In April 1781, when Gilbert White had not long returned to his home in Selborne after a visit to Lambeth and London, he wrote ...

On July 2, 1766, a public meeting took place at the Sun Inn, Bradford to promote the building of a canal. The first sod was dug on November 5, 1770 and the main line of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal ...

In its heyday, the canal carried cotton, coal, wool, limestone, sugar and other vital commodities through the rapidly expanding industrial communities of Lancashire and Yorkshire. From the Second ...

It's been 55 years since a terrible and tragic explosion turned the Manchester Ship Canal into a 'river of fire'.

They say we've just endured the worst floods in a generation and that may be true but, as this article from the YEP on February 9, 1946 shows, there's nothing new under the sun. Did you know with a ...

From the 12th to the 17th century, the land housed Stanlow Abbey and its community of monks, and then in modern times became home to officers from the Manchester Ship Canal Police force and their ...

TODAY’s delve into the archives of the Lancashire Telegraph has unearthed this photograph of the entrance to the Foulridge tunnel taken in 1953. Although called the Mile Tunnel, the canal tunnel was ...