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2	Chorley Town Trail Leaflet
3	Chorley Heritage Group Newsletter October 2024

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	Brinscall and Withnell Heritage Trail Brinscall and Withnell are two adjacent villages in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, and the parish of Withnell, located approximately five miles Northeast of Chorley. The villages were originally small farming communities, with a quarry nearby and linked by a waterway known as the Goit. In the 19th century, the thriving... more information
	Chorley Town Trail Leaflet Walking The Past: Chorley’s Town Trail The attached trails provide an introduction to the history of Chorley and its town centre. Downloaded onto your mobile phone or a tablet these make an ideal companion for a stroll around the town centre, discovering some of our lost history along the way. more information
	Chorley Heritage Group Newsletter October 2024 Please find attached the latest newsletter for the Chorley Heritage Group more information
	Lancashire Archives monthly newsletter July 2023 The latest edition of the newsletter celebrates the recent Windrush 75 events of which Chorley Heritage were heavily involved. The following pages provide further details. more information
	Myles Standish Key Stage 2 and 3 Educational Teaching Aides more information
	October Exhibition in Chorley Library We are currently displaying photographs and information concerning three local families; Sykes, Sharples and Norris in Chorley Library for the month of October. All the photographs are numbered, so if anyone recognises these people as family members, please get in touch either here or through our Facebook page quoting the number and explaining... more information
	CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH: A Drama linking Lancashire and America CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH: A Drama linking Lancashire and America SCENE ONE: Introducing Myles Scene- St Laurence’s Church 1860. St Laurence’s Church would serve best, with the dais used for the wedding. Cast: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as Narrator (American professor/poet, fifties, slightly long unkempt... more information
	Myles Standish, Man of Mystery: A Play in Four Acts Setting: Briefly Holland and then New England, 1620-1655 Staging: A sylvan background or wooden hut beyond a platform, dais or visible space will suffice Characters: Narrator and player of small parts if necessary( e.g John Billington, Edward Winslow) William Bradford, Pilgrim, becomes governor of New Plymouth, ages, dies 1657 Myles Standish,... more information
	Chorley Celebrates Myles Standish, 1620- 2020 + 1 The Virtual Coach Tour The Myles Standish Working Group hoped to take people on coach tours to sites associated with Myles Standish (c.1583-1656), the military adviser who sailed with the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower in 1620 and who is seen as one of the founding fathers of modern America. The Covid epidemic, covering virtually the whole life of the project,... more information
	MYLES STANDISH- MAN OF MYSTERY In 2020 Chorley, Duxbury and Standish will celebrate Myles Standish and the voyage of the Mayflower in 1620. Myles was the military adviser and leader attached to the Pilgrim Fathers, religious refugees and migrants, who undertook to cross the Atlantic and found their own godly settlement in North America. Open the linked pdf for full... more information