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A Visit to the Movies

Peter Copestake of Pendle Heritage Moviemakers started our Wednesday afternoon movie meeting with a fascinating film describing the history and restoration of the wonderful 18th century garden at our Heritage Centre. Interestingly, there will be an Open Day on 20th June with free admission to the garden, strawberry and cream teas, an archaeological dig and other attractions, so if you missed the film, join us an hour in the sunshine (hopefully)! Continue reading “A Visit to the Movies”

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Bough Gap Mill, Winewall

Bough Gap Mill is shown on the Trawden Tithe map which is almost 10ft square and covers Trawden and reaches north to the river at Ball Grove too. It is dated 1844 but was updated to about 1849. Unfortunately the map has localised damage making it hard to read in places. I attach 3 photos I took of the map last year. It numbers every plot and there is an associated tithe index/tithe record book with each landowner, plus tenants and occupiers where appropriate. This should indicate who occupied Bough Gap Mill at that time. The documents are in the Lancashire Record Office at Preston.  Continue reading “Bough Gap Mill, Winewall”

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Searching for Cockshutts – from Australia

Ted (Edmund) Flack lives in Brisbane Australia and is searching for information about the Cockshutt family (his grandmother’s family on his father’s side), who lived in the Pendle area from the 17th Century.The family oral tradition is that the Cockshutts were influential in the establishment of the Cotton industry in NE Lancashire. There is also a family connection with the Cockshutt Tractor Company in Canada. Continue reading “Searching for Cockshutts – from Australia”
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Eclipse over Blackburn

The event of the week was the eclipse. Here is a set of eighteen photos viewed from Blackburn. The weather was cloudy with the eclipse just appearing now and then, when the cloud got a little thinner. It actually made the photos easier to take and more interesting. Click or tap on the montage to enlarge it.

Eclipse 2015 Blackburn

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Spring Gardening – March

092_procFive members of the Heritage Gardens Group got stuck into some practical work yesterday (18th March) with some bed tidying in the walled garden and some woodland maintenance. We also started work on plant labelling and a leaflet identifying where the historic plants are located.

We planned a programme of practical sessions on Wednesdays starting at 11am through to 4pm, with lunch in between and changed the starting time of the next two meetings to match. The programme so far can be found HERE. Continue reading “Spring Gardening – March”

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Golden Balls, Batchelors ’ Buttons and Naked Ladies

SKMBT_C45115021814162Now there’ a title of a talk which arouses the curiosity in all of us.
Anne Eves gave us a talk on plants and gardens which she finds inspires her the ‘would be gardener’ to successfully create her perfect garden’. Anne drew her inspiration from many sources including gardens from all around the uk. Plants themselves inspired Anne, from the early in the season Snowdrops through to the autumn tints and winter.
Many thanks to Anne and to all who attended