Floods In Rising Bridge

Morecambe Ex Pat · 30-08-2009, 13:55

My wife is originally from Rising Bridge and is compiling some notes on her time there. She has tried to register on Baxenden On-Line Scribbles which has some info about the area but cannot register.
We were wondering if any of the historians on here could help with the date of an event.
In the 1960's there was a flood in Rising Bridge when Parkinson's Confectionery shop and the house next door collapsed into the river. Luckily, it was holiday time and nobody was injured but we are trying to establish a date for this event and hoped that someone with connections with Rising Bridge could shed some light on it.
Thanks

entwisi · 30-08-2009, 14:22

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garinda · 30-08-2009, 14:27

Neil posted a photograph of his mother's dress shop in the middle of the same flood. In that thread my mum named the exact date, because it was the day they were going on holiday, and the floods delayed them.

Also my grandpa being an Ossy baker, knew and was friends with the owner of the bakers destroyed in Rising Bridge.

I'll keep trying to search for Neil's photograph on here, so hepefully you'll then know the date.

shillelagh · 30-08-2009, 14:35

This is the time when i wish i hadnt loaned out my rising bridge project .. cos the dates and pictures are in there ... I know it was before i was born in 1967 ... but i can contact the person who has all the history of the area and who also has my project and she'll tell me!!!

ok im sorted ... 18th July 1964

http://www.rossendaleonline.co.uk/sh...+rising+bridge

and theres a picture there as well

garinda · 30-08-2009, 14:38

This is odd, I can't find the thread.

Just trying to remember key words that might bring it up.

I think I mentioned Parkinson's being destroyed in the thread.

Off the top of my head I think it was July 20th, 1964, because my grandpa was driving my parents to London so they could get the boat train to the south of France. The flloding up here delayed them.

I'm pretty sure it was 1964, because my mother was pregnant with me.

garinda · 30-08-2009, 14:39

2 days out, not bad.

garinda · 30-08-2009, 14:40

You need to log in to see the pictures.

shillelagh · 30-08-2009, 14:41

If you have a look through that thread you will see there are more photos of the floods ..

shillelagh · 30-08-2009, 14:45

I know i can remember my mum saying that they moved down to the bottom of half of northfield road not long after the floods ... because they lived on the top half of northfield road then.

garinda · 30-08-2009, 14:47

My mum did get the right date.

It was in post 192 of this thread...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...-30856-13.html

'Neil, my mum does remember your mum's shop, now that I've shown her the photograph, but now wants to know when it opened, as she thinks it used to be a bric-a-brack shop, where she bought a water colour from with her first wage?'

Mothers_Shop_1_.JPG :: thanks to Derek Mooney for this Photo Mothers Shop. My mother had a drapery shop at No.70 union road. (opposite the end of Queen Street) and this photo was taken 18th July 1964 when Union Road was flooded. Where the shop stood

'Incidentally, the 18th of July 1964 was the day when we had terrible floods in east Lancashire. A friend of my grandpa's bakers shop was washed away at Rising Bridge, and that day my grandpa was taking my mum and dad to London, to get the boat train to Nice, and the roads were so bad they nearly missed it. Happily I was asleep in my mum's tummy at the time.

'

Morecambe Ex Pat · 30-08-2009, 15:57

Thanks for all the replies, we have registered with RossendaleOnLine and she is back in her childhood.

Bob Dobson · 30-08-2009, 17:04

The Bash website has been closed down by the webmaster.

garinda · 30-08-2009, 20:45

Apparently the Parkinson's lost everything in the devastating flood, as it was their confectioner's shop, and their home that was destroyed.

I'm sure others helped too, but local members of the Baker's Federation donated new furniture for them. My grandparents providing a sideboard, table and chairs.

jaysay · 31-08-2009, 10:32

I remember that day well, it was the first Saturday of Accy holidays and the day after was my 18th birthday, can remember going in the Duke of Wellington on Abbey Street for my first legal pint. There was a lot of flooding in Ossy, the Plantation (foxhill nature reserve) was all under water, so was the the land where the scout hut is (or was) opposite the Nash Club, the unmade road which goes past Gayle's house was like a river. It started raining about 11am, can remember I just managed to get home from doing the shopping in Accy because my parents had set off early on holiday and missed all the bad weather, the skies were inky black, then the heavens opened never seen it rain as hard since that day, it was a freak storm which lasted for about 30 minutes, yet in the afternoon it was a really warm sunny, with not a hint of what had gone before

claytonender · 01-09-2009, 22:32

I also remember that day very well, as jaysay has said I have never seen rain like that in this country since (we were on holiday 3 years ago in Salou when we had a very similar downpour)
A lot of the houses on the streets on the edge of Accrington Town Centre were flooded with the water that came down the side of the Coppice.