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Articles Covered 2008
Saturday 10th October 2008
Irwell Springs Labour & Love - Download a small clip of the Springs winning test piece from 1913.
How The Other Half Lived - Updated page with new Houses of the wealthy such as Olive House, Greens House, Beech house etc.
Churches - Added Provident Strict Baptist Bacup. North Street Primitives. Booth Road Primitives. Heald Wesleyan.
Gone Shopping - Updated with new information on the Co-op and it's various local branch openings. Prices for goods on the market over various periods.
The River Irwell - Updated with couple of new photographs and a poem.
Weather - Updated with additional information on the 1871 -1881 flood.
Magistrates - Updated information on the many Magistrates and Stocks.
Police Occurence Book - Added extracts from the book for 1941 -1942.
Memories of Mr Greenoff - Added memories of Bacup's first postman.
Ambulance - Updated with a couple of new photographs.
The Royal Visit 1913 - New page with photographs and articles on the visit.
Britannia - New page on Britannia.
Brownbacks - New updated page on the Quarrymen who once worked the local quarries.
Music & Dance - Updated.
Saturday 12th July 2008
The River Irwell - New page on the River Irwell.
News Articles - 4 New stories.
Life of 70 years ago - Another memoir.
Bacup Cemetery - A new page covering the story of the cemetery and some of the people buried there.
World war 1 heroes - Pte's Cookson, Holt and Fielden added.
Christ Church - Updated information on the church.
Saturday 19th April 2008
Irwell Springs Band 1905 1914 - Two new photographs.
Irwell Springs Band 1930 - Updated photograph of reunion.
Irwell Springs Labour and Love - New Belle Vue 1921 photograph.
A Womans World - Three new articles about Bacupian women .
Saturday 16th February 2008
World War 1 Heroes - Pte H Cookson.
World War 1 - Three photographs added of a public reception being held in 1916 to celebrate local soldiers medal.
Mayors & Clerks - Information and pictures of the Mayors and Clerks of Bacup Borough.
News Articles - Stacksteads man found hanging 1916. Divorce Court decision for John Ray 1920. Stacksteads man John Fraine crushed to death 1920.
Public Health Report 1849 - Extracts from the Public Health Report of 1849.
Remembrance - Updated -With pictures and details of the many other war memorials erected to commemorate the many men of Bacup and Stacksteads who died during the Great War. Including - Thorn Chapel Memorial - St Johns Memorial. - Wesley Place and others.
How The Other Half Lived - New picture added Rockliffe House Gardens.
Bacup People - Added people living in the area of Mashwood and Cat Banks.
World War 2 Local Heroes - A meeting in the middle East. Morris, Topping and Walker.
Children - Martin Monaghan making news with a accident to his head.
Other Work - One new photograph added of a group of Servants posing for the camera. Although I can't say which family they worked for in Bacup from their dress and the amount of them they must have been a very wealthy family.
Court Reports - Elijah Dowling deserting seamen and William Clegg before the courts.
World War 2 MIA/KIA - R.A.F John Alfred Mochan.
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Saturday 10th October 2008 Well as you can see there are quite a lot of New Updates this time. Irwell Springs band won at Crystal Palace in 1913 with a test piece called Labour & Love, I have included a small clip of this on the springs pages. The piece is a bit scratchy etc but so would you be after 95 years. 1913 was of course the year King George and Queen Mary visited Lancashire and in particular Bacup. I have featured this visit on the site with a collection of photographs. Some of these are taken from stills captured from a cine film that was discovered in August last year in a safe that hadn't been opened for many years. We sent it to the North West Film Archives and they converted it for us onto disc. The film lasts for about 15 mins and will be shown at the end of Owd Bacup on 1st Nov 2008, this is of course the opening night of the Nat Winter lectures for 2008-2009. Entrance to this lecture will be be by FREE ticket only, tickets can be obtained by visiting the Nat any Thursday night from 16th - 30th October. You can watch a small clip of the film by clicking on the play button at the bottom of the Royal Visit page.
Although I haven't included them in the What's New list all of the House & Home pages have been updated with additional information and in some cases new photographs. Some of the other pages have had a little re-jig as well. If you should come across any links etc that don't work please let me know. If you want to chat to other Rossendale People in a friendly environment pop along and join Rossendale Online the community forums for Rossendale. News, weather, sport, business and classifieds.
Well its been a while since the last update, and we are once again into a new year, I was quite surprised to realise I now have three archived years. Quite small in comparison when considering we are about to celebrate 130 years at the Bacup Natural History Museum.
Although there hasn't been a update I have been quite busy preparing articles for the site, one of these being the Public Health Report for 1849. Whilst it is quite lengthy what is shown on this site is only a small portion of the full report. I personally found it fascinating to read and at if nothing else it certainly makes you appreciate your kitchen taps a little more. The report makes reference in one part to the matter of " Nuisance" not what you might think.! Nuisance was in fact put politely, Faecal Matter .... so you may like to think next time before you call someone a nuisance -:)
On the World War 1 page there are three new photographs in the Medals and Awards section. I found these photographs in a folder of Bacup pictures and whilst I can be certain they are from 1916 - 1917 due to the Mayor being Sir Henry Maden, I have yet to discover who the soldier being honoured is. If you think you may know please send me a email. In the meantime I will continue to try to find his identity.
We recently had a family bible brought into the Nat, the person who brought it in had no connection to the family named and knew nothing about them. The head of the family was a Thomas Woodcock Sutcliffe and on doing a small search of the 1871 census I was able to ascertain that Thomas was living in Acre Mill Stacksteads with his Wife Mary and Sons James and John. There are other family names named in the bible. If you think you may have a connection drop me a email or come into the Nat.
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