Stacksteads, Piper Bank c.1955
Photo ref: S552003
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Photo ref: S552003
Photo of Stacksteads, Piper Bank c.1955

More about this scene

Piper Bank appears in the census returns of 1851 and on maps of Rossendale as a place name. Edgeside Estate developed over and around it, sad to say swallowing up a horse trough which was fed from a spring in the hills and was thus never empty. Piper Road, like Booth Road where my mother was born, was an old toll road. Piper Bank, sweeping up towards the moors, is traversed by the road built in 1818 through the Glen. Glen Top Brewery (Baxter's) was rebuilt in 1894 with a new chimney, 'Old Smokey', the tallest in Rossendale. The area locally known as Thrutch Gorge features the long tunnel of the Rawtenstall to Bury railway, built in 1852. Road, river and rail run within twenty yards of Thrutch (a dialect Lancashire word synonymous with great effort). On 25 August 1902 an eighty-ton boiler crashed through waste ground at the Waterfoot end of Thrutch Gorge.

A Selection of Memories from Stacksteads

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 Stacksteads

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I could not believe it when I discovered this photo of 1 Fernville Terrace as it belonged to my Mum's parents George & Marion Pickup. My sister and I spent every Christmas and Easter there when we were growing up. We travelled from Essex each time. We fondly remember climbing up the extreme (or so it seemed to us) hill at the back of the sloping garden and using tea trays to sledge back down again. Boy ...see more
I lived across the road very near to the cat steps which was a primitive path taking you up the hillside to a roadway at the top , then leading to Fearns high school.I used this path four times a day. The path is still there today.
I remember travelling on the train from Bacup to Rawtenstall and then on to Manchester where I caught a train to March in Cambridgeshire where we lived. I can remember seeing the big cotton mill which was called Ross Mill, which, I believe was big enough (if turned into flats) to house everyone in Bacup.
Attended Western School, which has since been demolished and is now a bungalow housing estate.