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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 3379359, member: 14873&quot;]Thank you for that cautious recommendation! I will be on the lookout for it!</p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned previously, I was born and grew up in an area of Lancashire that had great historical association with the English Civil War. Just a couple of miles from my house was the great historical estate of The Towneley family (a lesser Downton Abbey that dates back to the 1300s). They had deep Catholic roots and were closely allied with the Royalist cause during the Civil War. There was quite a lot of fighting here at the time of the battle of Preston. I used to walk to school and home through the Towneley grounds daily when I was a young schoolboy in the late 1930s and early 1940s - my friends and I used to play “Cavaliers and Roundheads” using hand made wooden swords on the Towneley grounds, for we we were taught about the history of that time at school - ah, happy days! Following is a link to a great page relating to the Towneley family including their association with the Royalist cause. Please check it out for it is a good read:</p><p><a href="https://lancashirepast.com/2018/03/30/towneley-hall-burnley/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://lancashirepast.com/2018/03/30/towneley-hall-burnley/" rel="nofollow">https://lancashirepast.com/2018/03/30/towneley-hall-burnley/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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