Excellent news for these times. Blackburn with Darwen Council should be congratulated.
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/19019204.280k-darwen-tower-upgrade-set-get-go-ahead/
Barrowford Bridge
It is often forgotten that the bridge over Pendle Water is also a listed building, like the others at Park Hill.
Continue reading “Barrowford Bridge”Vernacular Buildings Museum
Inside, the Pendle Heritage Centre museum traces the history of the Park Hill over six hundred years. It includes a three storey archaeological excavation of the interior.
Continue reading “Vernacular Buildings Museum”Park Hill staircase window
The Georgian staircase window of the Clerk’s House is unusual in having a variety of window types merged into one.
Continue reading “Park Hill staircase window”Two houses together
The old hall at Park Hill sits behind the Clerk’s House. There is over hundred years difference in their dates.
Continue reading “Two houses together”Park Hill Eighteenth Century Barn
The barn is another building of the Pendle Heritage Centre. It has a complex history and interesting features, including a built-in dovecote.
Continue reading “Park Hill Eighteenth Century Barn”Walled Garden, Park Hill
Behind its walls, the Park Hill eighteenth century garden and its garden museum look lovely in the snow.
Continue reading “Walled Garden, Park Hill”Clerk’s House, Pendle Heritage Centre
In the 1700s, the rambling picturesque qualities of Park Hill fell out of fashion. People wanted their buildings to be neat, tidy and symmetrical.
Continue reading “Clerk’s House, Pendle Heritage Centre”Park Hill, Barrowford, Pendle Heritage Centre
The front of Park Hill is the most picturesque of the views of the Pendle Heritage Centre with its cottage garden and old world charm.
Continue reading “Park Hill, Barrowford, Pendle Heritage Centre”New Malt Kiln
The New Malt Kiln at Higherford is one of the strangest buildings saved by Heritage Trust for the North West. It’s tall shape and very steep roof makes it look like a witches hat… quite fitting for Pendle Witch Country, perhaps!
Continue reading “New Malt Kiln”Higherford Mill and Chimney
Higherford Mill and its chimney on the hillside behind are truly amazing old buildings. The mill has the oldest weaving shed in the world which was powered by a rare twin race water system as well as steam power.
Continue reading “Higherford Mill and Chimney”Lockdown Update – Pendle Heritage Centre will be closed until the 2nd of December
As of 4pm on Wednesday Evening, 4 November 2020, the Pendle Heritage Centre will be closed until the 2nd of December, in accordance with Government announcements. All at Pendle Heritage Centre and Heritage Trust for the North West would like to thank everyone for their custom and support through this difficult time.
Hundreds of historic English sites to share £103m in Covid rescue funds
Old Pendle – 1974 Film
This has some great vintage scenes of Pendle Hill and the nearby places. Check out the retro cars and clothes too!
Great Hameldon Hill
Pendle Hill is a great walk whether you set off from the Nick ‘o’ Pendle, Barley, the Big End or Pendleton. But what if you wanted something shorter or less arduous? Great Hameldon on the opposite side of the Calder valley gives such a lot for relatively little effort. Continue reading “Great Hameldon Hill”
Former Ribblesdale Hotel, Blakey Moor Townscape Heritage Initiative, Blackburn
The first grant project of the Blakey Moor Townscape Heritage Initiative, Blackburn is now successfully completed.
The Ribblesdale Hotel was built just after 1900 and in more recent times was known as ‘Baroque’ owing to it’s corner dome. It’s really a blend of Jacobean and Elizabethan features in a busy style made popular by the Victorian architect of London’s Palace Theatre, Thomas Edward Collcutt (1840-1924), who also designed Blackburn Museum not so far away. Whether Collcutt also designed the Ribblesdale Hotel is not known but the style was used by many other architects.
The restoration was undertaken by the surveyor Andrew Davies of Blackburn with Darwen Council guided by the Council’s Conservation Officer, David Morris. The original colour scheme was restored after paint samples were taken. The project has been a great success and the transformation shows how conservation can transform the character of our heritage areas for the better.
Austin Grady Retires from Conservation Services North West
Photograph: John Miller (Director HTNW), Peter Taylor (Friends of Bank Hall, Chorley), Austin Grady and David Parfitt (CSNW).
Austin Grady, who has headed up Conservation Services North West (CSNW) for the last ten years, has finally decided the attractions of retirement can no longer be ignored!
Austin has led several important conservation projects in his time at CSNW, including the heroic saving of Tonge Hall, Middleton (listed grade II*) after a devastating fire which left it in a critically unstable condition.
Working alongside surveyor Alan Gardner, and operating from a cherry picker, Austin skillfully deconstructed the tangled and dangerous mess of the half-collapsed timber frame hall. He carefully logged and stored the constituent parts before carrying out exemplary carpentry repairs to the main structure, leaving the stabilized building protected by a scaffold cage.
Other notable projects include the restoration of the derelict former King’s Head PH, Blackburn (grade II listed), another building on the point of collapse, and the repair and conservation of Lomeshaye Bridge Mill in Whitefield Conservation Area, Nelson, Bank Hall, Bretherton (listed grade II*) and Lytham Hall (listed grade I).
Conservation Services NW, which is the building arm of Heritage Trust for the North West, will greatly miss Austin’s conservation skills, commitment and all round professionalism. We wish him a great retirement!
Heritage in the Press – October
Ken Spencer, Burnley local historian, named as volunteer of the year
Wind turbine controversy in Pendle Borough
Win turbine proposed for near for Darwen Tower
Bromley Cross Station being considered for listed status
Bellmanpark Lime works, Clitheroe officially ‘at risk’
Finsley Gate Wharf, Burnley gets conservation funding
Planning Wycoller Events for 2015
Saturday 1st November was the Friends of Wycoller AGM and planning meeting for 2015, David M. attending on behalf of Pendle Heritage. It was a good positive meeting with plenty of events being planned for next year. Lancashire County Council were going to renovate Copy House and a new warden, Sarah, will be moving in soon – excellent news! On the heritage front, we discussed the current Pendle Heritage study of sheep folds, and whether some could be restored, and establishing a woollen weavers heritage trail around country park. Hopefully, this could be done by 14th June and the World of Wool event. The current condition of Bank House Farm was also raised.
Report on Hidden Valley Fieldwalk 6th September 14
For those who have been waiting… here is Alex’s report.