OneGuyFromBarlick

Stanley wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025, 02:39 A Nelson and Colne College function at Gawthorpe Hall in 1979 when the college was a partner in managing the Hall.

One of my ancestors, born in Mellor, was a 21-year-old under-gardener living alone in the `Garden Boothy' at Gawthorpe Hall in the 1871 census. It did him good and he ended up with a career as Gardener in Corporation Park, Blackburn.

I've taken afternoon tea in that house Peter.... I went there to see a magnificent rocking horse owned by the wife of the gardener.



Rainhall Road in 1901 with decorations up for the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. These things were more important in those days....