Priestley Clough

Atarah · 23-01-2004, 11:29

Hi, wonder how many of you went for "Sunday Walks" up Priestley Clough. Starting by going along Nuttall Street, around the corner onto Bath street, then "through the clough". A Mr John Priestley came to Accrington from Rawtenstall in 1849 and developed a cotton mill here. (His name is over one of the windows in the tower of St James Church in Accrington).
The Highams family succeeded the Priestley's at Woodnook.

janet · 23-01-2004, 11:33

I used to live up woodnook when i was a kid and spent plenty of time up there in the summer. Playing up the five arches was always great fun.

djd · 05-02-2004, 04:07

I used to live on Belfield Rd just a couple of doors away from Nuttall St. and we used to go up Priestley Clough frequently. That lodge was filthy. I remember seeing some older lads swimming in it one time. That wall on which the man with the wheel-barrow is standing was just above the water level normally. If my memory serves me right you could follow the path all the way up (alongside the Manchester railway line) and come out up Bash.