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Originally Posted by z900guy
Hiya Ret
We have all the old paperwork with the house but as you say no positive proof the Halsteads built it , however the datestone has four sets of initials AH < WH and two more sets so its likely.
Very little remains of Lower Hey now except a gatepost with 17th century graffiti carved into it.
Lower Moor which is just above our place also had a datestone AH 1664 which my mate from school built into his fireplace at Rising Bridge I have been up there today and next to nothing left of that one either although I used to play in it as a lad.
Do you have any record of an Inn near Mitchells House above Lower Moor which was called The Black Lamb we think as there is some of that still visible
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Lower Moor Farm was last owned by Tom Kane, I used to shoot rats in his barn. The last time I saw him was on a Saturday over 50 years ago,
the following week I read in the paper he had died, he had been dead some while, his sheep dog was by his side looking after him, and keeping the rats off.
The last time I was in that area, the building had been vandalised and the upper storey was missing. Can't find any information about an Inn near there, but that area is in Rossendale, there's nothing on the old maps to show any buildings between Lower Moor and Stonefold.
The farmer who owned Higher Hey, when I attended the barn fire, and who delivered our milk was called Dixon.
Retlaw