Jack Ledwick, a Blackburn resident, was president in 1953 and again in 2000, and he is our longest standing member, having joined the society in February 1939.
Having been a member for over fifty years, he is an Honorary Member of the Society.
Previous Presidents are as follows:
| 2007 | David Moss |
| 2006 | Ron Baron |
| 2005 | Ron Baron |
| 2004 | Mo Howarth |
| 2003 | Mark Munro |
| 2002 | Donald Monk |
| 2001 | Anne Walmsley |
| 2000 | Jack Ledwick |
| 1999 | Norman Greenhalgh |
| 1998 | Paul Openshaw |
| 1997 | Harry Robson |
| 1996 | Brian Taylor |
| 1995 | Brian Lead |
| 1994 | Trevor Dawson |
| 1993 | Roger Woods |
| 1992 | Lee Clark |
| 1991 | Roy Widdup |
| 1990 | Colin Cook |
| 1989 | Dick Wildman |
| 1988 | David Snell |
| 1987 | Brian Lead |
| 1986 | Paul Fleming/resgd |
| 1985 | John Tattersall |
| 1984 | Harold Taylor |
| 1983 | Les Brooks |
| 1982 | Reg Parkinson |
| 1981 | Roger Woods |
| 1980 | Ron Baron |
| 1979 | Jesse Demaline |
| 1978 | Marco Gareh |
| 1977 | Clem Bailey |
| 1976 | Derrick Smith |
| 1975 | John Pye |
| 1974 | Bill Richardson |
| 1973 | John Bentley |
| 1972 | Roy Widdup |
| 1971 | Ken Ashburn |
| 1970 | Eric Halstead |
| 1969 | Colin Cook |
| 1968 | Charles Fitness |
| 1967 | Trevor Dawson |
| 1966 | Harold Scott |
| 1965 | Wilf McConville |
| 1964 | Dick Wildman |
| 1963 | Frank Bowling |
| 1962 | Mo Howarth |
| 1961 | John Tattersall |
| 1960 | Derek Stevens |
| 1959 | Ken Green |
| 1958 | Wilf Sumner |
| 1957 | Ronald Barnes |
| 1956 | Harry Holmes |
| 1955 | Robert Blackburn |
| 1954 | Reg Parkinson |
| 1953 | Jack Ledwick |
| 1952 | Jack Yates |
| 1951 | Jim Law |
| 1950 | Frank Sutcliffe & Albert Chambers (Apr) |
| 1949 | Bernard McCourt |
| 1948 | Jesse Demaline |
| 1947 | Fred D Walker |
| 1946 | Jack Eddleston |
| 1945 | Alf Strack |
| 1944 | Rennie Murray |
| 1943 | ??? |
| 1942 | James Dobson |
| 1941 | John J Wareing |
| 1940 | Albert Chambers |
| 1939 | Jack Gill |
| 1938 | James Dobson |
| 1937 | James Dobson |
| 1936 | James Dobson |
| 1935 | James Dobson |
| 1934 | James Dobson |
| 1933 | James Dobson |
| 1932 | James Dobson |
| 1931 | James Dobson |
| 1930 | James Dobson |
| 1929 | James Dobson |
| 1928 | James Dobson |
| 1927 | James Dobson |
| 1926 | James Dobson |
| 1925 | James Dobson |
| 1924 | James Dobson |
| 1923 | James Dobson |
| 1922 | James Dobson |
| 1921 | James Dobson |
| 1920 | John J Wareing (resigned June)/ James Dobson |
| 1919 | John J Wareing |
| 1918 | John J Wareing |
| 1917 | John J Wareing |
| 1916 | John J Wareing |
| 1915 | John J Wareing |
| 1914 | John J Wareing (Jack) |