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Chatburn, Downham Road c.1950
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Photo ref: C462006
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This part of Chatburn, leading to Downham, is reminiscent of the many stone villages hereabouts, which according to legend and tradition are steeped in witchcraft. Chatburn, like Worston Hall, was part of the Honour of Clitheroe. Nowadays, the notoriety of the witches of Pendle has created a lucrative tourist trade, and Witches Galore is a mecca for souvenir hunters. In 2003, the museum at Clitheroe Castle made a film about the witches' lives and deaths.

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A Selection of Memories from Chatburn

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Chatburn

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Saturday Mornings
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
Chatburn, the Village 1921
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