LINKS - Lancashire Places

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Ashton under Lyne
This site has links to local and family history resources as well as an excellent message board which includes 'genealogy' and 'looking for family & friends

Blackburn
Blackburn History - a look at Blackburn, Lancashire in days gone by.  Contains photos and information on local history.

Blackpool and the Fylde Coast
History of Blackpool - a comprehensive history with a useful timeline
See Blackpool and Fylde Development through old photographs - posted as a series of old photographs from the archives of the Evening Gazette
Rossall Beach and Fylde Postcard History

Bolton
About Bolton - site contains history, photographs, a virtual walk and a virtual drive

Chorltonville
Chortonville - a brochure produced in 1911 to promote the opening of the estate of Chorltonville on the South side of Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester.  Only available through the wayback machine at archive.org as far as I can see.  Please R2M if you can see a more up to date link for this.

Hesketh Bank and Tarleton
http://www.heskethbank.com/history.html

Liverpool and Merseyside
Bootle Times - Past, Present and Future
Liverpool 1825- this site takes you on a tour of Liverpool back in 1825
Old Liverpool - lots of snippets and information about Liverpool from Newspapers, census records, walks  - and useful links to other resources
Liverpool History Projects including:
 - Liverpool Roman Catholic Marriages
 - Liverpool Roman Catholic Baptisms
 - Liverpool Roman Catholic Burials
 - Liverpool's Fallen Heroes
 - Merseyside Aliens 1879-1912
 - Liverpool Irish Fragments
 - St Alexander RC Church Bootle and Kirkdale - Marriage Index
 - Ford Roman Catholic Cemetery
Old Merseyside Times - Liverpool and Merseyside's life and times transcribed from old newspapers including Bigamy, Graveyards & MI's, Missing Persons, Crimes & Murders, Trades & Occupations, Bankrupts, some BMD's and more
Port Cities - the Mersey Gateway containing information from the slave trade to the blitz
History and Development of Liverpool - General History of the Development of Liverpool and its Mercantile Marine Role
An Online guide to the history of Schools and Housing in Liverpool - "Find out about schools and housing in Liverpool in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A website with information and over 700 images. Researched and presented by Liverpool Record Office, especially for use in schools, with support from the DCMS/Wolfson British History Fund. "
Liverpool Schools Index

Manchester
Irish Traditional Music in Manchester

North Meols and Birkdale
North Meols and Beyond
Hodge & other family files, including the full tree (almost 9000 names, most from North Meols & Birkdale). It also contains a number of early photos of members of the Hodge family and some graves of various local families located in Churchtown, Duke St, Scarisbrick and Ontario, Canada. Also contains various war, Home child & immigration documents for the Canadian emigrant Hodges & Blundells.  Site created by Rootschatter Candolim_Imp

Oswaldtwistle
Oswaldtwistle, Church and the Haworth Families

Radcliffe
Unofficial History - site transferred from Geocities

Rochdale
Rochdale History Only available through the wayback machine at archive.org as far as I can see.  Please R2M if you can see a more up to date link for this.

Rossendale
Rossendale Family History and Heraldry Society

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Skelmersdale
Skelmersdale Heritage Society - "To preserve and promote Skelmersdale's farming and coal mining heritage and exhibit all aspects of local history at various points around the town, particularly to the younger generation and the influx of new residents since the town's major development."

St Helens
St Helens History Site - photographs and history of St Helens

Salford
Salford Hundred - containing Historical and Genealogical information for the region anciently known as the Salford Hundred
Salford Roots - Only available through the wayback machine at archive.org as far as I can see.  Please R2M if you can see a more up to date link for this.
A History of Kersal Flats (youtube)

Slaidburn
Slaidburn site - containing poll tax, hearth tax, Overseers accounts, militia lists etc.  Only available through the wayback machine at archive.org as far as I can see.  Please R2M if you can see a more up to date link for this.

Speke
All Saints Church website includes information on local history, census information and photographs of the village of Speke.  This site is hosted by rootschatter MissM.

Tameside
Tameside Family History site - includes information on Ashton, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley, Mottram and Stalybridge
Tameside Local Studies - contains photographs and history of the area with details of the services, holdings and contact details

Todmorden and Walsden
Todmorden and Walsden - a glimpse into bygone times of a township on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border through a miscellaneous collection of articles, data and anecdotes.

Wigan
Wigan World - includes directories, census returns, old newspapers, photos and dialect info. from all over the Wigan district.
Wigan History Shop - the Taylor Gallery is situated on the Shop's first floor (in the old reference library). The Gallery contains Wigan's fine local history collection of books, pamphlets, maps, photographs and genealogy material and it is equipped with a permanently manned study area.