Category: Abandoned
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Cob Castle – The Abandoned Community
Back in the last 1800s and early 1900s, ‘Cob Castle’ was a community of workers who were employed in the nearby quarries, mills and factories within Haslingden. Many people worked long, laborious hours, often with a pittance for a wage. Together, they would witness tragedies such as a murder on their own doorstep, accidents in…
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Exploring Hollinshead Hall and Old Well House at Tockholes
In this video, we walk through Roddlesworth Woods that are located in the towhship of Tockholes, looking for the old ruins of Hoddlesworth Hall and the creepy looking Well House! The ruins of the ancient manor house was largely rebuilt by John Hollinshead in the 1770s. In Victorian times, Hollinshead Hall and its estate was…
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Black Abbey Street, Accrington – An Exploration!
Just a short video as we take a look into just one of the many fire damaged buildings situated along Black Abbey Street in Accrington. In 1191 Accrington was granted to the Abbot of Kirkstall Abbey and around 1200 the monks built a grange (small-scale abbey) in the area that is now Grange Lane and…
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The Abandoned Haslingden Congregational Graveyard
Original built 1787, and a new chapel built in 1854, Haslingden Congregational Church no longer exists within the town. However, many graves, along with their headstones can be found lying hidden away and becoming forgotten about. With overgrown vegetation, rubbish and headstones collapsing, this once magnificent graveyard is now but a shadow of its former…
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The Abandoned New Row Methodist Graveyard | Blackburn
Built in 1828, the site upon which the chapel still stands was the gift of Mr. G. W. Turner, who was a prosperous calico printer with a business in Stakes Hall, Mill Hill. He was also Member of Parliament for the Borough of Blackburn, and an inscription over the door of the chapel shows his…
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