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04-07-2012, 09:39
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
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I was doing the Welsh Express for Ribblesdale Batty Holt tours and set off to Butlins Pwllheli with a coach load of happy punters, as jaysay said above, it was a lovely hot sunny day and everybody was in high spirits.
I dropped the punters off at the camp, had my free dinner and picked up the people who had spent the previous week there.
Once again they were all happy and singing and saying how much they had enjoyed their selves. They asked me about the weather back home and I told them how nice and sunny it was.
We were around the north Manchester area when we saw the rain and when we got towards Edenfield we were stopped by the police and told about the floods.
I couldn't believe how bad it was, especially after the fantastic weather we had up until then.
I can't just remember how we got through but the people on the coach who lived around Haslingden were in great panic and couldn't wait to get off and see if their homes had been affected.
I am glad you jogged my memory because I had only just started on the job and couldn't remember when it was.
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We once went on a day trip with Ribblesdale Batty Holt to Scarborough as we got over the border into Yorkshire , the driver was asking the passengers for directions.
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04-07-2012, 10:14
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
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We once went on a day trip with Ribblesdale Batty Holt to Scarborough as we got over the border into Yorkshire , the driver was asking the passengers for directions.
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A lot of people lose their way when they go over that border Frank   
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04-07-2012, 12:13
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
I lost my way when I crossed the border from Yorkshire to Lancashire John.
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04-07-2012, 20:23
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
hi
do you have a copy of that pic. its about the only one i havent got of the floods.
being an ex haslingden lad now living in hartlepool its slightly hard work finding pics.
im starting to research the history of haslingden & rising bridge. while theres plenty on haslingden & accrington theres very little on baxenden & rising bridge.
jsumner123@gmail.com
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04-07-2012, 21:15
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
After talking to an elderly relative who also lived in east view at the time of the floods she has been able to fill in a few details about the car. It was definitely a yellow anglia. It was a hire car which had been hired by a mr price who lived on northfield rd.
Apparently he was asked numerous times to move the car but refused. the car was the cause of the shops coming down as when it when under the road it knocked out a keystone causing the road to collapse.
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04-07-2012, 21:41
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
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hi
do you have a copy of that pic. its about the only one i havent got of the floods.
being an ex haslingden lad now living in hartlepool its slightly hard work finding pics.
im starting to research the history of haslingden & rising bridge. while theres plenty on haslingden & accrington theres very little on baxenden & rising bridge.
jsumner123@gmail.com
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If this is addesssed to me, then I can't help you, done a search in my albums and I have no copies, I must have given Accy Library all I had.
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05-07-2012, 19:48
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
hi
thanks for looking. my aunt thinks she may have one in her collection. If she has i'll post on here.
Can anyone shed any light on a cottage type that stood near to the stream at the back of the shale bank & was reached by a footbridge at the bottom of roundhill view.
I believe it may have been a mill owners house as there was a mill of some sort there.
Everyone i've spoke to recalls the mill but not the house
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06-07-2012, 00:38
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
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.
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07-07-2012, 00:09
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I do remember the garage being on the flat bit but am nearly certain there was a cottage across from it. maybe old age is catching up.Being nearly 100miles from there now makes it hard work.
I have just ordered the book haslingden from amazon.
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18-12-2015, 16:30
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
Just read this thread. The day in question was definitely July 18th 1964. I flew into Manchester airport, in a storm, returning from a all paid once in a lifetime trip to Los Angeles so not a date I can forget. I remember my dad picking me up at the airport and on the way home the road was closed and we had to take a long detour. Took 4 hours to get home.
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20-12-2015, 12:53
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge
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Just read this thread. The day in question was definitely July 18th 1964. I flew into Manchester airport, in a storm, returning from a all paid once in a lifetime trip to Los Angeles so not a date I can forget. I remember my dad picking me up at the airport and on the way home the road was closed and we had to take a long detour. Took 4 hours to get home.
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Haslingden Old and New...: The 1960 Floods, Also the 1964 Hailstones & Flood Memories (18th July 1964)
is well worth a look
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