1. 27^th of this month is celebrated as ‘Lancashire Day’.  (

2. Nickname of Preston North End football club. (4:6)

3. In 1267 he was created the 1^st Earl of Lancaster (6:10)

4. Oswaldtwistle born inventor of the ‘Spinning Jenny’ (5:10)

5. Village location of the 1961 film ‘Whistle Down the Wind’  starring Hayley Mills and Alan Bates (7)

6. James 1st knighted a cut of beef here in 1617 (8:5)

7. Burnley born manager of the England football team (3:9)

8. Bury born Home secretary who created the modern police service (6:4)

9. Higher Walton contralto singer (8:7)

10. Largest town in Britain (6)

11. 14th century castle bulit by the Abbot of Furness Abbey (4)

12. The Halliwell Jones Stadium is the home of? (10:6)

13. Roman name for Manchester (

14. Location of the Priory church of St. Mary and St. Michael (

15. Songwriter of 'Ferry Cross the Mersey' (5:7)

16. First motorway in Britain (7:2-4)

17. In the 19th and early 20th centuries which town was nicknamed the 'English Chicago', becasue of the sudden and rapied growth in its industry, economic stature and overall siz? (6)

18. Tradionally Lancashire's most southerly village (4)

No. 10 - Reading is more than 6 letters, and it's not in Lancashire.

Struggling to get half of them! Reckon I know 2,4,5,8,10,12,13,15.

 

The rest have me stumped!

Piss easy,

Us real Lancastrians know the answers.

 

You Lesser Mancunians might struggle without googling.

 

Answers below in white...

 

November

Lily Whites

Edmund Crouchback

James Hargreaves

Downham

Houghton Tower

Ron Greenwood

Sir Robert Peel

Kathleen Ferrier

Bolton

Piel

Warrington Wolves

Mamucium

Cartmell

Gerry Marsden

Preston By-Pass

Barrow

Hale

Edited April 10, 201511 yr by Traf

 

 

In the 19th and early 20th centuries which town was nicknamed the 'English Chicago', becasue of the sudden and rapid growth in its industry, economic stature and overall size? (6)

 

 

 

Fucking Hell, the English Chicago.......

 

What a shithole that place really is (the actual answer, not Chicago) 

Traf, if the answer to #10 is Bolton.....what's it doing in a Lancashire based quiz? 

 

No. 10 - Reading is more than 6 letters, and it's not in Lancashire.

 

Just been doing a little bit of investigation and the numbers (and definitions) touted for various places - Bolton and Reading included - vary wildly.

 

Hard to say what the truth is.

7 - Ron Greenwood.

 

 

I had help

Traf, if the answer to #10 is Bolton.....what's it doing in a Lancashire based quiz? 

 

 

Must be a pre-1974 quiz, mate.