ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
LANCASHIRE ARCHIVES
a Bow Lane, Preston PR1 2RE
t 01772 533039
e record.office@lancashire.gov.uk
w lancashire.gov.uk/ libraries-and-archives/archives-and-record-office
The website has a detailed section describing church registers, plus useful guides to collections relating to Burnley, Pendle, Blackpool, and Blackburn with Darwen. The online catalogue LANCAT (archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk) has guides to records, examples and indexes to all sorts of material including probate records, and plans are afoot to improve the website and catalogue for mobile devices. Highlights include probate material, crew lists, photographs, trade and other directories, local history publications and pedigrees, and there’s free online access to ancestry.co.uk, findmypast. co.uk and the British Library Gale Newspaper Archive.
You can also explore microfilm collections of Preston newspapers and cemetery registers from Preston, Blackburn and Lancaster. Estate records and solicitors’ collections include…
