Slaidburn
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Slaidburn books (15 available)
Lancaster Town Walk Guide
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Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories
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Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album
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Slaidburn memories
Read and share memories of Slaidburn and Lancashire inspired by Frith photos
Clitheroe and Trough of Bowland
My father, Ken Hatton, worked as a surveyor with Cementation, a civil engineering company from Bentley Nr. Doncaster. They were driving a water tunnel under the Trough of Bowland. At that time we lived in Clitheroe at 12 Windsor Avenue off Henthorn Road. I remember going down Low Moor to a beauty spot known locally as "little Blackpool" on the River Lune, for some reason I always associate it with that popular rhyme at the time "ten green bottles..". At that time the whole area was less built up than it is today but I was fascinated by the Sewage Works down that way at the end of Henthorn Road and a stream where my uncle took me fishing for sticklebacks ...read more here
Contributed by Stan Hatton
Happy Memories of Slaidburn
My first introduction to Slaidburn was in the middle of the very cold and snowy winter of 1949-50. I had just driven down from Inverness to this charming Lancashire village with my Dad. It had been a long, cold drive in a 1938 Morris roadster car, loaded with luggage and a big tool box. I was to begin a new job working for Cementation Ltd where my father also worked. The contract was to drill a tunnel from Ellerbeck to supply water to Manchester. I was to continue my apprenticeship as a heavy duty mechanic. We arrived at 23 Church Street Slaidburn late in the day, tired and hungry. Our landlady, Mrs. Waterworth welcomed us with open arms and a nourishing ...read more here
Contributed by Denman Lalonde
Lancashire memories
Clitheroe and Trough of Bowland
My father, Ken Hatton, worked as a surveyor with Cementation, a civil engineering company from Bentley Nr. Doncaster. They were driving a water tunnel under the Trough of Bowland. At that time we lived in Clitheroe at 12 Windsor Avenue off Henthorn Road. I remember going down Low Moor to a beauty spot known locally as "little Blackpool" on the River Lune, for some reason I always associate it with that popular rhyme at the time "ten green bottles..". At that time the whole area was less built up than it is today but I was fascinated by the Sewage Works down that way at the end of Henthorn Road and a stream where my uncle took me fishing for sticklebacks ...read more here
A memory of Slaidburn contributed by Stan Hatton
Happy Memories of Slaidburn
My first introduction to Slaidburn was in the middle of the very cold and snowy winter of 1949-50. I had just driven down from Inverness to this charming Lancashire village with my Dad. It had been a long, cold drive in a 1938 Morris roadster car, loaded with luggage and a big tool box. I was to begin a new job working for Cementation Ltd where my father also worked. The contract was to drill a tunnel from Ellerbeck to supply water to Manchester. I was to continue my apprenticeship as a heavy duty mechanic. We arrived at 23 Church Street Slaidburn late in the day, tired and hungry. Our landlady, Mrs. Waterworth welcomed us with open arms and a nourishing ...read more here
A memory of Slaidburn contributed by Denman Lalonde
Extracts From Slaidburn & Lancashire books
Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph. Slaid means ‘flat marshy ground’, burn is the Old English word for brook, so the name means ‘flat marshy ground by the brook’, which describes the area well. The Black Bull public house on the left was later to become a Youth Hostel. Note the very large board with the landlord’s name (A Walker) on it. This was the local custom at the turn of the 19th/20th century, and it led to many pubs taking the landlord’s name or nickname as their name in later years. This is where Church Street meets Chapel Street. On the right we see the famous Hark to Bounty Inn, which was used as an area court house.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories".
Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in
Yorkshire at the time of our photograph. ‘Slaid’ means ‘flat marshy
ground’, ‘burn’ is the Old English word for brook, so the name means
‘flat marshy ground by the brook’, which describes the area well. The
Black Bull public house on the left was later to become a Youth Hostel.
This is where Church Street meets Chapel Street. On the right we see
the famous Hark to Bounty Inn, which was used as an area court house.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album".
This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book. The Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the Hall grounds. The bridge in the foreground is over the Barn Gill. Hammerton Hall is really an enlarged and fortified farm-house.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories".
This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book.
Hammerton Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a
stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the grounds. The
bridge in the foreground is over the Barn Gill. Hammerton Hall
is really an enlarged and fortified farmhouse.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album".
Slaidburn nestles in a hollow with higher ground around it. As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it. That brook has a weir just before it enters the village, which was built to keep the water deeper for a mill that was here two centuries ago. It was at Slaidburn that many of the ancient pack-horse trails used to meet or cross. Here we see the outskirts of Slaidburn.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories".