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Lancashire is a county of England, in the northwest of the country. The county did not exist in 1086, for the Domesday Book, and was apparently first created in 1182, [1] making it one of the youngest of the traditional counties. The historic county consisted of two separate parts.
Baines's drapery was located where the white building stands at today's 33 Market Place in Poulton-le-Fylde. Baines was born at Berkenhead Farm in Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire, in 1648. [1] [2] He moved to Poulton-le-Fylde to become a woollendraper. His shop was located at the corner of today's Blackpool Old Road and Queen's Square, overlooking ...
Goosnargh, Lancashire, England. Died. 1717. Occupation (s) Draper, philanthropist. Known for. Baines schools in Lancashire. James Baines (died 9 January 1717) was an English businessman. He was a woollendraper and philanthropist.
Butterworth was the tenth and youngest child of the topographer James Butterworth, and was born at Pitses, near Oldham, in 1812. He followed in the footsteps of his father, whom he assisted in his later works, but was more given to statistical research. When Edward Baines undertook the preparation of a history of Lancashire, he found a useful ...
Lancashire (/ ˈlæŋkəʃər / LAN-kə-shər, /- ʃɪər / -sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The county has an area of 3,079 square ...
The collections include: Lancashire Through Time (archeological collections etc.), Lancashire at Work (local industries etc.), Lancashire at Play (the Hylda Baker costume collection and Les Dawson, George Formby and Gracie Fields material), Lancashire Goes to War (an atmospheric First World War trench), Lancashire Law and Order (court house material, Lancashire home front and the 14th/20th ...
A Companion to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire: in a descriptive account of a family tour and excursions on horseback and on foot: with a new, copious, and correct itinerary (3rd ed.). Simpkin and Marshall. Baines, Edward (1835). History of the Cotton Manufacture. H. Fisher, R. Fisher, P. Jackson. Baines, Edward (1843).
George Grenfell-Baines. Sir George Grenfell-Baines OBE DL FRIBA (born George Baines; 30 April 1908 – 9 May 2003) [1] was an English architect and town planner. Born in Preston, his family's relatively humble circumstances - his father was a railway clerk [2] - forced him to start work at the age of fourteen. Both George and his younger ...