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A History of the County of Lancaster
… towns in Lancashire, affixing an inscription to the market cross of each, stating that he had been 'persecuted to …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… town are the town hall and central police station in the market place opened in 1856; municipal offices in Victoria … county police offices erected in 1873. Blackburn was a market town in the time of Elizabeth, but no charter for market or fair is known. Till about 1774 the market day was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of locomotion were rude and primitive, and access to the market towns of Clitheroe and Preston difficult.' 3 The road …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… that it has the appearance of a new town. It has a weekly market on Friday and a fair for all sorts of merchandise on … woollen yarn spun by the country people and brought to the market, always open to receive any quantity. The annual … importance in the coaching days, and still has its weekly market on Wednesday and three fairs. There was also a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… divides the township into two nearly equal parts. The market place, with its cross, and the older part of the town … Artillery. Though a church existed in 1120 and a market and fair were established at Burnley in 1294, its … is now near the grammar school, there were crosses in the market place by the church and the Foldys cross (1520) in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Arms), a builder, a drill owner, a shoemaker, and a market gardener were listed at the village of Cannock Chase … the opening of the Burntwood Town Shopping Centre and the market in 1970, and the completion of the library and the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… open space or Wylde 2 at that point is still known as the Market-place. The statue of Sir Robert Peel, erected in 1852, … about 1535, speaks of 'yarn sometime made about Bury, a market town on Irwell'; 4 a deputy aulnager was appointed in … the tenure by the Pilkingtons were the grant of a weekly market and two fairs about 1440, 34 and the licence in 1465 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… station, and through the modern part of the town, known as Market Street; crossing the North Road, it then goes east to … town lies chiefly on the westerly slope of the ridge, from Market Street south to the border of Bolton-le-Sands. There … for cattle is held yearly on the last Friday in April. A market used to be held on Monday. The geological formation …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 8 Henry de Lea in 1284 obtained a royal charter for a market every Friday at his manor of Charnock, and an annual … St. Nicholas; also free warren in his demesne lands. 9 The market and fair do not seem to have prospered, but the grant … son of Henry was in 1292 summoned to show his right to the market, fair and free warren the date of the fair was stated …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Hospital. There is a small modern park. A wholesale fish-market was opened at Strangeways in 1867, but is now given … In 1254, on a certain Saturday, people coming to the market at Manchester were overheard by Thomas Grelley's …