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The Vote (newspaper)

Suffragette newspaper published from 1909 until 1933.

The Walking Horse locomotive

Lancashire’s first steam locomotive, built by Robert Daglish in 1812 at the Haigh Foundry for colliery owner, John Clarke; it entered service the following year.

The Wizard (Comic)

Weekly British story paper published from 1922 until 1963, relaunched in 1970 for a further 435 issues.

The Woman and the Car

Handbook written by Dorothy Levitt, targeted at women motorists.

The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

Account of a series of English witch trials that took place on 18–19 August 1612, commonly known as the Lancashire witch trials.

There Was a Crooked Man

English nursery rhyme that first appeared in print in 1842.

There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

English nursery rhyme about a woman with many children.

There’s Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose

Song by Scottish poet Jean Adam (1704–1765), set to the music of "Up an' Waur Them A' ".

Thirty Strange Stories

Collection of 30 short stories by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897.

Thomas Aikenhead

Last person to be executed in Britain for blasphemy, in 1697.