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Echoes of Old Lancashire

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By William E. A. Axon
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The collection assembles short historical and topographical essays focused on a county, offering antiquarian sketches, traveller impressions, and archival anecdotes that illuminate changing customs, local superstitions, notable personages, and episodes in political and industrial life. Contributions cover courtroom scandals and local uprisings, printing and technological developments, natural history notes, legal and domestic records, and folklore and curious finds. Together the pieces preserve vanished ways of life and provide readable vignettes for readers interested in regional memory and local literary traditions.

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Title: Echoes of Old Lancashire

Author: William E. A. Axon

Release date: January 31, 2015 [eBook #48123]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ECHOES OF OLD LANCASHIRE ***

ECHOES OF OLD LANCASHIRE.

Five hundred copies of this book printed,
and this is No. 228
ECHOES ...
OF
OLD LANCASHIRE.
BY WILLIAM E. A. AXON.
LONDON:
WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO., 5, FARRINGDON AVENUE, E.C.
1899.

William Andrews & Co

THE HULL PRESS

TO THE
EARL OF CRAWFORD,
THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ANCIENT
LANCASHIRE FAMILY OF
BRADSHAIGH OF HAIGH,
THE HEAD OF A GREAT HISTORIC SCOTTISH HOUSE,
THE CHIEF OF THE LINDSAYS;
A SUCCESSFUL WORKER IN SCIENCE,
AND AN ARDENT LOVER OF LITERATURE,
THIS LITTLE BOOK,
DEALING WITH SOME PHASES AND EPISODES
OF THE PAST LIFE OF THE
COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER,
IS DEDICATED.