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Fri 31 Jul 2020
10 years ago today Mum died at the age of 94.
Late morning
cycled to Pleasington crematorium. Although their website and
notice on the door says the Remembrance Book is open, the door
was locked and unavailable. |
Pleasington Crematorium.
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Plot 'H' where Mum and Dad's ashes are. |
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On the cycle ride home called at The Roundabout Cottage to see
Geoff Mather who is 95 about his house, the former Brown Cow
Inn. Geoff used to be the Features Editor on the Daily Mail He
let me photograph to copy some documents. We had an interesting
chat & he showed me the renewed culvert under the road.
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Geoff Mather in front of Roundabout
Cottage. |
The dark wood lintel is original and where the bar used to be.
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Clay pipe fround in the roofspace |
Copy of Indenture on the wall dated 1791 between Sir Henry de
Hoghton and Alexander Hodkinson. |
Yard of Ale on the ceiling. |
Below are some notes from a document Geoff had:
Roundabout
occupants: 1789 French Revolution - The Roundabout pub issued
its own small currency because there was a shortage of small
coin during the Napoleonic wars.
pre 1791 - Henry Waddington
/ John Edge / Thomas Ainsworth 1792
- John Edge, Thomas
Ainsworth, Alexander Hodgkinson (died Jan 1848) 1795 - 1836 -
Ralph Whitehead. Whitehead's will 19 March 1836 witnessed by
Robert Riding. 1841 - Sarah Whitehead, victualler, Owner: Robert
Parke 1842 - Act of Parliament for Chorley & Finnington road.
1845 - Thomas Riding (born 1817), victualler. 1866-8 - William
Wildin, victueller.
Licensing records: Layland Hundred -
standing surety. 15 Sep, 54th year of reign of George 111, ref
117, Ralph Whitehead, of Withnell, and William Smalley, of
Withnell, farmer, 10 each upon the like condition for Ralph
Whitehead.
NE Lancs directory. 1868: Withnell 4700 acres.
Parke owners of nearly the whole township (paper mill)
Population 1801 - 765; 1861 - 2059.
1868: Licencee of Red
Lion, Wheelton: Roger Whitehead.
Preston dist and Leyland
hundred directory, 1851: Township was member of Hoghton manor
and held in reign of Edward 1 by Henry de Wythenall of Sir Adam
de Hoghton. Edward 111, in second year of his reign, granted to
Sir Rd Hoghton and his son Adam, and their heirs free warren in
all their demesne lands in Hoghton and Withnell. Manor sold in
18th century to Henry Sudell, then Mr Talbot of Preston, then
Parke. |
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Continued my cycle ride to Mum's memorial bench at Withnell Fold
to have butties for lunch.
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Thu 30 Jul 2020
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Bells Lane / Black Brook culvert re-construction now almost
complete. |
Thu 30 July 2020
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Tue 28 Jul 2020
Lancashire Electric Power Company Ltd (L E P Co) built an
Electricity Sub-Station at the end of Gib Lane, Hoghton
(adjacent to the Boar’s Head) to house transformer and switch
gear, for local distribution.
During the early days of WW2,
the authorities realised that if the Power station at Preston or
Blackburn was put out of action, not only domestic use, but
industry would be disabled. It was therefore decided to lay an
underground cable to link the two Stations, so that one could
use the power from the other Station on a temporary basis. The
route chosen was the Preston/Blackburn Old Road."
On
Wikipedia (Ribble Power Station) I found the following "An
underground transmission line was constructed between Preston
and Blackburn operating at 33 kV and had an electrical capacity
of 10 MW." |
Power cable marker post Hoghton across from the Trinity Church.
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Thu 30th July 2020 opposite Dover Ln. |
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Queen's Road Chorley. The old Barracks building has been
demolished. |
20th July 2017
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Tue 28July 2020 |
The cellars were arched construction. |
The caption is 1914 - 1918
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Astley Park entrace gates, |
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Mon 27 Jul 2020
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Road re-surfacing started on Waterhouse Green and Shaw Brow,
WHittle-le-Woods. |
Shaw Brow being re-surfaced.
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Shaw brow being re-surfaced. |
Bridge over the River Lostock.
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School Brow Bridge resurfaced. |
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Sun 26 Jul 2020
Halo is an 18m-diameter steel lattice sculpture supported on a
truncated tripod five metres above the re-landscaped ground at
Top o' Slate, Haslingden. Trusses radiate from a central conical
core supporting luminous blue rings, lit with low energy LEDs.
The core is open at the top, framing views of the sky. The
steelwork has a natural silver appearance which will temper to
matt as the galvanised finish weathers.
Design: John
Kennedy, LandLab with input from the Halo design and
construction team: AD Morton Ltd, Structural Steelwork and
Fabrication, Bacup, Lancashire Booth King Partnership.
Consulting Civil & Structural Engineers, Rawtenstall, Lancashire
C C Vision, Lighting Design Consultants, Peterborough The WH
Good Group, Haslingden - lighting contractor SKL, Bolton -
lighting supplier & manufacturer Rotary Engineering UK Ltd,
Sheffield - wind turbine installers Bowman Riley Health & Safety
- planning supervisor
Lighting. The Halo structure is clad in
a series of concentric rings, or fins, of etched acrylic.
Contained within the fins are over 500 Light Emitting Diode
(LED) lamps. The cyan light from these lamps is distributed
through the acrylic and diffuses through the etched surface,
creating the subtle glow that gives Halo its identity on the
night-time landscape. The fins are capped in steel to control
the light downwards, minimising light pollution. The LED lamps
do not emit ultra-violet light that would otherwise attract
insects and affect bird and bat habits, and each lamp consumes
only 1 Watt of power. The total electrical load is met by the
adjacent wind turbine which exploits the exposed nature of the
site to provide a renewable source of power. |
The wind powered turbine for the power can be seen to the the
right. |
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Fri 24 Jul 2020
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Peter and Barbara with the new Whittle-le-Woods Village Hall
notice board. |
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Wed 22 Jul 2020
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Today Jamie Carson completed his epic 127mile charity trek
around the hills of Lancashire in aid of funds for the
Alzheimer’s Society and British Acoustic Neuroma Society (BANA).
He did the trek over 7 consecutive days walking over 18miles per
day. His original plan was to walk the 127miles of the Leeds &
Liverpool canal but the Covid regulations prevented that.
Instead of taking local flat walks to make up the distance he
did a series of 18+mile mountain walks making his original plan
even harder. Twelve months ago he could hardly walk after having
3 operations to remove a brain tumour (called an Acoustic
Neuroma) at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. His target was
to raise £3,000. So far he has raised £3,730. |
Nearly there.
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The finish line. |
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The last 100m in Abbey Village. |
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Tue 21 Jul 2020
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Set out on bike to ride via Bank Head lane across Gregson Lane
to Bells Lane to check on the collapsed culvert repair. Men and
machines on site rebuilding the culvert. |
Bells Lane culver repair.
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Bellls lane culvert repair. |
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On my cycle home visited Steve Limmer at his Whittle-le-Woods
compound. He posed for a photo in his woodpile. |
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Sun 19 Jul 2020
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Camped the night by the Schiehallion Road, Perthshire, Scotland. |
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Fri 17 Jul 2020
Driving to Scotland for first time since lockdown. First to
Moffat and A708 to Innerleithen then B709 to Heriot and Village
Hall (Macfie Memorial Hall) car park for about 10:40 to meet
Leigh Branley.
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Crossing into the Scottish Borders. |
Leigh on Corsehope Hill Fort Settlement. |
Leigh had her dog Elmo with her. Walked up to Corsehope hill
fort settlement with distinctive rings. Then drove back to
Innerleithen and on to Peebles and Broughton Place for the night
ready for a walk in the morning. |
Leigh and Elmo. |
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Corsehope Hill Fort. |
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Sun 12 Jul 2020
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A sunny morning walk over Great Hameldon with Pendle Hill on the
horizon. The figures are a man and his daughter who had camped
on the summit overnight. |
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Sat 11 Jul 2020
In June 2020 Paul Riding posted an image of a registration
document for a 1959 Lambretta scooter in the name of Mary
Beesley asking if anyone knew who she was. I knew Mary
(1935-2014), married name Davenport, who bought the Lambretta in
1959. She was 24 at the time and worked at the nearby Withnell
Fold Paper Mill and also played the organ at Withnell Fold
Chapel. She rode her Lambretta until graduating to 4 wheels. The
scooter was sold on through various owners and has now been
lovingly restored by Leo, the current owner. Today Leo rode it
back to Mary's old home at "The Oaks" in Withnell. The 60 year
old Lambretta Li 150 ser1 looked immaculate in her new colours.
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Mary Beesley (1935-2014) |
Lambretta LBV 608. |
Mary Beesley (1935-2014) |
Lambretta LBV 608. |
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Fri 10 Jul 2020
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Out on a cycle ride via Penwortham and back along the path on
the south side of the River Ribble. One cycle/pedestrian bridge
had been washed away ages ago and nothing done to repair it. |
Railway over the River Ribble.
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No bridge. |
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Thu 09 Jul 2020
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Dark, damp undergrowth in the Whittle & Clayton-le-Woods War
memorial garden this morning. I thought the rain made the shapes
and texture more interesting. |
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Patching up the Grove. |
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Tue 07 Jul 2020
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This afternoon I wandered over to Chorley and the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Temple) which is
today's Blood Donor venue. The room they used was much better
than the Working Mens Club in Horwich that I attended last year.
As I thought their jobs could be repetitive at times, asking the
same list of questions to a succession of people, I thought I’d
show them my original donor card to break the monotony. It
generated zero interest. I didn’t mention the famous Hancock’s
1961 ‘The Blood Donor’ TV sketch as the last time I did nobody
knew what I was talking about. It's available on YouTube and I
think would be an interesting addition to medical training. |
The Mormon Temple in the rain. |
My original Donor Book from 1972. |
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Giving blood. |
Others donating. |
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Mon 06 Jul 2020
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Sad to hear of the death at 91 of the Italian composer Ennio
Morricone (1928-6th July 2020). I always remember his film
scores for director Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns - A
Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly. They all starred Clint Eastwood as the man with no
name. He composed over 400 scores for cinema and television. |
Ennio Morricone
1928-6th July 2020)
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Sun 05 Jul 2020
At JJ's Diner for breakfast. They are leaving to move to new
premesis.
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Canal overflow chanel seen on an evening walk. |
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Sat 04 Jul 2020
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I was cycling through a rainy Chorey earlier and noticed no flag
on St Laurence’s Parish Church. On 4th July 2015 they flew the
stars and stripes, presumably because it was the American
Independence Day anniversary 1776. This year is the 400th
anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower to North America
with the Pilgrim Fathers and Myles Standish. |
Sat 04th July 2020
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Sat 04th July 2015
With stars & stipes. |
The Town Barber on Harper's Lane has re-opened after lockdown.
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An evening wander along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. |
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Wed 01 Jul 2020
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Then and now - 2 years apart. The pond at High Cop Farm, Denham
Lane, Brindle. Sun 1st July 2018 and today, Wed 1st July 2020.
It's certainly been an interesting year so far. The wettest
January ever and May was the sunniest. |
Sun 01 st July 2018
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Wed 01 st July 2020 |
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