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Tuesday, December 28, 1909, marks a dark and chilling day in the history of Burnley, a quaint town in Lancashire, England. The events of this day unfolded in a way that sent shockwaves through the community and forever scarred the lives of those involved. In the midst of a cold, wet afternoon, a heinous crime…
In this video, we visit the grave of the ‘unknown child of Burnley’. Back in July 1995, a group of workmen, whilst renovating the Mitre Hotel in Burnley, came across the skeletel remains of a child, possibly a baby, that had been placed inside a chimney cavity. Despite a lengthy investigation, nothing could be found…
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…
As the light of day slowly began to fade away, the darkness that quickly descended brought with it a freezing chill that had already frozen a large area of deep water which had been left dormant at the foot of a quarry named the Tim Bobbin delph. Inside nearby houses, families where in full enjoyment…
As the light of day slowly began to fade away, the darkness that quickly descended brought with it a freezing chill that had already frozen a large area of deep water which had been left dormant at the foot of a quarry named the Tim Bobbin delph. Inside nearby houses, families where in full enjoyment…
Shortly after three o’clock on the morning of Tuesday, 3rd January 1882, a murder so savage in nature occurred at number 4, Brook Row over in a place known as Lowerhouse near to Burnley. A man by the name of Robert Templeton, who was 36 years of age had arrived in Lowerhouse around nine months…
On the morning of Friday, 2nd December 1904, the people of Burnley, would be shocked to their very core when police finally forced their way into number 20 Stock-street and the bodies of a man and a women would be discovered lying in pools of blood, both with their throats cut. But whilst news of…
On a bitterly cold morning on the 27th January 1937, police officers had been alerted to an incident that had taken place high upon the bleak moorland that overlooked the town of Burnley in the North West of England. Quickly making their way to the scene, upon arrival they would be horrified at what they…
97 years ago, the residents of Burnley were shocked to the core after one of worst tragedies to befall them occurred on a wintery, cold mid-day on the 21st December 1923. Burnley Corporation Tramcar Number 10, which was being driven by 47 year old, William Norris, had been out in use over in nearby Rosegrove…