Today’s Bygone Burnley episode sees us venture out of the borough and into the Ribble Valley and the historic Whalley Abbey.

The vestments originally belonged to Whalley Abbey, a Cistercian abbey in Whalley, Lancashire, at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries. These vestments then came to reside in the ...

It’s suspected this was intentional. The viaduct is close to Whalley Abbey, which dates back to the 1200s, and Terence Woulfe Flanagan, the engineer behind the bridge, was inspired by the abbey ...