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.

 

 

 

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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