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It was an early example of radical, alternative journalism – and most of it was in dialect. Staton’s mantle was picked up by another Boltonian, Allen Clarke (pictured)\u00a0 – better known as ‘Teddy Ashton’ who pioneered a form of Lancashire writing that was accessible, radical and entertaining. My updated and enlarged edition of his biography is now available.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1.-Clarke-244x300.jpg\")
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The present-day Lancashire Loominary is about promoting a sense of Lancashire pride and identity which is radical and inclusive – pretty much what the likes of Staton and Allen Clarke were about in their day.<\/p>\n
My occasional blog The Northern Weekly Salvo<\/em>, can be read here, along with numerous other things:\u00a0 http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/northern-weekly-salvo<\/p>\n I also have a website which includes my photographic work. ‘Paul Salveson Photography: Places, Trains and Factories’ is at www.paulsalveson.org.uk but is still at the ‘development’ stage. My latest book is ‘Lancastrians: mills, mines and minarets’ published by Hurst. You can get it at bookshops or directly from me at the retail price including postage (\u00a325, hardback).<\/p>\n My collection of railway short stories, mostly set in the North-West, is\u00a0 Last Train from Blackstock Junction. <\/em>It’s published by Platform 5 and can be bought via their website: www.platform5.com<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviving an old ‘Loominary’ Welcome to The Lancashire Loominary website, owned and managed by me – Paul Salveson. It’s quite new, although its origins are very old. James Taylor Staton edited a magazine in the 1850s and 1860s, at various times called ‘Th’Bowtun Loominary’ or ‘Lankishire Loominary’, often with added extras such as ‘Tumfowt Telegraph’. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/w-306-ag-220x300.jpg\")
Here’s an image of NCB loco ‘Harry’ at Astley Green Colliery in 1969.<\/p>\n