Found another #Blackburn Blackburn Rovers player killed in service of his country - the 15th. Local man John Wolstenholme died of wounds in 1917 and is the only one to be buried in the town. We Are THE Rovers BRFCS ReadRovers.com Rovers Latest Kidder Street Noise Ewoodparksfinest RoversXtra

Thomas Moulding (centre) played for #Blackburn Blackburn Rovers Reserves in 1914 before serving in #WW1. He elected not to play for the local Amateur League team on Good Friday 1914 for religious reasons (like in the film 'Chariots of Fire'). BRFCS @ReadRovers Blackburn Life

Footballer William Williams died in 1926 and is buried in Holy Trinity Church at #Hoghton nr. #Chorley #Lancashire. Wounded on the Somme and in Mesopotamia during #WW1, he played for #Blackburn Blackburn Rovers Reserves, Darwen FC, Everton #Football Club and Blackpool FC after the War.

Members of the Andrew Jackson 🇺🇦 photographed on 27.10.1914 at Moorhead Park in #Accrington, then the home of Accrington Stanley #Football Club. #WW1 Accrington Stanley Amazing Accrington @officialassc #Lancashire

A British #Railways WD/8 'Austerity' Class loco 90655 heads west through Pleasington nr. #Blackburn, date unknown. Built in 1943 during #WW2 ('WD' stood for War Department), the engine was withdrawn in April 1967. #Lancashire Nigel Harris

Grundy Hill the home of #Horwich RMI #Football Club nr. #Bolton, 1960s. I refereed there on 14.8.1982 in their first game on the new North West Counties League The NWCFL ⚽️. Will add it to my new talk for 2026, '#Lancashire Football Grounds, then & now'. Steve Williams Talks Horwich Gossip

Modernity? Piccadilly Plaza and Gardens in #Manchester city centre in the 1960s. #Lancashire

A British Rail Class 25 Diesel pulls an empty oil train across Stand Road #Preston some 40 years ago, heading up to the station and the West Coast Main Line; note the traffic ‘control’ - two men with red flags (and no HV vests). Blog Preston Nigel Harris #Railways #Lancashire

"Zulus... thousands of them" - Baden-Powell centenary celebrations at Ewood Park, home of #Blackburn Blackburn Rovers, 1957. Scouts We Are THE Rovers BRFCS ReadRovers.com Rovers Latest Kidder Street Noise Ewoodparksfinest allrovers @Roverseas #Football #Lancashire

First #Blackburn Blackburn Rovers player I found who fought in the Boer War (1899 - 1901) - A Regular Soldier, Thomas Fawcett [1869 - 1958] was on Rovers books in 1896-97; pictured in 1955. #Football #Lancashire

Remembering #Preston North End footballer Tom Blakeley who was killed in action #OnThisDay in 1916 near Bazentin-le-Petit on the Somme battlefield in France. Preston North End FC Blog Preston The Nose Bag fanzine (PNEFC) Paul Crone #WW1 #Lancashire #Football

British #Railways Jubilee Class 45563 'Australia' at #Blackburn Station in #Lancashire, 16.5.1963 [pic. Tony Gillett]. Nigel Harris

Two new talks for next year - #Football and #Railways with a #Lancashire theme; full details on my website soon. Steve Williams Talks Nigel Harris

Going to the match, November 1946. #Blackburn Blackburn Rovers fans walking to Ewood Park from the town centre - just two ladies, one RAF uniform (National Service?), hats and caps, collars & ties and lads in short trousers. BRFCS Ewoodparksfinest ReadRovers.com #Football #Lancashire

A damp #Blackpool North railway station in British #Railways day; it was redeveloped in 1974. The current station is further back from this location. Nigel Harris Blackpool North #Lancashire

Someone sent me this pen & ink drawing of me on my feet giving a talk earlier this year - not sure if I am flattered or not. For the record, I don’t normally wear a suit but it was at a PROBUS lunch. Steve Williams Talks

A southbound NORTHERN 🚆 train at Hest Bank on #Morecambe Bay this lunchtime. Nigel Harris The Morecambe Bay Podcast🎧🎙️🌊🦀 #Railways #Lancashire

Getting ready for a chat tomorrow on the Radio with presenter Graham Liver on his BBC Lancashire Breakfast Show talking about #WW2 #VJDay and his relative, William Liver, who died in 1943 working on the infamous Burma - Siam 'Death Railway'. Piece scheduled to be aired c8.05 a.m.

A southbound Avanti West Coast train at Hest Bank on #Morecambe Bay #Lancashire this lunchtime; used to watch the trains there in the early 1960s "when I was a lad". #Railways Nigel Harris

Inside the Signal Box at #Hoghton nr. #Chorley on the line from #Preston to #Blackburn - top 1964 (note the Signalman's dog through the partially opened door) and bottom during demolition in 1976 [pic D. Jarvis]. Nigel Harris Chorley in Pictures Blog Preston #Railways #Lancashire