[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by susie123

You were there then were you Walter?

I'll grant you that as the building was occupied first in 1765 the river would have been clean-ish as there wouldn't have been much industry. The shallowness might still have been a problem for a good dunking.

Clever devil, that church was in use before the river got polluted by the local printing works. Read your history's of Accrington, and its development.
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