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Raleigh restaurant San Jose's Tacos & Tequilla in Brier Creek allows family to order and pay $150 online for dinner and they weren't even open

France’s civilised chambres-d’hôtes put the UK’s often run-down and unwelcoming B&Bs to shame

A northern branch of Cornwall’s Eden Project is coming to Morecambe, an unfairly maligned seaside town with room for everyone

This Lancashire resort has retained its popularity despite economic woes, changing fashions and a propensity to bulldoze its heritage

But, for once, the platforms are virtually deserted in this photograph from 1972. The image is quite a rare one as it was taken from the Orlando Street Bridge and gives a different perspective on the layout of the station. There certainly appears to have been plenty of goods traffic on the site with trolleys littering the platform ready to unload from the goods carriages and British Rail containers on the left of the picture. Comments: Our rules We want our comments to be a lively and val...

Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history For thousands of Bolton children it was the most exciting time of the year, at least next to Christmas. ‘Bolton Holidays’ – or ‘Wakes Week’ - in the 1950s and 1960s was the fortnight when Bolton emptied, with thousands of families heading for the Lancashire seaside resorts, mostly Bla...

There’s so much to enjoy in this photograph of The Boulevard, Blackburn from 1930.

FOR decades it played an essential part in the lives of the good folk of Bolton.