This month’s Jack’s Tracks visits Northwich, a place that today fits nicely into the pigeon-hole of genteel and leafy Cheshire, but it wasn’t always this way. Back in 1670, the…
An institute in the hamlet of Highfield since 1924, Highfield Cricket Club celebrates its 95th anniversary this year. The club’s extensive history was officially chronicled by current Chairman Gary Speakman…
For fourteen days – the first two full weeks of July – shops and factories across town closed for business, and the masses trooped to the seaside for a fortnight…
Burscough Community Farm is set to become completely organically certified this month. The 18-acre farm, which became a not-for-profit Community Interest Company back in 2016, began its life as a…
Fancy something a bit different this summer away from the crowds of traditional seaside resorts? A relaxing weekend away or a day out in one of the North West’s lesser-known…
Going to the cinema has been a favourite pastime for many since silent film premiered in front of an audience in 1895. The production was a Lumière brothers enterprise in…
Going to the cinema has been a favourite pastime for many since silent film premiered in front of an audience in 1895. The production was a Lumière brothers enterprise in…
On a glorious spring day masquerading as midsummer, we headed out on our latest 4 ½ mile Jack’s Tracks around Sankey Valley Country Park and the beautiful Carr Mill Dam…
Going to the cinema has been a favourite pastime since silent film premiered in front of an audience in 1895. The production was a Lumière brothers enterprise in Paris, and…
Older West Lancashire natives probably remember why Burscough’s Booths supermarket is eerily reminiscent of an air base. With its sleek grey exterior and curved roof, Booths is one of the…