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Many of us will remember the 2002 celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth II’s 50th year as monarch. When Blackburn Rovers notched up 50 years in 1925, there was an excellent commemorative book which sold well.
Accrington Town Council produced a book in 1928, when they celebrated 50 years as a Corporation. The same year librarian Joseph Pomfret wrote a Jubilee Souvenir to mark the Darwen’s milestone. There have been many similar celebrations throughout East Lancashire. What won’t be celebrated this year though, is 50 years of the Whalley-Clitheroe by-pass; opened to traffic in January 1971. It has been called the “Death Road.” A few years ago Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans said the number of accidents on the road was “phenomenal.”