Museum, Tea Room, 18th Century Walled Garden
The site of the Norman Manor House at Ightenhill, near Burnley has been known for many years. Almost nothing now remains of the building. The current owner of the site, Ightenhill Parish Council, made a successful bid to the Heritage Lottery fund. With the help of the local community, the site and the area around it was surveyed and researched. Continue reading “The Manor House at Ightenhill”
On the eveing of 24th April, Adrian Lewis gave an excellent overview of Roman coins, where they were derived from and how they evolved over time. He emphasised the importance of Greek ideas and forms, including the Goddess Athene and how these spread to Roman coins. However, the portrait quality of Greek coins was always better than the Roman ones, especially those in the western empire. We saw a great number of examples from across the empire, Adrian giving us various anecdotes about each emperor and the relevant points about each example.
On 22nd April, John Miller gave the Historic Gardens Group an excellent illustrated talk on how the Eighteenth Century Walled Garden at the Heritage Centre was restored. At the time the restoration attracted national attention and attracted several VIPs. Here are a few of the slides John showed. Continue reading “How the Walled Garden was (re)created”
The Historic Gardens Group enjoyed some practical gardening on Wednesday (22nd April). Our morning session, in bright sunshine, was followed by lunch in the tearooms and then an illustrated talk by John Miller on how the walled garden was restored (see separate post). Continue reading “Historic Gardens Group”
Bluebell Wood is the historic name for the steep woodland behind the Pendle Heritage Centre. It has provided firewood for the house and farm over many centuries.
Friends and volunteers are thinning the brambles, branches and leaf cover to allow a more light to the plants on the woodland floor. A horse in the field at the top entertained us this week by constantly rolling on its back! Continue reading “Bluebell Wood begins to flower”
CLICK HERE for the report of last weekend’s trip to Northumberland (18-20th April).
The latest Bancroft Mill Engine Newsletter is available HERE.
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”
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”
One to put in your diary Saturday 4th July! Barrowford Lifestyle Festival is set to be a great family day out with something to suit the whole family! Here are some details… Continue reading “Saturday 4th July – Barrowford Lifestyle Festival”
Peter Aldred supported by volunteers Norma, Anthony, Joe and David have been getting the woodland walk ready for Easter visitors to the Heritage Centre.
The April edition is just published by Lancashire County Council, click on the link below…
The Friends have been quietly keeping on top of things at the barn, working alongside Angela, the Heritage Centre manager – Continue reading “The Barn – keeping on top of things”
Many thanks to the volunteers, Lancashire Fire & Rescue, Prince’s Trust and Incredible Edible who constructed the path and planting boxes and sowed the seeds by the Cruck barn. It’s a great project. Here are the names of those who took part… Continue reading “First phase of the Edible Garden finished”
Three Friends of Pendle Heritage attended a fascinating lecture hosted by Middleton Archaeology Society, near Manchester. It was given by Dr. Chantal Conneller who is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Manchester but also expert in flint technology and refitting co-director at Starr Carr, the Mesolithic archaeological site near Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Continue reading “New excavations at Star Carr”
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.
Five 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”
Our mission was to find the extra pasture of Wolfenden Booth vaccary, which is known to be in Cowpe. Continue reading “Field walking in Wolfenden Booth vaccary – Saturday 14th March”