The River Stink!

gdm27 · 31-03-2013, 15:00

Where did it come from and where did it go? Did it have a name? I remember when I was a kid back in the 50's when it flowed under the road where the Arndale Centre is now. It did stink and it had a strange colour to it all the time!

cashman · 31-03-2013, 15:02

River Hyndburn twas its name.

Gordon Booth · 31-03-2013, 15:08

Broad Oak print works used to dump their waste dye overflows into it so sometimes it was a pretty pink, red, green.
Most of the time it was just a foul colour with a foul smell.

Bob Dobson · 31-03-2013, 15:19

I think it begins near the Bridge pub, where Warmden Water and Woodnook water meet. It passes through Rishton and joins the Calder near Whalley, which joins the Hodder, which joins the Ribble

jaysay · 31-03-2013, 17:56

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Broad Oak print works used to dump their waste dye overflows into it so sometimes it was a pretty pink, red, green.
Most of the time it was just a foul colour with a foul smell.

Exactly the same thing with the Swanee in Ossy, Cocker Chemicals used to dump all their waste in there too Gordon and that did stink of TCP. for years after they were stopped. It was the cleanest brook in the country all the pebbles were white and no vegetation what so ever, needless to say no fish either

gdm27 · 31-03-2013, 19:04

Do we know if it still runs?

Retlaw · 31-03-2013, 19:09

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Do we know if it still runs?

We already have threads on this river, its sources & courses over the years.

susie123 · 31-03-2013, 19:21

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Do we know if it still runs?

Why shouldn't it? You can see it at several places along Hyndburn Road, such as the bridge on Electricity Street just before you get to Screwfix, at the side of Asda car park. Next time you come to Accy, go and have a look.

davemac · 31-03-2013, 19:27

The river is now a lot cleaner than it has been for years, last summer I watched a fisherman catch a trout, and I watched them swim around where the river is underground in a brick tunnel on Dunkenhalgh land.

ps. I have posted many a photo in the "today" thread, where it runs under the motorway bridge and down to the dip at Rishton.

Gordon Booth · 31-03-2013, 19:28

I seem to remember something about it being so clean now there were fish in it. Is that true, if so is that in Accrington or more in the country, near the Calder?
I know there were fish back in the Calder/Hodder some years ago.

That's good,davemac, you answered my question before I asked it!

Judith Addison · 31-03-2013, 23:25

My Dad was born in 1913 at 8 Mill Street, Church, just by Express Gifts, opposite the Sports Centre. He said that Church was known in those days as the "City of the Seven Stinks"! I think that Steiner's chemical works and others discharged all their waste into the river. I seem to remember that when Hyndburn was chosen for the name of the Borough on 1st April 1974 it was rather amusing because the river was still known as the "River Stink" in those days!

Restless · 01-04-2013, 08:21

I remember the rubber duck races they used to have near the asda

jaysay · 01-04-2013, 09:00

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Originally Posted by Judith Addison

My Dad was born in 1913 at 8 Mill Street, Church, just by Express Gifts, opposite the Sports Centre. He said that Church was known in those days as the "City of the Seven Stinks"! I think that Steiner's chemical works and others discharged all their waste into the river. I seem to remember that when Hyndburn was chosen for the name of the Borough on 1st April 1974 it was rather amusing because the river was still known as the "River Stink" in those days!

Think the worst stink in Church was the Tripe curing place, when they were boiling the tripe it stunk to high heaven, you could smell it for miles

cashman · 01-04-2013, 10:10

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Think the worst stink in Church was the Tripe curing place, when they were boiling the tripe it stunk to high heaven, you could smell it for miles

Yeh never lived in Church

, Ashworths "Bone Yard" was far worse, in summer yeh couldn't even leave yer Door or Windows open twas that bad.

jaysay · 01-04-2013, 11:01

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Yeh never lived in Church

, Ashworths "Bone Yard" was far worse, in summer yeh couldn't even leave yer Door or Windows open twas that bad.

Sorry cashy that's what I meant not Tripe Shop, I was once working on a house near Ashworths and I just went back to the workshop, couldn't stand the stink