Hoghton

Time is running out to book your place on stage at this summer's Symphony at The Tower. The Lancashire Evening Post has teamed up with St Catherine's Hospice and concert promoters Cuffe and Taylor to launch Symphony Idols – a county-wide search for ...

The Black Horse in Gregson Lane Pic: Google. A Hoghton pub has been targeted during a burglary where cash was taken from a fruit machine. Advertisement. The Black Horse Hotel in Gregson Lane was broken into between midnight and 7am during Friday ...

The raid happened at the Black Horse in Gregson Lane, Hoghton, near Preston, between midnight and 7am on Friday, February 5th. Officers say the offender smashed a window at the rear of the property and got into the ground floor before breaking into a ...

Following his training, Prosper set up his dental surgery in Southport, at 15 Hoghton Street (called 'Grosvenor Terrace') - close to the old Baptist Church. From at least 1890 Prosper quickly established himself, confirmed by the following Census ...

King James I of England was so impressed by a joint of beef served to him during a visit to the village in 1617 that he took out his sword and knighted it “Sir Loin.” But now, 400 years on, the well-told legend could finally be declared a myth, thanks ...

Capt Vere De Hoghton was killed in October 1915 attacking a German fortified position on the coalfields that make up the Loos battlefield. Meanwhile, work on the Hoghton war memorial, which also contains the name of Capt Vere De Hoghton, has been ...