[Doug]

Originally Posted by slinky

Just heard that apparently someone got struck by lightening this afternoon in Great Harwood. As lovely as it looks, we have to realise how dangerous it can be too...... I do hope they are ok.

I can remember standing behind the garages that stood at the end of Miller Fold in a horrendous thunder storm; you couldn’t see the other side of the street through the rain that fell that afternoon. A calf had been struck by lightening under a line of trees that ran away from the garages up to the base of Nelson’s Hill.

Its Mother was very attentive standing over it. I stood in the rain and chaos that afternoon comforting the mother, unable to leave it, my mother had to walk down Willows Lane to where Farmer Nelson lived, he came and took the calf away; I was gutted by the experience, but also enlightened to my mothers caring side and understanding that day, she later battered me for standing in a thunder storm but she took the time to wait until I had got over the death of the calf.