Priestly Clough - Page 2

Mancie · 28-05-2009, 18:14

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Originally Posted by beechy

cant say exactly were it starts or ends..but
it was a track of land than ran from accrington up to baxenden
starting nuttal st /victoria st.and running past king georges playing fields
and up on toward the chemical works at bash passing hollands pies
im sure if im wrong i will be corrected

that's the one...the dissused railway followed the same route up to rising bridge.

ian1 · 28-05-2009, 23:03

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Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat

Ah good memories- We were on the Ossy side of the clough, never knew it's proper name - it was just 'The Clough' to us but what a fantastic playground.
Sliding down from what is now Yew Tree drive on a car bonnet in the snow all the way down to the brook.
The rope swing over the 'gorge' where one guy fell and broke both of his arms.
We made a professional job of damming the brook until someone broke the dam and flooded the allotment by St Mary's School.

Great days .. went past other day and it looks as if know one has played on it for 20 years , its all over grown and there are big trees were there weren't any

ian

jaysay · 29-05-2009, 10:38

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Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat

Ah good memories- We were on the Ossy side of the clough, never knew it's proper name - it was just 'The Clough' to us but what a fantastic playground.
Sliding down from what is now Yew Tree drive on a car bonnet in the snow all the way down to the brook.
The rope swing over the 'gorge' where one guy fell and broke both of his arms.
We made a professional job of damming the brook until someone broke the dam and flooded the allotment by St Mary's School.

So it was you then was it

Benipete · 29-05-2009, 15:31

I think you are talking about two separate places.Typical of Ossyer's trying to nick Priestley Clough.
I know it well,I drowned in the lodge when I was five.

jaysay · 29-05-2009, 16:24

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Originally Posted by Benipete

I think you are talking about two separate places.Typical of Ossy's trying to nick Priestley Clough.
I know it well,I drowned in the lodge when I was five.

Well you know us Gobbins Beni, we'll nick out if it ain't nailed down, but excuse me for asking but if you drowned when you were 5, who the hell keeps posing in your name on here

Mancie · 30-05-2009, 04:46

hey it takes me back..my first date was behind highams mill on friday night with a lovely girl..a bottle of woodpecker and we were sorted...just dating and maybe get a mini radio listen to the top ten!

Morecambe Ex Pat · 30-05-2009, 13:38

We are indeed talking of two different cloughs but I have spent many hours in both of them.

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Originally Posted by jaysay

So it was you then was it

Sorry about that, did we damage many of your crops?

The flood was not entirely our fault, the dam was a beautiful construction with a steel cable across the valley between two trees and then all kinds of stuff piled against it. It was built over a few weeks and in the end we had a lake over 5ft deep which we could swim in. The Council people came up and decided it didn't have planning permission or some other such nonesense and decided to demolish it. Instead of making a hole in the dam and draining it slowly, Mr Dimwit Council Person arrived with bolt cutters and just cut through the cable. I am glad we were watching from a safe distance because the cable whipped across the valley quicker than an MP can claim expenses. Then the torrent followed and we saw the devastation to the allotment the following day.

Oh to live in those innocent says again.

gdm27 · 30-05-2009, 16:06

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Originally Posted by ian1

I used to go there too , remember the "Monkey climb" at the top end near fern gore ??
ian

Wasn't it called Black Rock until it got filled in??

Benipete · 30-05-2009, 18:54

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Well you know us Gobbins Beni, we'll nick out if it ain't nailed down, but excuse me for asking but if you drowned when you were 5, who the hell keeps posing in your name on here

You are posing the same question that I have posed for years.

Who saved me and what should I do with him,Thin line I think.

Doug · 30-05-2009, 19:20

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Wasn't it called Black Rock until it got filled in??

It was indeed, I was on Miller Fold during the time they dumped all the rock and ****e over the edge.......one of the wagons nearly killed me one afternoon......