Enjoy a Tour of Owd Bacup
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Service during wartime was not new for the Bacup Brigade of the St John Ambulance, as many of its members had participated in the Boer War. This conflict highlighted the need for improved medical and nursing services, as it became evident that they would struggle to cope in the event of another war. Starting in
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When the fair came to town, the land opposite the police station and behind the indoor market was packed with stalls and amusements. Each side of Bank Street featured stalls selling fruit, rock biscuits, ice cream, coconuts, and brandy snaps. At the bottom of Bankside Lane, toy sellers offered wooden trucks and trains. Union Street
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Only three or four of Stacksteads large detached mansion houses survive, the rest such as Fern Hill House, Spring Hill House and Heath Hill House have been demolished with little or no evidence of their once grand existence. Spring Hill House, which stood in 5 acres of grounds, had been the home of James Ashworth,
Bridge over the River Irwell before it was culverted. The Bacup old school, which was originally built for a Baptist Meeting House, was situated on the east branch of the Irwell Stream ( or syke as it was known) which formed the boundary confine of the village at the junction ( or lumb) of the
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On the 18th of July, Bacup and Stacksteads basked in glorious sunshine, with the streets of Bacup adorned in festive decorations. St James Street was festooned with colourful bunting, and the Market Hall and Court House were similarly adorned. On Burnley Road, St John’s Sunday School featured a floral archway over the gates, interwoven with
The working class often avoided the expense of calling a doctor, relying instead on home remedies passed down through generations or purchasing readily available medicines from the local druggist. Enoch Sutcliffe was one of Bacup’s earliest druggists, initially operating a shop at 13 St James Street before moving to 3 St James Street. In the
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The first schoolhouse in Bacup was built on land purchased in 1692 from Mr. John Whitaker of Broadclough Hall. This site is now home to Bacup Library, which was formerly the Mechanics Institute, opened in 1846. The land was bought for £3.8s.0d. The school also served as a meeting house and a place for prayer.
1788 The first St John’s Church built in Bacup, said to contain the old church bell dated 1787 inscribed: Exaudiunt Clangorum Beatus est Populous Qui. The steeple was erected by public subscription in 1798. A clock was also subscribed by the public 1833. 1789 Todmorden to Haslingden turnpike trust road built. 1798 Water powered scribbling
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Brownback’s were classed as the lowest of the low, people didn’t want to know them or discuss them in conversation. In 1878 a letter appeared in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph which the Bacup Times reprinted. The “factory hands” are an entirely different class. They are as insignificant physically as the “brownbacks” (quarrymen) are prodigious. Cadaverous