They are photographs of the pages from the register, stored as jpeg images. I paid a researcher to visit Lancashire Records Office to get them because there is a lot of information held in them that I want to look at for a project I am working on.
Handwritten, and not very clear in many cases, so OCR isn't really an option. See sample image below. Each page has 8 entries, but I have noted that the year isn't recorded on the page except when it changes from one year to the next, so as a freestanding image you can't tell when it's from.
Also the handwriting is "variable", shall we say, and finally, my researcher was clearly getting fatigued and some of the later images are illegible due to camera shake. This will be resolved, but LRO is now closed for three months for refubishment.
I will transcribe them eventually, it just isn't high on my list of priorities. At the moment, I am simply looking at them for specific details relating to my project.
But like I said, happy to do look ups if requested.
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