Cotton mills
Message: Hi Peter - my mother worked briefly in a cotton mill in East Lancashire before it shut down in the 60’s or possible early 70’s....
Chartists and the issue of moral and physical force
Dear Darren Thank you for your query about the Chartists and the issue of moral and physical force and how it may have affected...
Chartists
Dear LHL I am a student of history in Lancashire and have recently come across the great story of the Chartists in the early nineteenth...
Chip Butty!
Dear Angela Like most queries connected to the living and forever changing nature of language, there is no simple answer to you and your...
Chip Buttie!
Dear LHL My friend and I are having a dispute only you can settle. A chip sandwich in north east Lancs is, I contest, called a chip...
Jack Moors Monkey Business
Jack Moore’s Monkeys. A quick preliminary cipher through the local press tells LHL that Jack Moore’s Monkeys was a popular tea garden at...
Welcome from Peter
Peter welcomes you to his site
"reply the same day"
I emailed Labourhistorylancs .com and had a reply the same day. They were most helpful in locating some people who could help me with a...
Jack Moors Monkey’s?
Has anyone out there got any information on a location called Jack Moors Monkey’s? It was a place in Lancashire where my father used to...
Ireland Calling
“I contacted Labourhistorylancs.com to make an enquiry about Ireland and though they were unable to help me with my specific area of...
