On Lancashire Day let's remember a Lancashire hero
Today is Lancashire Day when the people of Lancashire celebrate the anniversary of sending its first members to the Model Parliament of Edward I in 1295. On this day, we toast HM The Queen, the Duke of Lancaster. On such a day it is worth remembering an old hero of Lancashire, Charles Rumney Samson. Samson was one of the first four Royal Navy pilots and a pioneer of naval aviation. He was born in 1883, in a suburb of Manchester, so in his day, he was Lancashire born and br