Eccles cake Eccles cake An Eccles cake is a small, round cake filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, sometimes topped with demerara sugar. Eccles cakes are named after the English town of Eccles, historically part of Lancashire, but now classified as a town in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester. It is not known who invented the recipe, but James Birch is credited with being the first person to sell Eccles cakes commercially, which he sold from his shop at the corner of Vicarage Road and St Mary's Road, now Church Street, in the town centre in 1793.
Healthcare in Lancashire Healthcare in Lancashire Healthcare in Lancashire is now (as of 2015) the responsibility of 7 Clinical Commissioning Groups covering Blackpool, Chorley and South Ribble, East Lancashire, Fylde and Wyre, Greater Preston, Lancaster North and West Lancashire. From 1 April 2017 32 GP practices from Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group will merge with Lancashire North CCG to form Morecambe Bay CCG. From 1947 to 1974 NHS services in Lancashire (Including Manchester but not Liverpool) were managed by the Manchester Regional Hospital Board. In 1974 the Boards were abolished and replaced by Regional Health Authorities. Lancashire and Manchester came under the North Western