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Red Rose Collections

Red Rose Collections gives you online access to:

  • nearly 30000 historic photographs of Lancashire people and places

  • indexes to two key collections at Lancashire Archives:

    • Whittingham Asylum patients, 1873-1914

    • Lancashire Constabulary police officers, 1840-1925

  • an index to newspaper articles from the early 19th century onwards which are held on microfilm and cuttings files in libraries across Lancashire. 

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Find out how we are going to make thousands more images of East Lancashire available online and how you can be involved - Keeping East Lancashire in the Picture