Upholland
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Upholland memories
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Roby Mill school
I attended Roby Mill School. Miss Simm was my teacher. She caught the bus to the monument (Vicarage Corner), and walked down College Road picking pupils up along the way. It was almost 1 mile in distance, she did this twice a day every school day. Ash Wednesday, Good Friday etc we were expected to attend Upholland parish church (St Thomas's). Mrs Webster was the head teacher and lived a few doors away from us. Mary Wilkinson was my best friend but moved back to Liverpool.
Contributed by dorothy kelly
Childhood
I lived in Ormskirk Road, next to the Grimshaw Lane Pub. I went to Digmoor School, and then on to Skem Secondary School. My memories are of my wonderful childhood, that was spent walking and playing all around the fields that surrounded our house.
When I was older I would cycle through back Digmoor to Moorside Farm where my friend lived, and we would spend hours on the Moss. I remember the ASlmond family, who lived at Digmoor Hall before it was demolished, and relatives at Worthington House Farm nearby.
I love to see the old photos on the web sites as they bring back happy memories.
Contributed by JOAN NEVILLE
Home
I was brought up in Up Holland and still think of it as home.
Contributed by John Baxter
Lancashire memories
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
Extracts From Upholland & 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".