Author: Mike Millward

Joy Heffernan (1931-2024)

With great sadness I must report the death on 21st February 2024 of Joy Heffernan, our long serving Chairman and then President, at the family home in Balderstone. She had not been well and had been unable to attend our meeting for some time. Our thoughts are with Seamus, JaneAnn, Kevin and all her family. Joy became Chairman of the […]
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GARDEN PARTY

After a number of false starts caused by pandemics and accidents, Mike and Dot Millward managed at last to hold a garden party in June. The event was only slightly marred by a torrential thunder storm which held off for almost an hour to allow members to see the garden. £200 was raised.
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William Caxton’s The Mirror of the World

The Mirror of the World is one of three books printed by William Caxton amongst the early printed books in the Hart Collection at Blackburn Museum. Caxton was remarkable. Born in Kent in c.1422 he became a prominent textile merchant in Bruges in present-day Belgium, and undertook diplomatic missions for Edward IV. It was probably Edward’s exile in 1470 during […]
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