TWO legs, four legs, two wheels, four wheels, water and steam, have all helped solve the problem of getting from A to B over the centuries.
In today's jet age, which has made the world a smaller place, it's difficult to comprehend the difficulties our ancestors had, not just in getting from one end of the country to another, but from one village to the next.
We've all heard stories about how our grandparents, as teenagers, would think nothing of walking eight miles to a dance and back home again along dark unlit streets.
The canal provided the first major highway for people, raw materials and manufactured goods to move much quicker than anyone was used to - and as industrialisation grew, suddenly new transport services were introduced.
After the bicycle and horse and cart or carriage, how each new generation must have marvelled at the new ways to get about, queueing up to see the horse pulled tramcar, which became steam and then electrically powered.
And the first motor cars had whole families running into the streets to see the new marvel of the day pass by.
Today Bygones takes a step through time, to see the development of transport across East Lancashire.
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