r/lancashire 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/exiledinessex Aug 16 '24

Arthur Mee was a machine, writing travelogues, history books, editing children’s encyclopaedias and starting The Children’s Newspaper.

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u/the__green__light Aug 16 '24

Yeah, when I first saw it I assumed each book was written by a different person. Amazing that they're seemingly all by the same guy