Chatburn, c.1950
Photo ref:
C462007
Photo ref:
C462007
More about this scene
Two miles from Clitheroe, Chatburn is well sheltered by a high ridge and a wealth of trees. Quarrying and textile industries are still carried on here, but for centuries the villagers were mainly workers on the land. Chatburn ran a Friendly Society, or Blanket Club, in about 1750. Housing estates now cover areas where once busy mills throbbed.
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A Selection of Memories from Chatburn
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My grandad kept racing pigeons, his loft was at the top of the old road looking down into the village centre. Ever Saturday morning during the racing season he would send me up to the Brown Cow (public house) to check when the birds had been released and which way the wind was blowing. It would say something like, let 09.30 / wind SW. I would have to remember this all the way back to tell my grandad. We would then sit and wait for the first sign of his birds. I was nine years old at the time
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