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Brindle and Chorley Workhouse. Death of Samuel
Stancliffe.. |
The Eaves Lane Hospital, Chorley being demolished in 1997.
Between 1870-2 a new Union Workhouse was built on Eaves Lane
Chorley. The first Master to be appointed was Samuel Stancliffe
who had been running the Brindle Workhouse (now demolished).
Unfortunately Samuel never took up his new post.
On a dark
and stormy November night in 1871, he was coming back from the
new project in Chorley with his overseer by the back lanes north
of Chorley to Brindle when his pony and cart overturned in a
flooding stream at Lower Copthurst. The pony and Samuel
Stancliffe were drowned and the overseer died soon afterwards.
The incident was covered extensively in the national press.
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Chorley Workhouse (later hospital)
demolition 1997. |
Brindle and Chorley Workhouse. Death of Samuel Stancliffe.
Reading gravestones is always interesting but the passage of
time usually means many are illegible. Wandering through Brindle
graveyard yesterday (Sat 30th Nov 2019) I stopped to photograph
the grave of Samuel Stancliffe who died on Tue 14 Nov 1871. The
inscription has vanished completely and the original stone cross
has fallen off the base and now lies on the top of the grave.
It was only identified by referring to the church graveyard
records. Samuel Stancliffe was the last master of Brindle
Workhouse and had been appointed to set up and run the new
workhouse at Eaves Lane in Chorley. This ‘new’ workhouse was to
replace both the smaller Chorley one and the large workhouse he
was already running in Brindle. Samuel never lived to see the
project through. |
Grave of Samuel Stancliffe. |
On a dark and stormy November night he was coming back from the
new project in Chorley with his overseer by the back lanes north
of Chorley to Brindle when his pony and cart overturned in a
flooding stream (River Lostock) at Lower Copthurst. The pony and
Samuel Stancliffe were drowned and the overseer died soon
afterwards.
The incident was covered extensively in the
national press. The exact location is where Lower Copthurst Lane
leaves Whittle-le-Woods and enters Brindle and Birchin Lane.
The accident was also documented in the diary of Thomas
Blinkhorn Parke, the owner / manager of Withnell Fold Paper
Mill.
He said: 1871 Tue 14 Nov T.B.P. diary
Wet afternoon.
Gaskell & Brindle Workhouse Governor upset at Copster Bridge @
7:30 PM
Pony & Governor were both Dead when found and Gaskell
Died soon after getting home. |
