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Scouts and Guides
Wesley Place Scouts 1913
St Saviours 1918
Zion Bacup Captain Mary Baron
Knot Hill Scout Club 1930 Nurse Lambert
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Various Photographs, Stories and Newspaper articles covering the daily life's of Bacup and Stacksteads children.
I found this picture in a box of photographs and with nothing written on it I can't be sure these boys are from Bacup or Stacksteads. Regardless of this I think this picture is just a wonderful representation of young children at play. *Notice their little clogs and flat caps, perhaps the little chappy in the middle is fixing his whip ready for a game of whip and top*
The young man on the right looks quite bewildered.
Ida, Arnold and Nora Taylor of the Poplars Burnley Road. 1897.
Children of Dale Street Bottom of Ash Street 1922-1923.
Children of Blackwood J Murphy on the right.. 7th from Left J Murphy's Mother 9th Back Row Honor Walsh next Mrs McGuiness
Children from the Greave with Maypole.
John Henry Sanderson In February 1906 John Henry Sanderson of Heightside, Sharneyford, aged 12 and half accomplished a remarkable school attendance record, having missed school only once during seven years to attend his fathers funeral. Henry was presented with a silver watch by the Bacup Education Committee.
A Child of the Great War
According to the writing on the back of the picture above it was taken about 1922/1924 and all the children present in it lived in the area of Underbank. It would have been fascinating to see who some of these children and their families were had we been able to look at the census for that time. That not being possible yet I decided to look and see how many children lived in the area called Underbank at that time of the 1901 Census. I believe the whole area from Laurel Street right up to Cooper Street was classed as Underbank but the results in the table below are purely just from the census enumerators report for the Street named Underbank and for children aged 16 and under. The table on the next page shows the House Number, Childs Name , Age and Employment ( if any ) and the Employment of the Head of the house usually the Father.
Underbank Kids Taken in street called North Parade outside the home of Mr & Mrs. Clarke
Dick Whittaker A child of Bacup youngest child of a family of 15 who lived over the Greave Bacup.
Lee Wood Lads October 1913 Left-Right J Kendall, John Crossley, H Holt, F Thomas, T Hurney R Lovell, H Hanson, Jim Crossley, W Kendall, H Keeble J Lord, R Keeble.
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Newspaper Articles
Boy Scalped 1920
Overlaid Child 1904
Little Norah Shanks 1904
Bacup & Rossendale News June 1865 Sutcliffe and Hargreaves
April 1906 Gertrude Tuck Badly Burned
Bacup Times June 9th 1945. Childs Body Found In Steam
1915 Schoolboy Willie Southern Blows up his hand.
Three year old Saved From Drowning 1903
Boys Birched Bacup Times 1916.
Mary Jane Keeble Killed By Tram 1902
Report of Boy being Knocked Down By A Tram.
In 1918 a little way up the road from were the above accident happened a little boy called Alfred Jones aged 10 son of my Great Grandfather was killed.
Shocking Accident Yesterday March 1927 Girl Killed By Steam Wagon
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