Lower Aspden Cottage Oswaldtwistle
 

Has anyone got a photograph of Lower Aspden Cottage, or knows where I can get one from. I have just found some of my long lost relatives in Adelaide South Australia whilst doing my family tree.
One relation out there, was the gtgrandson of a gentleman who lived at the cottage, and died there in 1946.I would love to be able to send them a photograph so it can be put in their family tree.
Hope someone can help Thanks

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is this the one behind the hare and hounds ??
ian

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From Spearthrower. I live near Aspen cottages which are down Lower Aspen Lane which starts at the side of the Hare & Hounds pub on Blackburn road, West End, Ossy. In 2004 an Australian man came over to see to selling of the cottage. After it was sold the cottage was renovated and converted into two cottages . One of the cottages is now for sale with attached stabling for about £300,000.

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Hi thanks for the photographs do you mind if I copy them and send them on to Australia?
Tess

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It's ok to copy them. I'm interested in the history of Ossy and I think I have some details of Hindles living at Aspen hundreds of years ago. If I can find the document on my computer I will copy to you if you wish. Spearthrower.

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Thanks very much I'd love it.
Tess

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I used to know someone who lived in the left-hand cottage (it was 2 cottages), when I was a teenager, and I often went inside. It was very nicly done out then, in the 1950s, but I can imagine it now and I bet it's beautiful.

Mrs Feathers, who had the farm at that time, once told me that ancient maps showed there had been a chapel on the site a couple of centuries ago. I don't know how old the present building is or if that was adapted.

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There is a gravestone in St James's churchyard at church for William Hindle of Aspen who died in 1633

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I had relatives who lived in Aspin Lane End/Hare & Hounds in the middle of the 1800s.
I happened to notice a Robert Hindle and family, address Aspin, on the 1851 census at least.
Good Luck.

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Hi David have you still got the details of the 1851 census.
Tess

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Hi Tess,
Sorry for the delay but I've been away on a short break. Fortunately for you I recorded all of the entries on this particular census sheet. The Hindle entries are at the top of the page and begin with a Robert Hindle who was a 13-year old boy and a labourer at a print works. Four more children and a lodger follow. The parents' entries must be on the previous page. If you want more info on these entries perhaps you can give me another way of contacting you and that way we shan't bore all of the other good people on this topic?
Best wishes,
David

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Hi David, I have tried to send you a private message (4 times but I keep getting an error) to thank you for all your trouble in getting me the census details. I will be a great help to wards my tree, well my husbands and mine. There are hundreds of Hindles and they are probably all related somewhere along the line. Anyway thanks once again. Theresa

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My pleasure, Theresa.

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I was interested in this conversation because you mentioned the Hare and Hounds. George Broadley was the innkeeper there in the 1860s when the dreadful Riley murder took place. It seems that George, an ex-miner, then gave up innkeeping and went to Morley to work as a miner. He died in 1866. Are there any pictures of the Hare and Hounds? many thanks, Marie Ball

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Marie, I have a photo in The Gallery

Hare & Hounds, 331 Blackburn Road, Oswaldtwistle - Accrington Gallery

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Thank you very much, Wadey. It looks far too respectable to have a murder committed there. Am I allowed to copy the picture? I'm hoping to do a new edition of Broadleys in Clayton le Moors soon and for some of the families I have no pictures of people, and I end up with headstones, lots of pictures of those. If I can copy it, what do I write by way of acknowledgement? Thank you, Marie

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I was very interested in your post about Aspen Cottage as my Mum, Bessie Procter was born there. Her Grandparents lived there for about 60 years. Harry and Alice Clements moved to Oswaldtwistle in about 1890 from Wheatley in Oxfordshire. He got a job as a gardener for the owners of Aspen Cottage and eventually the couple became the tenants. The cottage dates back to the Tudor times and possibly even as early as the 14th century. Rumor has it there is a tunnel linking the house to Church Kirk Church and was used by the monks to enable them to go to Church undetected.

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I did say ' rumor ' had it. LOL

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I know when the Esso garage next to the Swan on Abbey Street was being built my dad told me that when they were digging down to lay the concrete over the footpath next to the church , a very large crater appeared

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Hello, I have just discovered this web site. I am the great grand daughter of Harry & Alice Clements. My father, John (Ian) Clements lived in Aspen Cottage for 1-2 years in approx. 1919. His father, James Charles Clements died in WWI and his wife, Isabella (McNaught) brought her three children over to visit with their grandparents.
My father & I traveled to the old family home in 1985. Aunt Bessie no longer lived there but we met Mr. & Mrs. Douglas. They kindly allowed us to tour the house & my father shared several stories of his time there. I took several pictures of the house & shed. There was a cross on the roof & my father stated that the house was 500-600 yr. old. He reported that the house was originally a dormitory for monks and he also told the story of the hidden underground passage to the church.
The pictures I have seen posted of the house seem different from mine. I will post mine when I relocate them.
Bessie was my great aunt and now I see her daughter lives in the province beside me! I live in the Vancouver area of BC.I hope we can connect!