First Colne Food and Music Festival a Success

COLNE TOWN COUNCIL’s first Summer Food Festival was a success, with crowds thronging the town centre on Saturday. Chairman of Colne Town Council, Cllr. Sarah Cockburn-Price, commented: “The weather was not as good as originally forecast, but it didn’t rain and people...

Calling All Food and Music Lovers to Colne This Saturday!

COLNE TOWN COUNCIL is holding its first Summer Food Festival this Saturday. Two dozen stalls dedicated to specialist foody offerings will be in the town centre on Saturday, 16th July. But that’s not all, Market Street is closed to through traffic all day, meaning...

Colne Commemorated The Battle of the Somme

DESPITE heavy showers throughout the morning, hundreds gathered along the Parade Route and at the War Memorial on for Colne Commemorates…1916 on Saturday. With talks, films, re-enactments, exhibitions, folk music, brass bands, Knurr and Spell, crafts and period...

Here is the news…. from 1916.

A TEAM from Colne Local History and Friends of Colne Library have been poring over old photographs and documents in preparation for the Colne Commemorates… 1916 World War One Event on 2nd July. And one of their main resources has been the yellowed, crumbling pages of...
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