Lancashire really is just the best, isn't it?
Famous names and one of a kind delicacies. Everyone in Lancashire knows we're pretty good when it comes to both.
In case you were wondering, we didn't think it was fair to put the following Lancastrian gems in any particular order, so it's just 10 of the best in our opinion. But please do feel free to put your definitive ranked list in the comments. Interestingly, the lozenges were first created to relieve respiratory problems that fishermen suffered with during their extreme working conditions of the Northern deep-sea fishing grounds back in 1865. They used to call these "friends", which you can work out, has stuck ever since.
First KFC restaurant to open in the UK On a less serious, but equally as important note, Lancashire can boast its important role in bringing the American fast food chain, KFC to the UK. Famously, Preston was chosen to be the home of the first KFC restaurant that opened in the country, all the way back in 1965.
John William Rothwell was the first to start producing slippers in Rossendale in 1874 after collecting remnants of felt from his uncle Henry Rothwell’s Bridge End Mill. Many other companies tried their hand at producing the footwear, with Lambert Howarth and his wife Betsy setting up their own business in 1887 which produced 10 million pairs of shoes a year and employed 2,500 people.
The M6 was designed by Lancashire County Council surveyor James Drake and cost a total of £3m - a lot by today's standards and certainly by the standards of the 1950's. The road was engineered to be eight and a quarter mile long, with two lanes going northbound and southbound, until two lanes were added later on to form what we know today.
Three-year-old June Ann Devaney was found battered to death in Blackburn in that year, which lead to a mass manhunt across Lancashire. A fingerprint expert found a Winchester bottle of sterile water which had several fingerprints on it, with all but one accounted for.
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