Interesting websites.

This one is brilliant, information on the cotton industry and history of Darwen and Blackburn.

http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=257

I found this article particularly interesting -

http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=2572&language=eng

For information on Darwen

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/OverDarwen/

The free BMD site

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

Lancashire BMD site

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/

Some transcribed lancashire parish records,

http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/index.html

The family search site - run by the Mormons in USA, including the IGI.

http://www.familysearch.org/