Haslingden Old and New...

Haslingden derives from Hazeldean or Valley of the Hazels. It lies 19 miles north of Manchester in the County of Lancashire. A area at one time noted in particular for its Stone, it also played a big part in the Woollen and then later Cotton Industries from the 18th and through the 19th and early to mid 20th Century... It is steeped in Local History and can also boast to have one of the most beautiful Natural Valleys around, where thousands come and visit annually

Monday, 3 December 2012

Haslingden County Primary School Student Photos

Blazer Badge - Haslingden County Primary School
Click over to Enlarge - Thanks to Chris Kirby

Haslingden County Primary School c1951 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Geoff Heap and uploaded here on 22nd November 2015

BELOW: Can anyone out there tell me which class this was and if possible name the teachers and students from these Haslingden County Primary School 1952/1953 period photos. Any help would be much appreciated. (just click over the photo to enlarge further)

1952

from Sam Westwell who thinks the gentleman in the photo is Mr. Halstead who was the headmaster. Also Sam Westwell is top right in the photo.

Haslingden County Primary School c1952 (Click over to enlarge)

Photo: kindly contributed by Geoff Heap and uploaded here on 22nd November 2015

Haslingden County Primary School c1952 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Geoff Heap and uploaded here on 22nd November 2015

c1953 Coronation Student photo
1953
Haslingden Junior school photos of 1952 and 53, incidentally of the same children. Your site brings back many memories of my childhood ( now 72 ). In the 1953 picture the teacher is Miss Brierly who lived with her sister on Manchester Rd opposite the war memorial, a teacher at the secondary modern. (information kindly supplied by Sam Westwell 5/12/14)

Haslingden County Primary School around 1953

Photo: thanks to Sandra Hilton

c1954 Student photo
1954
Haslingden Council School Student photo which includes the following students:

Barbara Nuttall, Elizabeth Porter, Eileen Entwistle, Chris Maden, Robert Halstead, Pamela Bargh, Michael Kay, Carol Hugo, Jean Woods, Jean Hargreaves, Joan Bell, Margaret Whittaker, Barbara Morton, Valierie Haworth, Jackie Briggs, George Dewhurst, Roger Benson and Peter Wooley. (Photo kindly supplied by Jack Pilling on 1st Jan 2015.

Haslingden County Primary School c1954
Photo kindly shared to us by: Sue Haworth
Some of the names supplied by facebook members include:
Eileen Entwistle (Gillespie) RIP, Carol Hugo, Elizabeth Porter, Margaret Ange, Pat Hardman, Michael Kay, Pamela Barge, Peter Haworth, Barbara Morton, Valierie Haworth, Jackie Briggs, Stella Barnes.

Haslingden County Primary School c1954 (Click over to enlarge)

Photo: kindly contributed by Geoff Heap and uploaded here on 22nd November 2015

Haslingden County Primary School c1955 approx (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Bill King and uploaded here on 14th December 2015

1956 or 1957 The above photo is Haslingden County Primary School photo from 1956 or 1957, also showing Mr. Ashburner the Headmater and Mrs. Hindle teacher. (The photo was kindly given to us by Lynda Batty (Ex pat from Olney, Buckinghamshire)

Haslingden County Primary School c1956/57 approx (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Bill King and uploaded here on 14th December 2015

Haslingden County Primary School (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Derek Haworth and uploaded here on 13th December 2015

Haslingden County Primary School (Click over to enlarge)

Photo kindly contributed by Derek Haworth and uploaded here on 12th December 2015.

above 1958 ?

Late 1950's Haslingden County Primary School late 1950's

Back: Jacqueline Barcroft, Linda Thorpe, Angela Maddocks, Susan Cooper, June Hoyle.

Middle: Derek Palmer, .. Lambert, Patrick Mahoney, Jeremy Rawlinson, ??, Nicholas Dunnachie, ??,??.

Front: Margery Gillam, Elaine Siddall, Susan Nuttall, Christine Barnes, Elizabeth Peel, Lynn Holden, Judith Simpson, Barry Haworth.

Photo with names kindly sent in by Susan Wallace on 19th February 2015. - Please click over photo to enlarge

1959 above - Haslingden County Primary School teacher: Mrs Boyson

(photo kindly sent in by Keith Gunton

1959 Haslingden County Primary School - c1959 (Click over photo to enlarge)

Photo: Kindly contributed by Angela Hill (nee Maddocks) and uploaded here on 15th Oct 2015

Haslingden County Primary School

Another photo kindly sent in by Brian "Yap" Wilson, who can be seen on the front row second from the left. The teachers are Mr Ashburner and Mrs. Hindle. (Photo kindly supplied by Brian Wilson on 26th January 2015).

Haslingden County Primary School

Another photo kindly sent in by Bryan "Yap" Wilson who can be seen on the back row second from the right. Teachers Mr Asburner and Mr Trippier. (Photo sent in by Brian Wilson on 26th January 2015)

Haslingden County Primary School

Another photo kindly sent in by Brian "Yap" Wilson who can be seen on the back row 1st on the left. The teachers are the Headmaster Mr. Ashburner and Mrs. Hargreaves (Photo: Brian Wilson 25th January 2015)

Haslingden County Primary School

Here is another photo kindly sent in by Brian "Yap" Wilson who is seated fourth from the right on the front row. The teachers are Mr. Ashburner and Mrs. Kelly. (Photo: Brian Wilson sent in on 25th January 2015) Please click over photo to enlarge.

Haslingden County Primary School
Here is a photo kindly sent in by Brian "Yap" Wilson who is the second from the right on the back row. Headmaster is Mr. Ashburner (Photo: Brian Wilson sent in on 25th Jan 2015) Please click over photo to enlarge)

Haslingden County Primary School (Click over to enlarge)

Photo: kindly contributed by Pauline Emmett Dagg and uploaded here on 15th October 2015

Haslingden County Primary School (Click over photo to enlarge)

Photo: Kindly contributed by Pauline Emmett Dagg and uploaded here on 15th October 2015

Haslingden County Primary School (Click over photo to enlarge)

Photo: Kindly contributed by Pauline Emmett Dagg and uploaded here on 15th October 2015

Haslingden County Primary School c1950s (Click over to enlarge)
Kindly shared to us by Pauline Emmett Dagg

1960 - Haslingden County Primary School c1960 teacher: Miss Landless

Back: David Whittaker, Brian Grimshaw, Leslie ?, ??,??,David Haworth, Andrew Hargreaves, Norman Nicholas.

Middle: Angela Maddocks, Eve Nicholas, Sheila Entwistle, Lynn Kempson, Rita Wild, ??, Evelyn ?, Shirley Hughes, Susan Cooper.

Middle Seated: ??, Denise Ratcliffe, Jean Harwood, Linda Thorpe, Margaret Meynell, ??, Susan Nuttall, Carol Mason.

Front: ??, ??, ??, Martin Jackson, Jeremy Rawlinson, Brian Lythgoe, Alan ?, ??.

Photo with names kindly sent in by Susan Wallace on 19th February 2015 - Please click over to enlarge

1961 (above) The above photo is a Haslingden County Primary School photo from 1961 with teacher Mrs. Rogers. This photo was kindly given to us by Lynda Batty (ex pat from Olney, Buckinghamshire).

Can anyone out there tell me which class this was and if possible name the teachers and students from these Haslingden County Primary School 1952/1953 period photos. Any help would be much appreciated. (just click over the photo to enlarge further)

The following photos have been kindly shared by Robert Stevens (25th August 2016)

Christmas 1966
(Photo kindly shared by Chris Kirby)

Back Row (L to R): Mr Fenwick (Headmaster), Marcus Hindley, Chris Kirby, Andrew Smith, Neil Jackson, Fred Tattersall, Philip Gregory, Mrs Rogers

Next to back row (L to R): Ian Redman, Andrew Cockerill, Geoffrey Shaw, David Reeves, Gianni Manguso, David Farrelley, Bruce Howard, Keith Pilling, Stephen Mollner

Second Row (L to R) Gillian Love, Jacqueline Robinson, Giovanna Rothwell, Elizabeth Bracewell, Jeanette Gill, Jeanette Teasdale, Kathryn Spencer, Carol Heap, Christine Normanton, Collette McBean, Deborah Worthington

Front Row (L to R) Ann Parkinson, Susan Jones, Sheila Haworth, Anna Krylyuk, Margaret Worsley, Carol Yorke

1966 (above)

Haslingden County Primary School c1967

Photo: Kindly shared by Bruce Rothwell

also now archived under Haslingden County Primary School

Haslingden County Primary School c1958 (Click over to enlarge)
Kindly shared by Robert Stevens

Vicky Hall has kindly shared the following four photographs

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All the above four photos kindly shared to us by Vicky Hall.

The top photo shows Vickie's dad Derek Hall at Nursery in 1949. And the three lower photos show Vickys class photos at Haslingden County Primary School between c1951 to 1955

(uploaded here on 11th September 2016

Haslingden County Primary School - probably 1951/1952 (Click over to enlarge)

Photo: Kindly shared by Stephen Nuttall on 13th March 2017
Mr. Halstead - head teacher
Top Row: 3rd from left Gerald Holden, sixth from left Colin Shutt
Bottom Row: Kay Ferguson, Joan Seddon, ?, Barbara Taylor, Ella Taylor, ?, Renee Allsopp, Joan Watson

Haslingden County Primary School 1966 ish (Click over to enlarge)
Photo kindly shared with us by Ramond Halstead and will now also be archived in HCPS Blog

Haslingden County Primary School 1970 ish (Click over to enlarge)
Photo kindly shared with us by Ramond Halstead and will now also be archived in HCPS Blog

Haslingden County Primary School - lates 50s early 60s - Kindly shared by Diana Ross

Haslingden Primary School - Summer Play Scheme around the mid 1980s
Photo: Kindly shared by Sharon Gallagher on 12th July 2017

Haslingden County Primary School

Teachers in the photo: Mrs. Lancaster (left) and Mr. Jones (right)

Pupils names offered include: Andrew Derbyshire, Neil Thompson, Andrew Duckworth, Ian Hayes, Peter Thomas, Ian Austin, Lisa Morton, Tracy Gage, Robert Halstead, Ian Heyes, Mandy Egan, Nadeem Elahi, Graham Bartle, Sheila Tongue, Ian Hardie, Gillian Heys, Debbie Dewhurst, Mel Crabtree, Andy Brown, Janet Halstead, Michael Whittaker, Stephen Ingham, Mark Kay.

Photo: Kindly shared to us by Peter Fisher.

Haslingden County Primary School Leavers 1977

1977 and the players from Haslingden County Primary School celebrate winning the Rossendale Championship with a friendly match against their school teachers.

May 1982. Haslingden County Primary School choir win the Cecelia Cup at Blackburn Music Festival.

Haslingden County Primary School (Click over to enlarge)
ARCHIVED UNDER HASLINGDEN COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Haslingden County Primary School (Click over to enlarge)

ARCHIVED UNDER HASLINGDEN COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Haslingden County Primary School around 1953
Photo: thanks to Sandra Hilton
Archived under Haslingden County Primary School

Haslingden County Primary School Choir
Winning the Cecelia Cup at Blackburn Music Festival 1982
Archived under Haslingden County Primary School

Request for Photos and Sending photos for the Blog

We are constantly struggling to find photos to fill the header on the front page and so your photos would be a absolute delight to receive and as long as they are yours and of historic value, we have no problem showing them on the blog, so many people get so much pleasure from these. The feedback has been quite remarkable. So please send your scans of the photos in so they can be put on the blog and subsequently filed within the blog, and can then be seen by the thousands who are watching on a regular basis. This way hopefully the photos will be preserved for not just us but also for the future generations of Hazeldeners, Haslingdonians, Ex pats and friends. Thank you.....

Also just as important as photos are memories or stories of the past and other snippetts of information which may give pleasure together with any posters, programmes and scans of memorabilia pertaining to Haslingden.

If at all possible can photos being submitted to the blog as jpeg images (or another image type file if preferred), and be sent to me in a "full" or at least "large" resolution size (eg: the original size which they are scanned at) and without any reductions in size, before sending through to me. If I have them in full resolution I can do far more with them especially when it comes to showing enlargements etc eg "click over the image to enlarge" etc.

Don't worry should this be a problem, I can still show them in smaller resolution sizes, because even small photos are better than no photo.

Thank you.

Bryan.

Preserve the past in words and pictures

Over the many years there must be lots of interesting facts and tales what have gone on within our Haslingden and Helmshore, some vintage, some old and some new....

And here in our blog we are trying to re-introduce some of this precious information and where possible also offer photographs...

As they say its probably only the tip of the iceberg, but its got to be worth "Passing it on or sharing it before it gets lost forever" ... Have you something you want to share? If so please let us know.

Description of the Arms of the Borough (shown above) - The Arms and Crest of which the following is a description, were assigned to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Haslingden, by grant from the Herald's College, dated 25th March, 1892 and are therein described as follows: Quarterly Or and Argent on a fesse wavy Azure between a Lion rampant purpure, holding between the paws a Quatrefoil ermine, in the first quarter; six Eagles displayed three, two and one; Gules in the centre chief point a Rose of the last barbed and seeded proper, in the second; a Cog-wheel Sable, in the third; a Pick-axe in bend surmounting a spade in bend sinister, entwined by a Chain in arch all proper in the fourth; a Shuttle fesswise of the first tipped and furnished with thread pendant of the second and for the Crest, on a wreath of the colours upon a Mount a Rock thereon, a Moorcock holding in the beak a Sprig of Hazel, between two branches of Hazel fructed all proper.

Haslingden in its own right was incorporated as a Municipal Borough in the year 1891 and ran most of its affairs from the Municipal Offices, Bury Road (now Car Park) - see photo below. Sadly in 1974 it lost most of its former Independance by being swallowed up to form part of the (then) new Rossendale Borough Council...

The government of the place in 1825 was thus described: 'The district is formed into six divisions called posts or stations, and the executive consists of a constable and six churchwardens. Each churchwarden is charged with the care of a station and is made responsible for its good order.' The system appears to have been successful at the time. It was not till 1875 that a local board was formed. The district ruled by it was extended in 1883 so as to include parts of Haslingden, Henheads, Higher and Lower Booths in the parish of Whalley, and also Musbury and part of Tottington in Bury. In 1891 a charter of incorporation was granted, the council consisting of a mayor, six aldermen and eighteen councillors, chosen by six wards named Town, Acre, Syke, Helmshore, Holden and Grane. The borough area was consolidated into a single township, called Haslingden, in 1894.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company's (later LMS) line from Clifton to Accrington did run northward through the township, having stations at Helmshore and at Haslingden, it was opened in August 1848.

Dr. Aikin, writing in 1795, says:—Haslingden has been greatly improved within the last twenty years, chiefly from the increase of the woollen manufacture, though much of the cotton trade has likewise been introduced within a few years, particularly the branch of making twist for warps, for which purpose alone several factories have been erected in its neighbourhood. . . . The people were (forty years since) chiefly employed by moneyed men at Rochdale; but now the trade is supported by capitals acquired on the spot by the industry and enterprising spirit of the manufacturers, who have erected inns for the entertainment of travellers, shops and handsome houses for their own residence. A square is lately planned here, and some capital houses are already built in it. . . . A number of mills for carding cotton and sheep's wool and spinning them into cotton twist and woollen yarn for the flannels made here, are erected upon the Swinnell. There is also a corn mill on the river, formerly belonging to the Holden family, now extinct.

Haslingden was one of the chapels existing when Whalley was bestowed on the monks of Stanlaw, and in 1296 it was found that its tithes were worth 5 marks and the altarage 4 marks; the chaplain had a stipend of 4 marks, and the chapel had an endowment of 1 oxgang of land. The church, which is now called St. James's, was rebuilt in the time of Henry VIII and again in 1780, after having fallen down. There was no regularly founded chantry, but in 1548 the names of two priests were recorded in the bishop's visitation list, and the same in 1554; later there was only one minister, the curate. His fixed income was £4 a year out of the rectory of Whalley. The Commonwealth Church Survey of 1650 fails to give any account of the income of Haslingden Chapel, but in 1717 it had £17 8s. 7¾d. a year, including £11 10s. out of the rectory, various fees and the Easter roll. There were six chapelwardens. In 1719 George Hargreaves and others gave £200 to augment the endowment, and with later increments the net value is now £368. The vicars of Whalley formerly presented the curates, but about 1848 the Hulme Trustees acquired the patronage. The benefice is styled a vicarage. In the 16th century the north chapel was acquired by the Rawstornes of New Hall in Tottington. The south chapel belonged to the Holdens of Holden. 'In 1857, during alterations, there were found in a cavity under the floor of the church where the altar anciently stood a skull and crossbones with traces of gilding upon them, and therefore believed to be the relics of St. James, the patron saint.' A large 'plague stone,' with two holes in it, was found in the churchyard. The entries in the registers begin about 1620, but are only fragmentary until 1653.
From: 'Townships: Haslingden', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 427-433. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53147

Haslingden On Film

St. Mary's Class of 1951 at a 1991 re-union - kindly sent in by John McGuire.

St. Marys Class of 1951 (1991 Re-Union)

Films kindly given to us by Bernard Rostron - Chairman of the Friends of the Higher Mill Museums - Three films which were filmed by the late Maurice Edmundson:

Green Valley and part of the Walking Day (St. Thomas)

Walking Day (St. Thomas and also Mayor's Sunday

Films kindly sent in by Dave Rothwell (copyright: D. Rothwell)

HGS Staff versus Pupils Hockey Match 3:48

1964 St James Sports Day 3:50

HGS Camp 1965 31secs

HGS Rag Day 12secs

A film by the BFI

Haslingden Peace Celebrations July 19th 1919

Check out DJ Drone on Haslingden Grane (You Tube)

Haslingden Carnival 1950s - Shows Willie Horam and Georgie Berry as the King and Queen.

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