Longer Sen

LONGER SEN 

Miscellanies of stories about Chipping and its people.

2000, 2001, 2003, 2009  - £1.00 each plus postage

Each Longer Sen book has proved to be an extremely interesting and varied source of articles based on Chipping and the Chipping Area. 

Each gives people, both new to the area and those who have lived in Chipping all their lives, an insight into our not too distant past.

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1989 Cover 1991 Cover 1993 Cover
     
1995 Cover 1997 Cover 2005 Cover

The following books are available to purchase

 

 

2000

Blezards - The French Connection

Brabin's School Picture mid 1950s

Chipping Local History Society

Common Lodging Houses in Hesketh Lane, Chipping

2000 Years in Chipping

Daffodils & Secret Doors

Dickie Baines Garage

Duchess of Norfolk's Tennants List

Farming - has it changed over the years?

Food for Thought

Harvest Men of Mayo

Last Words. More food for thought

Man of the Millenium

Mary Shireburn 8th Duchess of Norfolk

Member's Magic Momments

Memories are made of this

Memories are made of this - 2

Part of the Blazard Family Tree

Rev.Peter Walkden

Straws behind't their ear'oles

Through the eyes of a child

Tragedy at the Sun Inn

Turn of the Century at Chippin Camp

2001

100 Hundred Years Ago

Charitable Chipingers

Clitheroe & Preston News

Courts & Culprits

Family 'istory

Handy Tips

Memories of Whitewell School

More from 100 years ago

Old Hive

Peter Walkden - After Chipping

Preston Family of Chipping and Oswaldtwistle

Preston Family Tree

Putting Down Roots

Recipes

Saunder Rake Mill

Secret Drawers

Sketching Schoolboy Selects Surprising Subjects

Tandem Record Centenary

Weld Windows of Stonyhurst

Whitewell & District Home Guard

Whitewell Gala

Whitewell Spring Bridge

Ye Diary of Edward of Cheppin

2003

Singular Death by Drowning at the North Lancs Reormatory

Wardsley Childhood

Brabin's Endowed School, Chipping c 1919

Chipping Brass Band

Come Dancing!

Coronation Celebrations 1953

Ellison Letters from America 1864/65

Evacuees - A Long Way from Home

Fathers of St Louis-Marie de Montfort at Leagram Hall

Gone Shopping!

Market Garden

Marsden Family Tree

Missing Ribble Link

My Dear Aunt - Letters from Harry Preston WW1

On Cue/A Goose Lane Fry-up

Sparks flew in Windy Street

Then and Now

Whitewell Mining Company

 2009

Chipping Mill

Our Country Churches & Chapels

Hot Walls and Hot Beds in the Ribble Valley

Jolly Schooldays at Brabin's School

Then and Now

Chipping Census Review 1841-1881

Were there really Peacocks?

Ellison Family Tree

Ellison Family

Thornley-with-Wheatley

The Big Bang at George Tweedy's petrol pumps

Berry's Chair Works

Startifants

Major Rhodes

Fresh from the Farm in Post War Chipping

Wet, Fine, or Foot & Mouth - the Show Goes On

Brick House Farm

Walker Fold Free School and Chapel, Chaigley

2024

Leagram Deer Park

Legram Dispute Map

The Cross on Saddle Fell

Best-kept Village

Brabin's School 1953/Chipping Show Queen 1956

A Royal Visit

Means of Transport in Chipping

John Brabin

Gliding over Chipping

The Year the Railway Nearly came to Chipping

The Woods Family of Hesketh Lane

Chipping Sports Day

Bell Chrystall

The Wreck of Nelson's Old Battleship

Mills of Chipping

An Extraordinary Coincidence