Lancashire Local Historian
no.14 1999-2000
Published annually by the Lancashire Local History Federation.
Lancashire Local History Federation Website.

Copies can be purchased here.

The very first edition The Lancashire Local Historian - Volume 1 is now available as a free download.

List of contents
Salford Hundred in the fourteenth century, Diana Winterbotham 4

Danes' Pad and Marton Mere revisited, Richard Watson 11

Sir Thomas Pilkington (1430-1502), lord of the manor of Bury and Pilkington, and Bury Castle.
Charles Walker 18

Clothing in Prescot inventories 1660-1680.
Margaret Hargreaves 23

Ellis Rycroft - Rogue or Paragon?
Mona Duggan 30

Bridges over the Irwell from Bury to Rawtenstall.
Frank Slater 38

The Forgotten Franchise: Who was entitled to vote in St. Helens in 1880?
Dorothy Hughes 53

The early railway scene in Preston.
Mike Keeney 70

Book reviews and new publications 90