By using the links at the top of the page you can take a historical journey through Bacup and Stacksteads past history. Find out what the home life of some of the residents of Bacup and Stacksteads was like. The mills they worked in the shops they shopped in and how they spent thier precious leisure hours.
Where did we get the name Bacup from? One tale says " there had been a famine and when someone brought flour into the town the folk called out "Now chaps Bake-up, Bake-up". ( Old Tim George)
By the 1850's Bacup had become of the black spots of industry the dark satanic mills casting their shadow over the town. Around the many mills houses grew like weeds, built in a hurry on any land available no need to worry about sanitation or the view as one of the mill masters said " Houseswere not made for living in: the mill was where they lived. Houses were only for sleeping in" .
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