Little Blackpool
 

Anyone remember this area of fields & woodland in Baxenden before the bulldozers razed it to the ground to build new houses.It had a small stream running thruogh it & small water fall plus the added bonus of having the easiest tree for any 10 year old in Bash to climb,which was called the 'monkey tree'.Nearby was Whittakers farmhouse,where the infamous Donald Nielson hid out after his raid on Baxendens sub post office.
The stream,i think ran down to Broad Oak.Idon't know how it got its name 'little blackpool',maybe someone can enlighten me.
Next week,a short talk on the 5 arches & the shuff.:)

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The stream still runs and there is a path to walk down. You can get to it off southwood drive.

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There was an area in Oswaldtwistle called Little Blackpool too, at the top of Rhoden Road going up towards the moors.

I think you should call your Bash one Little Morecambe because it doesn't sound as glitzy as ours.:D

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i have lived in ossy all me life and i never knew that!!:eek:

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That's what it was called back in the early seventies. The older teenage girl, who used to look after us in the summer holidays, used to take us up there so she could meet her boyfriend. The brook had been dammed to create a big pool for swimming, there was an icecream van, and on a sunny day there were hundreds of people, all this and Glam Rock blaring away on people's transistor radios in the background.:hothothot

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i was born in the early seventies, thats probably why I dont remember it!:rolleyes:

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Oi! I was in a pram myself...it's just that I've got a very good memory!:D

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...mind you, nine was a bit too old to have been in a pram really.;)

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I know where you mean Rindy, my Great Grandma lives in the bungalows at the bottom of Trinity St. So we used to play there all the time. Never heard it called Little Blackpool though. My brother was chasing me once and I jumped the brook but he didnt realise it was there, needless to say my parents weren't impressed!!! :D

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Is this the place?
Certainly not as nice now as it used to be, they've even fenced the river off now :eek:


http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1243775708

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http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1243775708

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To get to little Blackpool, you went up through Broad Oak Print works and carried straight on for about 300 yards past the last Dye house, then left and down to the stream where there was a fairly large flat grassy area, from there you could head south, up the hill to Donaldson's farm, and buy ice cream. Donaldson's was next to Gallows Hall. That was in the late 1930's.
All that has gone Dick Guy blocked it all off with an earth bank.

Retlaw.

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Is there a photograph you've posted, because I can't see it.:confused:

We walked past there on Good Friday, and the brook wasn't fenced off then.

Though we were mauled by an over friendly horse, so perhaps fencing might be a good thing.:D

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Yeah, 4 of them :confused:
Anyone else see em?

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PMSFL and how much have you had to drink? ;)

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http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1243775708
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2 cups of tea and a glass of water :D

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i know your lying ;)


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If at first you don't succeed try try again, nice one K.S.H:D

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I think that's a bit further up stream.

They used to make the dam for swimming at 'Little Blackpool' a bit further down, under a small copse of trees.

Nice photographs though.:)

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If anyone does get a copy of this dvd, it shows hundreds enjoying the Ossie 'seaside', in the long hot summer of '76.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...dvd-44708.html

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nice pics K.S.H.. but don't look much like Blackpool, were's the big dipper and trams?:)

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So where are you talking about then? can't be much further up than the bridge off Rhoden Rd??
The pics are where we used to go.
Glad the video was 76, I won't be on it :D

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Straying off topic a little here but it was same down the Dunkenhalgh on hot days like today, hundreds there beside the river on what i remember were nice flat grassy areas, thats gone the same now, did the local council look after these areas then?

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See the hill? thats where the big dipper is now :rolleyes:

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This is where we'd been prior to coming past "little Blackpool"

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1243797691

Lovely walk on a Sunday morning, through Rhyddings park, down the allotments, through the fields towards pot house lane, round jack-House res, through pine forest, back round other side of res, round by Proctors farm towards Rhoden Rd, back through allotments and a well earned rest and some Guinness in the stop n rest, back through park trying to find that damn woodpecker that makes all the noise but I can never find it, then home - for a beer or two

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Lordy lordy, the pine forest. I loved that place although we were always told that it was out of bounds and had some kind of security. My dad used to tell me tales of swimming with mates in the Jack-House and making rafts with doors and oil drums.

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the pine for forest was useless... no wld life ..nowt..you could take a yer latest chick up there to impress and try tonking in the woods ..but you always had the feeling someone was wathcin !