Moorlands House was built between 1869 and 1871 by Edward Hoyle born 1833  fifth son of Joshua Hoyle head of the firm Joshua Hoyle & Sons.  Educated at Wesley college Sheffield on his return home  his one great hobby was pigeons. Which he cast aside when his two elder brothers James and John left the district  for Yorkshire each launching out on their own account, his elder brother Issac moving to Manchester as had of the sales warehouse.

Edward married Frances Craven of High Thorn near York in 1861. 

 

 

 

 

 

 In 1867 he was appointed a County Magistrate. About 1880 he became the leader of the Conservatives in the area remaining so up until a couple of years before his death. For thirty years he was practically the head of the firm of Joshua Hoyles and sons of Bacup and Brooksbottom, and Manchester. For some years Edward was president of the Trinitarian Bible Society and the Bacup Orchestral Society, he was also a member of the Burial Board and Local Board.  

 

 

At the time of the census of  1891 the house is being looked after by servants a cook  two housemaids and a kitchen maid. After his death on 14th November 1897 aged 64 years he left a widow two sons and five daughters, Alice, Janet, Elizabeth and Edward.  

Joshua who in May 1892 added his maternal grandfathers surname to his name and became Joshua Craven Hoyle, became Mayor of Bacup 1911 to 1913.

 

 

After his death Edwards son Edward takes up residence at Moorlands employing a housekeeper, cook, two housemaids and a kitchen maid. The photograph above shows Moorland Lodge circ 1907 with Mrs Harry Stott and Son, Mr Stott being head gardener. In 1908 the house and grounds were put up for sale but withdrawn. After the death of Frances in 1912 his sons and daughters, offered the Moorlands Estate to the Bacup Town Council, free of costs as a memorial to their parents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Moorlands was demolished in 1915 and a row of houses built from it's masonry named Moorland Terrace  Moorlands house was a large family house and as such needed a hosts of servants to manage it. The 1881 census shows the servants  to be  a Governess, Kitchen maid, Nurse, Cook, Hand Maid, Milking Maid, and a Coachman.

 

Besides the rooms shown on the plans below

The house also comprised a coach house with stables and kitchen garden as well as extensive lawns with fountain at the front of the house.

 

 

This floor plan shows the layout of the second floor and consists of.

1 -Day Nursery

2 -Night Nursery  

3- School room

4 - Back Terrace

5 - Closet

6 - Dressing Room   

7 - Bathroom

8 - Closet

9 - W.C

10 -Main Terrace

11 -Bedroom

12 -Bedroom

13 -Bedroom

14 -Bedroom

15 -Dressing room

16 - Bedroom.

 

 

1 - Kitchen

2 - Scullery

3-  Lavatory

4-  Library

5-  Butlers Pantry

6-  Store Room

7 - Hall

8 - Lavatory

9 - Lobby

10 - Waiting Room

11- Vestibule

12 - Porch

12 - Dinning Room

14 - Breakfast Room

15 Dinning Room