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Originally Posted by arthur bithell
Spent my youth there. lived a Brockhall. 2 of my friends drowned there when i was 18. found the boys bodys where the ribble joined the calder aparently the 2 rivers meeting causes a trench at the bottom once pulled down you can not go up against the water pushing down, or so the police diver said. there used to be a boat there before my time i found the old mooring posts about 200mt down from the ribble/calder join. As a boy i swam to the other side and found the oars in an old barn. firther back from the water was an old farn house that sheep lived in from time to time. there i found the origional boat. about that time i got chased off as it is was a private estate. maybe the old boat is still there. as i remember it was about 15ft to 20 ft covered in tar and needed 4 oars.
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My maternal grandparents' were tenant farmers at Dinckley in the 1930's and my late mother often related to the
'Dinckley Ferry' which operated between Dinckley and the river bridge at Ribchester. The ferry vessel was known locally as the
'Hacking Boat' for whatever reason and the name apparently stuck to the area in which it plied it's trade - or so I was led to believe.