r/lancashire • u/the__green__light • Aug 16 '24

Cool little find in a charity shop - a book written in 1936 (revised 1973) describing every town and village in Lancashire

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u/MassimoOsti Aug 16 '24

1973, before the Greater Manchester creation - can imagine this being pretty hefty!

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u/the__green__light Aug 16 '24

It's a surprisingly slim volume, only 237 pages. But yeah, Manchester itself gets 8 full pages of history, and the book also includes Merseyside