Article Taken from the Bacup Times 1901 Situated at the foot of Flower Scarr Hill above Todmorden Edge, on one side and Dulesgate on the other. It is about 3.5 miles from Bacup and 1 mile from Todmorden by the nearest path. It is a substantial stone-built structure, two storeys in height, and practically […]
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About the year 850. A.D. on the site of Stubbylee Hall once stood a beautiful monastery, richly decorated and containing many precious vestments and jewels. Among the jewels was a beautiful chalice of exceptional value. The monks were noted far and wide for their hospitality and kindness, especially to the women and children of the
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Rockliffe House was built by John Maden cotton spinner and manufacturer, in 1866 on land once known as Raw Cliffe. John started off life as a humble handloom weaver, born at Bent in the hamlet of Heald. At the age of twenty, he married and, encouraged by his wife, he saved his first £5.00, walking
A series of annual “Lancashire Neets” were instituted just after the First World War by the Bacup Natural History Society. These evenings began as a night of Lancashire dialect verse and song, and later became plays which took the form of North country comedies, and a long succession of players became so expert that the
Thanks for the Memory by Albert Pattison 1972 This entry won First Prize in a Memories of Bacup Competition in 1972. Fifty years ago, I was attending the old St Mary’s R.C. School, on Bankside. Bacup at that time was a dimly lit cotton town, composed in the main of pubs, chip shops, cloggers
Once recognized as the Bull & Dog Inn, the establishment known as The Blue Ball Inn now rests as a vacant field. A date stone bearing the initials J.G.B. and the year 1792 marks its historical significance. Remarkably, John Cropper maintained his role as the landlord for nearly three decades, from 1848 to 1877, succeeding
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The image captures Hill House Barn farm, situated along Booth Road, an area once popularly referred to as Folly Clough. This nickname originated from the Clough that flowed from Higher Tunstead to the Hare and Hounds. Although water continues in this direction, it is now channelled beneath the road through pipes. To the
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Meetings In Normandy from the Bacup Times August 1944 An unexpected meeting on the Normandy beachhead was recently the happy experience of two Bacup brothers, Driver James Stevenson 23 R.A.S.C., and A.B. Stevenson 19 Naval Command. Sons of Mr and Mrs Stevenson 16, Co-operation Street. Speaking of the reunion, the younger of the two.
The arrival of the fair transformed the town into a bustling hub of excitement and colour. The open land opposite the police station at Bankside, became a vibrant tapestry of stalls and amusements, each vying for attention with bright signs and the enticing aromas of sweet treats. The market area, known for its daily trade,
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Dancing round the Maypole, merrily we go Dancing round the Maypole, singing as we go “I’m the Queen, oh can’t you see I’ve just come from the village green If you wait a little while I will show you the polka-style (Girls: Can you dance the polka?) ‘Yes I can Not with you, with my