstall (1790 - 1865) May-2001 Manufacturer
Edenfield Through Time by John Simpson Aug-2010 Photographs
Haslingden & Helmshore Through Time Sep-2010  
History of Edenfield and District. Jul-2003  
Law Family of Todmorden & Calder Valley Aug-2007  
Laws of Rossendale?. 1500 - 1750/1800 Aug-2002  
Musbury and Alden May-2008 700 Years of History
Pickups of Rossendale Jul-2008  
Rossendale: the Second Selection, Ken Bowden Jul-2002 Photographs
The Spirit of Haslingden & Helmshore Jan-2003 Photographs
The Slaidburn Angel by Sheelagh Whittaker Dec-2012  
Water Spinners. A new look at the cotton trade Feb-2004 Lancashire
Where Heroes Rest. Bacup's dead from WWI. Wendy Lord Jan-2013  
Censuses
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Census Indexes - 1841 Sep-2004 Rossendale
Census Indexes - 1851 Oct-2004 Rossendale
Census Indexes - 1861 Nov-2004 Rossendale
Census Indexes - 1871 Dec-2004 Rossendale
Census Indexes - 1881 & 1891 Jan-2005 Rossendale
Census Indexes - 1901 Feb-2005 Rossendale
Census Indexes - 1901 missing page Feb-2004 Bacup
1911 Census Feb-2009 Access to website
1911 Census Dec-2009 Available at The Straits
1911 Census - News from Ancestry.co.uk Jan-2011  
Churches
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Bacup Baptist Churches Feb-2003 Old Church in Rosendale
Bacup Britannia Wesleyan Baptist Chapel Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup Ebenezer Baptist Chapel Feb-2003 Location of Rrgisters
Bacup Ebenezer Baptist Chaperl Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup Heald Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup Irwell Terrace Baptist Chapel Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup Mount Pleasant Methodist Chapel Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup Mount Pleasant Methodist Chapel Apr 2012  
Bacup St. John Registers Mar-2007 Location of Registers
Bacup St. John's Registers Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup St. John's Registers Jul-2009 Transcription Work
Bacup St. Mary RC Church Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup St. Mary's RC Church Aug-2000 Catholic Records
Bacup Stacksteads Primitive Methodist Chapel Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup Thorn Wesleyan Chapel Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup Tunstead Holy Trinity Feb-2001 Location of Marraige Records
Bacup Wesley Place Methodist Chapel Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bacup Wesleyan Chapel Mar-2000 Location of Registers
Bethlehem Unitarian Newchurch Jan-2010 1906 Re-union
Crawshawbooth Quakers in Rossendale Jul-2002 Did you miss our talk?
Crawshawbooth Rakefoot Wesleyan Chapel Jan-2000 List of Transcriptions
Crawshawbooth Rakefoot Wesleyan Chapel Jan-2008 Adult Baptisms 1836-37
Crawshawbooth Sunnyside Baptist Church Jan-2000 List of Transcripts
Edgeside Mount Zion Baptist Church Feb-2001 Location of Transcript
Goodshaw Chapel: An 18th Century Furore Oct-2001 Goodshaw 1777
Goodshaw St. Mary & All Saints Jan-2000 List of Trancripts
Goodshaw St. Mary & All Saints. Dec-2003 Chance children
Goodshaw St. Mary & All Saints. Sep-2004 Perserverance Pays
Goodshaw St. Mary & All Saints. Jan-2005 Baptisms: Casting the wider net
Haslingden Congregational Chapel Jan-2013 Early histoy
Haslingden King St. Methodist Chapel Aug-2004 History
Haslingden King St. Methodist Chapel Apr-2004 Location of Registers
Haslingden King St. Methodist Chapel, May-2001 Photograph 1823
Haslingden Manchester Rd. Church Apr-2004 Location of Registers
Haslingden Methodism Jul-2004 History
Haslingden St. James Jun-2001 Miscellaneous information
Haslingden St. James Jun-2001 Registers
Haslingden St. James Dec-2007 Monumental Inscriptions
Haslingden St. Mary's RC Church Aug-2000 Catholic Records
Haslingden St. Mary's RC Church Apr-2004 History
Haslingden St. Mary's RC Church Mar-2004 History
Loveclough Providence United Methodist Chapel Jan-2000 List of Ttranscriptions
Newchurch Bethlehem Unitarian Church Jan-2006 History
Newchurch Bethseda Chapel Jul-2005 History
Newchurch Bethseda Chapel Jan-2006 Index to History
Newchurch St, Nicholas Sep-2008 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Nov-2004 A Peel of Bells
Newchurch St. Nicholas Dec-2006 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Aug-2007 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Jan-2007 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Jun-2007 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Mar-2007 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Nov-2007 Baptisms 1723 -1772
Newchurch St. Nicholas Jan-2008 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Jun-2008 Burials -Margin Notes
Newchurch St. Nicholas Dec-2004 Baptisms Missing
Newchurch St. Nicholas Jan-2005 Baptisms Missing
Newchurch St. Nicholas Apr-2005 Baptisms Missing
Newchurch St. Nicholas May-2009 Burial -Margin Notes
Newchurch St. Nicholas Jul-2009 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Oct-2009 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Sep-2010 Transcription Work
Newchurch St. Nicholas Parish Magazine, Dec-2001 February Burials 1896
Newchurch St. Nicholas Parish Magazine. Nov-2001 Extracts 1896
Newchurch St. Nicholas Nov-2008 LPRS CDs
Quaker Family History Society Dec-2002 Crawshawbooth
Rawtenstall Jubilee Methodist Chapel Jan-2000 List of Transcriptions
Rawtenstall Longholme Methodist Chapel Jan-2000 List of Transcriptions
Rawtenstall Longholme Methodist Chapel Sep-2003 Haslingden- Marriages Extract.
Rawtenstall Longholme Methodist Chapel Aug-2006 Where to find records.
Rawtenstall St. James the Less RC Church Aug-2000 Catholic Records
Rawtenstall Unitarian Chapel Nov-2006 List of Records
Rossendale RC Churches Oct-2002 The Other 1851 Census
Rossendale RC Records Jun-2000 History & Location
Stonefold St. John Aug-2001 Closure
Stonefold St. John Sep-2001 Closure
Stonefold St. John Feb-2008 War Memorial
Stonefold St. John Mar-2008 War Memorial Pt. 2.
Stonefold St. John Apr-2009 War Memorial WW2
Waterfoot Bethel Baptist Chapel Jan-2000 List of Trancriptions
Waterfoot St. James the Great May-2008 Donors of Bells
Whitewell Bottom Methodist Chapel Jan-2000 List of Transcriptions
Quaker Records Oct-2002 Crawshawbooth
Quakers in Rossendale - Julia Hoyle Jul-2002 Did you miss?- A talk
Families
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Ashworths Dec-2006 Honor of Clitheroe
Ashworths Aug-2008 Newchurch 1773 - 1813
Boyson Family Sep-2012 Rossendale & Cambridge
Chew Family- Bible Oct-2001 Pedigree Extracts
Cunliffe Letters Apr-2000 1830 - 1848
Cunliffe Letters Mar-2000 1830 - 1846
Cunliffes & Taylors Part 1. Oct-2008 From Shropshire to Rawtenstall
Cunliffes & Taylors Part 2. Nov-2008 Inn Keepers of Rawtenstall
Fielden Family of Rawtenstall Jan-2001 Railwaymen
Hardman Family of Brandwood Dec-2010  
Hargreaves Archives Apr-2008 Joan Hargreaves
Hargreaves Family Jul-2010 A Hargreaves Confusion
Haworth Association of America Apr-2007 Gambleside
Haworth Family Jun-2004 Journey back to Haslingden
Haworth-Howarth DNA Project Sep-2008  
Jackson, Samuel: Bible Nov-2007 Thank you Grandpa
Law Family of Todmorden & Calder Valley Aug-2007 Book Review
Laws of Rossendale?. 1500 - 1750/1800 Aug-2002 Book Review
Pickups of Rossendale Jul-2008 Book Review
Rostron Family Dec-2002 Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations
Rostron Family May-2004 Clogs Apparently not
Rothwell Family, Bacup Nov-2000  
Scholes Family- Remembered in stone Oct-2006 A gravestone
Scholes Family Oct-2012 Newchurch
Stephenson, Henry: Manuscripts and Notebooks Dec-2000 36 Local Pedigrees
Taylor, Joshua & his three wives Aug-2007  
Taylor: Children of the Lant Lad. Nov-2006  
Taylors of Rossendale Dec-2005 Newchurch & USA
Taylors of Rossendale Part 2 Jan-2006  
Taylor, Andrew - Husband, Father, Innkeeper Mar-2005 Rossendale
Townsend Family Apr-2010 The Holme & Townsend Fold
Trippier Family 1700 - 1800 Mar-2010  
Warburton One Name Study Aug-2010  
Whitehead Family May-2010 A Whitehead Family Dilemma
Health & Diseases
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Balsam of Many Virtues. 1774 May-2003 Manchester Mercury
Causes of Immorality - 1864 Sep-2001 Bacup & Rossendale
Diary of Richard Kay (1716 - 1751), May-2003 An 18th Century Doctor
Smallpox Outbreak in Rawtenstall? 1893 May-2003 Register Extract
History
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Brandwood in the Forest of Rossendale Dec-2010  
Blue Plaques at Haslingden Oct-2000  
History of Edenfield and District. Jul-2003  
Musbury and Alden May-2008 700 years of history
Rossendale: the Second Selection, Ken Bowden Jul-2002 Book Review
Spirit of Haslingden and Helmshore Jan-2003 Book Review
History 16th C
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Honor of Clitheroe Dec-2006 Early Rossendale
Petition for a Church in Rossendale c1510 May-2000 Newchurch
History 17th C
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Civil Registration Marriages at Haslingden Aug-2013  
History 18th C
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Balsam of Many Virtues Apr-2003 Medicine
Methodists: extracts from St. James' Registers. Haslingden Aug-2013  
Quakers: extracts from St. James' Registers, Haslingden Aug-2013  
Survey of Lands at Higher Booths 1791 Jul-2007 Book Review
History 19th C
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Bacup Causes of Immorality Sep-2001 Socal History 1864
Boothfold Waterfoot, Pack Horse Hotel Dec-2005  
Britsih Army Records & James Baron Apr-2011 Napoleonic War Veterans
Causes of Immorality - 1864 Sep-2001 Bacup & Rossendale
Clough Bottom Reservoir 1889 Dec-2008 Property Owners & Lesees
Forest of Rossendale, The 1878 Jan-2002 A Vitreolic Letter
Friendly Societies Jun-2009 Odd Women etc.
Helmshore Railway Accident 1860 Feb-2002  
Henheads Dec-2006  
Irish in Haslingden Jul-2005  
Irish in Haslingden Exhibition Oct-2005 Final Report
Irish Born People in Newchurch Feb-2010  
Lancaster Assizes 1805 Oct 2012  
Laund Mill & Holt Mill Feb-2007 Notes & Queries
Lonsdale Family Gravestones Nov-2012  
Mary (Holden) Hindle Mar-2002 Transported
Mary (Holden) Hindle (continued) Apr-2002 Transported
Missing Gravestone of Christopher Duckworth 1800 Nov-2012  
Population Figures - 1811 Mar-2011  
Population Figures - 1851 Jan-2002  
Richard Ashworth's Letter's from America. Oct-2009 Emigration
Rossendale Militia List 1810 Mar-2011  
Rossendale "on the sea" Feb-2005 Founders of St. Anne's on Sea
Transportation to Australia Apr-2013 From Haslingden 1808
History 20th C
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Childhood Memories Jul-2003 Bacup
Freemen of the Borough of Haslingden 1895 - 1970 Nov-2011  
Haslingden Union Records Jun-2003 Workhouse Minutes
Haslingden Union Records Jun-2003 Workhouse Minutes
Memories of Bacup in the 1950s Oct-2007  
Memories of an Evacuee WWII. Nov-2002 Rawtenstall
Remembrance Week - Visiting Uncle Fred Dec-2001 Did you miss?
Sheep House Estate, Brandwood Dec-2010 Sale by auction 1915
Touch and Take, Cockerills and Zeppelins Jul-2003 Childhood Memories
World War I Battlefirld Connections Dec-2009 Members 10 Minute Talks
World War I Haslingden Men Nov-2009 Mawdsley & Walsh
World War II -Book of Remembrance Oct-2004  
History 21st C
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A Visit to Rossendale Jul-2008  
Information
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1851 map of Lancashire, Registration areas etc. on CD Oct-2011  
Astley Hall Chorley Jul-2004 Research Centre
British Newspapers. Digitisation Nov-2011  
Bury Local History Services Feb-2011 Amalgamation with Archives Service
Bury Museum and Archives Jul-2005 New Premises
Civil Registration Certificates Apr-2010 Increase in prices
Civil Registration - e-petition for Open Acess Feb-2009  
Civil Registration - e-petition for Open Acess Oct-2011  
Civil Registration Indexes at Bury Aug-2002  
Civil Registration -Proposed Changes May-2002  
Civil Registration -Proposed Changes Sep-2003  
Civil Registration -Proposed Changes Apr 2012  
Closure of Manchester Central Library Jan-2010 Repair & Restoration 2010 - 2013
Executive News Jan-2007 Chairman's Summary
Family History Centre LDS Jan-2006 Opening Hours
Federation of Family History Society Oct-2008 Ezine -email magazine
GRO Indexes Jul-2008 Information Centres
rish BMDs available on Ancestry.co.uk Nov-2011  
Lancashire Record Office Mar-2011 Disruption to Services 2011
Lancashire Record Office Jul-2011 Closure Details. Update
Lancashire Record Offce. Re-opening date Nov-2011  
Lancashire Registration District Jun-2005 Reorganisation
LFHHS E-mail Discussion Group Jun-2008 How to sign up.
Manchester Central Library Jun-2010 Temporary closure
Manchester Collection. Availablitity of Records Nov 2011  
Old 18th & 19th Century Newspapers Jun-2013 On-line availability
Ramsbottom Observer & Bury Guardian Oct-2003 Microfilm
Reform Act 1832 Jan-2002 Information on CD
Rossendale Cemeteries index Oct 2012  
The Society's Pedigree Database Apr-2009 CD
UKGDL (Genealogical Directories and Lists On-Line) Feb-2009 Launch of Website
West Yorkshire Archive Service eshop Jan-2011  
Leisure
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Bacup Baths May-2005 c1900
Bacup- Britannia Clog Dancers Mar-2003 Did you miss?
Choppy Warburton: Hero or Villain Oct-2006 Runner & Cyclist
Cricket Team - Acre Mill Baptist Chapel Nov-2003 Photograph 1823
Larks of Dean Jan-2003 Information wanted
Longholme Choir Outings Sep-2007 Invoice donation
Rossendale Male Voice Choir Apr-2003 Talk
Walking to Waugh's Well Jul-2009  
Miscellaneous
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Arcticles -10 of the Best Reviewed Feb-2011 2000 - 2010
Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880 Nov-2005 Graveyards
Diary that is a Family Heirloom Oct-2003 Journey to Australia 1883
Burial of a leg and foot 1912 Feb-2013 Stacksteads
DNA Haworth-Howarth Sep-2008 Setting up the Project
Er - a Most Unusual Christian Name Mar-2007 Haslingden
Haslingden, Lower Lane. A home burial. 19th C. Jan-2013  
Haworth/ Howarth Jan-2011 Project Report 2010
How Odd! Sep-2003 Odd Woman Funeral
Lotta Crabtree (1847 - 1924) Dancer's gold ?. Nov-2002 California
Matilda, The introduction of a name into the Irish Community Nov-2011  
Rawtenstall Cemetery - Update Nov-2003  
Rossendale (and Rochdale) Dialect Words & Phrases Jun-2012  
Rossendale (and Rochdale) Dialect Words & Phrases Jul-2012  
Unusual Christian names
Feb-2012  
Will Index Jan-2006 Rossendale
Obituaries
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Boyson, Rhodes Sep-2012  
Bridge, Stephanie nee Dean Feb-2012  
Frankcom, Eric Jan-2010  
Miller, Valerie Donation Apr-2006  
Ormerod, Milton Dec-2009  
Simpson, Kenneth Aug-2012  
Taylor, John Amos Jan-2006 Obituary
Out Visit
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Bacup Natural History Society Oct-2009  
Blackburn Cathederal Oct-2007 Did you miss?
Fulwood Barracks and Museum, Preston Aug-2005 Did you miss?
Higher Mills Textile Museum Sep-2010  
LFHHS Resource Centre Oct 2012  
Our Walk round Haslingden Aug-2001 Historic sights
Rochdale Town Hall Aug-2002 Did you miss?
Rossendale Museum Sep-2004 Did you miss?
Place Names
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Brex Feb-2007 Notes & Queries
Chess Wheel Jul-2005 Bacup
Placenames in Newchurch Dec-2007 1723 - 1772
Placenames in Newchurch Apr-2008 1723 - 1772
Projects
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Lancashire BMD - Update Jun-2003 Rossendale
Lancashire BMD - Update Mar-2005 Rossendale
Lancashire BMD - Update
Feb-2012  
Projects Report Apr-2001  
Projects Update Jan-2000  
St. James Church, Haslingden Jan-2007 Transcription Work
Quarter Sessions
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Hearth Tax Jun-2006  
Jurors' Lists Jun-2006  
Jurors' Lists Haslingden Oct-2006 1796-
Jurors' Lists - Henheads Jan-2007 1800, 1810
Jurors' Lists - Higher Booths transcripts Jun-2006 A - M (1800; 1810)
Jurors' Lists - Higher Booths transcripts Jul-2006 N-W (1800; 1810)
Jurors' Lists - Lower Booths transcripts Aug-2006 A-He (1800; 1810)
Jurors' Lists - Lower Booths transcripts Sep-2006 Ho-W
Land Tax Jun-2006 Quarter Sessions
Quarter Sessions Records Jun-2006  
Strays
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Lancaster Castle - HM Gaol Nov-2003 Debtors - 1851
Rossendale Strays Dec-2006  
Rossendale Strays Jul-2006  
Rossendale Strays May-2006  
Surnames
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Family History Names in Rossendale Jul-2002 1400-1800
Haworth or Howarth or even Howorth? May-2005  
Rossendale Surnames Feb-2001  
Rossendale Surnames - continued Mar-2001  
Surnames of Rossendale Dec-2006 Honor of Clitheroe
Where do you think you are? Feb-2006 Homes of Family Names
Talks
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A tragic death at Haslingden - 1907 May-2010 Summary of talk
Bacup - Britannia Clog Dancers Mar-2003 Did you miss?
Battlefield Connections WWI Dec-2009 Members 10 Minute Talks
Diary of Richard Kay 1716 - 1751 May-2003 Did you miss?
Family History in the North of England Dec-2009 Why do we do it?
Henry Hargreaves Diary, 1760 Jun-2003 Did you miss?
High Sherriff of Rossendale - Gloria Oates Jun-2002 Did you miss?
In search of a Mormon Dec-2009 Members 10 Minute Talks
Mines & Miners in Rossendale Oct-2005 Did you miss?
Myles Standish Jul-2004 Pilgrim Father
Oddities from the Nat. Feb-2000 Curious artifacts
Passing Trade -experiences of a funeral undertaker Mar-2001 Did you miss?
Photograohs from Bacup Nats Jun-2008 Bacup to Crawshawbooth
Photographs from Bacup Nats. Nov-2000 Did you miss?
Quakers in Rossendale Jul-2002 Did you miss?
Reflections on the Haworth Surname May-2002 Did you miss?
Rossendale Male Voice Choir Apr-2003 Did you miss?
Shaw's Ribble Valley Journey No. 1 Oct-2008 Did you miss?
The other 1851 - Rossendale Census Oct-2002 Catholic Census of 1851
What you didn't see on TV Aug-2006 The Jane Horrocks Story.
Wills: A light-hearted view on making a will Jun-2005 Did you miss?
Trade & Industry
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Barlow, J & Sons, Helmshore Jun-2007 Luke Ralph's Workbook
Birtwistle, JH & Co. Park Mill Jun-2007 Luke Ralph's Workbook
Bocking? Feb-2007 Notes & Queries
Boothfold Waterfoot, Pack Horse Hotel Dec-2005  
Brandwood Quarries Dec-2010  
Calico Printing. Auctions. Early 19th C Dec-2012  
Calico Printing Migration Early 19th C Mar-2013 Rossendale & Carlisle
Calico Printworks, Crawshawbooth Jan-2003 Information wanted
Coates, Reedsholme Jun-2007 Luke Ralph's Workbook
David Whitehead of Rawtenstall (1790 - 1865) May-2001 Manufacturer
Dean Mill and Nab Colliery Jun-2004 Newchurch
Fielding Family, Bakers & Confectoners Jun-2011 280 Newchurch Rd. Stacksteads
Forest of Rossendale, The 1878 Jan-2002 Quarrymen & Weavers
Glossary of Industrial terms used in Rossendale Aug-2012  
Hareholme Mill near Newchurch 1801 Nov-2012  
Hargreaves, Ashworth & Co. Mar-2005 Collieries
Hasler, James - Vale Mill Jun-2007 Luke Ralph's Workbook
Haslingden Corporation Jun-2007 Luke Ralph's Workbook
Haslingden Industrial Cooperative Society Jun-2007 Luke Ralph's Workbook
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum Jul-2010  
Hutch Bank Mill Co. Jun-2007 Luke Ralph's Workbook
James Bolton's Joinery Workbook May-2006  
James Haworth & Company: a family in print Jan-2002 Bacup
Luke Ralph & Sons Jun-2007 Extracts from Workbook
Luke Ralph & Sons May-2007 History of the Firm
Mines and Mining in Rossendale. Clive Seal Oct-2005 Did you miss?
Netherwood Brass Foundry Bacup Aug-2005  
Joseph Stansfield - Scout Bottom Mill Jun-2009 Great Fire
Richard Ralph Turner Feb-2006 The Truck System
Water Spinners. A new look at the cotton trade Feb-2004 Book Review
Waterfoot Borough Mineral Manufacturing Co. Apr-2004 Waterfoot
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