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

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

PHOTO ALBUM No.1 (Photos shown on the blog during 2013 or before)

HASLINGDENS BOOKLETS AND PAMPHLETS

Photo Album No. 1 (pre 2014)

SORRY NO TITLES AS YET

Grane Mill postcard

Haslingden Secondary Modern School - Squires Gate with Mr. J. Dean and Mr. Marsden

Haslingden Secondary Modern School - Mr. Hinkleys art class

Mr. Colbourne science teacher at Haslingden Sec Modern School.

Haslingden Sec Modern School Basketball 1963

Photo: thanks to JT

Haslingden Sec Modern School Rugby 1963

Photo: thanks to JT

Haslingden Central School Jubilee 1935 (Click over to enlarge)

Photo: kindly shared by CH

Grane Manufacturing from aerofilms

Grane Road Methodist Church

Photo: Kindly shared to us by JM

Junction of Hargreaves Street with George Street

Photo: Kindly shared to us by Michael Mullaney

Haslingden Grammar School Cross Country 1966

Photo: Thanks to Dave Rothwell

ARCHIVED HASLINGDEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Haslingden Grammar School during demolition

Photo: Thanks to Dave Rothwell

Haslingden Grammar School Camp - Tenby 1968

Photo: Thanks to Dave Rothwell

ALSO ARCHIVED HASLINGDEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Haslingden Grammar School Camp - Tenby 1968

Photo: Thanks to Dave Rothwell

ALSO ARCHIVED HASLINGDEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL

HGS - Criccieth Camp 1965

Photo: Thanks to Dave Rothwell

ALSO ARCHIVED HASLINGDEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Haslingden Union Workhouse
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Kathleen Barlow

1953 Coronation Party at the Co-op Hall
Photo: Kindly shared to us by J.H.

A dmu diesel train passing Hud Hey Bridge in 1963
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Patrick Baker

A more modern Market Place
Photo: Kindly shared to us by PS

The above three photos are St. John's Ambulance related

A nice aerial photo

Kindly shared to us by Michael Mullaney

Back Paradise Terrace
Photo: Kindly shared by Joan Merrill

Back Pickering Street
Photo: Kindly shared by Michael Mullaney

Back Pleasant Street
Photo: Kindly shared by Michael Mullaney

Band Section

Bicycles etc

Big Lamp Proclamations (photos supplied by Keith Burton and Alison May)

Blackburn Road and leading off:

Deans grocery shop on Blackburn Road

Photo: Kindly shared by Joyce Thorne

Showing procession on Blackburn Road near St James's Lychgate

Blackburn Road, Top of Prinny Hill

Blackburn Road across from current Market

Blackburn Road heading to Hud Hey with Wesley Church spire in the background

Clifford's Opticions shop on Blackburn Road

Haslingden Workingmen's Club, Spring Lane

Hud Hey Road showing Clough End Factory in the bottom

Hud Rake (now demolished) 57-61

Hud Rake at the back of Pinch Belly

Pinch Belly Row

Lower Lane building of new estate

Margerisons Haulage on Blackburn Rd nr St. James's Lychgate

John Deans Grocers shop and Dining Rooms

Church Lads Brigade passing Margerisons on Blackburn Rd Nr. Lychgate

Photo: Kindly shared by Joan Merrill

Old photo of Station Road or Pag House Lane

Old sketch of the fire from 1878 at Paghouse Mill

Demolishing of Trinity Baptist Church

Mr. John Woods old house on Blackburn Rd opposite to Prinny Hill

Photo: Kindly shared by John Simpson

Railway Road

Booth Street and Station Yard

Lead up road to the Railway Station - beautiful cobbles

Stott and Vizzard's shop on Blackburn Road opposite Market

Photo: Kindly shared by Ken Stott

Stott and Vizzard's shop on Blackburn Road opposite Market

Photo: Kindly shared by Ken Stott

Stott and Vizzard's shop on Blackburn Road opposite Market

Photo: Kindly shared by Ken Stott

The Hollies, on the corner of Rising Bridge Road

Paradise Terrace - Ranters Row - Blackburn Rd -opposite Regent St

Station Road (Pag House Lane)

Blackburn Road at Junction with Hud Hey and showing Wesley Methodist

Once the office to W.H. Shaws, which later became the mosque and now back to a private dwelling

Aerial View showing Bury Rd, Shoot Estate, Grane Mill etc

Backs to Piccadilly Street etc

Property which is opposite what was The New Inn or Thorn or Mary Hindle Centre or VIC Centre

The cellars were once a police lock up

Bury Road

Another of the property opposite the old New Inn/Thorn Pub

A photo of the "Halo" or Penoptican under construction

Haslingden Grammar School (or Technical School when this photo was taken) and

the Ebenezer Baptist Church prior to building work

a dmu diesel train coming under the bridge on Hud Hey on its way down to the Station

On the right hand side shows a little of Hartleys Scrap Yard

Marsden Square

"West View" the home of Thos Woodcock which later became the Municipal Offices

The Palace Picture House on Beaconsfield Street

More recently was Fletcher and Hunton Furniture warehouse

The Palace Picture House on Beaconsfield Street

More recently was Fletcher and Hunton Furniture warehouse

Spring Gardens, Bury Road

Spring Gardens, Bury Road

Spring Gardens, Bury Road

Warwick Street

Musbury Church Women's Carnival 1914

Top O'th Slate, Haslingden
Photo: kindly shared by JM

Carter Place Hall

Carrs photos:

St. James C of E School Flower Show 1959 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared by Dave Rothwell
includes the late John Adamson, Ronnie Trickett, Dave Rothwell, the late Maisie Booth

St. James C of E School Flower Show 1959 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared by Dave Rothwell

Clough End School 1903
Photo: Kindly shared by RA

Casting at S.S. Stotts
Photo kindly shared by Michael Mullaney

Cellars, Back Pleasant Street
Photo: Kindly shared by Michael Mullaney

Chapel Street
Photo kindly shared by Michael Mullaney

Church Lads Brigade going past Lychgate on Blackburn Road

Showing, Flip, Spring Vale, Waterside, Charles Lane etc

Co-op Clough End Branch No.9 (Michael Mullaney)

Co-op Store, Townsend Street 1926 No.7 (JB)

Cordingley's Bike Shop when up on Higher Deardengate (Michael Mullaney)

Cordingleys Bike Shop - Blackburn Road

Cordingleys Showroom (JR)

Cordingleys Advert (DR)

Co-op shoe shop opening on Higher Deardengate with Stanley Matthews
and Mankad (cricket pro)
Photo: Kindly shared by Jean Tomlinson

Church Lads Brigade - Cup Winners
Photo: Kindly shared by Joan Merrill

The original old Cattle Fair at Haslingden
Higher Deardengate
Postcard kindly shared with us by Keith Burton

Vale Street bus stop on Blackburn Road, Bob Gardners Shop

Showing Deardengate (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared with us by Alison May

DMU Diesel train just about to cross the crossing at Carr Hall Street
Kindly shared to us by Patrick Baker

A DMU diesel train just leaving Haslingden Station
Kindly shared to us by Patrick Baker

On the occasion of making the East Lancashire Regiment "freedom of the Borough"
Photo: Kindly shared by Jean Tomlinson

Ebenezer Baptist Walking Day 1935
Kindly shared by CH

Ebenezer Baptist Walking Day 1935
Kindly shared by CH

Dave Rothwell's grandad with his Model T
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Dave Rothwell

Engineers from S.S. Stotts Foundry
Kindly shared to us by Michael Mullaney

Coronation Parade - Carr Parkers
Kindly shared to us by LP

F. Bowker - 50miles in 7 hours
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Michael Mullaney

George William Fisher - Driver
Kindly shared to us by Peter Fisher

Fire Brigade photos

Family at Carr Parkers Mill
Photo: Kindly shared by LP

Haslingden Grammar School at Criccieth 1965
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Dave Rothwell

Grane Weaving Shed Decorations
Kindly shared to us by F

Grane Road Methodist Church
Kindly shared to us by JM

Haslingden Grammar School in demolition
Kindly shared to us by Dave Rothwell

Haslingden Grammar School at Tenby 1968
Kindly shared to us by Dave Rothwell

Haslingden Grammar School approx 1968
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Dave Rothwell

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.

"Old School Ties" (Haslingden High School) first broadcast on Radio 4 in 1988 -

Images added by Chris Kirby.

"Old School Ties" Programme 2 - BBC (period of students 1940s to 1960s) Images added by Chris Kirby.