Accrington

• Blackburn, Burnley, Clitheroe & Accrington Directory 1868 – 259 pages
• Accrington History 628 to 1924 – 80 pages
• Accrington Mechanics Institute 1845 to 1895 – 47 pages
• Accrington’s Men of Mark – 88 pages
• Blackburn Advertisements 1868 – 43 pages
• Blackburn Centenary 1851 to 1951 – 14 pages
• Blackburn History 317 to 1883 – 100 pages
• Blackburn Parish Church – 8 pages
• Burnley Ebenezer Baptist Church 1779 to 1908 – 42 pages
• Clitheroe in the Old Coaching Days - 56 pages
• Clitheroe in its Railway Days - 340 pages
• Map of Lancashire

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Blackburn, Burnley, Clitheroe & Accrington Directory 1868 includes:

Accrington Aighton Altham Alston-with-Hothersall Bacup Bailey Balderstone Barley-cum-Wheatley Barrowford Baxenden Blackburn Bowland-with-Leagram Briercliffe-with-Extwisle Brierfield Burnley Chaigley Chatburn Church Clayton-le-Dale Clayton-le-Moors Clitheroe Cliviger Colne Crawshawbooth Dilworth Dinckley Downham Dunnockshaw Dutton Eccleshill Foulridge Goldshaw Booth Goodshaw Great Harwood Green Howorth Hapton Haslingden Helmshore Henheads Heyhouses Higham-with-West Close Booth Huncoat Hurst Green Ighton Hill Park Knowle Green Little Harwood Livesey Lower Darwen Lumb Marsden Mearley Mellor Little Mitton Mitton Parish Nelson Newchurch Old Laund Booth Osbaldeston Oswaldtwistle Over Darwen Padiham Pendleton Pleasington Ramsgrave Rawtenstall Read Reedley Hallows Ribchester Rishton Rossendale Rough Lee Booth Sabden Bridge Salisbury Samlesbury Simonstone Stacksteads Stonyhusrt College Tockholes Trawden Forest Tunstead Twiston Waterbarn Waterfoot Whalley Abbey Wheatley Carr Wilpshire Wiswell Worston Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood Yate Pickup Bank

Accrington History 628 to 1924: Chronological Notes include:

Abbey Grange
Abbot Paslew
Accrington
Altham Church
Anti-corn law League
Balloon Ascent
Catlow Hall
Clayton-le-Moors
Clitheroe Castle
Coaching Days
Coronation
Cotton Famine
De Lacy Inquisition
Domesday
Duke of Lancaster
Dunkenhalgh
Fire Brigade
First Carding Engine
Gas & Waterworks
Haslingden Church
High Riley
High Riley
Hoghton Tower
Johnson’s Theatre
Judge Walmesley
Kirkstall Abbey
Lighing & Watching Act
Lower Antley
Luddite Riots
Manor of Oswaldtwistle
Mechanics Institute
Milnshaw House
Nowell Family
Peel Institution
Plug-drawing riots
Poor Law Union
Power Loom Riots
Railway
Rough Hey
Sir Thomas Walmesley
South African War
Sparth House
Spinning Jenny
The Yates of Belthorn
Turnpike Road
Whalley Abbey
Whalley Parish, Blackburnshire
Window Tax

Accrington Mechanics Institute 1845 to 1895:

includes lists of the Officers, Honorary Members, Ordinary Members, Lady Members & Youths.

Accrington’s Men of Mark:

Many of the sketches in this book are summaries of Biographies which appeared in the "Accrington Observer and Times."

The District of which Accrington is the Centre gave the nation many families who figured conspicuously in Lancashire History centuries ago - the Walmsleys of Dunkenhalgh, the Cunliffes of Hollins and Sparth, the Lonsdales and the Rileys of High Riley, the Rishtons of Antley and Dunnyshop, the Bannasters and Wroe-Waltons of Altham, and others.

Accrington owes much of its pre-eminence as an industrial centre to the Peels of Peel Fold and Accrington, to the Taylors and Forts of Oakenshaw, to the Hargreaveses of Broad Oak, and , at a later period, to the Bulloughs of Globe Works. The Peels were among the pioneers in the calico-printing industry, which they developed in a remarkable degree; the Forts continued the work at Oakenshaw founded by the Peels; the Hargreaveses, after separation from Oakenshaw, were in a great measure responsible for the growth of Accrington in the early part of last century, and the Bulloughs were equally successful in the sister branch of the textile industry, in the making of machinery first for cotton weaving and subsequently cotton spinning.

Associated with these great firms were men who rose to fame. John Mercer, the illustrious chemist, was part and parcel of the Oakenshaw Works. Frederick Steiner, founder of the prosperous Turkey-red Dye Works at Church, commenced his remarkable career at Broad Oak, and the Lightfoots were also closely identified with the Hargreaveses.