Lancashire Record Office: 1994 Accessions

Lancashire Record Office

(This list does not include records of local authorities, magistrates, coroners, hospitals, schools, police or CE, RC and Methodist churches)
• Preston Royal Observer Corps: programme for opening of HQ in Goosnargh 1962 (DDX 2017)
• Bold family: accounts and correspondence concerning Prescot tithes 1731-40, 1821-23 (DDSb)
• Marriage settlement of Thomas Patten and Margaret Blackburn 1686 (DDSb)
• Rossendale Labour Council: membership lists c1909 (DDX 2018)
• Papers collected by Alec Threlfall of Eccleston (nr Chorley) including sale particulars for Wrightington estate, school exercise books and a history of Eccleston Savings Bank c1830- 1983 (DDX 2019)
• Eccleston Ladies Hockey Club: minutes and financial records 1938-62 (DDX 2019)
• Crepe memorials for Maypole (Abram) and Pretoria (Atherton) colliery disasters 1908-10 (DDX 177)
• Preston Well Women Centre: report on historical project for Preston Guild, 1993 (DDX 2020)
• Storrs Hall, Arkholme with Cawood: sale particulars 1994 (DDX 2021)
• Photocopy of diary of John Thomas Kenyon of Chipping as a school pupil 1875-76 (P151)
• Barton Womens Institute: minutes and scrapbook 1921-1984 (WIBa)
• Preston and District Philatelic Society: minutes 1954-58 (DDX 2007)
• Plans of land at Westleigh, Lea, Preston 1862-65 (DDX 1938)
• Baby album of John E Pilkington 1904 (DDX 1894)
• Oswaldtwistle: plans of Stanhill Ring Spinning Mill 1935-57, and deeds of Rough Hey estate (Walmsley and Cunliffe) 1705- 1841 (DDX 1862)
• Deeds of Borough Tallow Works, Brooke St., Chorley 1886-1920 (DDX 457)
• Deeds of the Fleece Inn, Ormskirk 1773-1810 (DDX 2022)
• Records of Cockerham Manor 1773-91 (DDX 2024)
• Bankruptcy papers of Jonathan Heyworth of Spring and Spenbrook Mills, Brierfield and Burnley 1874 (DDX 1863)
• Draft poems of Phoebe Hesketh 1952 (DDX 2025)
• Account book of tavern bills, Clitheroe area 1852-56 (DP 470/1)
• Tom Watson of Downham, architect: plans of houses and other buildings in Downham, Clitheroe and district, Lytham and Liverpool 1933-68 (DDX 2028)
• Ingham and Tipping Ltd of Bamber Bridge, corn merchants: ledgers 1892-1944 (DDX 2029)
• Walton le Dale Working Mens Institution library record book 1892-1944 (DDX 2029)
• Plans of Whalley Abbey 1801, 1924-34 (DRB)
• Newsletters of Preston Unit Royal Naval XS 1975-78 (DDX 1735)
• Upholland manorial documents 17th-18th cents. (DP471)
• Scheme for the Fylde Community (Manchester and Salford Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Criminals) 1994 (DDX 1791)
• National Coal Board, North West Area: aperture cards of drawings of colliery structures and machinery, covering Lancashire, Cumberland, Denbighshire and Flintshire c1938-89 (NC)
• Deeds of Greenbank estate, Over Wyresdale 1598-1845 (DDX 2033)
• Preston Guild Merchant: text of a talk by John Harrison, Deputy Town Clerk, 1952 (DDX 2031)
• Manuscripts, typescripts, press cuttings and notes of Robert Neill, Lancashire novelist 1951-79 (DDX 177)
• Chorley District Scout Council: historical booklets 1991-94 (DDX 2034)
• Palatinate Court of Common Pleas: calendar of prisoners held at Lancaster Castle 1804-05 (DDX 2036)
• Miscellaneous business records from Merseyside Maritime Museums Bryson Collection 19th-20th cents (DDX 1819)
• Letters and royalty statements of JJ Bagley, Lancashire historian and author 1945-88 (DDX 2038)
• Grant of land at the cross, Ormskirk, from Richard son of Robert to Richard son of Richard of Lathom c1199-1220 (DDX 877)
• Publications of Lancashire Folk, an affiliated district of the English Folk and Dance Society 1972-94 (DDX 2039)
• Research notes and correspondence of H Walsh concerning the history of Euxton parish 1993-94 (DDX 2009)
• Business letters received by Messrs Henry Hall and Baldwin, solicitors, Clitheroe, from other solicitors 1847-80 (DDX 2040)
• Biography of William Robinson, Waterloo veteran 1795-1880 (DDX 1095)
• Photographs of Pryce (late of Horwich), Holden, Ingham and Hartley families of Nelson and Colne area, late 19th-mid 20th cents. (DDX 2041)
• Blackpool and District Association of National Union of Teachers: minutes 1891-1978 and attendance register 1972-76 (DDX 2042)
• Draft release of properties near St Marys Well, Clitheroe, with plans 1834 (DDX 2043)
• Lease of Eaves Hall, Goosnargh 1716 (DDX 2044/1)
• Deeds of land in Haighton and Whittingham 1663, Longton 1331- 1619, and Hoghton 1457-1526, with a letter concerning the demolition of a building in Preston 1715 (DDX 1849)
• Eccleston (nr Chorley) WI: minutes and record books 1947-85 (WIEc)
• Deeds and papers of Shuttleworths, solicitors, Ribblesdale Place, Preston 1773-1862 (DDCm)
• Anthony Blacklay and Associates, architects, Nantwich, Ches: photographs, report and plans of St Oswalds church, Preston, 20th cent (DDX 2045)
• Claremont United Reformed Church, Blackpool: records c1900- 94 (URBp 1, URMr 3)
• Correspondence (including World War 1) and political papers of Capt F N Blundell 1886-1936 (DDBL)
• Western Region Valuation Board (Coal Act 1938): agenda papers and valuations of collieries in Lancashire,
• Cumberland, Cheshire, Denbighshire and Flint, 1938-43 (DDX 2046)
• Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society: annual journals 1930, 1957 and scrapbooks 1907-14 (DDX 2046)
• Mathematics copy books of WT Cowens at Earby Academy 1873-74 (DDX 2047)
• Records of Taylor, Son & Platt, architects and surveyors of Burnley (including files and plans of public houses) late 19th and 20th cents; and miscellaneous records of Burnley Order of Oddfellows, 20th cent (DDX 1101)
• Lancaster University Archaeology Unit: archaeological assessments of Broughton Tower (nr Preston) and Cromwells Mound, Sherwood, Preston 1990; Marles Wood, Salesbury 1992; Storey workshops, Lancaster 1993; and Heald Moor, Cliviger 1991 (DDX 1915)
• Papers relating to the case in Chancery, Garratt vs Grieve and Radford vs Grieve, 1819-38, with a mortgage on land at Little Budworth, Cheshire, 1777 (DDX 2048)
• Records of the Nine Hours League of Collective Branches of the Gilding Trade of Manchester: balance sheet and apprenticeship indenture 1846-50 (DDX 2048)
• Preston Women Citizens Association: minutes , accounts, registers of members and other records 1960-94 (DDX 1749)
• Carnforth Iron Works: aerial photographs nd, furnace statistics nd, newscutting 1959, correspondence with John Brown & Co Ltd of Westminster and Thos Ward Ltd of Sheffield re history of site 1958-59 (DDX 2049)
• Read United Reformed Church: records 1885-1978 (URRe) Correspondence and accounts concerning the administration of the Clifton Estates, Lytham and Kildalton (Isle of Islay, Hebrides) 1929-33 (DDX 2050)
• Lancashire and Cheshire Congregational Ministers Provident Society: records including minutes, reports and registers of members 1841-1993 (CUMp)
• Letter of William Clayton at Appleton to William Hulton at Hurst Grange, Preston, including list of some of King Johns fines from Lancashire in early 13th cent and lists of local charities c1859 (DDX 177)
• Marsden Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: correspondence re building of Bolton Meeting House, Sunday School minute books, deeds, plans and details of legacies 1679-1978 (FRM)