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Great Harwood is a small town in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England, located north east of Blackburn and adjacent to the Ribble Valley. [1]

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Accrington

Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England.

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Aldi

Aldi (stylised as ALDI) is the common brand of two German discount supermarket chains with over 10,000 stores in 20 countries, and an estimated combined turnover of more than €50 billion.

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Bank holiday

A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth countries, Hong Kong and the Republic of Ireland.

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Birmingham City F.C.

Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England.

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Blackburn

Blackburn is a town in Lancashire, England.

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Blackburn Rovers F.C.

Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, following promotion from League One at the end of the 2017–18 season.

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Brett Ormerod

Brett Ryan Ormerod (born 18 October 1976) is an English retired professional footballer.

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Co-op Food

Co-op Food, previously trading as The Co-operative Food, is a brand devised for the food retail business of the consumer co-operative movement in the United Kingdom.

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Coronation Street

Coronation Street (also informally referred to as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.

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David Dunn

David John Ian Dunn (born 27 December 1979) is an English former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

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Domino's Pizza Group

Domino's Pizza Group plc is a United Kingdom based master franchise of international fast food pizza delivery chain Domino's Pizza.

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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1 January 1886 – December 1962), working-class writer, feminist, and socialist activist from Lancashire (also published as Ethel Carnie and Ethel Holdsworth).

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Great Harwood Town F.C.

Great Harwood Town F.C. was a football club based in Great Harwood, Lancashire, England.

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Hyndburn

Hyndburn is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England, whose council is based in Accrington, and the district is named after the River Hyndburn.

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Hyndburn (UK Parliament constituency)

Hyndburn is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Graham Jones of the Labour Party.

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Industrial heritage

Industrial heritage refers to the physical remains of the history of technology and industry, such as manufacturing and mining sites, as well as power and transportation infrastructure.

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John Mercer (scientist)

John Mercer (21 February 1791 – 30 November 1866) was an English dye and fabric chemist and fabric printer born in Great Harwood, Lancashire.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping.

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Lancashire League (cricket)

The Lancashire League is a competitive league of local cricket clubs drawn from the small to middle-sized mill towns, mainly but not exclusively, of East Lancashire.

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Leslie Duxbury

Leslie Duxbury (13 June 1926 – 17 October 2005) was a British newspaper sports writer and columnist born in Great Harwood, Lancashire.

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Listed buildings in Great Harwood

Great Harwood is a town in Hyndburn, Lancashire, England.

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Martholme Viaduct

Martholme Viaduct is a 19th century railway viaduct in the English county of Lancashire.

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Matt Derbyshire

Matthew Anthony Derbyshire (born 14 April 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Cypriot First Division club Omonia Nicosia.

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Mercerised cotton

Mercerisation is a treatment for cellulosic material, typically cotton threads, that strengthens them and gives them a lustrous appearance.

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Michael Gibson (TV presenter)

Michael Gibson (born 29 October 1980 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is a TV presenter and documentary director.

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Mick Jackson (author)

Mick Jackson (born 1960) is a British writer from England, best known for his novel The Underground Man (1997).

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Morrisons

Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc, trading as Morrisons, is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, and is headquartered in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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Mortimer Grimshaw

Mortimer Grimshaw (1824 or 1825 – 22 December 1869) was an English political activist, strike leader and cotton weaver.

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Netherwood Hughes

Netherwood "Ned" Hughes (12 June 1900 – 4 April 2009) was one of the last two Tommies who served the United Kingdom during the First World War, along with Harry Patch, although Patch was the only one to have seen action.

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Nicholas Freeston

Nicholas Freeston (28 August 1907 – 6 February 1978) was an English poet who spent most of his working life as a weaver in cotton mills near his home in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire.

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Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest Football Club, often referred to as simply Forest, is a professional football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England.

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Olympiacos F.C.

Olympiacos S.F.P. Football Club (ΠΑΕ Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π.), also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiakos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos C.F.P. (Oλυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς Olympiakós Sýndesmos Filáthlo̱n Peiraió̱s, "Olympic Association of Piraeus Sportsmen"), is a Greek professional football club, part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus, Attica.

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Retained firefighter

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a retained firefighter, also known as an RDS Firefighter or on-call firefighter, is a firefighter who does not work full-time but is paid to spend long periods of time on call to respond to emergencies through the Retained Duty System.

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Ribble Valley

Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status within the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England.

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Rotherham United F.C.

Rotherham United Football Club, nicknamed The Millers, is a professional association football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

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St John's Church, Great Harwood

St John's Church was an Anglican parish church in St Hubert's Road, Great Harwood, Lancashire, England.

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Tesco

Tesco plc, trading as Tesco, is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.

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Texaco

Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil subsidiary of Chevron Corporation.

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The Underground Man (novel)

The Underground Man (1997) is a novel by Mick Jackson.

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Thomas Birtwistle

Thomas Birtwistle, Thomas (16 October 1833, Great Harwood, Lancashire – 22 March 1912, Accrington) was a trade unionist and factory inspector.

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Transdev Blazefield

Transdev Blazefield is a bus group in England.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Harwood

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