If you are looking for professional jewellers in or around Lancashire,
F. Hinds could be your choice!
You can visit any one of the following two F. Hinds shops in Lancashire:
Manchester (The Trafford Centre)
Our staff are looking forward to seeing you at your next visit to one of our stores.
Something about Lancashire
Lancashire is a contracted form of the 14th century 'Lancastreshire', named after the town of Lancaster, 'Roman fort on the River Lune'. The river's name is Celtic in origin, probably meaning 'healthy' or 'pure'.
The historic county of Lancashire was much larger than the current county, for it included the metropolitan areas of Manchester and Liverpool, and the Furness district, based around Barrow-in-Furness that lies across Morecambe Bay.
Lancashire was one of the centres of the Industrial Revolution, with the industrialization of cotton spinning aided by the inventions of the Lancastrians James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright.
Famous for
The area around Pendle Hill vecame infamous for its witches - in 1612 twelve people (ten women nad two men) were accused of committing ten murders by the use of witchcraft.
The south front of Astley Hall in Chorley, built in the 1660s, is a bit of a shock - the front appears to have more windows than walls and the interior decoration was described as 'barbaric in its very excesses'.
Famous people
Sir Richard Arkwright, industrial pioneer; inventor of the water frame, born Preston, 1732.
Francis Thompson, poet, author of The Hound of Heaven, born Preston, 1859
Dame Thora Hird, actress, born Morecambe, 1911.
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, composer, born Accrington, 1934.
Andrew Flintoff, cricketer, born Preston, 1977.