Rawtenstall is the largest town in Rossendale with a population of about 23,000, and as far back as 1323 was a part of the Royal Forest of Rossendale.
Following its rapid industrial expansion throughout the 18th and 19th centuries with the growth of the textile and footwear industries, in 1891 the town was granted Borough status, along with Haslingden.
Nowadays Rawtenstall is somewhat of a dormitory area for neighbouring Bury (now in Greater Manchester), lying as it does at the end of the M66 Motorway, as well as being connected to Bury by the regular steam and diesel train service run by the East Lancashire Railway (ELR). The town's original British Railways station had previously closed in 1972 and the line remained derelict for many years until it was reopened in 1991 by the ELR.
Rawtenstall also has one of the best dry Ski Slopes in England at Ski Rossendale, as well being home to the last Temperance Bar in England.
Lancashire Re-United offers for sale and exclusive to this website prints of original artwork of Municipal Bus fleets , Railway Locos,Barrow Built ships & Company wagons by WALLACE TRICKETT who has VERY KINDLY given me the selling rights to these prints.Simply click on LANCASHIRE PRINTS to purchase these stunning memories of Lancashire'sroad transport heritage at the AMAZING price of JUST £9.99--each plus P&P -
PLEASE NOTE -due to production costs -These prints will not be sold without MOUNTS OR FRAMES
The LRU prints are COPYRIGHT of LANCASHIRE RE-UNITED & Wallace Trickett any infingement WILL result in LEGAL ACTION being taken
