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In this video, we delve into the story of young Joseph Turner who was aged just eleven when a series of events would unfold that would lead to tragic consequences. When two groups of young boys came together, no-one would have ever imagined that one of them would never return home. This is the true…
Date of video : Saturday, 6th May 2023 Location : Lee Quarry In this video, we travelled to nearby Lee Quarry which is situated on the boundary of Bacup and not too far from Rawtenstall. The quarry, which is a fully open ground, is now a mountain bike trail that was transformed by the Lancashire…
On Tuesday, 25th April 1882, a shocking tragedy took place in Skipton and in a field known as Park Hill, which was and still is situated behind Skipton Castle today. A man by the name of Matthew Jackson Hunter, who was 27 years of age, would be found lying on his left side on the…
In this video, we travelled over to Ilkley and Ilkley Moor to be precise, to uncover the location of WHERE a photograph of what many believe is to be that of an ‘alien’ creature was taken by ‘Philip Spencer’ on the 1st December, 1987. Was the story of Philip Spencer a hoax? What did he…
In this video, we tell the story of 24-year old, James Hubert Taylor, a cashier within Longshoot Mill of the Grane Manufacturing Company in Haslingden, and whose passion was football. He had often played for Haslingden Football Club but would on this one occasion, offer to play for the junior side, Haslingden Hotspurs, and it…
During one of the worst periods of uncertainty in the suburbs of Accrington, 24-year old school mistress, Letitia Burscough, had aquired the upper ground floor of a building owned by 50-year old, James Duckworth, which was built underneath one of the many arches of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Viaduct which still, to this day,…
Emily Holland, 1876; Alice Barnes, 1892 and Helen Chester, 1935. Just three children whose lives were cruelly taken from them at young ages, and the one thing they all had in common is the industrial town of Blackburn, in the north west of England. Emily was aged seven years old. Alice, slightly older and aged…
The death of a child is always one of sorrow and grief and for some people, especially the parents of the child, it is often said that they have felt great pain and regret, with some placing blame onto themselves because they feel they hadn’t done enough to prevent the death. Victorian times saw a…
Just after 10am on the morning of Tuesday, 9th June 1896, a young boy burst into the workshop of John Coates and his son Thomas, which was situated along the cobbled road of Bridge-street, Accrington and just behind the now forgotten, Brown Cow public inn. In a frenzied state of mind, the boy shouted, ‘Oh,…