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The Ormerod family.
Ormerod House passed out of the Ormerod family when the male line died out and the three daughters of the last Ormerod married. Their husbands were John Hargreaves, a local coal mine owner, the Rev William Thursby who became vicar of the local church and General Scarlett who led the Charge of the Heavy Brigade to retake the field after the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. The family fortunes grew with the mines during the Industrial Revolution and the boom in the cotton industry but in their enthusiasm to mine more and more coal they managed to extend the mine workings from the pit head some four miles away, under the house which caused ...read more here
A memory of Burnley contributed by I Ormerod
Platers and Stampers
I worked here as a Plater for about 1yr.Not a good memory.They sacked me for taking time off to join the RAF so I joined the RAF.Best move I ever made.
A memory of Burnley contributed by Brian Brierley
My Early Years
On the 2nd September 1952 I was born at Manor Farm. I lived there with my parents, my maternal grandfather and two older brothers. I know my grandmother was alive when I was born but, unfortunately died soon after. My grandfather was called Seriah Butler and was the tenant of Manor Farm and when my mother Dorothy Butler married Albert Shorrock at the village church my father worked on the farm, in fact we all did.
I remember travelling down the Dykes to bring the cattle home for milking. I would sit on the handlebars of my Dads bike to help with the cows.
There was an orchard around the farmhouse and I can remember my mother making damsom jam ...read more here
A memory of Yealand Conyers contributed by Sue Tomlinson
Coopers and Booths
My Great, Great Great Grandfather, William Booth, used to push a cart up and down the streets of Clayton le Moors with his son John Booth, selling shellfish. He was known as 'Muscle Bill' and his son, 'Oyster Jack'. (This is actually a memory passed down from my ancestors to my 3rd cousin.)
They lived at 'Old Sparth House' from around 1895 onwards. William died in 1900 age 79. Most of the family married and brought their children up in Clayton le Moors. A few emigrated abroad. Robert Booth to Australia, Ellen Booth married Charles Battersby and moved to Canada. John Booth's daughter Luciana Booth married William Cooper from Great Harwood at All Saints, and my Grandfather, Robert Cooper was born ...read more here
A memory of Clayton Le Moors contributed by DONNA COOPER
Extracts From Ingleton & Lancashire books
This is an unusual photograph of Burnley’s parish church in that it is taken from the north, where the trees make photography difficult. The photographer has managed to get round this problem by making use of one of the upstairs windows of the Old Grammar School. St Peter’s occupies the original site of the community that eventually became Burnley, which perhaps dates from the Dark Ages. This was a relatively easy position to defend because the river almost surrounds the site. We can see the Church Street Road Bridge to the left, and the land upon which the church is built slopes down quite steeply to the river. To the right of the tower stands St Peter’s Church School, Burnley’s oldest school.
An extract from from"Burnley Town and City Memories".
This photograph shows how the church was extended in the 1850s — at this time there was great demand for pews in St Peter’s. It would have been difficult to extend the building, because its site was constrained by the Brun, so the solution was to construct galleries. The Master window, in the middle, is dedicated to the memory of Robert Mosley Master: when he left Burnley after thirty years in 1855, he became Archdeacon of Manchester.
An extract from from"Burnley Town and City Memories".
A hint of the heavily-wooded banks of the Brun can be seen on the left of this picture. It was here, in what was called the ‘steepland of St Peter’s’, that Burnley Grammar School was founded in 1559, though there had been a ‘song school’ at St Peter’s many years before that. A flag flies from what is a wonderful vantage point, and the tower itself reminds us that St Peter’s has a very good peal of bells.
An extract from from"Burnley Town and City Memories".
In the distance, on the right, is Bank Parade house, once the home of Sir James Mackenzie (1853-1925). He was a medical practitioner in Burnley, and became famous for his researches into diseases of the heart. A plaque on the building records his achievements. To the left we can see the roof of St Peter’s. On the extreme right, the wall is that of the Bank Hall estate, the home of General the Hon Sir James Yorke Scarlett, the hero of Balaclava and the reason for the proximity of the Russian cannons.
An extract from from"Burnley Town and City Memories".
General Peel, then Secretary for War, presented the Russian cannons to Burnley in 1867. This seemingly unusual gift was made because of Burnley’s associations with the Crimean War. The cannons were a popular feature of old Burnley, but unfortunately they were taken for scrap metal during the war effort in 1941.
An extract from from"Burnley Town and City Memories".