[shillelagh]

according to the 1912 edition of the 1844 ordanance survey map .. catclough mill is marked as in ruins ... and there doesnt seem to be a cottage marked on there .. when i next see my family i'll ask them if they remember that ... i can remember a garage being up above the footbridge ... it used to be to the right .. that flat bit on the photo ..

yes there isnt a history of rising bridge .. and i dont know what happened to all of Mr Parker's notes and information he gathered after he died. Mr Parker being the old headmaster of St Johns Stonefold Primary School. Your aunt should remember Mr Parker as he was well known in rising bridge and lived on rising bridge road after he retired. If you can manage to get hold of the book 'Haslingden' by Chris Aspin and Derek Pilkington .. you will find copies of photos of the floods in 1964 and of the train stuck at rising bridge (at the side of the school) in the snow in 1940 and other old photos of rising bridge in there.