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Old 05-01-2014, 18:15   #20
maxthecollie
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Re: Lower Aspden Cottage Oswaldtwistle

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Originally Posted by Retlaw View Post
That sounds very similar to the fairy tale of the one in Acc that went to Whalley Abbey. Impossible, back in those days they would have needed explosives to tunnel so far, 4 metres down and its mostly solid rock, the only explosive known at that time was gunpowder, and you would have needed tons of the stuff.
I know when the Esso garage next to the Swan on Abbey Street was being built my dad told me that when they were digging down to lay the concrete over the footpath next to the church , a very large crater appeared
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