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Griffin C of E School
Fifty Years of Paper Making at Samlesbury Paper Mill
Thomas Grime and The Knott Mill (Darwen) Paper Company Limited
Henry Green, Mayor of Darwen 1881-82
Nothing Like It Before In The Town: Blackburn's First Asian Wedding
Darwen's Adopted Warships
Finding Malcolm Saville
Thomas Grime, Mayor of Darwen 1886-87
Alderman Arthur Townsend Way

Potters of Darwen: The Development and Commercialisation of Wallpaper Manufacture:1832 to 1875
James Dixon

James Pilkington Blackburn MP 1847-1865
My Father: A story of a textile worker in Blackburn
William Worden
Mary Agnes Hamilton: Blackburn's First Female M.P.
The Blackburn to Chorley Railway (via Feniscowles)
Blackburn's adopted Warships (Updated)
The Autobiography of Michael Walmsley: Dutton's Blackburn Brewery
Alderman Arthur Townsend
Betty Blackburn
Madge Hindle
Maud Wensley
Bob Crompton. The Greatest Rover of Them All
Driving Through the Streets of Blackburn and Darwen in 1985
Lizzie Sutcliffe Letters
The Wild West Comes to Blackburn
A Local Waterloo Hero Recalled to Mind

Private William Rothwell
Part 3: The Lightbown Family and Darwen's Spirit of Intelligent Enterprise
Blackburn under six Monarchs; George III George V

The Holden Family: Cotton Manufacturers Blackburn
Tommy Ball
The Historical Development of Ewood and Fernhurst Areas
Robert Rigby at the Charge of the Light Brigade (New Evidence)

World War 2 Blackburn Roll of Honour

The Revidge Tank
Alice (Daisy) and Sarah Garstang
Kathleen Chavassut

War Diary and Letters of Ernest Bertwistle 1914-1916
Boer War Memorial Darwen

Blackburn Parochial Streets Directory

Lucy Mellodey
Church Street; Blackburn's Premier Street

Cephos Powders; invented in Blackburn

Thwaites Arcade
The Two faces of Henry Ainsworth Hebrew Scholar and Biblical Commentator
Blackburn - a Hell Hole!
Ephemera Collection in Blackburn Central Library
Michael Brothers, J.P. and M.P.

A Tale of Two Artists
History of Thomas Hart's Rope Works Blackburn
Jim Halsall and the Shaw Collection
Joseph Fielding
Elijah Holt
Henry Newbolt: Darwen Connections
J.G. Ballard: Blackburn Roots
Collecting Dickens
Holding The Vision
The Dunn Collection
Acid House

Higher Audley, Blackburn 1945-1965
The Foundations of the Roddlesworth Paper Mills, Star Paper Mill, Feniscowles Paper Mill and Sun Paper Companies Ltd.
James "Toffy" Boyle 1804-1873
James Boyle 1849-1921
The Withnell Paper Company Limited. 1874 to 1877

Signaller John E Moody, M.M.
Private 27386 Albert Goulding

Blackburn’s First Engine Driver

Remembrance, The Story of my Granddad - An Involuntary Hero
James "Toffy" Boyle

Frank Brooks: A Darwen Man at War
Paper Mill Mania around Darwen and Blackburn in the 1870s
The Darwen Paper Company Limited
Women at Peterloo
Darwen Street and Shops of Yesteryear
1882 Tram Accident at Ewood Bridge
The Freedom of Darwen Moors
Some Local Place Names
Note Book of P.C. 23 Charles Whitehead
Darwen’s Last Hand-Loom Weaver
Mrs. Elma Amy Yerburgh
Blackburn's Waterfall Flood 1964
Darwen, The Town in Other Days
Audley Refuse Destructor
A Vanished Community
Sarah Buckley (Blackburn's first lady Mayor)
George Burnett's Diary 1862 - 1863
Elizabeth Ann Lewis; The Drunkard's Friend
Ethel Carnie and William Hall Burnett
Peronne and Maricourt
William H. Grimbaldeston V.C.
Blackburn and the Women's Movement

World War 2 Blackburn Roll of Honour

Blackburn Roll of Honour 1914-1921

The Blackburn Roll of Honour WW1 1929
Darwen Roll of Honour

A Selection of Great War Tales of Proud Darreners