Chatburn, Sawley Road c.1950
Photo ref:
C462001
More about this scene
The homes in the stone-built terrace (right) were once fitted with hand-looms, but the end cottage with the sign sold tyres at the time of the photograph. Some villagers from here worked in the corn mill converted to cotton spinning. A great spirit prevailed amongst the mill workers, who particularly enjoyed Christmas parties at the mills. My grandmother remembered Whitsuntide processions passing the Black Bull inn. Grandfather recalled the quack doctor of Chatburn who sold 'universal pills'; the doctor was drowned at the age of 80 as he tried to ford the river. On 30 October 1940 German bombs fell on the village post office and cottages. Miss Robinson, one of the people killed, left a field for the villagers in her will, which was used to commemorate Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 as the village playing fields.
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