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Volume 1

Pilling, Bond's Farm Excavation, 1979 - B. J. N. Edwards

"Kate's Pad" - Hugh Sherdley.

The Hackensall Hoard - D. C. A. Shotter.

The Over-Wyre Churches: a brief survey - Julia M. Beeden

Pilling's First Church - W. Headlie Lawrenson

Diary of an Excavation at Pilling 1970 - Bill Dickinson 

Sand Fishing for Flukes - Robert Parkinson and Rose Rabbitt

Bone Hill Farm - W. Headlie Lawrenson

Hambleton's Ancient Salt Industry - J. Daresbury Hatton

The Preesall Salt Industry, Part 1, 1872-1891 - R. Hogarth and W. Heapy

Volume 2

An Old Book on Housekeeping - Gladys Walkden

An Early Rawcliffe House and its Contemporaries - R.C. Watson and M.E. McClintock

The Preesall Salt Industry, Part 2, 1892-1911 - Rosemary Hogarth

Over-Wyre People in Calder Vale in the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Julia M Beeden 

Volume 3

 

The Pilling "Graves" - Hugh Sherdley

A Roman Coin-find on Preesall Hill - John Fairclough

Roman Finds from the Broadfleet Stream, Pilling (February 1971) - W. Headlie Lawrenson

Cockerham Hall - R.C. Watson and M.E. McClintock

Gravestones on the Foreshore at Pilling - Hugh Sherdley

The Origins of Calder Vale and Oakenclough - Julia M. Beeden

Extracts from the Farm Accounts of James Threlfall of Bell Farm, Scronkey, 1861-1865 - Andrew Jenkinson

The Engines of the Garstang and Knot End Railway - N. Thompson and M.A. Cook

The Preesall Salt Industry - Part 3 - 1912-1923 - Rosemary Hogarth

 
Volume 4

Parrox Hall, Preesall - R.C. Watson and M.E. McClintock

"The Devil at Cockerham" - Hugh Sherdley

Kelsall - a Quaker Family. Part I. Origins - Julia M Beeden

"Quakers' Rest", Little Eccleston - Julia M Beeden

The Engines of the Garstang and Knot End Railway - N. Thompson and M.A. Cook

"Torf" - Hugh Sherdley

Memories of the Great War: The personal account of Alfred Thomas Higginson

The Preesall Salt Industry - Part 4 - Engineering Techniques - 1875-1926 - Rosemary Hogarth and Geoffrey R. Binns

Volume 5

A Suggested Interpretation of Pilling in Mediaeval Times RC Watson

Kelsall - A Quaker Family - Part II The Early Years   Julia M Beeden

The Rev George Holden - Incumbent of Pilling 1758-1767   Hugh Sherdley

Richard Gornall - a Pilling Bike Maker   Andrew Jenkinson

The Engines of the Garstang and Knot End Railway     N Thompson and MA Cook

Memories of the Great War: The personal account of Alfred Thomas Higginson

The Preesall Salt Industry - Part 5 1925-1989 Rosemary Hogarth

Letters written by the Rev J D Banister

Volume 6

Contents

Reports of the Pilling Historical Society Excavations from the 1950s and 1960s - W. Headlie Lawrenson

"Pool" in the Fylde - R.C. Watson

Cockersand Abbey Drain and Well - D.H.Kellet

Vicarage Farm, Pilling - Hugh Sherdley

Sandside Farm, Pilling - John Armour and Pat Allouis

Kelsall - A Quaker Family - Part III Friends throughout three centuries - Julia M.Beeden

A History of Plover Scar and Cockersand Lighthouses - Rose Parkinson

Galgate Silk Mills; A Study of the Development of Mill Architecture - R.E.Beeden

The Engines of the Garstang and Knot End Railway - N. Thompson and M.A. Cook

Memoirs - Annie Higginson

Pilling Coffee Feast - Annie Higginson

Military Coastal Defence, 1940 - Hugh Sherdley

 

Volume 7

History of The Pilling & District Historical Society

Evidence of Thomas Sherdley of Sandside Farm, Pilling To The Royal Commission on Agriculture, 1894

A Letter From Preesall to New Zealand Circa 1900

Ancient Earthworks At Nateby

The Pilling 'Graves' Enigma

Quarterlands In Amoundernesshire

The Growth of The Monastic Orders and Their Influence In Pilling, Preesall and Stalmine

The Winmarleigh Hoard

The Garstang and Knot End Railway

Diary Of A Survey Of An Ancient Highway In Nateby and Over-Wyre, Lancashire

The Monks Track. Report of Survey at Humblescough Wood Nateby

Pilling Pinfold

The History of The Corless Family of Springfield House

 

Volume 8

A Reader's Letter

Memories of The Great War

Field Names & Dialect Words

Opening of a New Mission Church At Pilling

The Pilling Moss Enigma

Humblescough Lane

The Produce of Medieval Farms in Amounderness

The Pilling Morleys From Around Bonds Farm

Wm. Shepherd - A Nineteenth Century Pilling Farmer

The Pilling Heritage Trails

Broom Hill, Barnacre. Wyre Lane Ford. Monk Holes

Ancient Tracks Across Pilling Moss

Schedule of Archaeological Finds in the Over-Wyre Area

Volume 9

Dr.Kuerden's Road Through Pilling in 1684 - W.H.Lawrenson

The Shire of Amounderness - Richard Watson

The Will of Thomas Herdman - Ken Morley

Arval By Richard Watson *

Field Names - What do They Tell Us ? - Richard Watson *

Some Road Names in Pilling - Walter Lawrenson

The Story of Thurnham Church - Father Bernard Shuttleworth

Our Daily Bread - Richard Watson *

A Tale of Two Crosses - Robert Parkinson

Continuity - Richard Watson *

Brunanburh Discovered - W. H. Lawrenson

Captain Peter Harrison - A life story

The Butlers of Rawcliffe - Richard Watson *

A Peep Into The Past - Richard Watson *

The Crookhey Hall Estate - Rose Parkinson

Lords of the Manor of Pilling

Pilling Names - 1630-1713

The articles marked with an asterisk written by Richard Watson were previously published in the
Over-Wyre Rural Round-Up.