[shillelagh]

You want to know the reason my mum used to tell me why she & my dad came here? It will make you laugh. My mum & dad came from Northern Ireland and my aunt was already over here during the war and she wrote to my mum Helmshore was a nice place and there were jobs in the mills etc and to come over. Mum thought Helmshore - shore = beach so that is why they came over!! Over in Ireland if the nameplace had shore it was a seaside place. Thats what my mum told me.