Our antiques expert Allan Blackburn looks at an item that is practical and valuable... Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website ...

This week a regular customer to the antiques centre came in asking me to value a beautiful writing box that had once been his father's. It is worth a mention as it is very unusual. Portable boxes for ...

WE don't write letters anymore which is a shame. Now it’s text, email etc, but in times gone by this was not the case. In the 19th century the master of the household would have a desk, or writing ...