Blackburn with Darwen Local History Site - Cotton Town

 Blackburn Local History Society

"Blackburn Now & Then" - Images, History and Memories (link corrected July 2011)

 Cotton Times - Story of industrial upheaval in Lancashire

 Spinning the Web - Story of the Cotton Industry

 "Burnley, a town among the Lancashire Pennine Hills" Local History by Jack Nadin 

Burnley Queen Street Mill History (Lancs Museums)

 Burnley - Weavers Triangle (Cotton Industry)

 Burnley Cemetery Database by S.Scaife & D.Ollerton

 Darwen Football club History 1875-1939

Darwen-Roots (Yahoo Group)

 "My Lancashire Ancestors (formerly Back to the Past" by Susan Eldridge
(East Lancashire Surnames, Churches & Burial Grounds)

 East Lancashire War Memorials by Susan Eldridge

 Cemsearch Lancs D/bases incl Accrington, Blackburn,Burnley,Nelson

Great Harwood Genealogy & Local History Resources  link updated July 2011

Great Harwood Consolidated Ancestry Tree
(by Robert Calvert, and data submitted by different contributors)

Gisburn Village St Mary The Virgin Burials Database1720-2002

The Forest of Bowland : Local History, Culture & Heritage

"Oswaldtwistle,Church & the Haworth Families" by Fiona Hall

Oswaldtwistle - Life and Times,  by Mike G. Baron link updated July 2011

Roman Riches of Ribchester (Bremetennacum Veteranorum) by Elizabeth Ashworth

Duxbury Family History - Darwen, Blackburn, Colne, Gt.Harwood, others

Fielden Society Online
(The Fieldens of Todmorden and other parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire)
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Pomfret Families of Lancs incl. Darwen/Blackburn by N.Delaney

 Boothstown Website

 Oldham Local Studies & Archives

Our Manchester (Brilliant Site!)

Pendleside (Nelson, Colne, Barrowford, others) by the late Jim Sanderson

Pendle.net

Rochdale History

Rochdale Cemetery Database by Dave Ollerton (at interment.net)

Salford Hundred: Historical & Genealogical Info (Gtr Manchester)

Tameside Local & Family History Research & Databases compiled by Gay J Oliver.

Whitworth Heritage Museum & Historical Society (Rossendale Valley)

 Wigan-Roots (Yahoo Group)

"The Road to Nab End" & sequels by Wm Woodruff, from Amazon

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