Chatburn, Gisburn Road c.1950
Photo ref: C462005
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Photo ref: C462005
Photo of Chatburn, Gisburn Road c.1950

More about this scene

The sign tells us that Gisburn Road leads to Clitheroe, hub of the Pendle Forest area. Stone walls, finials, setts, dripstones and lintels characterise Chatburn and the neighbouring villages. Laura described busy mill days: 'We wove miles of Chatburn checks … it was dobby weaving, which went into turbans out East and tea towels out at Colne!' The Brown Cow and the Black Bull, built in 1855, were voted 'excellent', as was Hudson's ice cream shop, which was housed in what was originally the toll bar premises.

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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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