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Sweets in Accrington: The Nori Brick That Helpe...

Accrington's engineering brick was hard enough to help underpin the Empire State Building, and its football club became a household name through a 1980s advert.

Sweets in Skelmersdale: Built as a New Town in ...

Skelmersdale was a small mining village until it was designated a New Town in 1961 and rapidly expanded to house Liverpool and Manchester's overspill population.

Sweets in Ormskirk: A Market Going Back to 1286...

Ormskirk has traded on the same market site since 1286 and its skyline still carries an unusual church with both a tower and a spire — but no dedicated bulk...

Sweets in Alnwick: A Castle Famous Enough for H...

Alnwick Castle doubled as Hogwarts for the early Harry Potter films, and the Alnwick Garden next door has since become an attraction in its own right.

Sweets in Morpeth: A Chantry Chapel Full of Bag...

Morpeth's medieval Chantry now houses Northumberland's bagpipe museum — a genuinely unusual claim to fame for a small market town on the River Wansbeck.

Sweets in Ashington: A Pit Village That Produce...

Ashington grew up around its collieries and produced one of English football's great families — Jackie Milburn and the Charlton brothers — but never much in the way of a...