@SteveWtalks

Lancashire based historian, author & speaker with range of fully illustrated talks, many with a North West connection. See @NowtbutaLad for history posts on X.

 Chorley, Lancashire, U.K.
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Joined October 2011
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Remembering Ordinary Seaman Kenneth Sharples from #Chorley who played in the #Blackburn @Rovers A team and lost his life on active service with the Royal Navy on this day in 1943 #LestWeForget. His story is featured in our talk 'Rovers Fallen Heroes' this Thursday @brfcsdotcom
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According to one Lancashire newspaper the famous @vimto drink was invented in 1908 in #Blackburn #Lancashire by local man John Nicols - Google says in Manchester; however it is still a Lancashire icon 🌹. @FORLancashire
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Back in 1959 #Lancashire independent coach operator Standerwick had an office on Chapel Street in #Blackpool. They got taken over by the larger Ribble Motors and, like the Central railway station in the town, their office site is now a car park. @BCVMLeyland
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Article from the @lancstelegraph in 1992 reporting that planning permission had been granted for the re-development of Ewood Park into a 25,000 all-seater stadium for "just £12 million". #Blackburn. #Football #Lancashire @brfcsdotcom @RoversXtra @readrovers @BRFC_Archive
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'Made in #Lancashire' - Holland's Pies were founded in Haslingden in 1851 and are still going strong. Drivers in front of one of the iconic liveried vans (date unknown). @HollandsPies @MarketingLancs
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The A6 'Skerton Bridge' and the extensive site of #Lancaster Green Ayre station, engine shed and sidings by the banks of the River Lune in the city, probably late 1950s, early 1960s - #Railways now all long gone. [pic. A. Reilly / Lancaster Past & Present] #Lancashire @railnigel
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Our next meeting is at The Hub in Shadsworth #Blackburn next Thursday with a talk '@Rovers Fallen Heroes'; entry is FREE with donations invited to the Blackburn with Darwen RBL Poppy Appeal. @PoppyLegion @brfcsdotcom @lancstelegraph @BlackburnLife @LatestRovers @blackburnrovers
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Sorry that the story about our work with Shadsworth Junior School in #Blackburn did not get aired on @GranadaReports last night; been advised it will now be Monday.
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We understand that our #Blackburn '@Rovers Fallen Heroes' project filmed at Shadsworth Junior School earlier this month with go out tonight on @GranadaReports. @brfcsdotcom @BlackburnLife @SteveWtalks @NowtbutaLad @CroneyITV
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The Log Flume ride at #Blackpool Pleasure Beach - it closed in 2006. #Lancashire
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Looking north from Hesketh Bank railway station on the long gone #Preston to Southport line in West #Lancashire; closed in 1964, it is now a housing estate. [pic Roy Iddon]. @blogpreston @railnigel #Railways
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We will be devoting our March 2027 meeting to the #Blackburn @Rovers 1987 Full Members Cup win; our Chairman Steve Williams @SteveWtalks @NowtbutaLad will be presenting an illustrated talk. #Football @brfcsdotcom
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Staff at the unusually named Hundred End station on the now long gone #Preston to #Southport line in West #Lancashire; photographer and date unknown. Little used, it closed on April 1962. @blogpreston @railnigel
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The town centre of #Burnley in #Lancashire sometime in the 1980s.
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A Regional #Railways ‘Pacer’ DMU at Farnworth nr. #Bolton #Lancashire, July 1990.
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“Hi de hi” - Facilities at Squires Gate Holiday Camp on the Fylde Coast nr. #Blackpool #Lancashire, 1936; looks like an early example of glamping? The site between the railway and beach eventually became a Pontins Camp.
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The signals gantry at the approach to #Blackpool Central, 1921 - the land is now a road and car parking. #Lancashire #Railways
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The long lost ‘Frontierland’ amusement park at #Morecambe on the #Lancashire Coast, 1994; it operated from 1906 to November 1999.
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The signal box and level crossing at Thornton Cleveleys station on the line from Poulton-le-Fylde to #Fleetwood, in #Lancashire, 1978 [pic Alan Young]; it closed to passengers in 1970 and the last goods train went through 1999. @PWRSOfficial @railnigel #Railways
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Our Chairman Steve Williams spent the morning at Shadsworth Junior School in #Blackburn with our '@Rovers Fallen Heroes' project. @GranadaReports covered it - their reporter @CroneyITV interviewed him and some of the year 6 pupils; it should be on tv tomorrow night. @brfcsdotcom
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