Oldham was hit hard by the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861 – 1865, when supplies of raw cotton from the United States were cut off.

* Boyer, George R. Poor Relief, Informal Assistance, and Short Time during the Lancashire Cotton Famine Explorations in Economic History 34 ( 1997 ): 56 – 76.

The cotton industry in the area grew rapidly from the start of the 19th century until the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861 – 1865.

They have a rivalry with fellow Lancashire club Burnley, located just eleven miles ( 18 km ) east, known as the East Lancashire derby or " Cotton Mills derby " because of the two communities ' history as major centres of the cotton industry during the Industrial Revolution.

The company was ruined, however, by the effects of the Lancashire Cotton Famine of the 1860s.

Supplies were cut during the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861 – 65 as a result of the American Civil War, leading to the formation of the Chadderton Local Board of Health in 1873, whose purpose was to ensure social security and maintain hygiene and sanitation in the locality following the crisis.

Sherry's Lancashire Cotton Mill is a working 19th-century cotton mill, also open to the public.

* Lancashire Cotton Corporation

* Lancashire Cotton Famine

Cotton was born in Wigan, Lancashire and went to Loughborough University to study physical education.

* The mills and organisation of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited, a promotional book, pub LCC, Blackfriars House Manchester, January 1951.

The cotton industry in Lancashire was served by the Manchester Royal Exchange which traded in spun yarn and finished goods throughout the world including Africa and the Liverpool Cotton Exchange which traded the imported raw cotton.

Supplies of raw cotton from the United States were cut during the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861 – 1865, leading to the formation of the Royton Local Board of Health in 1863, whose purpose was to ensure social security and maintain hygiene and sanitation in the locality.

A reduction in the demand for coal had placed many colliers out of work, and the Lancashire Cotton Famine was starving Lancashire of raw materials, especially cotton.

One of these " The Warp and the Weft ", a tale about Lancashire mill workers by John Frederick Smith, appeared during the Lancashire Cotton Famine, and inspired readers of the paper to contribute a large sum to a relief fund for cotton workers.

The town centre is a principal engine of economic revival not only for all communities across the Borough, but also for Pennine Lancashire.

Guilds also survive in the UK in Preston, Lancashire, as the Preston Guild Merchant where among other celebrations descendants of Burgesses are still admitted into membership.

The philibeg or small kilt, also known as the walking kilt ( similar to the modern kilt ) was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire called Thomas Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s for the use of the Highlanders he and Iain MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness employed in logging, charcoal manufacture and iron smelting, for which the belted plaid was " cumbrous and unwieldy ".

It was also very strong in the old mill towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire, where the Methodists stressed that the working classes were equal to the upper classes in the eyes of God.

He has also played county cricket in England, mainly for Lancashire ( 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2007 ) where he appeared in twenty-eight first-class games for the club.

Bruce also drove back a subsequent English expedition north of the border and launched raids into Yorkshire and Lancashire.

High percentages of Norse inheritance — tracked through R1a1 haplotype signatures — were also found among males in the Wirral and West Lancashire.

The accents of Northern England are also distinctive including a range of variations: Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cumbria, Lancashire with regional variants in Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Merseyside and Wigan, Yorkshire is also distinctive, having variations between the North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

) We also learn in passing that he is from Burnley, Lancashire, and that he was born in 1922 or 1923.

Apart from the already mentioned love of literature, Harvey was also an intense and dedicated observer of birds during his free time: several long and detailed passages of citations could be written delineating his observations in such places as the " Pile of Boulders " ( a small island in Lancashire ), ' Bass Rock ' ( island of the East Coast of Scotland ) and " The Bass " ( another Scottish island ).

In the United Kingdom there are examples on the A580 East Lancashire Road in St Helens, on Haydock Island in Merseyside ( which also features the M6 passing overhead ), and on the Astley / Boothstown border near to Manchester.

For example, the annual sporting competition between Lancaster University and the University of York is called the Roses Tournament. This is also carried over into cricket with the cricket matches between Lancashire andvYorkshire cricket clubs which are called ' The War of The Roses '.

He also travelled throughout Great Britain to view documents, sites, and artefacts for himself: he is known to have visited East Anglia in 1578, Yorkshire and Lancashire in 1582, Devon in 1589, Wales in 1590, Salisbury, Wells and Oxford in 1596, and Carlisle and Hadrian's Wall in 1599.

Chorley, like most Lancashire towns, gained its wealth from the industrial revolution of the 19th century which was also responsible for the town's growth.

" He is also noted for singing in his original Lancashire accent.

He also compiled The Dialect of South Lancashire ( Manchester: John Heywood, 1850 ).

The wool trade also brought the Rochdale Canal ( running from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester ) and the Manchester and Leeds Railway ( later the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ) ( running from Leeds to Manchester and Burnley ).

Before May 2009, the links to Lancashire and the North West were also seen in the media with Todmorden receiving an analogue TV signal from BBC North West.

He also represented Lancashire Schools from 1982 – 86.

He was also Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire and Lancashire.

Like many of his predecessors he was also Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire and Lancashire.

He was Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire and also established Knowsley Safari Park in 1971.

The River Douglas, also known as the River Asland or Astland, is a river that flows through Lancashire and Greater Manchester in the north-west of England.

The LNWR also operated a joint service with the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway from Fleetwood to Belfast and Derry.

Strictly speaking, the ' Accrington Pals ' battalion is properly known as the ' 11th East Lancashire Regiment ': the nickname is a little misleading, since of the four 250-strong companies that made up the original battalion only one was actually composed of men from Accrington.

Also, Lancashire businessmen produced grey cloth with linen warp and cotton weft, known as fustian, which they sent to London to be finished.

The first known written recipe for a dish of the name ( as ' hagese '), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North West England.

* 1295 – The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as " The Model Parliament ".

* Liquorice, known as Spanish in Yorkshire and Lancashire

Queen Elizabeth II, however, is known by tradition as Duke of Normandy in the Channel Islands and Duke of Lancaster in Lancashire.

The city of Lancaster in the county of Lancashire is known as the Red Rose City and its seal features the Lancastrian rose.

The places named by Standish, with the exception of the Isle of Man, are all in Lancashire, England, leading some to conclude that Standish was born in Lancashire — possibly in the vicinity of Chorley where a branch of the Standish family owned a manor known as Duxbury Hall.

Hogarth's work were a direct influence on John Collier, who was known as the " Lancashire Hogarth ".

The area known as Lynn was first settled in 1629 by Edmund Ingalls ( d. 1647 ), followed by John Tarbox of Lancashire in 1631, whose descendants still reside in New England.

Instead, a Royal Commission was set up to review English local government entirely, and its report ( known as the Redcliffe-Maud Report ) proposed a much wider Merseyside metropolitan area covering southwest Lancashire and northwest Cheshire, extending as far south as Chester and as far north as the River Ribble.

She is best known for her role as " Bubble " in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous as well as her distinctive voice and strong Lancashire accent.

Blackpool have a local rivalry with Preston North End and matches between the two clubs are known as the West Lancashire derby.

In County Durham, Yorkshire and Lancashire it is colloquially known as Spanish, supposedly because Spanish monks grew liquorice root at Rievaulx Abbey near Thirsk.

Nick McCabe ( born Nicholas John McCabe, 14 July 1971 in St Helens, Lancashire ) is a musician best known as the lead guitarist of The Verve.

Lancashire hotpot is a well known stew.

The most well known piers are perhaps the two at Brighton in East Sussex and the three at Blackpool in Lancashire.

The first known recorded Steam powered carousel was created by Thomas Hurst and shown at Bolton ( Lancashire, England ) New Year Fair in 1861.

Although Bury had few of the classic late 19th century spinning mills that were such a feature of other Lancashire towns a group, known as Peel Mills, are still in use at Castlecroft Road, immediately north of the town centre, their name another reminder of the link with the Peel family.

Winwick Athletic FC is a junior football club that has become a very well known and highly successful FA Charter Standard Development Club ( in fact winning the Lancashire County and North West Regional Awards in 2007, 2009 and 2011 as well as then also winning the prestigious FA Charter Standard National Club of the Year Award in 2009 ).

In 1952, the route for a trans-Pennine motorway, known as the Lancashire – Yorkshire Motorway, was laid down, with Ferrybridge chosen as the eastern terminus rather than Selby.