Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

Surprised npbody has mentioned Jacobs Lodge - near to Lynch's Garage on Willows Lane - thats certainly well known in the fern gore area

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

Hyndburn B.C. refer to lodges, as bodies of water, too.

Back to Nature in Hyndburn - Foxhill Bank Nature Reserve

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

Anyone remember the water for Queen's Mill, Penny House Lane?

If you go to Taskers now and use the car park .. the walls on the right were part of the sides of their lodge. Used to climb over their boundary walls to 'view'. Find it a little creepy now when I visit, to think that was filled with water at one time (shudders).

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

Used to fish there as a boy, it's actually off Fielding Lane, Ossy

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

I have done.

Contacted the Oxford English Dictionary new words editor, telling them what we know the word to be, and supplied published evidence that lodge can refer to a body of water.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

I'll let you know if you're called as a witness.

:D

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

The Lodge refers to the artificial water storage area (man made) for use within the Mills.

http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source...9MsmKQ&cad=rja

See the last sentence paragraph 3. :) I've seen other references while I've just been looking but nothing describing them like this fella.

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

I remember that one Kate. Spent a few hours around Queen's Mill.

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

Yes, of course, Bernard ... you lived further down than me on the same street. Was sorta' a green colour.

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

Bit of a puzzler why the word is not in the dictionary.
The ones I remember are
Broad Oak Lodges
Bulloughs Lodge
Hag Lodge
Hambledon Lodge
Plantation Lodges
Steiners Lodge
Warmden Lodge
Can't remember the one Latex described off Queens Rd.
Retlaw.

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

After further searching :)

http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source...sFB5Eg&cad=rja

Well you learn something new every day & I thought today's' lesson was don't get your arm in the way when clearing brush as it causes grazes ! :rolleyes:

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

The term mill pond is often used colloquially to refer to a very flat body of water. "It's like a mill pond!" - Captain Smith of R.M.S. Titanic.
I guess Captain Smith was not from Lancashire.....

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

I used to live on Lodge street, and where Bms garage is, i believe that there used to be a lodge there.

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

Yes, I'd forgotten about that one.
There was a small one on the left down Grange lane,
facing the end of Cross St, never knew its name.
Then the one on Broad Oak Rd, the Ambulance Station now occupies the site.
Theres probaly more, long since filled in.
Retlaw.

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

Retlaw,what is the small lodge at the top of plantation cobbles called?(if it has a name) Its on the left just opposite where you turn left to go up to the slate pits.

Re: What's a lodge to you?
 

Strangely we used that phrase in our family, growing up.

Which usually meant the sea or lake was errily glass like, and we were going to have some great waterskiing.

We'd still refer to a lodge as a lodge though. Never a mill pond.

My dad always eyed lodges, wondering if they were large enough to get a boat on.

One near Darwen was.

We only skied on there once though.

Wasn't much fun, just going round and round, in circles.

Plus the ducks looked a bit peeved, at our disturbing the peacefulness of their lodge.

:rolleyes::D