The Lancashire Local Historian

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Lancashire Local Historian 9, 1994
A5, 56pp, £2.50. 250gm. Postage and packing £1.15
And the blowshoppes decay for lakke of wood; How did Thomas Pennant cross the Ribble?; Poverty and the Poor Law in Formby, 1701-1900; A poor diet for poor people? Workhouse food in Lancashire, 1750-1834; In defence of the shopkeeper; Irish Nationalists in Bootle, 1868-1914; St. Mary's School Goes to War; Killing the pig: Rainford in the 1940s

Lancashire Local Historian 10, 1995
A5, 110pp, £3.00. 250gm. Postage and packing £1.15
B.J.N. Edwards - an appreciation of his work; Catholicism in the Chapelry of Rainford in the eighteenth century; Liverpool dung: The magic wand of agriculture; The Shireburne almshouses; Guiding in North-West Lancashire; Musicians and malefactors - pipers and harpers in medieval Lancashire; Birdwatching and the bird protection movement in Lancashire, 1880-1914; Landowning families and developments in transport and mining: A study of the documentary evidence; St. Chads parish church, Poulton le Fylde: rewriting its history; Upland and lowland territorial links in medieval Amounderness: the possible example of St. Michael on Wyre parish; A seventeenth century Lancashire clothier and his family: Henry Coulborn of Pilkington

Lancashire Local Historian 11, 1996
A5, 77pp, £3.50
Catholicism in Rainford on the Eve of the Irish Migration: 1786-1841; The Parker Archives Schools in Formby before 1870; Brass bands, bagpipes and banners: the Manchester Whit Friday Walk; The Old Lower Hodder Bridge; Adam de Prestwich and the Wolveleys: Some problems of identification; The borrowers: George and John Barnes of Sutton and Windle; Aughton Parochial School: a retrospective account from 1936

Lancashire Local Historian 12, 1997
A5, 56pp, £3.00
The Ribchester Gold Brooch; The Shire of Amounderness; Throttled by the wolf: life in North East Lancashire in the reign of Edward I; The impact of Civil War on the common people of South West Lancashire; The arrival of the Irish: Catholicism in the chapelry of Rainford 1841-1900; Scouting in West Lancashire 1908-1974

Lancashire Local Historian 14, 1999-2000
A5, 104pp, £4.50. 250gm. Postage and packing £1.15
Salford Hundred in the fourteenth century; Danes' Pad and Marton Mere revisited; Sir Thomas Pilkingon (1430-1502), Lord of the Manor of Bury and Pilkington, and Bury Castle; Clothing in Prescot inventories 1660-1680; Ellis Rycroft - Rogue or Paragon?; Bridges over the Irwell from Bury to Rawtenstall; The Forgotten Franchise: Who was entitled to vote in St. Helens in 1880?; The early railway scene in Preston

Lancashire Local Historian 15 2001-2002
A5, 104pp, £3.25. 250gm. Postage and packing £1.15
Penwortham Castle - a reappraisal; The chapel of St Helen's, Tarleton and its successors; Women and the Poor Law, 1760-1830; Fulwood Park, Preston - a place in the suburbs; Jonathan Dewhurst - the Lancashire tragedian; The internet for the Lancashire local historian; Book reviews

Lancashire Local Historian 16, 2003
A5, 96pp, £3.50. 250gm. Postage and packing £1.15
An apple orchard in Tudor Lancashire; The Urmston Halmot book, 1613-99; An eighteenth-century shipping enterprise based at Tarleton; Costeth House Estate; Lancashire's Manchester to Poland's Manchester; The origins of the 'Centre of the kingdom'; Westfield Memorial Village, Lancaster 'One of a kind'; Book reviews

Lancashire Local Historian 17, 2004
A5, 76pp, £3.50. 250gm. Postage and packing £1.15
Goosnargh Mill: A history of its owners and tenants; William Gould: an 18th century gardener; Hurst Farm, Outwood: a brief history; Building bridges in Lonsdale in the 17th century; Urban arenas and the management of asylums: Lancaster Lunatic Asylum, 1816-c.1885; Book reviews

Lancashire Local Historian 18, 2005
A5, 74pp, £3.50. 250gm. Postage and packing £1.15
The Sagars of Cliviger; Properties named 'Tunstall's' acquired by the Sherdley Estate, St. Helens; A walk around Manchester in 1816; Preston Penny Savings Bank; The Morecambe landscape: past, present and future

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