Entertainment & Leisure

When the fair came to town, the land opposite the police station and behind the indoor market was packed with stalls and amusements. Each side of Bank Street featured stalls selling fruit, rock biscuits, ice cream, coconuts, and brandy snaps. At the bottom of Bankside Lane, toy sellers offered wooden trucks and trains. Union Street […]

A series of annual “Lancashire Neets” were instituted just after the First World War by the Bacup Natural History Society. These evenings began as a night of Lancashire dialect verse and song, and later became plays which took the form of North country comedies, and a long succession of players became so expert that the