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The A to Z of Council Services

• In The Beginning
• The Workhouse
• Thomas Highs' Spinning Jenny
• 1905 Maps
• Leigh in 1940 gallery
• Wartime Leigh gallery
• The Miners Strike of 1984
• A history of Leigh in objects

• Famous Leythers
• Local Characters
• Adopted Sons and Daughters

• Schools gallery
• Streets
• The Bickershaw Project gallery
• Parks and Places of Interest gallery
• The Casino Ballroom
• The Garrick Club
• Co-op Ballroom
• Brass/Silver Bands
• Local Delicacies
• Charities working in Leigh

• Churches gallery
• Manor Houses gallery
• Lions Bridge
• Stone House gallery
• Leigh Cemetery
• The opening of the Town Hall
  
• Marsh Gymnasium
  

• History Of Leigh by Dr. John Lunn 1959
• Borough of Leigh Jubilee 1899-1949
• Coat of Arms
• Leigh Town Centre Trail
• Lowton Common A Hundred Years Ago
• Official Guide to Leigh 1953
• Official Guide to Leigh 1963
  
• German Prisoner of War Camp at Leigh 1914-1919
• Souvenir of the war 1914 - 1915
• Timms Of Leigh 1907-1937
  
• Warp and Weft by Mary Thomason
• From Candlelight to Laser Beams
• 100 Years of the Journal 1974
• St. Joseph's Church Grand Bazaar May 1900
• St. Joseph's Church Parish Magazine 1938
• A Concise History of the Bolton & Leigh Railway
• A Diary of Old Leigh
• Leigh Friendly Co-operative Society Limited - Jubilee History 1857-1907
• Owd Plonky's Poems - A Selection of Poems by Joe Twist
• Owd Plonky Agen - A Further Selection of Poems by Joe Twist

Leigh Local History Society Books

• Tales Of Old Leigh (2)
• Mining Disasters Of The Leigh Area (3)
• The Paupers Of Leigh (4)
• Warp and Weft (5)
• An Outline History of Leigh (6)
• Leigh Homesteads (7)
• Ghosts Of Leigh (8)
• Walks Around Leigh (9)
• Pubs Of Leigh First Round (10)
• Pubs Of Leigh Second Round (11)
• Pubs Of Leigh Round Three (12)
• The Old Town Of Leigh (13)
• Leigh and the Somme (14)
• Booths Hall, Worsley (15)
• Was the Spinning Jenny Invented in Leigh (17)
• Memories Of An Atherton Pitman (18)
• Lancashire Folklore (19)
• Pubs Of Leigh Revisited (20)
• Silk Manufacturing in Leigh (21)
• Early Victorian Abram (23)
• Two Halls Of Tyldesley (24)
• The Lancashire Cotton Famine around Leigh (25)
• Mining Days in Abram (26)

• Leigh Sports Village gallery
• Leigh RLFC/Centurions gallery
• Leigh Cricket Club
• Leigh East Amateur Rugby Club gallery
• Leigh Harriers gallery
• Leigh Ospreys
• Leigh R.U.F.C. gallery

• BICC gallery
• Coal Pits gallery
• David Browns
• Farming gallery
• Mansley & Co. Ltd.
• Sutcliffe Speakmans gallery
• Pendlebury Organ Works
• Textile Mills gallery

• Canal gallery
• Buses gallery
• Railways gallery

• Newspaper Cuttings
• Pooin cat across cut at Bickershaw Colliery
• Shin Porrin
• Fox Robin
  
• What Does It Tell

• Unsolved Murders

• Leigh Wildlife

• History of Atherton By John Lunn

• History of Astley By John Lunn

• Howe Bridge video