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Hidden Lancashire

Explore fascinating stories from Lancashire.

Radio Lancashire,65 episodes

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The village built in a year
Local historian Boyd Harris tells us the remarkable story of Withnell Fold.
24 Jul 2024,3 mins
Brindle's field of broken dreams
Historian Boyd Harris surveys a Brindle field that has a shocking history.
4 mins
Inside a Lancashire nuclear bunker
Michael Prescott is currently restoring a nuclear bunker underneath a Lancashire field..
4 mins
Why did Charles Dickens visit Blackburn?
Historian Steve Irwin says the author's visit to the town proved historic.
22 Jul 2024,3 mins
The "proud and mighty" Woodend
Paul O'Gorman digs into Burnley's mining history where miners walked down to 700ft.
22 Jul 2024,4 mins
The Battle of Bamber Bridge
Over 80 years ago, tragedy struck on a wartime summer night in a Lancashire town.
22 Jul 2024,4 mins
Where is the Brinscall waterfall?
Does the Brinscall waterfall exist or has it disappeared?
22 Jul 2024,3 mins
Handcuffs in Handbags!
How the role of Lancashire's women police officers has developed through the years
22 Jul 2024,4 mins
Empire of the fun
Claire Ashmore hears about the Burnley Empire's glory days and its ongoing restoration.
22 Jul 2024,4 mins
Venetian strings on Blackburn's streets
Paul O'Gorman hears how classical violinist Niccolò Paganini wowed east Lancashire.
22 Jul 2024,4 mins
Where is Hoghton Tower's tower?
Paul O'Gorman wonders why there is apparently no tower at Hoghton Tower.
22 Jul 2024,3 mins
Whittle-le-Woods wayside weeping stone
The hidden story behind some of Lancashire roadside stones.
22 Jul 2024,3 mins
Finding Fleetwood's famous point
Paul O'Gorman heads off to the Wyre coast to discover the historic Rossall Point
22 Jul 2024,3 mins
Fleetwood's American tragedy
The tragedy of Captain Arthur Sinclair and the crew of the Leila that capsized in 1865.
22 Jul 2024,4 mins
Fleetwood's The Goth "just disappeared"
Historian Dave Pearce remembers how twenty one men died aboard a Fleetwood trawler.
22 Jul 2024,4 mins
Brinscall's wartime secret
Local historian Debbie Pope climbs the West Pennine moors to show us a wartime decoy.
19 Jul 2024,3 mins
The lost farms of Brinscall
Paul O'Gorman hears about a number of farms that have gone missing from Brinscall Moors.
15 Jul 2024,4 mins
The jealous Doctor Ruxton
Historian Peter Wade visits Lancaster to tell the true story of murderer Dr. Buck Ruxton.
15 Jun 2024,4 mins
The "proud and mighty" Woodend
Paul O'Gorman digs into Burnley's mining history where miners walked down to 700ft.
03 Oct 2023,4 mins
A doodlebug for Christmas
Paul O'Gorman explores why a mysterious plaque appeared in Gregson Lane.
01 Oct 2023,4 mins
A blueprint for fingerprints
Paul O'Gorman hears how mass fingerprinting of men in Blackburn solved a murder case.
01 Oct 2023,4 mins
A square of squares
Steve Harrison explains how Preston's Winckley Square wasn't always one big square.
01 Oct 2023,3 mins
In the shadow of a Tockholes church
Historian Debbie Pope visits a distinctive grave near St. Stephen's Church in Tockholes.
10 Sep 2023,3 mins
Pilling's most famous pig
Historian Dave Pearce traces the tracks of the Pilling Pig.
10 Sep 2023,3 mins
What happened to Wyre Light?
The first screwpile lighthouse was built off the Fleetwood coast. What happened to it?
06 Sep 2023,3 mins
Morecambe's empty gateway
The entrance to Poulton Hall stands proudly in Morecambe, but where is the hall?
17 Aug 2023,3 mins
Westminster now sitting in Clitheroe
Paul O'Gorman discovers a piece of Westminster sitting in Clitheroe Castle.
13 Aug 2023,3 mins
Morecambe's Poulton le Sands
Historian Peter Wade explains why an area of Morecambe is really Poulton-le-Sands.
06 Aug 2023,3 mins
A Wheelton myth?
Paul O'Gorman goes in search of an underground passage and a lost mill.
04 Aug 2023,4 mins
What lies beneath the M61?
Paul O'Gorman goes in search of a piece of history buried in Whittle-le-Woods.
03 Aug 2023,2 mins