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Noticed this on yahoo's most haunted today. Anyone experienced anything 'scary' up there on and around the hill in question?!
Anyone experienced anything 'scary' up there on and around the hill in question?!
yeah trying to ride up it from sabden, thats ****in scary.
visit any of the town centres to the south, that's ****in scary
yeah trying to ride up it from sabden, thats ****in scary.
😆 You're not wrong! Lung bustin'!
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Alice Nutter's house in Roughlee used to be a hostel for the scouts years ago. We used to spend halloween up there setting fire to stuff, playing with knives, fighting and being told ghost stories. Happy days.
Try going up there on halloween.. The police put road blocks out..
Drive along the A59 and look up and you'll see the campfires burning..
Went a couple of years back. The food in the pub in Roughlee was purest evil.
Coincidentally, I'm reading The Lancashire Witches by Harrison Ainsworth. Its tough going but I'm fascinated as the descriptions of the local area are very factual.
Went for a walk a few weeks ago in Newchurch In Pendle. There is an 'eye' built into the Church to ward off evil spirits, and in the grave yard is one of the witches graves. There is no name on the stone slab just a carved skull.
These women were tried and executed at Lancaster for witchcraft. If you were to use the same definitions these days you'd have to hang most of the population of Sabden! 😈
My wife's maiden name was Nutter. She use to live in Barrowford. We do have back cat. Oh dear, is she a witch?
From memory Nutter copped for it because she was a Catholic and she had land and power.
Im looking for somewhere scary on Halloween etc to take a few people!
Radcliffe?
I seem to recall learning a song about Lancashire witches when I was at school. We used to go Waddow Hall (edited - google tells me its in Waddington not Waddinton Hall, it was a long time ago) for Brownie camp and we were told ghost stories each night - how not to get a group of 8/9 year old girls to sleep. I don't remember any of them though apart from that Waddow Hall itself is meant to be very haunted.
Radcliffe?
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Why Radcliffe?
He looked at somebody in a "funny way".
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Nowt wrong with Radcliffe
Nowt wrong with Radcliffe
Paula's okay. The town is dreadful. Village of the damned at best.
Does some of the legend come from how the snow melts?
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hora, try this: [url= http://www.tophattours.co.uk/pendlewitches.htm ]Simon Entwhistles Ghost Walks[/url]
He does them throughout the year, not just at Halloween. But I suppose it will be his busiest time. They are really good he's a fantastic story teller...
Obscure fact for Lancastrians. When playing games like tig or whatever in the playground, you could declare "barley" right? Meaning you couldn't be tigged. That's down to the Lancashire Witches legacy - in theory the village of Barley was not hit by the witches curses.
The "witches" were just catholics I think.
Wow! I remeber "Barleys" in the playground.
The witches were from two rival families. Stupidity, ignorance, a trader having a stroke after a row and secret religion was enough to get 11 of them executed.
Pendle witches do it on a broomstick. Apparently.
Hora - If you're after somewhere scary, try Jacksons Boat. Its meant to be haunted
And lets be honest: what goes on there can't be any more unnatural than what goes on in the bushes by the side of it. If you wanted to terrify people, take them over there and show them what your evenings consist of. You bummer!
Obscure fact for Lancastrians. When playing games like tig or whatever in the playground, you could declare "barley" right? Meaning you couldn't be tigged. That's down to the Lancashire Witches legacy - in theory the village of Barley was not hit by the witches curses.
I never realised 'Barley' was a Lancastrian thing. We had it when I grew up in Macclesfield, which obviously isn't Lancs but has strong (mill) connections with Lancs. In fact most of the old butchers in Macc still sell 'Legh Toaster' cheese which I'm told results from an influx of Lancastrian mill workers at some point in history. I can tell you from watching my kids play that 'Barley' is still alive and well (and a safe place) in the playground.
binners your confusing haunted with grim!
Oh yes, I remember "Barley". The witches were either Nutters or Demdikes IIRC. All blown up out of nothing, but superstition, fear and too much adherence to religion caused most of the problems.
Ducking stools could still have a purpose though!
is she a witch?
weeeeelll she turned me into a newt ❗
(i got better)
I remember staying in Alice Nutters house years ago as a cub scout - nothing scary about it as I recall.
Those villages, walks and hills are still my favourite place to be though. Just love the area.
Plum
I remember staying in Alice Nutters house years ago as a cub scout - nothing scary about it as I recall.
Apart from the warden, George Shaddick, also known as Woodsmoke. Obviously we called him Shagdick or Fag Ash. The ****er made me walk up and down the stairs 50 times after he caught me jumping down them.
Which troop were you in? I was 16th Prestwich.
10th Nelson - the memories this post has brought back 🙂
Yeah they also filmed whistle down the wind round there in Downham. It isn't jesus. It's just a fella. Great part of the world...
Langho - we also stayed up at Bowley scout camp regularly
(in fact i visited last year,after i went over the bars and smashed out a tooth on a brilliant bit of single track that skirts round the boundary from whally nab- the kind warden and helpers helped fix me up and get on my way)
the memories this post has brought back
Too right.
Trudging up the hill to New Church for the Sunday service.
"Wide games" (remember them? 👿 ) on the circular stepping stones.
More trudging up Pendle Hill.
The freezing cold stone floor in the wash house at the back.
2p phone call home from the call box on the road by the stream.
That odd amusement arcade place.
Cross country trudging to the park in Barrowford.
Night trudging in the woods.
Happy days... It's a very nice looking house now.
Wide games - man I'd forgotten that,
Trudging up Pendle - yep many times, I had a great view of it from my bedroom window as a kid.
We tramped around that area so much as a kid - biking up pasture lane that was almost Everest like to a 8 year old with a single speed bike. It was the first hill I attempted when I first got my single speed inbred and I made it as a 40 year old - I was so pleased as its the first time I'd ever managed it on a bike.
Also camped at Bowley and went to White Hough? camp school. I count myself very lucky to have had the wild and free upbringing I did. Probably the last generation not to have to be driven to school or not allowed to play footy on the street.
Anyone remember the old witches window in New Church - you could put a coin in the slot and the 3 witches inside would wobble about driven by clock work
Plum
Anyone remember the old witches window in New Church - you could put a coin in the slot and the 3 witches inside would wobble about driven by clock work
Yep, I lived in the next house up the road as a kid.
Christ that seemed like an evil place to live when you were a kid totally reliant on a bike to get everywhere. (Why did my mum & dad have to buy a house on to of a 1000' hill ?)
...and 30 years later here I am doing just that for enjoyment. Funny old world, ain't it.
I count myself very lucky to have had the wild and free upbringing I did. Probably the last generation not to have to be driven to school or not allowed to play footy on the street.
You're not wrong. The knife I carried on camp as a 10 year old would get me sent down today!
I once spent an evening tied to a tree at Great Tower because I had acted like an idiot.
i've been on top a few times at 12 on new years eve (my dad thought it was a fun place to be - i was about 14 and more interested in trying to get slow dances............)
was always loads of people up there in stupid gear - we met a gang in full black tie who'd carried a table and chairs up the quick way from barely and where sat having canapes and champagne............(and it was pi**ing down and blowing a gale) no signs of witches though.......
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Peter_Rose_and_Anne_Conlon
for those that went to st augustines in billington (as did I) mr rose is now on facebook asking all and sundry to be friends......
(i hated choir - we even had to practice on sundays which was prime BMX time!)
Did a night time fell race one Halloween a few years ago. Final checkpoint was top of Pendle Hill at 5AM. Totally deserted, but lots of evidence of partying the night before. After 40 miles we were to sh*gged to care about witches or anything else.
(Why did my mum & dad have to buy a house on to of a 1000' hill ?)
Thats still a bitch of a climb to me.
Last time I was there I was surprised to see the 'clarion'? hut still open for T.
I can't wait to get back home. This post has made me very home sick!
Plum
Coming down that hill towards Roughlee on my V braked Scott Octane about 10 years back I lost it and ran wide on the left-hander and ended up passing a car coming the other way on the wrong side, about an inch from the grass and a nasty pile up.
Scarier than any any cub camp ghost story!
Somebody should organize a Halloween ride up there. Wooo!
Scariest thing about the nick of Pendle is the way people drive over it (I go to work that way everyday), everything from boy racers on the wrong side of the road on the blind bends to old folk out for 'a drive' doing 20 👿 .
The climb is pretty horrendous, especially on the way home, go around via Read now, longer but quicker.
Last year the killjoys banned the festivities, think the police closed the road, I think but could be wrong it was to do with fear of people getting pissed and hurting themselves up on the hill. Shame really because it was turning into quite an event (although come Nov 1st the place looks like someone has emptied a dustbin wagon all over the road, fair dos to the council though it gets cleaned up pretty quickly.
would struggle to stop you riding up the bridelway from whalley - the one from teh back of spring wood that comes out on the nik of pendle.....i wonder how much stella i could get in my camelbak!
a Halloween ride up there. Wooo!
Halloween is a Saturday this year... got me thinking now....
From Barley - straight up Pendle - back down Ogden Clough ???
for those that went to st augustines in billington (as did I)
My missus went there and remembers Mr Rose, she's just said that he was a boring git! I received a far superior education down the road at Clitheroe Grammar! 😉 we are always arguing where we will send our kids!
Yeah I'd heard that they had banned people going up there last year. Shame really.
It really is a fantastic area to live in. Most of my family and inlaws are dotted all over the ribble valley with me slap bang in the middle in Whalley. Its making me smile reading peoples experiences of the area!
Sorry, but someone had to type it - It's not quite Pendle, but my mother-in-law lives in Rossendale and she's a F***ing Witch!
This thread has brought back a few memories - I remember the dingy old Scout/Cub hostel in Roughlee very well indeed. Never knew it was Nutter's house though, might explain a few things!
We used to really wind up poor old Woodsmoke by pretending to be stupid city kids who didn't know where milk came from, asking him what type of horses the cattle were etc.
53rd Mount Carmel, Manchester, BTW. 🙂
From what I remember he was part of a breakaway Scouting movement - he still wore shorts and one of the old fashioned wide-brimmed hats.
I quite liked the old git, TBH.
Good times.
Downham has some really good memories for me, drives out on a Sunday with my folks when I was young. Still go back every now and then just for a sentimental wander round the churchyard.
Been up Pendle on a few Haloween's when I was younger. The hill was proper packed.