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Old 21-06-2010, 11:35   #1
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Tom Knitter's Bridge, Ossie

I am not all that familiar with Ossie, so seek your help. Where is Tom Knitter's Bridge? Why is it so called?
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Old 21-06-2010, 13:39   #2
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Re: Tom Knitter's Bridge, Ossie

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I am not all that familiar with Ossie, so seek your help. Where is Tom Knitter's Bridge? Why is it so called?
I've lived in Ossy most of my life Bob and I've never herd of it, could be known as something else as well
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Old 21-06-2010, 14:56   #3
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Re: Tom Knitter's Bridge, Ossie

I've just Googled and it comes up in the 1861 and 1871 census but I can't find out where it is/was. I'll keep rooting around, interesting one this, I've never heard of it before either
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Old 21-06-2010, 16:01   #4
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Re: Tom Knitter's Bridge, Ossie

Try this Mr. Dobson:

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Old 21-06-2010, 16:07   #5
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Re: Tom Knitter's Bridge, Ossie

A zoom out if you can read it :

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Old 21-06-2010, 16:15   #6
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Re: Tom Knitter's Bridge, Ossie

seems like was actually in Church, not ossy. n named after the bleach works?
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Old 21-06-2010, 16:21   #7
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seems like was actually in Church, not ossy. n named after the bleach works?
Would appear so Cashy and does say wooden (I think) ... so may have long gone. ?

Or maybe the bleach works was named after the bridge ?
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Old 21-06-2010, 16:30   #8
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Would appear so Cashy and does say wooden (I think) ... so may have long gone. ?

Or maybe the bleach works was named after the bridge ?
looking at were it was, in relation to alleytroyds, both must be long gone?
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Old 21-06-2010, 16:45   #9
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My thanks for this. I have had a look at Mike Rothwell's book on Church & Ossie's industrial heritage. He calls it Tomknitter Bridge Bleachworks and sites it in Ossie. It was associated with Foxhill Bank Printworks from 1822. The works may well have been started earlier by Peel, Yates & co. . Bleaching was introduced in 1884 but ended in 1887. the site was sold to Steiner.. He says that Tinker Brook runs under the buildings and the arched, stone culvert remains (1993) Map ref SD 739 288
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Old 21-06-2010, 16:59   #10
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This is a later edition Bob:

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Old 21-06-2010, 18:10   #11
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The construction of the canal and Blackburn Rd have blurred the location, but I have found it on Google Maps by looking for that big S bend in Tinker brook.

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Old 21-06-2010, 18:24   #12
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Re: Tom Knitter's Bridge, Ossie

Something strange has happened.
When this thread was started I googled and found this site
Place:Blackburn Registration District, 1851 Census Street Index T-Z - Your Archives
It shows one entry for 'Tom Knitters Bridge Oswaldtwistle'
....but earlier today there were TWO entries -
'Tom Knitters Bridge' with no location next to it, and
'Tom Knitter Bridge' showing location as ' Church Kirk'

Could there have been two?
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Old 22-06-2010, 11:57   #13
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As the boundry of Oswaldtwistle and Church is Tinker brook at the point on the map it must mean that the bridge is in both.
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Old 19-04-2015, 19:23   #14
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I have been hoping to find old photograph of Tomknitter Bridge. It was actually also a row of cottages, at least a dozen I think, situated near the old bleach works on Blythes property. Some of my relatives lived there pre and early 1900s. The names were Wallace and Salt.
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Old 19-04-2015, 20:36   #15
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I have been hoping to find old photograph of Tomknitter Bridge. It was actually also a row of cottages, at least a dozen I think, situated near the old bleach works on Blythes property. Some of my relatives lived there pre and early 1900s. The names were Wallace and Salt.
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