Lancashire and the Peaks Features

Lancashire and the Peaks Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  The Beatles: Liverpool is the place to visit the Fab Four's haunts and see their childhood homes.... Read more

• Manchester's History: Cottonopolis
  

  Manchester's spectacular rise from a small town to the world's cotton capital—with the nickname Cottonopolis—in only 100 years began... Read more

• Beatles Discovered ... and Rediscovered
  

  Brian Epstein was led to the Beatles in 1961 by a teenager who came into his record shop, NEMS (North End Music Stores) at 12-14 Whitechapel... Read more

• Liverpool's History: Shipping Center
  

  Liverpool, on the east bank of the Mersey River estuary, at the point where it merges with the Irish Sea, developed from the 17th century through... Read more

• Stoke-on-Trent: The Potteries
  

  The area known as the Potteries, about 55 mi southeast of Liverpool, is still the center of Britain's ceramics industry, though production is... Read more

• Well Dressing
  

  Unique to the Peak District is the custom of well dressing, when certain wells or springs are decorated with elaborate pictures made of flowers... Read more