Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, 30 miles north of London. Luton is home to Blue Square Premier team Luton Town Football Club, whose history includes several spells in the top flight of the English league as well as a Football League Cup triumph in 1988. London Luton Airport, opened in 1938, and during the [...]

Ipswich is a non-metropolitan district and the county town of Suffolk. It is located on the estuary of the River Orwell. Nearby towns are Felixstowe in Suffolk and Harwich and Colchester in Essex. The town of Ipswich overspills the borough boundaries significantly, with only 85% of the town’s population living within the borough at the [...]

Croydon is a district in south London, England, located in the London Borough of Croydon. It is situated 9.5 miles south of Charing Cross. In the early 20th century Croydon was an important industrial area, known for metal working, car manufacture and its airport.  In the mid 20th century these sectors were replaced with retailing and [...]

Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England.  It is close to the West Pennine Moors, and 10 miles north west of the city of Manchester. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since the 15th century, developing a wool and cotton weaving tradition.  The development [...]

Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire. Situated along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the fourth-largest settlement in North West England behind Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington. It lies 40 miles north-west of the city of Manchester, and less than 30 miles north of Liverpool City centre. [...]

Blackburn is a large industrial town in Lancashire.  It is north of the West Pennine Moors and  east of the city of Preston, and 21 miles north-northwest of Manchester.    A former mill town, textiles have been produced in Blackburn since the middle of the 13th century, when wool was woven in people’s houses in the domestic [...]