The old Lancashire market town of Colne is overlooked on one side by the mighty bulk of Pendle Hill, infamous for its associations with the Lancashire witches, and flanked on the other by the charming Yorkshire village of Haworth, home of the Bronte family. Colne, however, has many claims to historical fame itself, not least as the home to two famous gentlemen bearing the name of Hartley. Sir William Pickles Hartley, founder of the Hartley's jams empire was born in Colne and made his first jam there and Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster on the ill-fated RMS Titanic who continued to play as the great ship sank also hailed from the Colne. This book covers a wide range of subject interest in Colne, including old views of the streets and buildings, people at work in now lost industries, carnivals and Whitsuntide processions and a selection of some of the town's best know personalities.
